Even Bostonians aren't wild about the prospect of a 2024 Boston Olympics

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published 10 June 2015

A new survey from WBUR, Boston's NPR affiliate, found that support for Beantown's bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics is steadily decreasing.

Thirty-nine percent of Massachusetts voters said they supported the bid, while 49 percent of voters were opposed to it. The poll marks lower support for the bid since WBUR's last poll in April.

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The U.S. has until Sept. 15 to submit an American candidate for the 2024 games to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and the IOC will announce a host city the following year, on Sept. 15, 2017. In January, the U.S. committee chose Boston over Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., as its potential Olympic host. Hamburg and Rome are among the other cities vying to host the games.

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