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USOC Chair Hopes Meeting Will Prompt BOD To Make Decision On Bid For '24 Games

USOC Chair Larry Probst yesterday said that he hopes the organization's BOD "will decide whether to make a bid" for the '24 Games at its meeting next Tuesday, where the four finalists "will make hour-long presentations," according to Philip Hersh of the CHICAGO TRIBUNE. Probst said "the odds are good" the U.S. will have a candidate. However, he noted that the USOC "may wait a month or two to select a city even if it announces a bid next week." Probst said that it is "unlikely that the U.S. would present a combined bid" from L.A. and S.F. or from another region, despite the IOC voting Monday to "permit Olympics in more than one city or country for cost-saving and sustainability reasons." Probst "outlined some strengths for each of the four finalists" in his "most extensive comments to date about a domestic bid process." He said that he "was not concerned by the substantial amount of local opposition" in Boston. Probst: "The four cities all have thoughtful venue plans, and I think all four can handle the financial requirements." Hersh noted DC "comes with the built-in disadvantage of being home to the U.S. government," making it "both the symbol of U.S. policies that have gone down badly in wide swaths of the globe and a natural target for an Olympic-related terrorist attack." S.F. "likely is the candidate the USOC would prefer under ideal circumstances, but the city’s fractious political atmosphere, venue questions and the number of other large Bay Area municipalities that would probably need to be involved diminishes the chance for that to happen." Probst said, "It is a city that resonates with the IOC membership. There is this magical appeal about San Francisco people find compelling." But Hersh wrote public opposition in the Bay Area "is expected to be substantial" (CHICAGOTRIBUNE.com, 12/9).

GUESSING GAME: In Boston, Jaclyn Cashman notes the city's bid "won’t be made public for months," so local residents "don’t know what the organizers have promised the USOC." The USOC claims that, "like every other city that is in the running, it can’t make the Boston bid document public right now because that could jeopardize its chances of winning, and the committee can’t reveal its plan to the competing cities." City Councilor Michael Flaherty, appearing on Boston Herald Radio’s "Morning Meeting," said, "There will be public funds as well. Those dollars are well-spent, that will help Boston into the future." Cashman: "OK, but how do we know that when we don’t know anything about the plan?" (BOSTON HERALD, 12/10).

TALK OF THE TOWN: In DC, Clinton Yates wrote the DC organizing committee's latest ad is "pathetic on multiple levels." The slogan "This Town" is "not an actual thing that people call the nation’s capital." The music in the ad also sounds like the "credit sequence from 'Forrest Gump.'" Yates: "The slow pianos are not my idea of Olympic intensity. ... I’m genuinely surprised at how badly this misses the mark. Every character in this video is too serious, too calculated and trying way too hard" (WASHINGTONPOST.com, 12/9).

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