The International Olympic Committee had made its decision to award the 2016 Olympic Games to Rio de Janeiro long before the much publicised visit by US president Barrack Obama.
Obama’s Copenhagen sojourn in support of Chicago’s bid was doomed to failure after an IOC group had already made up its mind to reject the bid, according to news source Politiken.
Although touted as the firm favourite, Chicago was quickly ousted from voting contention in what was believed to be a backlash against the American Olympic Committee’s apparent greed: the United States has already hosted the Olympics on four occasions, twice as many as any other country.
According to Politiken, the IOC members’ co-ordinated campaign to reject the Chicago bid centred on the American Olympic Committee’s permanent contract which would see it benefit from a DKK 2.3 billion grant over the next four years by the IOC. The grant is a remnant of the 1980s where the then flush US committee provided a sizeable loan at a time when the IOC was in financial trouble. In the years since the IOC has become an increasingly powerful monetary organisation which has been to the benefit of the American Olympic Committee due to the commission it receives.
The issue was compounded after the refusal by the American organisation to give DKK 28 million out of an increase of close to DKK 130 million from the last four-year period to poor or developing IOC nations, sparking an anti-US movement within IOC ranks.
Politiken believes this was well-known to the American Olympic Committee who strangely kept the news quiet from Obama and Chicago.
By the way Alfred. Sorry you are disappointed with our President but if you followed him or his campaign you should have concluded that he is quite moderate/conservative on most issues. And he has a strong tendency to bend over for large corporate interests.
Hosting the Olympics is truly for suckers.
This is just ridiculous. Bush claimed he was not informed of certain things during his presidency and the world reaction was “liar – he must have known because he is the president of the U.S.” Now this pompous rock star president gets every excuse made for him including “the American Olympic Committee who strangely kept the news quiet from Obama”. There is no evidence of this at all and I am not aware of anybody in the U.S. making this claim. The truth is that this self absorbed elitist thought that he could smile and charm his way through any problems that he encountered in Copenhagen. Much to the credit of the IOC he came back to the U.S. empty handed and looking like a fool. Too bad the Nobel Committee couldn’t see through this fake showman. Peace prize? Guantanamo still open for business, still in Iraq, more and more troops to Afghanistan, bombing Pakistan, and maybe soon to bomb Iran, etc. All promises broken, all show and talk, no reality.
A lot of people in Chicago are happy with the decision, so Obama accomplished something.
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They also shot JFK.
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