 Samba! Rio wins right to host the 2016 Olympics
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 03.10.2009 9:51  62 wyświetleń  0 komentarzy
Tags: President, Obama, Barack Obama, Michelle, Tokyo, Center, International, Summit, Chicago, Olympics, Olympic, Luke, Committee, International Olympic, Olympic Committee, Michelle Obama, Janeiro
 AP - The country's president was blunt. "It is," Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said, "Brazil's time."
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| 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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| Circus tycoon clowns around aboard space station
03.10.2009 8:07 44 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: Spain, Russia, International, Canadian
KOROLYOV, Russia -- A Canadian circus billionaire boarded the International Space Station on Friday after a smooth ride up from Earth, and promptly played the entertainer by donning a red clown nose for a camera. Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte became the seventh paying space tourist to travel to the station, where he plans to mix clownish fun with a serious message about the growing shortage of clean water...
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| Samba! Rio wins right to host the 2016 Olympics
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03.10.2009 7:53 32 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
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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