BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarians displayed a mixture of disappointment and relief on Thursday after the government ended Budapest's bid to host the 2024 summer Olympic Games in the face of growing popular opposition. "It would have been a gigantic overstretch," 45-year-old Budapest teacher, Lajos Szanto, told Reuters. "Last fall the majority supported the bid and our chances were improving," said Kemeny, one of the faces of the official Budapest 2024 campaign. Government-friendly media echoed that thought with headlines like "We had a dream", "The opposition smashed our Olympic dreams" and "Leftists once again betrayed the nation." The news website Index.hu wrote in an opinion piece that the decision was "the end of a nightmare driven by irrationality".

Source: The Star February 23, 2017 12:22 UTC