The United States Olympic Committee has selected Boston to make a bid for the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.

A meeting was held Thursday at the Denver International Airport, and after final presentations, the USOC announced that it will support Boston's Olympic bid over San Francisco, Washington D.C. and two-time Olympic host Los Angeles. Over the next two and a half years, the city of Boston will be part of a hosting competition to determine the official location for the Olympics. 

USA Gymnastics released a statement regarding Boston's selection. "Boston is a tremendous sports town and will rally around becoming America's choice for the 2024 Olympic Games," Steve Penny, president of USA Gymnastics said. "Given the city's strong sense of patriotism along with its very diverse base of citizens, it offers a wonderful stage for the world's most important sports event."

On the official Boston 2024 website, their vision states, "While still very early in the overall bid process, this opportunity recognizes Massachusetts as an international beacon for drawing hundreds of thousands of the best and brightest from around the glob each year, and as a cradle of innovation where the youth assemble to dream of, and plan for, a better future for all of us."

The U.S. last hosted the Olympics in Atlanta in 1996. Los Angeles held the Games in both 1932 and 1984 and St. Louis hosted in 1904.  

The International Olympic Committee will choose the host city for the 2024 Summer Games and Paralympic Games at a meeting in Lima, Peru scheduled for 2017. 


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