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Boston Olympics in 2024?

Sure, why not?

David Wade at WBZ, meanwhile, wondered what a real Boston Olympics might include:

If Boston gets the Olympics

Events they should have.

Storified by Adam Gaffin· Tue, Mar 05 2013 04:47:40

Olympics in Boston in 2024? New hashtag: #FakeBostonOlympicEvents. Go!!David Wade
Freedom Trail speed walking? #FakeBostonOlympicEventsMichele Boyd
O'Neill Tunnel Slalom @davidwade #FakeBostonOlympicEventsAngela
@davidwade Southie Double Parking, Yankee Booing, June 1 Allston Dumpster Diving #FakeBostonOlympicEventsDaniel A. Guzman
@davidwade Synchronized Bang'n a U-ie #FakeBostonOlympicEventsJulie_Kanon
@davidwade The @Boston_Police @DunkinDonuts Boston Creme Relay #FakeBostonOlympicEventsJulie_Kanon
The Runnin' on Dunkin' Marathon #FakeBostonOlympicEventsDavid Wade
@davidwade Longfellow Bridge Long Jump. #FakeBostonOlympicEventsJosh Person
@davidwade mayor menino spelling bee #FakeBostonOlympicEventsrob allendorf
Pesky Pole Vault #FakeBostonOlympicEventsSteven Bognar
@davidwade synchronized double parking in the north end #FakeBostonOlympicEventsMarc Gearin
Tunnel Tile Ducking #FakeBostonOlympicEventsNikLuk
Parking space saver hurdles. #FakeBostonOlympicEventshotnettie
Duckboat Triathlon #FakeBostonOlympicEventsNikLuk
"Curley"-ing (played from inside a jail cell) #FakeBostonOlympicEventsMichael Graham
@davidwade #MBTA Surfing (with not-falling-over-when-stopping as a qualifier for a medal). #FakeBostonOlympicEventsKira LaFosse-Baker
Pothole Slalom #FakeBostonOlympicEventsMike Marshall
#FakeBostonOlympicEvents South Boston Triathlon 1. Parking spot shoveling 2. Spot saving 3. Fighting over saved spot. @IAMMGrahamNoone of consequence

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I'd be rounding up livestock for sacrifice to save us from the shambling corpse of the IOC, but I'm pretty sure the city's crumbling infrastructure, crushing debt, and complete structural inability to handle the surge of tourism will do the job for me.

That said, this is the most hilariously incompetent group of people I've ever seen, and I'm proud to have them representing our bid for the summer games. They registered a domain name AND rounded up 342 Likes on Facebook? Look like they've got this one in the bag. Make way for the torch to parade down Comm Ave!

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Almost every city that hosts the Olympics is left with a gargantuan amount of debt. The whole "it will profit the city through tourism" and other assumptions are far and away the exception, not the rule.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/business/july-...

Boston needs to get it's budget in order before even dreaming of this, especially with the threats to raise taxes across the board already.

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We have to insist on Candlepin Bowling as a demonstration sport!

Summer Olympics are for megacities anymore - look at how they almost destroyed Montreal! I suspect that the people pushing this have little or no sense of geographic and demographic scale.

On the plus side, Barcelona got a really nice transit system out of the deal. Maybe we could, too?

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>On the plus side, Barcelona got a really nice transit system out of
>the deal. Maybe we could, too?

LOL, I know, right?

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On the plus side, Barcelona got a really nice transit system out of the deal. Maybe we could, too?

So you're saying that you want the state to dust off the plans for 695?

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Transit system, darling = subway, etc.

Shit, I've even got pics of a dunks in the Barcelona Metro - I thought it was a jetlagged hallucination!

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I know what a transit system is, I'm just very cynical. Improving the T would be a smart project, so of course it wouldn't happen.

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I would have liked to have seen the merge from the Tobin Bridge across three lanes of fast moving traffic to the Storrow Drive exit made an Olympic event.

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that the "Storrow Drive/I-93/Tobin Bridge" bumper-cars weave across the Charles River was done away with by 2007.

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My goodness! I need to get into Boston more often!

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1) Crossing Boylston Street between Fairfield and Gloucester to get from the Pru to the Apple Store. Must not be in a crosswalk. All lights for incoming cars must be green. Must be texting on an iPhone.

2) Walk from Target in Everett through the rotary of Route 16 and Mystic Valley Parkway to the KISS 108 offices. Must cross through the middle of the five way rotary. At least one light must be green. Each bag you carry is subtracted* 0.1 second to your final time as a bonus.

*Whoops! Originally had "added" but then it dawned on me that the goal is to get the lowest time.

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Tag Romney will be appointed by President Jenna Bush to save the Olympics?

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Or will President Jenna overrule him and make beer pong and boilermaker chugging unofficial events?

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It would be a real disgrace because of bias if someone threw off the Staring Into Manhole Contest Holding a Cup of Dunkin Donuts Coffee gold medal match between the Staties and BPD.

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Don't forget the Transit Police!

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So we get to take crippling debt and gross mis-management of the Big Dig and couple that with the police state lockdown of the 2004 DNC so we can do what? Keep perpetuating these World Class City fantasies?

Awesome. Thankfully, it won't happen.

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is certifiable or thinks they'll personally make big $ out of the deal. Most residents would get little to nothing except A LOT of aggravation and public debt.

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Using those skis with wheels, do laps of the Esplanade and pick off targets along the way with a rifle. Maybe they could put up cardboard redcoats?

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WBUR reports, notes he was upset he heard about it in the paper first, and you know how he hates surprises.

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