Though it poses more questions than answers, the United States Olympic Committee decided on Tuesday evening that they will pursue an Olympic and Paralympic bid for the 2024 Summer Games, according to reports. The ruling was made after a round of four presentations from the remaining U.S. cities who were bidding on a possible candidacy. Now, the USOC has to decide which of the domestic bids it wants to choose, and to pit against the other international bids. USOC Chairman Larry Probst said that a decision will be made on which U.S. city is chosen in “early January.”

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh was on hand to make the pitch for his home city (the meetings were held in California). The Boston 2024 bid went last, proceeded by (in order) Los Angeles, Washington D.C, and San Francisco. Walsh described the effort afterward as a “great presentation. On a scale from 1 to 10, we put on an 11.”

Walsh also specified that a notable part of the pitch was regarding sticking to an Olympic budget. “One of the areas that we talked about was the cost of the Olympics,” he told Janet Wu of WCVB, “and making sure we don’t have overruns here.”

Time will tell if the Boston bid impressed the committee enough to earn their selection (which, again, only means that they are a candidate representing the U.S. against other international bids), the day did decide the question of whether a U.S. bid would at least be attempted. No Summer Olympics has been held on U.S. soil since the 1996 Atlanta Games. And while other American bids have gone forward since then, no Summer bid has succeeded.

The USOC is expected to decide on the four competing bids in January. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will not decide on the formal winner of the bidding for 2024 until some point in 2017.

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