U.S. Olympic Committee chairman Larry Probst said the organization would like to see local support for the Boston 2024 Olympic bid clear 50 percent “relatively soon,” while praising “a tremendous amount of progress” by bid organizers in recent weeks.
USOC CEO Scott Blackmun said officials have and will continue to conduct regular polling but would not share specific numbers. Probst said support is in the low- to mid-40 percent range, similar to numbers from recent polls by Boston media.
“Rather than specific numbers, we obviously want to see a positive trend, and the sooner the better,” Probst said after a quarterly USOC board of directors’ meeting in California on Tuesday.