We are asking our viewers to call us with your thoughts on hosting the lipids in the United States. Do you think it is worst worth the cost to cities . If you are in the eastern or Central United states the number 202 7488000. If you are in you as a victory done the number is 202 7488001. And if you are a boston or A Los Angeles resident that number is 202 7488002. You can also catch up with us on social media, facebook or twitter. And a very good friday morning to you. Beijing celebrating this morning on its olympic bid but plenty of olympic headlines already this week in this country. Here are the dueling front pages from the boston globe from tuesday this week, noting that the games were over after boston organizers were able to halt the bid in that city for the 2024 Olympic Games. On the same day that that headline ran, here is the front page of the los angeles times. They are at the headline is 2024 games. Los angeles is a player again as boston and its bid to host the olympics. Other headlines throughout the week about those bids, this from the front page of the sports section of the washington post. Economic benefits no longer ring true for host cities of olympics. And one more headline, cities are shying away from posting games. You can see that headline also in the washington post. We are letting our viewers colin this morning to get your thoughts on hosting the lipids in the United States. Do you think it is worth the cost to taxpayers . Numbers are on the screen if you want to call in, but for more on the boston story and its fallout we bring in George WashingtonUniversity Professor of Sports Management, Lisa Delpy Neirotti. Think the much running us. Guest thank you. Host explain the financial disagreement that led it to boston pulling out of its bid. Guest i think the citizens are concerned due to the media hype and saying how much london and sochi cost. They were up to 50 billion, but half of that was grasped graft and half of it was to build basic infrastructure that cities in the United States already have. We already have hotels. We arty have sewer systems. We have electricity. We have road systems. Yes there are going to be some improvements that need to be made in boston, for example, but those were needed anyway. The cost of improving your interceptor should not your infrastructure should not be amortized over the 60 days. It should be amortized over the 50 to 100 years that im for sector will be used. Host and professor Lisa Delpy Neirotti has attended 22 olympics. She had let students and researchers to study these are issues. Going back to at least the 1960 olympics, all olympics has been to or possibly three times over their budget estimate. Why is budgeting for an olympics so hard to do . Guest like any construction project, they usually have cost over writers. If the person making the budget does not account for this then there are probably going to be people coming in with unrealistic expectations. In london i know the people on the bid, and they honestly knew they were coming in under. They just said, we put it out there. They didnt really go out and get the contract bids or anything before bidding. Host for the boston olympic bid eric estimates from anywhere from 5 billion to 20 billion. Can you talk about what the taxpayers were being asked to pick up, and what the ioc and let private donors were expecting to pick up for that bid was pulled out . Guest just to put it in perspective, london brought in over 7 billion of revenue just from its organizing committee plus another billion dollars from the International Olympic committee. Then they had the excess that they were not using for their local organizing committee for the infrastructure. That helped offset public infrastructure. They covered the cost of their games, but in london, they built used london. They did not need these games to build bring more tourists to london. They didnt need to increase their image. It london has a great image. What they used it for was to have a deadline where they were going to rebuild. A deadline and the purpose to rebuild these london. In that case they extended their and for sector. Their metro. I would transportation. They built housing. They built a new park. They cleaned up and airy a that was still bombed out from world war ii. There were purposes, and the money they spent was not all on the lipid games. Host and i want to ask you about the news this morning about beijing being connected to host the 2022 olympic winter lipids. The washington post, in their story saying that benefits no longer ring true for host cities. They noted the only countries that left standing in the 2022 bidding process were authoritarian countries were public dissent could not crush the bid. Talking about china and context on being the two countries that were left. Cosmic stan khazakstan. Guest i dont think you need a dictator. It just need a good leader. These are businessmen that really understand cost analysis. In the United States we have a history of being able to say thats a nice idea. But no. You want gold on our olympic stadium, that would be beautiful. We have a budget and we need to stay with that. We have not had the problem that other cities around the world have in terms of going over budget. And yes, we went over budget, but we were able to cut our costs. There are always income versus expenditures. Host what are your expectations for los angeles trying to reassert itself in the 2024 summer olympic game did . Guest they are very well positioned and i know they will do an excellent job and make money for the limbic movement, and for the Southern California airy up. Just like they did in 1984. They had a 250 million surplus. The Foundation Continues to give money to the local youth organizations. Many of the National Governing bodies still have money that they received from 1984, which they are benefiting from. Now i think washington d. C. Is the only Nations Capital of a developed country that has yet to host an Olympic Games. We are very wellpositioned in terms of having the infrastructure. Having security already in place. There are a number of benefits to having it in washington dc. Some people believe the political aura of washington d. C. May not help our chances but i think the infrastructure and the beauty, and all the other cultural elements of washington dc would be a real asset. Free museums. It is a beautiful city. Host that is what we are asking our viewers to call in on this morning. To get their thoughts on hoping hosting an olympic city in the United States. We have lines for boston and l. A. Residents, but also lines around the nation. I want to read one facebook, and we arty got on this topic. He wrote, if the ioc was not so corrupt i would be more than happy to see the olympics stateside. However, the purpose and spirit of the games has been lost things to the greedy opportunists and corporations. I hope someday deal a pixel meet what they used to. What would be your response to that . Guest i think there is so much misunderstanding. The International Olympic committee is not forcing these organizing committees to build what they are building. It is the organizing committees that are playing this game where we have to one up the previous host. Or they are using the lipid games to the Olympic Games to build something that is not really needed for the olympics. In the United States we use existing venues. We are not there to build a White Elephant just for the purpose of the game. Fifa i am just going to go back to the brazil games these that gets blamed for brazil winning building the 12 venues that they did. In actuality fifa has a minimum of eight venues and cap telling brazil, dont build 12 venues. Im not sure you are supposed to be blaming the international organizing committee, whether it is the ioc or feedback. Fifa. It is keeping in check the local organizing committees that just go crazy when they get these games. They just keep building. I am really happy that tokyo has actually cut out a lot of what they put out in their initial bid. It is showing and organizing committee that it is fiscally responsible, and saying you know, we put in this big stadium but it is coming in way too high. We are not going to do that. That is good leadership. Host professor Lisa Delpy Neirotti studies these issues and her position as the professor of Sports Management at George Washington university. We appreciate your time. Guest thank you. Host we are asking our viewers to colin. We want us to get your thoughts, specifically if you live in boston or los angeles. Give us a call on hosting deal of experience do you think it is worth the cost . Wheel to have live for other regions. If you are in the eastern or Central United states it is 202 7488000. Mountain and pacific regions 202 7488001. Some comments already on twitter. Edward wright in that the cost overruns for the olympics are outrageous and host cities dont ever make up the cost. And another tweak this morning keep the olympics out of boston. No taxpayer money. And another no, it leaves a devastated economy when it is done. If you have had experiences in an olympic city or visited one of those olympics cities in the United States one of the five cities that host the deal lipids and his country since 1950 we would love to hear your thoughts. There is a june ap poll on this topic. The question that would that was asked would you support a bid for them to be held and one of these places jacket 89 percent would support it being held somewhere in the United States, but that dropped to 75 for those who would support it being held in their state. It drops to just 61 for those who would support an olympics being held in their local area. You can see the opposition numbers rising as well as the support numbers dropping. That is a june ap poll. Speaking of the bid in boston, here is a bit from the boston mayor talking on monday about dropping the bid. [video clip] we met every demand and every challenge but i cannot commit to putting taxpayers at risk. If committing to signing a guaranteed today is what is required to move forward, then boston is gnome no longer pursuing the limbic games. Host of course the immediate aftermath of those statements and the action by the ioc. Here is the story from los angeles. Los angeles mayor Eric Garcetti said he is eager to resume talks with the Olympic Committee on the possibility of bringing the 24 games to Southern California. After they severed choice ties with their first choice boston. He said he had not had conversations with the committee since its decision to end ties with boston, but i continue to believe that los angeles is the ideal olympic city. The mayor said, i would be happy to engage in discussions with the usoc on how to present the most strongest and most fiscally responsible bid on behalf of our city and our nation. Those are the words of the los angeles mayor. We want to hear from you this morning. Live and i said, central and mountain, and that specifically for those living in boston and los angeles. We will start with dale this morning, washington, dc. Caller good morning. Host your thoughts on hosting the lipids in the United States . Caller i think its worth it. Especially in d. C. One unique difference with d. C. Is people come here anyway to see our national monuments, our parks. We have lots of things that people do. It would be a winwin for the region. I think some of the events would probably expand to maryland. There are stadiums in the washington metroarea, like the redskins. They actually play in a suburb of d. C. University of marriott maryland. I think it would be awesome for d. C. I really wish our city would push for it. It would be an economic boom for d. C. Host one of the big concerns, if you want to stick around, is that these stadiums are built and then they dont get used. And the cities get stuck with the cost of upkeep. You dont think that would be a concern with washington, d. C. . Caller no, absolutely not. We already have lots of venues. We have stadiums in the metroarea already built and ready to go. There is one in louima, maryland. Like i said there is the university of maryland. We have the nats stadium. We have venues here that we can use and we would not have to build or improve. I agree with the woman that was on, russia in sochi they didnt even have Running Water and some places. We just have the technology and the skill. We are a world power. I guess i would want people to sign onto it. Host that is dale in washington, d. C. Shania is up next in pennsylvania. Good morning. Caller good morning. I dont feel like the olympics are really worth the cost anymore. It is just so not what it used to be anymore. Host what do you mean by that . Caller its like, its just gotten so competitive and angry. Host do you think the olympics have lost the olympic spirit . Caller yeah. Host shania, have you ever gone to an olympics or do you mostly watch on tv . Caller i mostly watch on tv. Host what is your most memorable moment from an olympics that you have watched on tv . Caller well, my most memorable moment i was really watching the summer. I dont know. Host thats all right shania. We are talking about olympics this morning on the washington journal. Talking to viewers about the cost of deal of fix. Do you think it is worth it jacket a lot of news do you think it is worth it . One of the groups that was leading the effort to get often to pull out was a group called new boston olympics. They sent out a fact sheet about what messages as could buy with the various amounts of money that had been estimated at the cost of holding analytics. The 5 billion estimate would be, according to their analysis, the minimum cost of the boston olympics. State assistance for local roads and bridges for the next 15 years. It can also buy 15 thousand 621 homes at the january 2014 median ma housing price, enough to house every homeless family and the commonwealth. Massachusetts could wave all tuition and fees for the umass system for the next 10 years. Or they could eliminate all of the transit authoritys outstanding debt and have enough left over to build south coast rail, the green line extension to somerville and medford, and by new rail cars. They also have estimates for that high estimate, 20 billion. Some have estimated that was the top number for boston. We are talking to our viewers this morning. Ginny is up next, lancaster ohio. Caller good morning. Host go ahead. Caller i dont think we can afford it. We are almost 20 trillion in debt. Why do we have to spend more money like that, thats silly. Host what about the investment in the infrastructure that would happen, that would last longer than that 60 day 16 day Olympic Event . Do you think cities in ohio could use that kind of investments . Caller turkey. You are tricky. I dont know. Host im not trying to be tricky, but we appreciate your call. Caller i have not had enough coffee yet. I guess i shouldve had another cup of coffee and then call you. Host i am working on my coffee too. We go to robert in arlington heights, illinois. Caller good morning. My comment is this. That left when he was talking about china and 20 trillion. You are talking about more taxes and more money. In chicago illinois, our taxes are going to 10. 25 because politicians here wants to grab the money every time we turn around. This is just more money. All politicians love money and love contracts. They want taxpayers to subsidize the whole thing. We have new tolls for roads that were supposed be paid off 20 years ago. A negative into a know on the olympic bid. Host a new tweet, he says Corporate America should pay for the lipids, not taxpayers. He goes on to say, if corporations favor the limits and you dont like the lipids, dont pay for the corporations products. One suggested being moving the olympics back to greece, saying that it would neuter the iocs power. That would be doomed Civic Leaders look for reasons not to bid, athens is a prime example. There are the decaying stadiums. The line that connects the 2004 games to greeces current financial crisis. Bringing it back home could help the Greek Economy lean towards recovery and send a clear message that the lipids are more than a tool for dictators and contractors to consolidate their wealth and power. Robert in arlington heights, illinois. Go ahead. Oh, we talked to robert. Lets go to coral in ashford, virginia. Carl. Caller i would love to see the love expressed to the d. C. Just the idea of the olympics being in america, the United States, is just so great. First off, i have a fear of flying. But besides the complex besides that, the d. C. Syria has increased dramatically with what we have to offer. The metro has expanded to so many areas. As a cspan host, im guessing you are a resident of the d. C. Ariel bank area as well . Host we will go on to mike in springfield, virginia. Caller thank you. The olympics bring harmony and peace. We have to get the federal government to support Something Like that. I wish d. C. Would take this and that the federal government will have to. We need something that will bring people harmony. When you look at it, you see how difficult that would be. Another city withdrawing, lets go in for this. Host alexis is up next, in boston, massachusetts. Alexis, how closely did you follow the debate over the 2024 olympics jacket . Ok i dont think she is with us now. Jim is with us from melrose massachusetts. Caller good morning. I will tell you my views on the olympics. I am pleased the mayor declined the invitation due to his reasoning