Samba! Rio wins right to host the 2016 Olympics
(AP)
03.10.2009 7:53 31 views 0 comments
Tags: Games, Lind, Tokyo, International, Chicago, Olympics, Olympic, Committee, International Olympic, Olympic Committee, Madrid, Janeiro, Olympic Games
AP - Like sweet, sultry samba music, Rio hit all the right notes. Chicago had Barack Obama. Tokyo had $4 billion in the bank. Madrid had powerful friends. But none of that mattered. Rio de Janeiro had the enchanting story — of about 400 million sports-mad people on a giant untapped and vibrant continent yearning, hoping, that the Olympics finally might come to them. And the International Olympic Committee was hooked.
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