Boston Will Pursue Olympic Bid; Everyone Collectively Exhales

Boston is the US Olympic Committee's official pick as the city that will pursue the bid for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games on the US's behalf.

It's Boston. The USOC picked Boston for the American bid for the 2024 Olympics

— SFCitizen (@SFCitizen) January 8, 2015

The decision was handed down by the US Olympic Committee after a meeting today at the Denver airport, proving some Internet bookies right and forcing former supervisor Chris Daly to search for a new pet project for the next year or so. Now back to our regular, already quite demanding schedule of NIMBY programming!

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