What went wrong with Boston2024? Even in this sports-crazed city, the idea of hosting a global sporting competition just didn't sit right with many people.
Despite attempts to increase support with a glitzy promotional piece starring former Boston Olympians, the video, which was shot against a fall landscape, gave the effort a rather tired look. No surprise then that many Bostonians worried about whether their old city was up to the task of hosting the world.
In the early 1970s when then-Colorado state Rep. Richard Lamm (D) began to form an opposition movement to Denver's bid to host the 1976 Winter Olympic Games, Lamm said he felt like he was "banging the last nails into my own political coffin."
On Tuesday, the former Colorado politician recalled in a phone interview with the NewBostonPost how he spearheaded the state's anti-Olympic movement after uncovering problems with the Denver bid.
