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2009-10-02 22:38:55
The other competing cities made their pitches about what they could do to make the Olympics successful: transportation, facilities, hotel rooms, etc. M, O and O made an emotional appeal as to what the Olympics could do for Chicago: Give us the Olympics because that’s what my father would have wanted, it’s for the children, diversity, etc. The emotional appeal also probably lost a great deal of its heartstring-tugging effectiveness since most of the delegates heard it via a translators voice through an earbud. (hattip to Ben Fergusson)
Since Rio is in the southern hemisphere, won’t we be able to have both the Summer and Winter Olympics at the same time?
