The Deerfield River remains the only potential Olympic venue in Western Massachusetts… should the 2024 summer games come to Boston. That news came today as the group trying to bring the Olympics to Boston announced their revised bid to host the event. Boston 2024’s David Manfredi says the Deerfield River is an ideal site for canoeing and kayaking events.

“The beauty of the Deerfield is it has all of that elevation change that other olympics have had to build,” Manfredi says. “Through our lens of cost, our lens of durability, the opportunity (exists) to create a kayak and canoe center that would be permanent here.”

Venues for cycling and other preliminary events were not announced, but this spring, officials from western Massachusetts made a pitch for bringing some of those sports west. Team Handball games are also slated to be held at the D-C-U Center in Worcester.