What a shame it wasn't Chicago. Not.

Silly Obama - you don't choose a city for diversity.  Please, what sort of diversity is there in Beijing?  Seoul?  ha, not very much.  You choose a city based on the ability to put on a world class game, to showcase the best in sports, and people - not some propaganda effort at diversity.

It is not about our Visa requirements - Brazil has a reciprocal program - so any country that doesn't demand of brazil anything, will not be demanded upon - great.  Al Qaida will never attack Brasil.  It has attacked Madrid, it would have used the Olympics as a means of getting large numbers of its followers into the US ... so great, let someone else handle it.  It is not about ill-will toward the US (all Bush's fault).  It is about sharing - the Olympics have been held in Russia, in China, in Korea, in the US, England, Greece ... they have never been held in South America. 

I suspect France, Spain, and Japan will compete in the next 20 years and should win - after which, the US should push again, with a united USOC Committee, and a strong push by all sectors in US sports.


On the other hand, a great day for the Brasilian people, for the IOC, for the government of Brasil, and the people of South America ... can celebrate this opportunity.


Now ... we wait, and in 2016, we can watch the process unfold, and witness the execution by Brazil of the Olympic games, and decide ...





shame