In only five days, the decisive moment for Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics will be reached when on Friday October 2nd, the IOC is going to announce the host of the 28th summer games in modern olympic history at their congress in Copenhagen. Chicago is thereby competing against Madrid, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro.
Chicago was considered as favorite for a longer time but especially Rio is a strong competitor and eager to be the very first Olympic City from South America. Otherwise, giving the games to Madrid or Tokyo seems to be a little bit more unlikely since Peking and London are hosting the preceding games. But nevertheless, decisions in the conspirative circles of the International Olympic Comitee are always hard to predict and only on Friday we can be sure if the Obama Factor really helped to bring together "the Youth of the World" in Windy City in 2016.
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Bad luck, Chicago, out in the first round...
And congrats to Rio as the will be the first host to Olympic Games on the South American Continent in 2016.
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