Reasons Cited for Chicago not Getting the 2016 Olympics

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter

I have heard all of these today.


-The world hates Obama
-Obama didn't spend enough time in Copenhagen
-The world still hates Georve W. Bush
-The world hates the U.S.
-We are a country currently fighting two wars
-The USOC would take a higher %age of television revenue from the IOC than other cities would
-The USOC sent too man black people to lobby for the games
-Chicago's citizens didn't want the games
-Chicago's crime is too high
-The Chicago bid was too American and not Global enough
-Rio's bid was just better
-It was time for South America to host the Olympics
-Mayor Daley was over confident that Chicago would get the games
-The United States has hosted the games enough time already
-Chicago didn't have enough money to balance their own city's budget, yet found $40 million to finance the 2016 Olympic campaign
- All the other bid cities had large pockets of voters- Madrid had Europe, Tokyo had Asia, Rio had South America and only two IOC voters are from America
- The IOC is still upset at the US for blowing the whistle on voter bribes, which predicated a rule change that voters cannot visit bid cities and get wined and dined.
-Mayor Daley was the last mayor to guarantee government-backed financing
-Rio delegates colluded with others to vote out Chicago in the first round
- The Atlanta games were too commercialized and the IOC thought it was a critical flop
- The United States couldn't crack the euro-centric "Good Old European Boys" club
-Mayor Daley lobbied too hard and was too American in his backroom dealings
- The US is responsible for the world-wide economic recession
- NBC's proposal of an Olympics Channel pissed off the IOC











That's how I roll.