Here is a weblink to a fascinating blogpost by Christian Salcedo and Paul Beshouri about Detroit’s bid to host the 1968 Summer Olympics. I had no idea that Detroit had bid on hosting the olympics six different times and nearly won them in 1968.

As we all know, Mexico City won the opportunity, but one certainly has to wonder about what might have been (on a whole variety of levels), if Detroit, Michigan had been given this “golden” opportunity. Kudos to both authors on a great and thought-provoking post.

http://detroit.curbed.com/archives/2014/02/the-68-games-detroits-unrealized-olympic-dreams.php