<p>Cut…</p>
<p>[Business</a> News & Financial News - The Wall Street Journal - WSJ.com](<a href=“http://online.wsj.com/home-page?mod=djemalertNEWS]Business”>http://online.wsj.com/home-page?mod=djemalertNEWS)</p>
<p>Link from the WSJ. Chicago out in the first round of voting. Tokyo out too.</p>
<p>Oh forget Chicago- it’s Cleveland!
[Cleveland</a> Wins the Gay Games - TIME](<a href=“http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1927211,00.html]Cleveland”>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1927211,00.html)</p>
<p>It is a good thing I did not bet on that one. I was so sure it would be between Chicago and Tokyo. Too bad.</p>
<p>and the winner is …RIO!</p>
<p>and people were worried about crime if it happened in chicago?</p>
<p>What do you think Daley will do with the plans they made? He got Millennium Park to happen…</p>
<p>I’m glad Rio got them. I think Chicago will be better off without the financial burden. South America needs to have the summer (or is it winter since it’s south of the equator?) games at least once. Saves us from any pressure to buy tickets for track and field…</p>
<p>biapple - crime will be a problem in Rio. Huge numbers of people with money show up, and criminals will be attracted. </p>
<p>Brazil has come a long way. I hope this inspires them.</p>
<p>Darn. We were trying to figure out which event would be the cheapest to attend (decided ribbon dancing was in the running) and that we’d stay in Kalamazoo since Chicago’s hotel’s would be quite high. We would have settled for steeplechase prelims. ;)</p>
<p>Oh well</p>
<p>Sounds like the president of Brazil gave a compelling speech and the IOC was convinced that it was the time to make history and hold the first-ever Olympics in South America…You have the chance to inspire a new continent… is pretty heady stuff.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Is there a place where one can read the speechs? </p>
<p>From little I heard of President Obama, I have the feeling his speech was too personal, same with Michelle Obama. I noticed in the clip below, that Rio’s speech was all about the nation, not about pleasing a family member. Perhaps it had an impact on the outcome?</p>
<p>I think it’s a good decision. It seems only fair to hold the games in SA, given that they have never had the chance to host them. Rio will be a spectacular setting.</p>
<p>Chicago 2020.</p>
<p>And we still have the world’s largest marathon.</p>
<p>The Chicago bid only recieved 18 votes in the first round of voting. Madrid getting the most in the first round as some voted for the old IOC head Samaranch. Many IOC members have a bad taste in their mouths for USOC as there have been heated conversations on cost sharing and Media revenue sharing. IOC wants to cut the revenue and increase the cost that the USOC participates in. Some IOC members did not want to reward the USOC with the Chicago Olympics. Obama and Oprah should have known this and not wasted their time and energy. How much does it cost to send Air Force One on a business junket to Denmark?</p>
<p>Maybe Chicago only wanted the bid to do all that digging in hopes of finding Jimmy Hoffa’s body???</p>
<p>JK</p>
<p>Agreed. #14.</p>
<p>In hindsight, the USOC massively hurt Chicago’s chances with that stunt with Comcast to start a new Olympics channel. The IOC was enraged. To try this just months before your best chance in 20 years to land a Summer Olympics and while there is already a lot of tension over broadcast revenue-sharing, strikes me as idiotic to the extreme.</p>
<p>European entries have done better than expected now the last 2 votes with Sochi coming out of nowhere to clip the poor Koreans for 2014 and Madrid finishing 2nd despite the potential of it being the 5th European host of the last 7 Olympics. The effect of a European-centric IOC in the voting is clear. There is going to be a greater emphasis on emerging markets now in future bids too, with the bad USOC/IOC relations, the U.S. will have a lot of things going against in for 2020, 2022, etc.</p>
<p>Jimmy Hoffa is buried at Giants Stadium in the NJ Meadowlands- everyone knows that.</p>
<p>Sorry Chitown folks… but seriously I am surprised anyone thought that the global community would select Chicago over Rio! I don’t think Chicago stood a chance. Rio has a magnificent mountainous shore line with Hawaii-like needle hills. It’s absolutely magnificent! Perhaps San Diego would have had a better chance than Chicago.</p>
<p>Why would a land locked, ‘flat up to horizons’, concrete jungle with a Lakeshore win over magnificent Rio?</p>
<p>the endzone, right tom?? Under the cement goal posts.</p>
<p>Jimmy Hoffa was last seen, I believe, in a restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, MI - just outside Detroit. What evidence do you guys have that he ended up in Chicago or NJ??</p>
<p>Pharmagal, I have never lived in Chicago, but it is a great city, and Lake Michigan is wonderful. I agree that, physically, it can’t hold a candle to Rio, but San Diego? Compared to Chicago, San Diego is a sleepy, boring place.</p>