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Chicago out in first round..wow

Good.

I was torn, but in the end it's probably a good thing.

Just surprised

ditto

surprising to be the first booted out, but good all the same.

As far as it coming here?

We would have had to listen to 7 years of people bitching on the news about the construction and yadda yadda..... That could have been good TV for at least the first year.

Should have sent a big Chicago star to make a speech to put their bid over the top. Someone who knows how to make a speech without apologies. Someone who has worldwide popularity and respect across all races and religions.

micheal jordan??

They would have got 0 votes if he hadn't gone

It would have been nice to see the transit system overhauled and I could have rented my house for about ten grand to Europeans who wanted to watch Olympic golf at Medinah, but oh well..

I really don't like Daley and would have loved to see the look on his face when they said Chicago was out. Oprahs too come to think of it...

They are going on and on about it on the news....get over it already, chicago is acting like a hick town. People have filled the streets, gimmme a break. Yeh, come to the chicago olympics athletes and compete for your life.:zz:

The corrupt Chicago thugs spent all their bribe money buying the White House.

Chicago is the most corrupt city in America and I am thankful they are the laughingstock of the world right now.

I can't wait to see how Obama and Oprah try to blame this on Republicans.

...Just saved us another bailout!:eek:

"I've never really had a disappointment like this,'' said Ken Rudd, a 33-year-old salesman from Evergreen Park. "This is one of the saddest things I've ever seen.''


wow. :zz:

Close

Ozzie Guillen!

Hogwash. If Ozzie had gone they would have been scared to give it to anyone else. Hell Lou Pinella and Ozzie could have made more of an impact.

Ozzie to the delegates," I dont give a fck about Rio or Madrid or that jap place. If you dont pick ****in Chicago, you mfer's gonna answer to me! Youze got dat! I dont giva a fck about all dis other bullsh it! ****n give it to us or there will be problems, big mothrfcking problems!"

Scavs could of started a tour guide service

Chicago always wins with Jan Terri. Always.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ94vnmvPrw

You should move here since you have been the laughing stock of DT for a week now.

!!!

Nobody puts down Bob's Chicago! :D

buuurp..

damn right

I thought Marion Barry would have been a cinch choice to give the speech....
Has always worked for us in DC. If you don't want something he's our man

patrick kane?


-bt-

Frank Calabrese

i was gonna say "nobody puts baby in a corner" but your's will do nic.

-bt-

ha, that is what I was thinking.

if they sent ditka over there construction would have begun tonight

-bt-

http://www.suntimes.com/business/laz...100209.article

In the end, Chicago’s final pitch depended on the power of the speakers there in the meeting hall in Copenhagen to close the deal. And three of the key performers, Mayor Daley, Chicago 2016 Chairman Pat Ryan and, yes, President Obama, simply didn’t have the touch when it was most needed. Everyone knew Daley and Ryan could never be charismatic speakers, but President Obama surprised us with a speech that never took off. He seemed a shadow of his typically forceful self — only half there in the Copenhagen and never fully committed to the message he was delivering.

Only Michelle Obama came through for Chicago. And she was extraordinary — talking with great emotion and simple eloquence about Chicago, its people and, most importantly, her father’s love of sport. But she alone couldn’t seal the deal.

The one in prison not FCC.

give me a drunk Ditka.

Well Said.

Dikta vs. The IOC Panel?

Ozzie Guillen had a prior commitment in Detroit today.

Rio was a given. It was decided long ago. IOC just had to go through the motions. They were always the front runners being South America has hosted no Olympic games. Would have taken a miracle for any other location to take it from them.

God, I hope the clip of her leaving O'Hare isn't the last we see of this tart. The Olympics I can do without, but losing a Jan Terri?

Rio is one of the greatest cities in the world. Chicago is one of the better cities in the United States. The Olympics have been in Japan, Spain, and America. They've never been in Brazil. I'm sure there is some explanation why some think Brazil shouldn't have been the winner, but I think the people in the other three cities were sort of wasting their money. They're nice cities, but Brazil has never had the Olympics. The question shouldn't be why Chicago didn't get it. The question should be why Brazil shouldn't have gotten it, because I don't think people thought about that enough.

Redboarder.

Was that Mark Sanford I saw giving out Hi Fives in the middle of the Rio Delegation?