Tuesday, February 26, 2013

USOC selects cities in running for 2024 games

The USOC has selected 35 cities it considers worthy of bidding to become the USA chief bid city for the 2024 summer Olympic games.

The USOC has two years to select the US city when or if they bid in the 2024 games. The IOC will select the host city for the 2024 Olympic games in 2017.

The cities who the USOC selected to bid are: Atlanta, Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Jose, Sacramento, Miami, Orlando, Jacksonville, Denver, Las Vegas, Boston, Washington DC, San Diego, San Francisco, Charlotte, Columbus, Ohio, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis, Tulsa, Portland, OR, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Memphis, Minneapolis, Nashville, Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Rochester and Seattle.

These are the only cities that will mount a serious bid and or will be selected by the USOC to be the bid city:
New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Houston, Indianapolis, Dallas, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Boston..

All the other cities I didn't list are either too small, won't want the games in their city or don't have the facilities/space to host the games and will be eliminated over time by the USOC by Sept. 2015.

Only time will tell...

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