(ATR) The Boston Globe is asking what changes an Olympic bid could bring to their city.
The newspaper published its first editorialin a series hoping to spark conversation about how the Boston 2024 bid fits in with the challenges the city is facing currently.
"One thing has been conspicuously missing from Walsh’s Olympic sales pitch: any details of what changes, exactly, the Games are supposed to catalyze," the editorial reads.
"Over the coming weeks, the Globe editorial page will outline some ideas for ways to use the Olympics to tackle some of the region’s challenges, big and small."
Boston 2024 has been revising their bid plan since winning the United States bid city nomination in January.
Bid chairman John Fish told Around the Rings at the U.S. Olympic Academy on Apr. 30 that the full revised details may not be released until bid books are handed into the IOC on Sept. 15 to prevent the "exposure" of privy details to other Olympic stakeholders.
Boston has until Nov. 16, 2016 to convince Boston and Massachusetts voters to support the bid. On that date, voters will vote on a state-wide binding referendum on the fate of the bid.
"We feel comfortable that [the referendum is] the right decision," Fish said at the Olympic Academy.
Boston is competing with Hamburg, Paris and Rome to host the 2024 Olympics. A fifth city, rumored to be Budapest, Hungary, could join the race in the coming months.
Written by Aaron Bauer
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