Word: olympicsized
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"The Olympics will bring tremendous international exposure to those people who are not familiar with Georgia Tech," says Georgia Tech Director of Special Programs Tammy M. Tuley. "People don't realize what a large, booming city Atlanta is."
Competition to host the 2008 Olympics will be fierce.
"Compared to the progress of other cities that have bid for the Olympics, an astonishing amount of work has already been accomplished for an event that still lies some 14 years in the future," Hamill says in the BOC's feasibility report for the Boston Olympics.
It emerged from a "series of discussions in which we discussed the changing millennium of 2000 and a desire to celebrate the human spirit," Larsen says. "What better way to celebrate the human spirit than through the Olympics?"
Those pushing for the Olympics say the benefits for Boston and Cambridge will definitely outweigh any costs.