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San Diego Moving Ahead With 2024 Summer Olympic Bid

By Maureen Cavanaugh / KPBS Midday Edition Co-Host, Marissa Cabrera / News Producer, KPBS Midday Edition, Peggy Pico / KPBS Evening Edition Host

Published March 3, 2014 at 7:52 AM PST

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San Diego Moving Ahead With 2024 Summer Olympic Bid

GUESTS: Vincent Mudd, Chairman, San Diego 2024 Exploratory Committee Robert Edelman, History of Sport Professor, UC San Diego

The pagentry and publicity we saw only weeks ago at the Sochi Winter Olympics could be coming our way.

So could the huge expense of building game venues.

An Olympic exploratory committee here in San Diego is working to get the city to put in a formal bid for the 2024 Summer Games and ultimately get the U.S. Olympic Committee to choose San Diego as the national contender.

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Other U.S. cities such as Los Angeles, Dallas and Philadelphia are also throwing their hats into the ring.

Proponents believe San Diego is in a great position to host the international event.

A new promotional video says the region is home to 80% of the necessary venues and it would cost $2 billion to build the rest.

But critics aren't so sure.

The USOC is expected to complete a list of its top three host cities in the coming months, with a final decision expected by the end of 2014. That proposal will then be submitted to the International Olympic Committee. The IOC will announce the host city in 2017.

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Maureen Cavanaugh

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Maureen Cavanaugh has been a familiar voice for KPBS listeners for more than 15 years, serving in a variety of capacities including announcer, host, and producer. As host of KPBS Midday Edition, Maureen has interviewed a wide range of notables, such as comedienne Sandra Bernhardt, actor John Lequizamo, author Chuck Palahniuk, composer Marvin Hamlisch, artist Robert Irwin, and designer Zandra Rhodes. But of all the interviews Maureen has conducted, her most special was with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. Before joining KPBS in 1997, she worked as a news anchor for KSDO and KOGO News Radio in San Diego. While working for commercial radio stations in San Diego and in Salt Lake City, Utah, Maureen reported on both hard news and lifestyle features. Maureen has received three "Golden Mike" awards from the Radio and TV News Association of Southern California for economic reporting and breaking news. She has also received a "Best of Show" and “Best Radio Newscast” awards from the San Diego Press Club and the "Flo" Award from Public Radio Program Directors Association for Best Public Radio Announcer in a large market. Maureen is a native of Queens, New York, but after more than 20 years in San Diego she feels she qualifies as a real Southern Californian.

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Marissa Cabrera worked as a producer for KPBS Midday Edition and had previously served as a Newscast Producer for KPBS' Morning Edition. Before joining KPBS she reported on Vatican affairs, social, and cultural issues in Rome, Italy. She also contributed to a documentary on sex abuse in the Catholic Church. Marissa has worked as a multimedia journalist at various news stations in San Diego and Monterey as well as Columbia, Missouri. Marissa graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism.

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Peggy Pico

Peggy Pico served as the host of KPBS Evening Edition. Pico originally joined the KPBS newsroom as the science and technology reporter in 2010 after spending two years covering biotechnology and medical news in the Bay Area. Pico was raised in San Diego and has worked as a broadcast journalist in California, Arizona, and Texas. She previously reported for NBC 7/39 where she worked as a medical and science reporter for five years. Pico has won two Emmy’s and numerous awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Associated Press, and the San Diego Press Club. She also received the USC Health Reporter Fellowship and is a member of California Chicano News Media Association and the Association of Health Care Journalists.

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