And so it goes. Boston’s arguably controversial bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympic games is no more, as proponents of the plan failed to meet the required expectations of the United States Olympic Committee in the allotted time.

Boston 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 seem to be all for the best. Recent polling in the city 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 watch a few other U.S. cities consider making their bids for the games.

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 Alibrandis, school athletics, and so on. We are a sports-loving people, and we show it practically every day.

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