BOSTON — When Boston 2024, the private group organizing the city’s bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, unveiled its plans in January, it boasted that it would put on “the most walkable Games in modern times.”
Well, spectators may find themselves on some awfully long walks.
In a striking about-face, the bid organizers are detouring from their promise of a compact Games and offering instead a plan that spreads the events across Massachusetts. While the International Olympic Committee had signaled that it would look favorably on sites clustered closely together in a small city like Boston — which would essentially serve as its own Olympic Park — the organizers ran into a buzz saw of complaints…
