The 2024 Olympics at Boston. Globe retrospective of sites then and now.

[stellarfun]

If Boston had hosted the 2024 Olympics, these were the proposed venues. What has happened there since? - The Boston Globe

A look back at what the organizers had in mind — and at what has happened at those sites in the intervening years.

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Beach volleyball on Boston Common

Olympic stadium at Widett Circle

Olympic Village Dorchester

Equestrian events, White stadium

The Globe article details other sites whose proposed locations were never included in the final submittal, like a velodrome at Assembly Square and an aquatics center at Harvard-Allston.

 

[BOS2BON]

Did the 2024 bid assume the Allston-I-90 project would have been completed before the start of the games?

From wikipedia:

• A new West Station on the Framingham Worcester commuter rail line to be constructed on the Beacon Park Yard property, coordinated with reconfiguration of the Massachusetts Turnpike Allston toll barrier plaza.

 

[Arenacale]

Would have been nice to obliterate Kosciuszko Circle like they did there. Still would be nice.

The amount of new venues that would have been required in the area for a summer games would have been prohibitive, and I don't think many of the venues would have been useful past the games themselves.

The pitch should have been for a Winter Olympics. There's so many existing rinks in the area for hockey, skating, curling, etc., and much of the skiing could be offloaded to NH or ME. Build a speed skating facility by one of the colleges, and then use Fenway or Harvard for the ceremonies. Then the rest of the money could have been focused on infrastructure, the T, etc. Not that the resistance from residents would have been any less.

 

[JumboBuc]

The Boston 2024 bid became the LA 2024 bid which became an agreement that gave Paris the games in 2024 and LA the games in 2028. The correct time to visit a “what if” around a Boston Olympics will be in 2028, not 2024.

 

[KCasiglio]

It is certainly an interesting note that the host city ended up being Paris, a city which many would hold up over the past ten years as "This is what we COULD be doing!".