A committee is reportedly working on a bid from Dallas for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. The Dallas Morning News reports the committee “has been working—mostly under the radar—to build momentum” for an Olympic bid.
Matt Wood, a Dallas attorney who is leading the bid, said that “even the expectation that the United States won’t bid on the 2020 Games hasn’t slowed down the two dozen or so volunteers” working on the campaign.
Wood said it was “still early in a long effort” adding that Dallas 2020 members “have worked out some logistics of hosting the Games, from proposing an Olympic Village near Fair Park and a new swimming facility at Southern Methodist University”.
According to Wood the Dallas area “has plenty of venues already, including Cowboys Stadium, American Airlines Center and Pizza Hut Park in Frisco”. He said the committee “is working with HKS, the Dallas architectural firm that designed Cowboys Stadium, to determine the cost of renovating the Cotton Bowl”.
Meanwhile USOC Communications Director Mark Jones said the organization had no plans to pursue a 2020 Summer Olympic bid, “but officials previously haven’t ruled out a bid”.
