The U.S. Olympic Committee's board of directors will meet today in Boston, which reportedly is on its short list for a U.S. bid for the 2024 Olympic games.
The meeting is expected to be a standard one for the board, which holds its quarterly meetings in different parts of the country. And the board will not be touring the city. However, CEO Scott Blackmun and Chairman Larry Probst will take questions from reporters afterward via a teleconference.
The board is expected to narrow down its contenders for host city this month and choose one to submit to the International Olympic Committee for consideration by next year.
"We're currently in discussions with a number of cities," said Mark Jones, a USOC spokesman, declining to be more specific.
Suffolk Construction CEO John Fish, who has led the campaign to bring the Olympic Games to Boston, said he has been in discussions with the USOC about the possibility of Boston being considered.
"I think it would be good for Boston to have the opportunity to explore the possibility," Fish said. "It's not so much about hosting the Olympics," he said. "It's about where Boston wants to be in the future."
But Andrew Zimbalist, a professor of economics at Smith College who has been a consultant on major sporting events, called the Olympics a "17-day party with a huge hangover."
"You're talking about 10, 20, 30 billion dollars in a state that's strapped for funds," Zimbalist said. "There will be people in Boston like the construction companies that say this is the cat's meow. But it'll mean more taxes and less money for things like education and roads."
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