Olympics: ‘US wants to host Olympics’

Make no mistake, we do want to bid and we do want to win: US Olympic Committee

COLORADO SPRINGS: US Olympic Committee (USOC) Chairman Larry Probst has said the country wants to bring the Olympics back in the wake of leading the gold and overall medal tables at London. “Make no mistake, we do want to bid and we do want to win, but we will only bid if the business logic is as compelling as the sport logic,” said Probst. The stance comes after the US held off submitting bids for the 2018 Winter and 2020 Summer Olympics in the wake of failures by bids from New York for the 2012 Olympics and Chicago for the 2016 Olympics. US cities have not hosted the Olympics since the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and 1996 Atlanta Centennial Summer Olympics.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 26^th, 2012.