[NU Sports] No Olympics for Chicago in 2016

[Jim Leonard]

I just came back from Daley Plaza. I got a text message that Chicago was out before I even got down there. The crowd was fairly disappointed. 

Personally, I was a bit relieved for Chicago. I am not convinced that cities ever recover from the cost of hosting the games. I was also fairly certain that Mayor Daley would use the "it's for the games" excuse to go on a spending spree that would put the budget way over estimates. 

Jim




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Subject: Re: [NU Sports] No Olympics for Chicago in 2016

As our friend and colleague Alan Abrahamson reported several times going
into today and after the first round, Madrid had the power of the former
head of the IOC on its side and Rio had the sentimental power of South
America never having hosted before.  In addition, Brazilian President Lula
had been lobbying African delegates heavily trying for a block of Southern
Hemisphere votes and it looks like he may have gotten close to it.

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On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Jonathan Hodges
<jonathanwhodges at gmail.com>wrote:

> The modern pentathlon was the event that was slated to be staged at Ryan
> Field if Chicago would have received the 2016 bid.
>
> I'm not surprised at all - I thought Rio was the sentimental favorite going
> in and would have been surprised if they didn't go far.
>
> Remember that the voting typically doesn't make much sense, especially in
> the early rounds.  I wouldn't say that Chicago was "4th out of 4" because
> of
> the way the voting is done (they vote in rounds until a city receives more
> than 50% of the vote, otherwise the lowest vote getter is eliminated and
> voting continues).  Cities with strong bids have been known to go out in
> the
> first round due to international politics and voting promises that make the
> early votes very close.
>
> And in the end, the IOC voting is more about sentiment and politics than
> the
> strength of bids (in fact, all the analysis focusing on the bid specifics
> was pretty much wasted - all of the cities involved could conceivably host
> the games without major issue - and the voting never comes down to
> details).
>
> At least we don't have to endure another 7 years of lead-up to the games
> now.
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Tom Maycock <tkmaycock at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > > Not particularly NU-relevant, though
> > > Patrick Ryan was one of the
> > > key players in the bid.
> >
> > NU was slated to host an event--forget which one.
> >
> > Although it could have gone either way (i.e. been a bad thing or a good
> > thing for the city on balance), I'm disappointed they didn't get it.
> > Finishing 4th out of 4 is pretty sad as well.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
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