Full Version: 2016 - Chicago, Madrid, Rio or Tokyo?
The decision comes Friday. My bet is Rio.
I don't think it should be Tokyo because they've hosted before. My vote would be Madrid, but I'm biased. How warm is it in Rio during July/August? Or would they just hold off for a couple of months like they did with Sydney?
My bone of contention is that if they end up selecting Chicago, no F*CKING way does even one red cent of federal money (i.e., money taken out of your hard-earned paycheck and mine) go toward the Olympics. Most Olympic cities have lost a bundle. Beijing lost $25 billion, London is already $8 billion in the red for their 2012 Olympics, and even the profitability of 1984 Los Angeles is dubious because a lot of the real costs weren't tallied in. With that cesspool of Chicago corruption primed and ready to suck away $billions$ in graft, Chicago in 2016 will surely be a financial black hole. If they want to host the Games, fine, but it's on their dime.
My bone of contention is that if they end up selecting Chicago, no F*CKING way does even one red cent of federal money (i.e., money taken out of your hard-earned paycheck and mine) go toward the Olympics. Most Olympic cities have lost a bundle. Beijing lost $25 billion, London is already $8 billion in the red for their 2012 Olympics, and even the profitability of 1984 Los Angeles is dubious because a lot of the real costs weren't tallied in. With that cesspool of Chicago corruption primed and ready to suck away $billions$ in graft, Chicago in 2016 will surely be a financial black hole. If they want to host the Games, fine, but it's on their dime.
I'm with Aquaman. Selecting Rio would be a nod to Brazil as a major player in the global marketplace (which it is), and no city in South America has ever hosted. It's time one did.
Chicago eliminated in the first round! Tokyo out in the second. It's down to Rio and Madrid.
WOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
RIO RIO RIO!!!
RIO RIO RIO!!!
As a US taxpayer, I am breathing an enormous sigh of relief. Once upon a time, a billion dollars used to be considered a lot of money. Call me old-fashioned, but I think it still is. So the thought of BILLIONS and BILLIONS of dollars being sucked into the cesspool of Chicago corruption outrages and maddens every honest person in America, or at least it should. But with the 2016 Games in Rio, those bloodsucking Chicago corrupticians will have to figure out another way to rip off their fellow Americans. Boo F*CKING hoo.
A Chinese official has come out with details about backroom deals that won the 2008 games for Beijing: European IOC members would vote for Beijing if China threw its support behind Jacques Rogge for IOC president (he was competing against a Canadian and a Korean). Canada was doubly shafted in this deal: Toronto failed to win the games and Canadian Dick Pound failed to win the IOC presidency.
Who knows what deals were made in the Rio vote. You'd think that Chicago, with their experience in crooked dealings, would have done better...
Who knows what deals were made in the Rio vote. You'd think that Chicago, with their experience in crooked dealings, would have done better...
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Retired sports minister and president of the Chinese Olympic Committee, Yuan Weimin, describes in his book the alleged arrangements surrounding Beijing's Olympic bid in 2001: European members of the IOC verbally agreed to support Beijing for the 2008 Games in exchange for Chinese support for Rogge.
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"The Beijing Olympic bid committee decided on a tactic of strategic alliance-making. We would link Chinese support for Rogge in exchange for European committee members' support for Beijing," Yuan said in his memoir. "Of course, we also made some promises to link up with some of our friends in supporting Rogge. This tactic was our overall strategy."
Beijing went on to win the 2001 vote in Moscow, defeating Toronto, Paris, Istanbul and Osaka after two rounds of voting. Beijing received 56 votes in the second round, followed by Toronto with 22.
Rogge, a Belgian who had headed the European Olympic Committees, was elected IOC president at the same meeting in Moscow. He defeated four other candidates and received a winning majority of 59 votes in the second round, more than double the votes of Kim Un-yong of South Korea (23) and Dick Pound of Canada (22).
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"The Beijing Olympic bid committee decided on a tactic of strategic alliance-making. We would link Chinese support for Rogge in exchange for European committee members' support for Beijing," Yuan said in his memoir. "Of course, we also made some promises to link up with some of our friends in supporting Rogge. This tactic was our overall strategy."
Beijing went on to win the 2001 vote in Moscow, defeating Toronto, Paris, Istanbul and Osaka after two rounds of voting. Beijing received 56 votes in the second round, followed by Toronto with 22.
Rogge, a Belgian who had headed the European Olympic Committees, was elected IOC president at the same meeting in Moscow. He defeated four other candidates and received a winning majority of 59 votes in the second round, more than double the votes of Kim Un-yong of South Korea (23) and Dick Pound of Canada (22).
QUOTE(canmark @ Oct 20 2009, 06:55 PM) 
Who knows what deals were made in the Rio vote. You'd think that Chicago, with their experience in crooked dealings, would have done better...
Let's see: Chicago crookedness vs. Brazlian men & their sexual ambiguity? Which to choose?
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