If the current push to bring the Games to Boston seems familiar, it is: There was a similar effort to land the 2008 Olympics. "Other ideas ... would have included baseball—still an Olympic sport at the time (and maybe one again come 2024)—at Fenway; softball on Boston Common; archery at Tufts; and soccer between Foxboro Stadium, Harvard Stadium, Holy Cross Stadium, and the Yale Bowl. A velodrome would have been built near the Eliot Bridge in Allston..." [Boston.com]
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