Chicago dodges bullet

[duke o' york]

Maybe he just went in the hope he'd support his home town. Hell, I'd go if Newcastle got the World Cup. (not that it would, or they'd give a toss if I turned up )

[Winston]

Obama's such an amateur. He has to be the most overrated guy to ever hold the Presidency.

[Swissy]

The IOC is Euro heavy because the composition of the IOC and the rules for election make it a very closed body. There are four categories: at-large(70), current athlete(15), international sport federation(15) and national organization. The only prohibition is that a country not have more than two delegates in each category. When a delegate term ends the IOC elects the new delegate. Switzerland has five delegates on the IOC, two of which represent sports federations. The total comes to a maximum of 115, there were only 97 voters as I understand many of the sports federation and current athlete seats are unfilled. There is no requirement as to having all the seats filled, just maximums for each category.

[SpencerH]

Damn. I missed out on an opportunity to make some money from this.

I was planning on taking vacation from work to train and work security at the games if they had been in Chicago.

Damn, damn, damn!!

You could go to Rio to work. They're gonna need major security. There was mention of walling-off parts of the city.

The reality for tourists, if you're not rich enough to afford personal security dont go.

[Zkribbler]

I'd be interested in the last time the Olympics made a city money.

I know the L.A. Olympics made money.

Rio: World Cup in 1950 (!), no Olympics in the continent ever.

Isn't Rio going to host the World Cup in 2014 or thereabouts?

Oh yeah: Rio --

[Theben]

Maybe he just went in the hope he'd support his home town. Hell, I'd go if Newcastle got the World Cup. (not that it would, or they'd give a toss if I turned up )

I think some people convince him that a little extra push would give it to Chicago... that they were close. I also read that some IOC types were put off by his "fly by night" sales pitch.

[DinoDoc]

I know the L.A. Olympics made money.

Before or after security is factored in?

[Zkribbler]

I can't believe Obama went to Copenhagen without some sort of understanding that his appearance would get Chicago the Olympics. What a waste of time and prestige.

You do know that the Presidents of the countries of the other three cities all appeared and made sales pitches, don't you?

Before or after security is factored in?

I'd guess, factored in, but that's just a guess... The following quote is from Wikipedia:

Despite the stigma that the Olympics required going into significant debt, Los Angeles successfully hosted the Olympics without any debt. In fact, its Olympic committee ended up with a profit that was in part used to establish and endow the Amateur Athletic Foundation to promote youth sports in Southern California and maintain a Sports Library. The 1984 Summer Olympics are often considered the most financially successful modern Olympics.

[KrazyHorse]

Before or after security is factored in?

Doesn't include the cost to the city from security etc. No Olympics has ever made money when everything in factored in, unless you begin to do analysis of more nebulous things like increased trade/tourism in the period after the Olympics.

[Zkribbler]

Krazyhorse -
1) Quoting yourself is not persuasive authority.
2) Why wouldn't increased tourism and trade be factored in? Isn't that the main reason cities want to host the Olympics??

[KrazyHorse]

Zkribby, if you're talking to me you should know that you're on my ignore list due to being one of the stupidest people on Poly.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Isn't Rio going to host the World Cup in 2014 or thereabouts?

Cities don't host World Cups. Countries do. Brazil is hosting the 2014 World Cup and Rio is one of the game sites in the country.

[Lul Thyme]

Cities don't host World Cups. Countries do. Brazil is hosting the 2014 World Cup and Rio is one of the game sites in the country.

He was replying to duke, who was implying that Rio had increased chance to get Olympics since the World Cup hadn't been there recently, while in fact, the World Cup will make a stop there two years before these Olympics.

[lightblue]

I think the US was always going to struggle to get another Olympics after trhe Salt Lake City bribery debacle.

Also the Atalanta games are commonly seen as one of the orst ones of the modern Olympic era, pandering even more to the major corporations than normal.

[Drake Tungsten]

Zkribby, if you're talking to me you should know that you're on my ignore list due to being one of the stupidest people on Poly.

Also the Atalanta games are commonly seen as one of the orst ones of the modern Olympic era, pandering even more to the major corporations than normal.

Yes, because the IOC certainly looks down on major corporation money that they can divvy up amongst themselves.