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“Therefore, the USOC did not think Boston, with the current level of support, would be able to win against the superb applications from Paris, Rome, Hamburg, Budapest and Toronto,” Has -he added.
This announcement is not really a surprise, the lack of enthusiasm for the project Bostonians, reflected in all the polls, had very early concern the committee.
In January, Committee had preferred Boston to Washington, Los Angeles or San Francisco.
Earlier in the day Monday, the mayor of Boston, Marty Walsh, had expressed strong reservations about the organization of the event because of its fears for the finances of the city in case of cost overruns.
He refused to sign a document called on host cities, he explained: “It is a commitment I can not take no assurance that Boston and its residents will be protected”
. > “I refuse to engage the responsibility of overtaking Boston, and I refuse to sign a guarantee that uses taxpayer money to pay for the Olympics,” he added.
– Deadline: September 15 –
Still, the Olympic project of the metropolis of Massachusetts, known for its world-renowned universities and research laboratories, wants inexpensive ($ 4.7 billion, 4.2 billion euros) and in line with the IOC’s Agenda 2020 with a human scale application and using existing or temporary facilities.
But city officials and the population, the risk was too great to have to put his hand to the pocket particularly as the budgets submitted by the candidate cities are very rarely held.
The USOC said it gave itself until August to possibly designate another US city that could be a candidate.
press time the candidate cities to be submitted before September 15 their application by letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which will announce in 2017 in Lima, after reviewing records nomination, the host city of the Olympics 2024.
United States has not hosted the Summer Games since Atlanta in 1996 and those of winter since Salt Lake City in 2002.
New York attempted to organize the 2012 Games had been cast by problems related to the construction site of the main stadium of the project. Chicago – candidate in 2016 – had been eliminated by the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
“The USOC love to see an American city hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2024,” said Mr Blackmun..
“We will immediately begin exploring how this is possible while respecting the principles to which we are firmly attached.”
“We understand the reality of the calendar that comes to us,” he said
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