The Associated Press, and local ABC News affiliate WJLA, explore why finding cities willing to host the 2022 and 2024 Olympic Games is "proving tough."
CBS reporter Christie Ileto says Washington D.C. is "closer to the reality" of a potential 2024 Olympic bid now that Philadelphia and New York have opted out of their respective bids.
Philadelphia Inquirer staff writer Claudia Vargas examines why Philadelphia has "pulled its hat" out of the 2024 Olympic bid race. Vargas features comments from Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter and discusses previous Olympic bids from cities in the United States.
The Wall Street Journal's Michael Howard Saul features comments from New York City officials on the decision not to "chase" a bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Boston.com writer Adam Vaccaro asks "ifrest of the world is starting to think twice about the cost-benefit ratio of hosting the Olympics,in light of the $50 billion Sochi games last winter,why shouldn't Boston?"
Road to Brazil
USA Today writer Alan Gomez says when he arrived in Brazil on Sunday, he felt like the "first one who arrives at a party." The country, according to Gomez, appears to be "scrambling" to prepare for the "soccer extravaganza of the year."
Reuters reporter Asher Levine predicts that not all Brazilians will be "rooting for the home team" during the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Aljazeera's Rodrigo Nunes explores how the FIFA World Cup has becomethe "focal point of Brazilians' anger over corruption, poverty and social injustice."
Slate Soccer blogger Harrison Stark anticipates the Mexican national football team will "play like never before" at the 2014 World Cup, but will "lose like always."
CNN's Shasta Darlington takes a trip through the lawless favelas of Rio de Janeiro where "drug gangs rule" ahead of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
The German start-up company behind the innovative "goal-line" technology created for Brazil 2014 tells The Chicago Tribuneit is looking "beyond the World Cup."
ESPN's Wright Thompson takes readers on a "journey in pursuit of Luis Suarez who--when he's not biting opponents--is the most beautiful player in the game."
In Other News
Bloomberg'sKavitha A. Davidson spotlights the late Maya Angelou's poem for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. "Angelou recognized the power of sports to unite," Davidson writes, "even in a politically charged global climate."
TheDaily Telegraph'schief political commentator Peter Oborne says that while former London Olympic organizing committee chairmanSebastian Coe is "a very nice man, he would be a disastrous chairman" of the BBC trust.
Bloomberg reporterMasaaki Iwamoto predicts thatJapan's dream for the 2020 Olympicswill "rest in the hands of foreign workers."
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