Tokyo Olympic boss apologises over stadium

“The focus were, of course, the upcoming Olympic Games”, Bach said of their two-day board meeting.

Boston 2024 chairman Steve Pagliuca portrayed the move as a joint decision made “in order to give the Olympic movement in the United States the best chance to bring the Games back to our country in 2024”.

Bach said: “Everybody interested can see where our revenues are coming from and how we distribute 90pc of them for the worldwide development of sport and athletes”.

“We are still in the Invitation Phase and this is exactly what this phase is for, to allow National Olympic Committees and cities to explore a possible bid”.

Meanwhile for Los Angeles, it would be just one of two cities to have hosted the Summer Olympics three times, the other being London.

“We are very confident we will have a great Games in one year”.

Tony Winnicker, who has worked with the office of San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee on Olympics efforts, acknowledged that the city might also be open to the possibility.

Boasting a sustainable and prudent plan to host the 2022 Games by using a majority of existing venues built for the 2008 Summer Games, the Beijing bid committee stressed that it complies with the 2020 Agenda, 40 reform proposals approved by IOC last December to cut spending on bidding and hosting of future Olympics.

Boston’s bid was in trouble nearly as soon as the USOC chose the New England city in January ahead of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington.

“We will brief the media on our progress towards a decision later in August, and we will not have any public statements on the subject of a possible bid until then,” USOC CEO Scott Blackmun said in a statement Monday.

Corruption loves company. Until the IOC cleans up its act and starts staging games that pay for themselves, the United States doesn’t need another Olympics.

There’s still time, though, to save face if chairman Larry Probst and Blackmun make quick phone calls to leaders in Los Angeles, including Mayor Eric Garcetti and agent/power broker Casey Wasserman.

But he said there was enough time for the USOC to change course. “It’s not up to the IOC to give unsolicited advice on this. I don’t know that anyone would be talking about Woodlet Circle or any of these other neighborhoods, what do to with Columbia Point, if it hadn’t been for this bid”, Conor Yunits said. Policies will also protect against the costs associated with sponsors being unable to meet their financial obligations, which has been a costly problem in past Olympic Games.

A 2012 New York bid was undone by the last-minute wipeout of the planned main stadium site while a 2016 Chicago bid was the first ousted in IOC voting.

So in hindsight we can see that Boston 2024 saw an opportunity based on falsehoods from the Olympic bureaucracy, and responded with falsehoods of their own.