Do you like the logo? A group of business, political and sporting community representatives in the Washington D.C. area have formed an exploratory committee to possibly bid to host the Olympic Summer Games in 2024. It's a long, expensive and potentially humiliating process, as Chicago learned in 2009, but by 2024 it will have been 28 years since the last summer games in the U.S., in Atlanta in 1996, and 22 years since the winter games in Salt Lake City and by then it would seem to be our turn again. The IOC's website, olympic.org, has lots of interesting info on the bid process and how cities get selected. The announcement of which city will host the 2024 games will be made in 2017.
Lots of Olympic happenings in the meantime, of course, The Sochi Winter Games are only 162 days away and the announcement of the 2020 host city will be made a week from tomorrow, on Sept. 7. According to gamesbids.com, a cool site that tracks Olympic bidding, Tokyo is currently the front-runner; Madrid and Istanbul are the other contenders. Based on the selection of Rio for the 2016 games, however, I'd guess that Istanbul is the favorite, simply because Turkey has never hosted the games. We'll know in eight days.
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