2024 Olympics Spark Local Reflection On Boston's Botched Bid

By Jon Keller, CBS Boston

July 29, 2024

BOSTON – The 2024 Summer Olympic Games are underway in Paris - not Boston as originally planned. So how do Massachusetts politicians feel about the failed Olympic plans?

Gin Dumcius, veteran local political reporter for the website CommonWealth Beacon, joined WBZ-TV and looked back at Boston 2024, looked ahead to an upcoming Beacon Hill deadline, and also spoke about the state of migrant shelters in Massachusetts.

As the 2024 Summer Olympic Games get underway in Paris, there's been a range of local reflections on the fact that Boston was once the choice to host the Games. A public backlash against the cost and requirements demanded by Olympic organizers forced the city to pull out in 2015.

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