Paris City Council Clears Way for 2024 Olympic Bid (AP) Bill Linehan Announces 4 New Hearings on 2024 Olympics (Caught in Southie) On the Record: Interview with Chris Dempsey (On the Record/WCVB) Boston 2024 Bid on “Much More Positive Track Soon” Claims USOC Chairman (Inside the Games) #Paris2024 #CityCouncil #NoBostonOlympics #USOC #LarryProbst

Where City Councilors Stand on the Olympics (JP Gazette) Franklin Park Gets Key Role, But No Answers, in Olympic Debate (JP Gazette) Olympics Bid Focus Shifting from Fish (Boston Globe) Sacrifice, Thrill Discussed at Forum on Boston Olympics Bid (Wicked Local – Melrose) Peter Lucas: Maria’s Right: Torch Plan for Another Olympics Study (Lowell Sun) USOC’s Blackmun Hopes Better Communication, Decisions Help Change Tone in Boston (Sports Business Daily) “Beachhead”? #CityCouncil

Can a Host Country Make Money on the Olympics or the World Cup? (The Brian Lehrer Show) No. Editorial: Many Questions Remain Over Prospect of Boston 2024 Olympics (Worcester Telegram) How Does Boston 2024 Pay Stack Up? (Boston.com) Behind the Push to Keep the Olympics out of Boston (The Scrum) Have Sports Become “Too Big to Fail”? (Only a Game) Rich Davey Insists Pols, Lobbyists Won’t Chase Public Funds (Boston Herald) Sure… Boston 2024 Hires Defended (Boston Herald) Olympic

Deval Patrick’s Involvement in Boston 2024 Olympics Bid ‘Disappoints’ Northampton Crowd: Evan Falchuk (MassLive) Councillor Calls for Hearings on Olympics’ Diversity, Sex Trafficking (Dorchester Reporter) A Letter to the Editor: Boston 2024 Community Meeting (Caught in Southie) Capuano Criticizes Olympic Effort to Mislead on Transportation; Wonders About Boston 2024 Payroll (WGBH News) Boston Being Played for a Fool in the Political, Olympic Game (Boston.com) Mayor Marty Wals

Deval, Mitt, Marty, and More: the Politics of the Boston Olympics Bid (Boston.com) Comparing the New Videos from Boston 2024 & No Boston Olympics (BostInno) Mayor Walsh’s Office Turn Public Records Requests about the Olympics into PR (Pioneer Institute) Boston, Bay State Don’t Need the Olympics (BusinessWest) Will Boston City Council Shield Us from the Olympics? (DigBoston) No. Olympics Funding Has Big Dig Ring (Boston Globe) Olympic Records (Dig Boston) Beacon Hill’s Top 3 S

Patrick Tapped to Help Lobby IOC for Boston’s Olympic Bid (Boston Globe) Marty Walsh’s Office Finds Missing Boston 2024 Olympics Emails (Muck Rock) City Council’s first Olympic hearing yesterday: Our Storify of the meeting: City Council Finally Remembers That It Exists Olympics Marketing Agreement, More Issues Raised at City Council Hearing (Boston.com) City Councilors Raise Concerns about Boston’s Olympics Bid (Boston Herald) City Councilors Press Olympics Backers for Detail

Boston Mayor’s Early Lessons (Boston Globe) Op-ed from Scott Lehigh: “Walsh clearly got too close too quickly, with too little homework, to construction magnate John Fish’s vanity project.” City Council Forms Committee on Olympics Bid (Boston Globe) Notably excludes Josh Zakim, who has been pushing for ballot questions and is far more engaged with the issue than his peers John Fish, the Olympics, and Troy from the ‘Goonies’ (Dig Boston) Boston Officials Can Woo IOC Voters But

City Councilor Josh Zakim Wants the Olympics on the 2015 Boston Ballot (BostInno) Editorial: Olympic Ballot Nonsense (Boston Herald) While I support the push for a referendum, the Herald raises some good points, namely that if politicians think this is a bad idea, they should just say so. #BOSolympics: A Referendum that Can Lose But Still Win (WGBH News) T Woes Raise Worries about Olympic Travel (Boston Globe) MBTA Problems Show Either (a) We Can’t or (b) We Must Host the Oly

Probably the biggest news is that City Councilor Josh Zakim (Beacon Hill, Back Bay, Fenway, Mission Hill) just filed for four ballot questions for this November’s elections: Boston City Councilor Proposes Olympics Ballot Questions (WBUR) Boston Residents Should Be Able to Vote on 2024 Olympics, City Councilor Says (MassLive.com) Boston City Councilor Josh Zakim Proposes Non-Binding Ballot Questions on 2024 Olympics (MassLive.com) City Councilor Josh Zakim Calls for Citywide V

Boston Olympics Bid Chosen; JP Impacts Remain a Mystery (Jamaica Plain Gazette) Editorial: Seeing through the Olympics Game (Jamaica Plain Gazette) Olympic-Sized Hypocrisy: Democracy is So Last Year (WCVB) Boston City Councilor: ‘Open up the Conversation’ On 2024 Olympics (WGBH) The Councilor is Michelle Wu. Boston 2024: If We Wanted the Public’s Input… (The Bay State Examiner) Is Opposing the Boston 2024 Olympics Unpatriotic? (Boston Magazine) Official: Henry OKs Long Sox Ro