(ATR)Boston Globe columnist Yvonne Abraham points out a need for public discussion on Boston's potential bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics. "If the USOC picks Boston, we will be well along the road to hosting an Olympics--a vast, complex, and incredibly costly undertaking--without ever having had a meaningful public conversation about it.
"Backers have sold their vision to political leaders (the governor and mayor seem quite warm to the prospect of the Games these days), and to officials at big institutions in mostly closed-door meetings.
"The community meetings that chief booster and Suffolk Construction CEO John Fish said would happen in November have not materialized."
On Tuesday, the United States Olympic Committee visited Boston.Israel Ruiz, executive vice president and treasurer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explains the roleMIT will have on Boston's Olympic bid.
Boston Globestaff writer Evan Horowitz asks,"What are the costs and benefits of a Boston Olympics?"
Road to Rio 2016
Residents of one of Rio de Janeiro's largest favelas tell international news channel France 24 thatRocinha "was safer when it was ruled by gangs."
With 624 days to go before the 2016 Summer Olympics kick off in Rio, the Brazilian government's "peacekeeping project," launched in 2011, is far from a success. According to one resident, "The neighborhood is plagued by shootings and robberies."
Corruption in FIFA
Roger Pielke Jr., a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, says it will take more than an investigation to end FIFA's corruption."Since 2010, the organization has found itself buried in an avalanche of allegations of corruption, notably surrounding how it awarded the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar," Pielke writes in the news publication Foreign Policy.
Pielke adds, "FIFA can operate with impunity with respect to corruption, human rights, and international geopolitics because it has very little external accountability.
"The lesson that we should take from FIFA's latest failure to police itself is that it is time for national governments to step in and help sport bring its standards of governance into the 21st century."
In Other News
Roxanne Roberts, feature writer forThe Washington Post, spotlights the"A-list sports fans vying for the 2024 Games"to come to Washington.
New York Timessports columnist Juliet Macur says the Olympic Movement is changing, albeit at a glacial pace."In its bid to make hosting the Olympics more enticing," Macur writes,"the IOC basically has become a salesman in an expensive suit asking, 'How can we help you walk away with an Olympics today?'"
The Telegraph features photos taken by Reuters photographerAlexandre Meneghini that depict Cuba's youngest wrestlers."Inspired by Greco-Roman wrestling champion Mijain Lopez Nunez, children are showing a strong interest for the sport," Meneghini writes. "Lopez has won gold in the men's 120kg category for Cuba at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics in Beijing and London, and was his country's flagbearer during the opening ceremonies."
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