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Related: About this forumBay Area officials take trip to discuss Olympic bid (SFGate)
The San Francisco delegation will join representatives from Boston, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles for what's being billed as an informational session, where USOC leadership will fill in the possible host cities on details of a potential bid.
The USOC will decide next year whether it will submit a U.S. city bid for the 2024 games. In the meantime, it has winnowed its list to the four cities invited to Friday's meeting.
Winnicker, who works closely with Mayor Ed Lee, said San Francisco and Bay Area leaders are still figuring out if the region would want to host in 2024. He said the delegation will come back from Colorado with more information to present to leaders around the Bay Area.
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My wife and I were talking about the Olympics just the other day - we jokingly suggested SF, in the (mistaken) belief that that nobody would be that dumb...
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Sorry, I got a little carried away there.
petronius
(26,602 posts)Heck, I'm 200 miles away and that's how I reacted...
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)The problem is that most of the hotel rooms are in SF, so how do you get people out to outlying venues like Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, 40 miles away? If they'd electrify Caltrain as part of the package, and move ahead with the second phase of the BART extension to San Jose, I'm listening.
petronius
(26,602 posts)any of these huge events where the host was left with much in the way of useful new infrastructure (aside from stadiums). It seems like the needs/demands of the event are not all that aligned with the long-term needs of the city/region.
Hopefully that will change in the future (at some point it has to get difficult to recruit hosts); it would be great if the planning for something like the Olympics was explicitly geared toward a balanced program of urban development, leaving the host region better-developed and debt-free, but I'm skeptical...
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Where would they put it? The city is only 7 miles wide or something, right?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Oakland and San Jose have some facilities, as do Cal and Stanford.