 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 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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| 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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| Not even the 'Second City': In stunning Olympic loss, Chicago ousted early
03.10.2009 2:57 29 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: American, South, Wire, City, America, South America, Even, Moss, Chicago, Olympic
COPENHAGEN (AP) — Chicago can't blame it all on Rio. More like a backlash against any number of things American — from hassling visitors at the borders to money squabbles to a quickie visit by . Even a disrupted walk across the hall apparently played a part. And, yes, it didn't help that South America had never had an . Chicago's leaders left here the same way they came in: convinced they had the best plan to host the 2016 Olympics. If only that was all that mattered in Olympic politics. The Windy City is unlikely to bid again for 2020. With the games going to Rio, the odds they would come back to the Americas the next time around are long. But Olympic...
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| Rio gets 2016 Olympics, a first for South America
(AP)
03.10.2009 1:16 25 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: President, Games, South, Tokyo, Center, America, South America, International, Summit, Olympic, Luke, Committee, International Olympic, Olympic Committee, Janeiro, Olympic Games
 AP - Let the Olympic Carnival begin. And the crying, too.
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