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CHICAGO HAS LOST DANCING WITH THE STARS AND THEREFORE ITS CHANCE AT HOSTING THE 2016 OLYMPICS. Gold, silver, and bronze Drudge Sirens!!: The important International Olympic Committee cold eliminated Chicago in the first round of city choosing this morning. In case you’re still invested in this thing, for whatever reason, it’s down to Madrid and Rio de Janeiro. [HuffPost]
This is still Bush’s fault, somehow…
I guess they are going to Kenya, then.
DAMMIT! We were robbed. I was actually looking forward to hosting the Olympics. Boooo!
Sounds like it’s time for a little bit of that old fashioned regime change at the IOC.
This is actually a very good thing. Look at Vancouver - it already lost one billion gazillion dollars to the greedy pederastic Olympic spirit in the future!
I mean, I love Chicago and all- but the Olympics in Rio? That sounds awesome.
Rio & Madrid are roughly the same distance from me, but I was still looking forward to Obama disembarking from Air Force One with a burning Olympic torch…
We should immediatly bomb Denmark.
My coworkers are beginning their conspiracy theories on how Obama had plans to run the Olympics entirely himself and “redistribute the wealth”. It’s just shit that they are making up, but they are acting like they uncovered it in some dusty conspiracy journal in someone’s attic.
Rio, baybee! It’d have been nice for Chicago, but Brazil needs it worse, and that’s a much more fun trip.
Chicago has dodged a bullet, in that the aptly named Dick Pound and his hell-bitch wife won’t be visiting.
Someone needs to make an animated .gif (with audio) of Gibbs dismissively saying “Madrid.”
Did Nobama make his pitch for Chicago while wearing his mom-jeans? HEY-O!
I despise the Olympics. But if Rio got them, it would be a terrific opportunity to bulldoze the favellas and build a nice shiny facility for majestic floor-exercise-with-ribbons events.
No one wants to party with US anymore - good job, Steele.
It’s gotta be Rio. No way they’ll give to Madrid 4 years after London. Probably.
This is much, much worse for Obama than Iraq + Katrina + 9/11 was for Bush.
The only thing that would have been WORSE would have been if Chicago got it.
No doubt about it - that would have been worse, but is incredibly, unbelievably bad.
The anti-Olympic protesters (?!) won. This should give the Teabaggers the momentum they need to do — um — whatever it is they want to do.
I think Barack’s promise to star in “Cool Runnings II” as a member of the Kenyan bobsled team might have been a tactical error.
Cape Clod: All the Kagans agree. That is the only course left to us now.
Wait a minute - Madrid and Rio - so like the Mexicans have won this thing cold?
AxmxZ: Heh. Vancouver’s going to be a blast for the winter Olympics. 2010 will probably be one of those dry winters when we get zero snow, even up at Whistler Mountain where all the skiing/sledding events are going to be.
I live just across the water in the extreme NW corner of America, on a place called the “Olympic” Peninsula in the shade of the “Olympic” Mountains (Just up the road from our state capital, “Olympia”). Consequently, half the businesses in town have the word “Olympic” in their names, and have for fifty years and more.
And they are getting the shit sued out them by the IOC for trademark infringement.
How was Chicago not able to bribe and cajole the IOC what the f happened to a once shady city?
Hmmm. Chicago or Rio…Chicago or Rio.
Yeah. Real tough choice.
Johnny Zhivago: Yup. It would have been a fiasco on a par with Atlanta. Send it to Rio, Brazil will be more economically healthy by 2016 anyhow, they actually could afford it.
OnTheLoose: Chicago is amateur compared to Madrid and Rio. After Real Madrid is actually listed as a not-for-profit company in Spain so it pays no taxes.
Rio = João Havelange
Madrid = Juan Antonio Samaranch
In the corrupt world of International Sport, that’s all you need to know.
And if you want crime and violence, Rio is your place. Can’t wait for the police roundup before the games begin. I wonder how many homeless kids the police will hunt and kill this time.
Drudge and Beck are objectively anti-American.
ZAPATERO’S WICCAN GOTH DAUGHTERS HATH CAST UN HEXO on the International Olympic Committee! Once they got a lock of Obama’s hair for their dastardly spells, the hapless prez had no chance. Madrid it is, thanks to ¡las brujas feas del Socialísmo!
Madrid. Don’t underestimate the power of Juan Antonio Samaranch. Without him none of those people live the lives of sweet corruption while snorting coke off Mary Lou Retton’s perky ass. He also told the IOC’ “I’m going to die soon, put it in Madrid for me.” That and a boatload of cash and fresh gymnasts should be enough to secure it.
If it had been in Chicago, then they would have let Michael Jordan light the Olympic cauldron. I never want to see that dick again.
Lazy Media: Damn. I follow track and field so I know that Dick Pound is an evil, officious fuck who stands out even among those who run international sports organizations but standing by while your drunken wife assaults a police officer is a new low.
Sigil Tempus: The best description of decadence I have heard in a long time. Only it didn’t mention chocolate or champagne. Damn good work!
Sigil Tempus: He got Barcelona already and he is more a Catalan than a Spaniard. But an asshole no matter where he is.
“It’s a Black day in Chicago pun intended.”
I stole that from FoxNation’s comment board.
I’ve read that South America has never hosted an Olympics, so I think they decided to give it to Rio a long time ago. They just didn’t want the bribe-train to end, so they strung Chicago along.
Cape Clod: Let’s here more from Cape Clod. I’m listening…what do you have on MJ, besides the obvious (manipulative, conniving, rude)?
OnTheLoose:Score! My hometown out-grafted Chicago!
Oh how I long for the days of the coalition of the willing.
the deliverator: No way, we totally dodged a bullet there. I’m breathing a huge sigh of relief. chicagoansforrio.com !
I’ll have something to say on this subject as soon as I finish my Kegel exercises.
If only Obama had exposed his crotch on the air, he would have been a shoo-in.
magic titty: He should be inducted into the Worst Hall of Fame Induction Speech Hall of Fame for his Hall of Fame induction speech.
Yup…Rio. Eleventy billion whore diamonds.
Sorry to say, I think this is just representative of the world’s perception of the U.S. Because of the economic mess we’re in, Americans are seen as a society in decline. Let’s face it, Chicago is an old city. Brazil, and Rio in particular, is growing with a vibrant economy and young infrastructure. I think the world is tired of American dominance, and the hard sell that the Oprah / Obama clique tried to foist on the IOC didn’t help.
donner_froh: Actually it’s a pretty old low. That happened back in the mid-nineties. He has pissed off any number of people since.
It’s Rio. It’s good that Brazil’s death squads now have a new sense of purpose.
Hardly anyone in Chicago wanted the Olympics except the mayor. Maybe the IOC paid attention to that.
As a suburbanite who lives close enough to the proposed equestrian site to have it on one of my normal running paths, I can’t say I’m totally sad we lost. Making it past round one would have been less embarrassing, though. Tokyo? Feh. How did we not beat them?
Can’t blame this one on the O-man.
Where would YOU rather party down?
WARM
THONGS
TOPLESS BEACHES
I’m bookin’ early.
Atlas Spanked: The liberal media disagrees with your assessment.
4tehlulz: Oh, they’re not in a rush. I’m from Brazil (São Paulo,though) and I can say that half the fun of senselessly murdering homeless children is knowing how there’s just no shortage of them…
I’m genuinely pissed, and I honestly don’t know why, but my feeling is that this was all politics. Sorry, to have Chicago eliminated before Tokyo tells me everything I need to know. It’s as if they took points off because Obama & Oprah tried to grab the game by the balls. This was the punishment of the United States, not a reward for South America.