First Lady Michelle Obama is going to Denmark. Oprah Winfrey will be there, too, along with a contingent of famous athletes. What is at stake is the 2016 Olympic Games, with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) selecting its host city.
Competing against Chicago are Madrid, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro. Andrew Downie, in an article for Time, examines the prospects of Rio de Janeiro:
“… “It isn’t right that the Olympics be held in the U.S. for the eighth time,” Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said recently in what was just one in a series of typical appeals to IOC delegates. “It’s not possible that it be in England in 2012 and in another European country in 2016… It’s not fair that Brazil, one of the 10 biggest economies in the world for 30 years, that Brazil, one of the world’s industrialized countries, a nation that has demonstrated its love for sports, it’s not fair that Brazil not be chosen.”"
link to the article by Andrew Downie
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