As I predicted, Rio won the rights to the 2016 Olympics. The people of Rio celebrated like it was…well…a typical Friday in Rio. I just assume that city is just like Disney World where there are parades every evening except that the magical light parade is replaced by one with half naked people. Oh, and there is just slightly more rampant crime and poverty than there is in Orlando. Not by much, though.
There are a lot of people looking to point blame in the fact that Chicago lost and lost big in their bid. They were eliminated in the first round after most people viewed them as the favorites. In essence, I’ll say that the Chicago bid showed a lack of cohesion with events being held in Wisconsin, a need for too many sites to be constructed and the fact that half of the city wasn’t behind the games probably killed the bid. Interestingly though, I think there was a bigger reason why Rio got the games.
I think that the Olympic committee really wanted to have a latin flavored games. Madrid and Rio were the top vote getters in every round. There hasn’t been an Olympics in a Spanish speaking country since Barcelona in 1992 and Mexico City in 1968 before that. Given the huge portion of the world that is Spanish speaking and how they have not been a focus of the Olympic marketing effort in the past I think that is one of the reasons that they were selected. Add in the fact that Rio is the same time zone as New York and you understand some other benefits.
Or maybe it was just the way that she dances on the sand.
Anyway, it is late as my flight got in early but traffic killed me in trying to get home. I’ll have some comments on football tomorrow as we all have to endure Favre-a-palooza.
The five random CDs for the week:
1) Ryan Adams “Demolition”
2) Cowboy Mouth “Are You With Me?”
3) Aimee Mann “The Forgotten Arm”
4) Liz Phair “Whitechocolatespaceegg”
5) The Freddy Jones Band “Waiting for the Night”
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