Join Right Pundits as we watch the International Olympic Committee announce which city will host the 2016 Summer Olympics. The final host cities are Chicago, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro and Madrid, all of which are fantastic venues. Of course, Chicago is getting personal and sending their own favorite son, President Obama, to make a personal pitch to bring the games to Chicago. As you can imagine, this has not made Brazil very happy and they are going on the offensive as they have lodged an official complaint with the IOC.
Brazil is so gung-ho about this whole thing that they have declared Friday to be an official holiday as the whole country waits with bated breath to see if South America might finally get to host the Olympics. In fact, Brazil is the largest economy to have never hosted an Olympics games. The one big hit against Rio is it’s security, which is also why Brazil has never been selected to host the games, although I think things are much better now then they have ever been.
Chicago’s biggest weakness is the fact that support for the games amongst it’s citizens is tepid at best. Only about half of the population even wants the games there in the first place, this is something the IOC takes personally I know. I lived in Salt Lake City during their bid process and the games themselves and I think the fact that most of the people there were so rabidly in favor and ecstatic about hosting the games, this went a long way (plus we gave the IOC free guns, hookers and hotel rooms). Also, I think the fact that America has so recently hosted the Olympics will count against them, remember the summer games were in Atlanta in ‘96 and the winter games in Salt Lake City in 2004, so that will hurt Chicago as the IOC likes to mix it up.
So, we’ll see how it all shakes out, but please join as we will have live blogging and live video of the announcement tomorrow, which should start at about noon Eastern.
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October 1st, 2009 at 4:02 pm
It would be a great boost for the Chicago economy.
October 1st, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Hoping for Madrid or Rio!!!! I want to see bullfighting as an Olympic sport!!
Olé!!!
October 1st, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Maybe, it seems like the final analysis for the SLC games was that there was some boost, but there was also a great expense with the games too.
October 1st, 2009 at 7:02 pm
What is the President of the United States doing getting involved in a local gambit 2,000 miles from my California? It won’t create a single job or put a single smile on anyone’s face except we get to worry about terrorism in 2012 just because we care out here. Obama is a boob.
October 1st, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Obama is merely avoiding the healthcare defeat here at home. He wants to be above the fray so he’s throwing Pelosi et. al. under the media bus. WHen the going gets tough, Obama gets going.
He’s in a lose-lose situation. If Chicago get the nod, then the Brazilians will (rightfully?) protest his involvement and heavy-handedness with the Olympic committee. If Chicago doesn’t get the nod, then Obama gets publicly repudiated. Either way, he loses.
And either way, we win. THe Olympics is a huge suck of money which we don’t have right now. Another year. Also, anything that chastises the ego of the Obamas is good for America.
October 1st, 2009 at 7:32 pm
Good old obama talking about the real issues with the Olympics. I mean it’s not like Iran’s on the verge of getting a nuke or anything like that.
October 2nd, 2009 at 4:04 am
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October 2nd, 2009 at 5:51 am
You stated the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City was in 2004. It was in 2002. I attended as well. It was my first winter Olympic games. a WONDERFUL experience.
October 2nd, 2009 at 6:04 am
Sorry, 2002, not 2004 for the SLC games. They went off quiet well. In fact, they used the lawschools parking lot for all the media trucks. But we got like a month off school.
October 2nd, 2009 at 6:05 am
Posting from iPhone means lots of typos.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:03 am
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October 2nd, 2009 at 8:04 am
Kristen;
“THe Olympics is a huge suck of money which we don’t have right now.”
I certainly hope your inclination is that its a sack of money we cant afford to put out as from what I understand the returns usually arent so great in the long run.
How long will it take Chicago to pay off the preparations needed in comparison to the temporary cash infusion the games will bring ?
nd how much of that money is going to go to Obamas gangsta politician buddies, the labor cronies and community re-investment interests etc ?
The winter olympics in Salt Lake only turned a profit of 56 million. After all is said and done, thats not a lot of money.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:31 am
Chicago just lost. It was the first city to be eliminated.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:37 am
Another defeat for our floppy eared TOTUS. Demanding that his likeness and logo be included in the Olympic Rings probably doomed him.
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:10 am
Yeah, good one monkey.
He probably had that sht all drafted and ready to print.
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:37 am
Lol…agreed Mickey and FM
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:16 am
Well they certainly showed The One how much power he has in the international community. Now they’ll have to fire up those two huge airliners and fly their entourages home – where the American community will let him know how far his rhetoric can take him with his health care debacle.
Meanwhile, American Soldiers are DYING in Afghanistan (unreported on the MSM)at the highest rate since the war started and he just can’t make any decisions about what he’s going to do about that war. I guess American Soldiers are just not as important to him as getting the Olympics for his buddies in Chicago.
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:58 pm
OBAMA is OVER EXPOSED ! ” The One ” fails to deliever AGAIN !
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:10 am
You know Bryan it would be nice to get some feedback on Marco Rubio.
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