2 more months to go and we will know who will host the Olympics in 2016. Officially Tokyo, Madrid, Chicago and Rio de Janeiro are still in the running, but it became clear the last months that the battle is between Chicago and Rio. If you do some research, you’ll realize to which extent the decission between Chicago and Rio de Janeiro is of an unseen geopolical dimension.
Chicago has lost some ground lately because of the politcal games that the USOC (United States Olympic Committee) is playing. Also, Chicago is virtually bankrupt and many citizens of the town are opposing against money being spend on organizing the Olympics.
The news agency AFP reported last week that Rio made huge advances since IOC member Carloz Nuzman made a “passionate and effective” presentation to the European Olympic Committee in Istanbul last November. Aided to a large part by Brazilian president Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva, they have built on that steadily and, reports AFP, with apparently a vibrant economy and the funds in place they are ready to meet all the requirements of the IOC.
The real decission will be in the hands of the Belgian IOC president Jacques Rogge. Rogge leaves office in 2013 and he really wants to leave a legacy. The man succeeded with Beijing hosting a succesful games despite universal scepticism. What better legacy could Rogge leave than seeing South America win the right to host the Games for the first time.
More on the Rio 2016 website and the news section.
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