A View From The Finish Line writes on the loss of the 2016 Olympic Bid and looking to the future of a major world event in America,Is it posssible…
The early exit of Chicago as a bid city for the 2016 Games means that there will not be Olympic level track and field in the United States until at least 2020 – and that’s only if the USOC decides to submit an application for a bid city.
While most of the country is still either crying over spilled milk or trying to figure out who to blame for Chicago’s failure, I look at things a bit differently. Because every time a door closes it simply creates another opportunity elsewhere.
That would be for USATF to put together it’s own plan and bid to host the World Championships here in the Untied States. After all, after a quarter century and a dozen editions later, we still have yet to host the World’s largest track meet – and that is a travesty bigger than Chicago’s failure to land the Olympics in my humble opinion!
So perhaps Mr. Logan can take some of that energy that was used to put together a committee to figure out why we didn’t win enough medals in Beijing (and now Berlin) and perhaps put together a “task force” or committee, or whatever route he would like to take, to put together a bid for the World Championships. If Daegu can do it, surely we can find a suitable city here in the United States capable of pulling off the feat!
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