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VOLUME 36 NO. 4
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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
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Fairfax Elected Officials Like Olympic Bid
Officials Say Region Stands to Benefit If It Can Win the Summer Games of 2024 BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer
A regional group’s quest to have the Washington, D.C., area host the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games has found favor among several Fairfax County supervisors. Some supervisors attended a Sept. 10 brief-
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ing by leaders of the non-profit group DC 2024 at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG). Board of Supervisors Chairman Sharon Bulova (D) said county officials have not voted on the matter, but supervisors have expressed support for seeking the Olympics. “I describe this as potentially an enormous, galvanizing opportunity to bring the region
around to hosting the Olympics,” she said. “It would be a regional effort with benefits.” DC 2024 will submit its bid around the end of this year. The U.S. Olympic Committee will choose the U.S nominee city next year and the International Olympic Committee will select the 2024 host city in 2017. DC 2024 is headed by chairman and CEO W. Russell Ramsey, a financier and entrepre-
neur, and vice chairman Ted Leonsis, chairman and CEO of Monumental Sports and Entertainment. Leonsis’ company owns and operates the Washington Capitals, Washington Wizards and Washington Mystics sports teams. Several supervisors said Fairfax County’s Continued on Page 36
Regional leaders also line up to support bid for Olympics, but not everyone is sold on idea – See Page 8 SULLIVAN TAKES HIS PLACE IN LEGISLATURE Del. Rip Sullivan (D-48th) was sworn into office Friday, Sept. 12, in time to take his seat as the General Assembly this week reconvenes in Richmond to tackle Medicaid and other contentious issues in a special session. Sullivan, an attorney who lives in McLean, easily won election in an Aug. 19 special election to succeed Democrat Bob Brink, who resigned to take a job in the McAuliffe administration. See coverage of Sullivan’s swearing-in on Page 14, and see an interview with his campaign manager, Jarrod Nagurka, on Page 19.
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