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

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.

The New York Times notes that a recent discrepancy in the Boston 2024 bid book may be to blame — while the group behind the bid originally said private money would fund the Olympics, the book revealed that hundreds of millions of dollars of public funding would be used to host the event.

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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.