CHICAGO LOSES BID FOR OLYMPICS.

In the first round of voting.

lulz.

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Permalink Reply by Michael on October 3, 2009 at 3:09am

The fact that the TSA makes traveling to the United States a nightmare for foreigners might have had something to do do with Chicago losing the Olympic bid:

http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/chicagos-loss-is-pass...

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Permalink Reply by jonathan on October 3, 2009 at 8:47am

Yes I remember Mr. Ali from the 50th ward presentation. They were plugging the great cultural experience of the Olympics. I guess discrimination at the airport would be one of then.

Michael said:

The fact that the TSA makes traveling to the United States a nightmare for foreigners might have had something to do do with Chicago losing the Olympic bid:

http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/chicagos-loss-is-pass...

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Permalink Reply by chixieonfixie on October 3, 2009 at 9:09am

It all boils down to politics, money, and representation. Peter Ueberroth pissed off the IOC for years and the USOC wasn't willing to forfeit any of the dough from US television broadcast rigthts to the IOC. We only had representation from Mexico and Canada and I'm guessing Mexico might have voted for Rio over us. It was naive for Chicago to believe we could just waltz in and win in an international voting situation.

IMO this is a nice piece describing the reasons why Chicagoans resisted the Olympics - in short..were just sick of taking it up the ass from the city.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/10/02/chicago_olympics/index...

Long live the congested, too narrow, full of blimb waddling fatties bike path!!