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Boston Mayor promises no overspending on 2024 Olympics

Xinhua, January 10, 2015 Adjust font size:

One day after United States Olympic Committee selected Boston to bid for the 2024 summer Olympic Games, mayor of the city Martin Walsh promised on Friday that Boston will try to avoid overspending.

"I promise this will be the most open, transparent and inclusive process in Olympic history. I also promise that I will never leave Boston with a large price tag of an unpaid debt," Walsh said in a press conference in Boston.

"We are not going to be using tax payers' money to be building venues," he added.

The United States' last two attempts to bid for the Games both failed, with New York for 2012 and Chicago for 2016 Games. The last time for US to stage the summer Olympics was in 1996 in Atlanta and Salt Lake City hosted the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Endi