U.S. Cities Eye Olympic Bids -- Media Watch

(ATR) Matthew Turner,reporter for the Adirondack Daily Enterprise in New York, explores whether a campaign to bring the Winter Olympics to Lake Placid is viable.

If elected governor, Rob Astorino has plans to attempt to bring the Winter Games back to Lake Placid in 2026. The city last hosted the Olympics in 1980.

"He said it would be a bi-national bid with Montreal as a partner," Turner writes.

"Both have hosted the Olympics before, have the infrastructure, and are close enough in distance between each other," Turner quotes Astorino as saying.

Dan O'Connell, president of Boston 2024, joined New England Cable News to share some of the "plans, hurdles, and potential long lasting benefits" of hosting the Summer Olympic Games."We've been directed by the mayor to make sure that this is all about legacy," O'Connell told reporters. "Not the Games as the final date, but how do the games prepare us for where Boston wants to be in 2030 or 2040?

"So, what kind of infrastructure expenditures might be accelerated by the games that would be of long-term benefit for economic growth and job development."

IOC Non-Discrimination

In a piece for the online news magazine Slate, Paris-based LGBTQ activist Marc Naimark discusses the IOC's non-discrimination effort for future Olympic Games.

"The IOC will require the cities and national Olympic committees of their countries to adhere to Principle 6 of the Olympic Charter, which bans discrimination in sport," Naimark told the AP,"yet nothing in this announcement can guarantee any real protection for LGBTQ people."

Steve Williams, writer for the online news outlet Care2 Causes, says he is giving the IOCa bronze for its new non-discrimination effort.

"One of the real tests of this new clause will come when the IOC decides to pick the host for the 2022 Winter Olympics," Williams says."However, in the short term, it is clear that the IOC did hear the thousands of voices who spoke out against its failure to acknowledge the appalling human rights situation in Russia during the Sochi Games."

In Other News

NBC Sports blogger Nick Zaccardi says,"Synchronized figure skating could be added to the Winter Olympics in 2018if an International Skating Union request goes through."

Adweek contributorDavid Gianatasio says that while the United States bobsled team took homesilver and three bronze medals at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, "BMW scored marketing gold."

BBC News features seven reasons why Birmingham, England failed in its bid to host the 1992 Summer Olympics.

According to Reuters report, "Golfers who are policed by an anti-doping code on the PGA Tour that is viewed by critics as too opaque will have to adapt to a much more transparent program if they qualify to compete at the 2016 Olympic Games."

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