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10-02-2009, 12:16 PM
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Rio beats out Chicago and Madrid for 2016
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I guess the power of Oprah and the Obamas was not enough to sway IOC voters.
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The 2016 Olympics are going to Rio de Janeiro, putting the games in South America for the first time.
Rio beat surprise finalist Madrid in the last round of voting.
Chicago was knocked out in the first round—in one of the most shocking defeats ever handed down by the International Olympic Committee—and Tokyo was eliminated in the second round.
Rio had played heavily on the fact that South America has never previously hosted the games, while Europe, Asia and North America have done so repeatedly. Now, only Africa and Antarctica remain as continents that have not been awarded an Olympics.
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10-02-2009, 12:34 PM
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Ha! Take that Oprah!
Seriously, though, Brazil deserves it. I'd go. I might go.
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10-02-2009, 12:36 PM
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I was happy to see this. Good for Rio. That's a favorable time zone for our TV watching, I think.
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10-02-2009, 01:41 PM
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It would have been tough to give it to a country that cares less about the Olympics.
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10-02-2009, 04:15 PM
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The 2016 Olympic Slogan : " NO YOU CANT !!! " |
10-02-2009, 05:05 PM
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It would have been tough to give it to a country that cares less about the Olympics.
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But, in the IOC's defense, I'd want to put the women of Rio on TV long before the women of Chicago. |
10-02-2009, 05:46 PM
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But, in the IOC's defense, I'd want to put the women of Rio on TV long before the women of Chicago.
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Only if they guarantee that no transvestites will be shown.
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10-02-2009, 08:21 PM
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Only if they guarantee that no transvestites will be shown.
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Speaking of such matters, I wish the late great Peter Allen was here to see this. Here's his famous hit "Rio" from the late 1970's. My favorite Aussie! He looks just like Bill O'Reilly. lol!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj6OmIOhbak
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10-02-2009, 08:23 PM
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Only if they guarantee that no transvestites will be shown.
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Sadly, the Rio trannies would still probably trump Chicago's female population on camera lol.
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The one disappointment of the off-season housecleaning that brought Allen and Shanahan here is that they didn't part ways with Larry Michael as well. He is a prominent and unavoidable symbol of the horrible way Snyder and Cerrator ran this team in the past. Moving on to a new era of Redskins football, on and off the field, should have meant severing ties with him as well.
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