 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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| Samba! Rio wins right to host the 2016 Olympics
(AP)
03.10.2009 3:33 27 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: President, South, Lind, Tokyo, America, South America, International, Chicago, Olympics, Copenhagen, Olympic, Luke, Committee, International Olympic, Olympic Committee, Madrid, Janeiro
 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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| Samba! Rio wins right to host the 2016 Olympics
(AP)
03.10.2009 3:33 33 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: President, South, Lind, Tokyo, America, South America, International, Chicago, Olympics, Copenhagen, Olympic, Luke, Committee, International Olympic, Olympic Committee, Madrid, Janeiro
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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| Stunned silence, sadness in Chicago as 2016 Olympics bid goes elsewhere
03.10.2009 2:57 24 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: South, Summit, CHICAGO, Site, Chicago, Olympics, Copenhagen
CHICAGO (AP) — So much for Da Games. Chicago residents felt blindsided Friday as the quickly eliminated their hometown from the race to host the 2016 Summer Games. Stunned disbelief stretched from the South Side to Wrigleyville as the learned it wasn't even second fiddle, but fourth out of the four finalists. Nobody saw this coming. "I was shocked. I was disappointed. I couldn't believe it," said Mayor , who didn't even have time to get to the voting ceremony in Copenhagen before the IOC bounced Chicago en route to picking Rio de Janeiro. The 67-year-old mayor who spent three years touting the games as a boon for...
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| Rio erupts in celebration with 2016 Olympics
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03.10.2009 0:56 28 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: President, South, America, South America, Olympics, Copenhagen, Luke, Janeiro
AP - Rio de Janeiro was ready to party Friday, and it had the best of reasons winning the 2016 Olympics.
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