So, Boston’s arguably controversial bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympic games ultimately fell through, as proponents of the plan failed to meet the required expectations of the United States Olympic Committee in the allotted time.

Then Mayor Martin J. Walsh reportedly felt pressured to formally submit the city’s bid without performing due diligence in terms of cost and infrastructure demands, and had asked the U.S.O.C. for more time. Ultimately, the Committee dropped Boston as a contender for the 2024 games.

For some, the move may have seemed to be all for the best. Polling at the time indicated that a firm majority of citizens were against hosting the games due to the high costs to taxpayers.

Others argued that the investment would be worth it in consideration of visitor dollars that would be spent in the city and surrounding municipalities, including our own.

The debates are moot at this point. The whole thing is history now, as we enjoy watching the 2024 games being played in Paris.

We will never know how well or how badly the region’s economies would have fared if the city had won their bid.

But there’s no use crying over spilt milk, especially since we’re not even sure that the milk wasn’t spoiled.

We still have our Red Sox and Pats, and locally our school athletics, amateur softball leagues, and so on. We are a sports-loving people, and we show it practically every day.

Our sporting life will go on as usual, no harm, no foul, win-win.