Rio 2016: Occupy Takes Swing at Olympic Golf Course (Guardian) Why Beantown May Want to Throw This Sports Contest (MSNBC – The Cycle) An interview with Andrew Zimbalist Sports Extravaganzas: Games That Must Stop (Economist) Mitt Romney’s Ties Key to Boston Olympics Push (Boston Globe) Smith Professor: Boston Olympics Bid ‘Crazy’ (Daily Hampshire Gazette) Olympic Committee Chairman Pitches 2024 Games to South Coast (The Herald News) Boston 2024 Group’s Fundraising Limited to N

Olympics: New Group Calls for Rights-Respecting Bids (Human Rights Watch) House Bill Would Give Beacon Hill Oversight of Olympics Bid Process (Dorchester Reporter) Is Record Snowfall Ruining Boston’s Chances to Host Olympics? (WCVB) No, angry residents are/can. Neighborhood Concerns Raised at Back-to-Back Boston Olympics Meetings (Boston.com) Olympics Backers Press Case in Latest Public Meetings (Dorchester Reporter) Walsh, 2024 Chiefs Meet with Widett Circle Owners (Dorchest

Rio to Ask Big Companies to Shut Down During Olympics (Reuters) Olympics Organizers Have Time to Talk (Boston Globe) “When I pulled Davey aside after the meeting Monday night at the Yawkey Boys & Girls Club of Boston in Roxbury, I told him that the distant games seem to give organizers wide latitude to be vague. To issue broad promises. To make sweeping, patriotic-tinged appeals for the societal glue that sports can supply. To sometimes dance with facts.” Hundreds Gather at S

Stuck in because of the snow? Play #NoBoston2024 Bingo! #Satire

Olympics Bid Organizers Discuss Issues with Residents in Roxbury (Boston Globe) Roxbury Residents Voice Concerns At Meeting on Boston Olympics (WBUR) Planned Olympic Transit Projects Pose Funding Challenge (Boston Globe) Taxpayers May Be on the Hook for $4B in Improvements for Olympics (WCVB) Walsh Could Put Taxpayers on the Hook for Olympics Cost Overruns (Bay State Examiner) Braceras: Boston Not up to Olympic 2024 Effort (Boston Herald) Olympic Organizers Reconsidering Bost

Olympic Finances Need City Pledge (Boston Globe) Boston 2024 To Hold Its First Community Meeting (NECN) 3 Groups Who Could Benefit from Boston 2024 (BostInno) Note: Residents are not one of them. Locals Push for Olympic Water Games in Deerfield (Daily Hampshire Gazette) “Regional equity” in this context = spread the gravy, spread the graft If Olympics Come, Lowell’s Rourke Bridge Would Go (Lowell Sun) #FinancialGuarantee #Costoverruns #Publicmoney #JohnFish #Media #WesternMas

Boston 2024’s Olympic Bid Can’t Include Boston Marathon Course (Competitor.com) Somerville Neighborhood News: Skepticism for Boston 2024 Olympics (Wicked Local – Somerville) Gov. Baker Supportive of Olympic Bid Review (Dorchester Reporter) T Lawyer Jumps Ship for Boston 2024 (Boston Herald) If the problem with the T is “bad management,” then what does it say that Boston 2024 is being run by former MBTA leadership? Hosting Olympics Can Be Game Changer, But What About After? (W

Some more coverage of that WBUR poll from yesterday: In Gloomy Time, Poll Finds Drop in Games Support (Boston Globe) Bad Weather Leads to Opposition Growing to Boston 2024 Olympic Bid, Poll Finds (Inside the Games) New Boston Olympics Poll Shows Opposition (Boston.com) WBUR/MassINC Poll Shows Dwindling Support for Olympics; Undercuts Key Claim in Bid Documents (Blue Mass Group) And in other news… Elizabeth Warren Has Olympic Questions (Boston Globe) Boston 2024 to Hold Public

WBUR commissioned a new poll on public support for the Olympics and found a 13% rise in opposition since last month. Support for Boston Olympics is Dwindling, WBUR Poll Finds (WBUR) “It has to do with voters now having a new appreciation of how bad the MBTA actually is and seeing the impacts of the storm and thinking there are other priorities in which money would be better spent.” Poll Shows Bloom Has Fallen Off Olympic Bid for Most Bostonians (NPR) And the next big news is

Not a lot of news, so I combined yesterday and today. Marathon, Head of Charles No Good for Olympics (Boston Globe) In a Time of Climate Change, Boston–and the World–Can’t Afford the Olympics (HuffPo) Franklin Park to Host Meeting with Boston 2024 (Jamaica Plain News) Barr and Boston 2024 (Barr Foundation) I think this is in response to the Herald article from a couple of weeks ago about the financial ties between Boston 2024 and GoBoston2030 (funded by the Barr Foundation).