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The official vote awarding Paris the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games and Los Angeles the 2028 event made for one of the most anticlimactic International Olympic Committee sessions in history. But all parties agreed that whatever the final decision lacked in drama, it made up for in goodwill and stability for the Olympic movement. […]
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The International Olympic Committee has formally signed off on an agreement allowing Paris to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games …
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The Olympic Summer Games will return to the United States for the first time since 1996 after the International Olympic Committee approved a plan to award both…
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The International Olympic Committee’s executive board has endorsed a recommendation that the 2024 and 2028 Olympic Summer Games be awarded…
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At the 1984 Olympic Summer Games, Benita Fitzgerald Mosley became the first African-American woman and second American ever to win a gold medal in the 110-meter hurdles. But she never stopped succeeding. After working for Special Olympics and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics organizing committee, she spent eight years as president and CEO of Women in Cable Telecommunications. From there, she became chief of sport performance for USA Track & Field, helping the team to win 29 medals at the 2012 Games, and served as chief of organizational excellence for the U.S. Olympic Committee. In 2016, she was named CEO of Laureus USA, a foundation that is part of a global…
Continue ReadingEvery Olympic Summer Games seems to come with its own challenges and concerns. In 2008, questions swirled around Beijing’s air quality. In 2010, there were doubts about adequate snow levels at the alpine venues near Vancouver. In 2012, some wondered whether London’s public transportation would be too crowded to move people efficiently. And in 2014, […]
Continue ReadingAs the former Massachusetts secretary of transportation, Rich Davey knows about complicated, big-picture projects. But in January, he stepped into an even higher-profile position for an even more complex project, Boston’s upcoming bid for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games. Before stepping down in October from the government post he’d held for three years, Davey was general manager of both the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad. Now he is charged with organizing the city’s bid to meet the International Olympic Committee’s new Agenda 2020 streamlined bid criteria, as well as making the case to residents at 20 public meetings already underway statewide. In this interview…
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