Boston’s plans for the 2024 Summer Games probably will include staging some events outside Massachusetts, an approach that could mean early-round Olympic baseball at Yankee Stadium, basketball at Madison Square Garden, tennis on the courts where the US Open is played, and sailing off Newport, R.I.
A source familiar with Boston’s evolving bid said organizers have “held high-level conversations” with other cities about hosting events. New York and Washington, which both made unsuccessful pursuits for their own Games in recent years, are considered candidates for such a role.
While staging some events outside a host city’s boundaries has been commonplace for geographic reasons — mountains for skiing and oceans for sailing are often many miles from the Games’ epicenter — 2024 would be the first Olympics to follow new IOC guidelines, approved in December, that allow bid cities to stage “preliminary competitions outside the host city . . . notably for reasons of sustainability.”
The heart of the Games would remain in Boston with a single athletes’ village, 28 of 33 planned venues within a 10-kilometer radius and final rounds of the basketball, baseball, and soccer competitions at TD Garden, Fenway Park, and Gillette Stadium, respectively, said the source, who requested anonymity because the bidding process is at such a sensitive stage.
