 Rio de Janeiro wins out as host of 2016 Olympics
 03.10.2009 9:41  35 wyświetleń  0 komentarzy
Tags: President, Obama, Barack Obama, South, Rogen, America, South America, Tech, International, Summit, Brazil, Chicago, Copenhagen, Olympic, Committee, International Olympic, Olympic Committee, Madrid, Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Swaying International Olympic Committee votes with the argument that South America has never hosted an Olympic games before, Brazil's sun-drenched Rio de Janeiro was awarded the 2016 Summer Olympics, holding out against last-minute lobbying by President Barack Obama for his adopted home city of Chicago. Tens of thousands of ecstatic Brazilians, crowded along the city's famed Copacabana beach, erupted in cheers and dancing when the news was announced shortly before 1 p.m. local time, even as crowds in Chicago and the other defeated cities, Madrid and Tokyo, trudged home in disappointment. The announcement by IOC President Jacques Rogge in Copenhagen came...
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| Olympic Dreams Realized, Brazil Steps into the Spotlight
03.10.2009 8:38 50 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: President, International, Brazil, Olympic, Luke, Committee, International Olympic, Olympic Committee, Steve
"It is Brazil's time," President Luiz InÁcio Lula da Silva insisted in his pitch before Friday's International Olympic Committee vote. "It is time to light the Olympic torch in a tropical country." The IOC agreed - and that lit up a frenzied carnival in Rio de Janeiro, a city that knows how to party perhaps better than any other. As the decision was announced, the world forgot Rio's problems for a moment, especially its frightening murder rate, and watched tens of thousands of its residents, known as Cariocas, exult on Copacabana Beach, dancing to deafening music in tanga bikinis and drinking Skol and Brahma beer around a massive banner that read, "Rio Loves You." "This will bring a lot...
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| Olympic Dreams Realized, Brazil Steps into the Spotlight
(Time.com)
03.10.2009 7:20 28 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: Brazil, Olympic, Steve
Time.com - Once the perpetual country of the future, Brazil finally has an opportunity to showcase its development and its economic prowess Czytaj więcej »
| Party in Rio: 'We beat the big cities'
03.10.2009 5:35 92 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: Party, Thousands, Brazil, Olympics
Thousands of people celebrated Friday on crowded Copacabana beach as the announcement that Brazil had been chosen as the 2016 Olympics host played live over huge screens erected above the sand. Czytaj więcej »
| Lulaâs Olympic Victory for Brazil Sets Up Battle on Rioâs Crime
(Bloomberg)
03.10.2009 5:14 38 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: President, Bloomberg, Sept, Brazil, Olympic, Luke
Bloomberg - Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Brazilâs President Luiz Inacio Lula
da Silva, who as a boy sold peanuts on the street, beat the
worldâs two richest nations for the 2016 Olympic Games. Now, he
must defeat Rio de Janeiroâs violent crime, which residents call
the biggest cloud over their cityâs postcard-perfect bid. Czytaj więcej »
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