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The smallest candidate was the big winner: Boston to pick up again after 28 years in the US, the Olympic Games. The National Olympic Committee (USOC) appointed on Thursday (local time) a little surprising in Denver, the capital of Massachusetts to the American candidate for the Olympic Games in 2024 – and thus a competitor from Hamburg or Berlin. In the US internal selection is set against Washington Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles, the two-time host of the Summer Games, by.
Mayor Marty Walsh spoke of an “extraordinary honor to have been selected as a US Representative for the Summer Games in 2024″. One of the first to congratulate was Barack Obama. “My wife and I actively support the efforts to bring the Summer Games in 2024 in the United States. We hope to welcome the athletes of the world in 2024 in Boston, “the US president, who had studied from 1988 to 1990 at Harvard University in Boston’s neighboring city of Cambridge said.
The reactions of the US media in Boston as an Olympic candidate of the United States were quite different
The media reactions to the USOC had conflicting decision can hardly be. “Like so many others, USOC was delighted with Boston,” wrote the “Boston Globe”. In California, however, the “Los Angeles Times” asked in surprise: “How the hell LA loses against Boston?” And threw USOC ago to have a “Gold Candidate” rejected. “San Francisco’s Olympic dream shattered,” it said in “San Francisco Chronicle”. Details of the agreement between the 15 USOC members were not immediately known. You feel that you have a “incredibly strong partner” have with Boston, let USOC President Larry Probst know shortly before he immediately made his way to Boston, where details of the application to be released on Friday.
Boston’s first application to host the big event. Competition is definitely from Europe. Italy Rome sent into the race – and is supported by the Pope. Also, could Paris and cities from South Africa and Australia to join them. The German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) decides on March 21 between Hamburg and Berlin. By 15 September, all applicants must submit their documents to the IOC. The decision will be made in September 2017.
Boston does not fit with its 600 000 inhabitants in a league with previous hosts such as Sydney, Beijing or London and are in comparison to Beijing in 2008 (40 billion) or 2014 Sochi (50 billion) slim budget of 4.5 billion dollars. One familiar with the words of IOC President Thomas Bach, who had demanded as part of its Agenda 2020, the Olympics would be cheaper and more feasible again.
Compact Olympics: Boston promises short distances to the sports venues
“The Boston games can be one of the most innovative, sustainable and exciting history. They are the next generation here and in the world to inspire, “says John Fish, president of Boston2024. The organizers promise compact games – no sports facility to be farther away than a ten-minute walk from public transport. They want to be nicknamed “Walking City” justice. However, there are also critical voices. The grouping “No Olympics Boston” had prior criticizes the lack of transparency of the application.
Boston is America’s most successful sports city of the 21st century, and among other things home to the oldest city marathons in the world. “The people here are very enthusiastic about their sport, especially the four teams from the major sports leagues. But they are also very active in amateur sports. Rowers, sailors or rotor part of the cityscape to “Dennis Seidenberg told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. The professional hockey plays in March 2010 for the Boston Bruins and extended only last year his contract until 2018. In 2011, won Seidenberg Boston with the Stanley Cup, the most important club trophy in the world in ice hockey. The city describes the defender as a “small city”. (AP)
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