Damn! Didn't get my prediction in on time

Wrote sometime in last week that I expect Rio to win the Olympic bid for 2016, but I think it got stuck in the queue (or maybe I'm remembering a comment).

Anyway, pretty easy call to make: US has had plenty, London just got it so Madrid less sexy, and Japan's been done recently enough with Sapporo. Brazil is rising star and Games have never been held in South America.

Record of all Games being in current Core membership stays intact.

Good news for US viewers--no time delay required!

[Ed: Here's Tom's post which he sent to me Oct 1st at 4:18pm]

ARTICLE: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/world/americas/28brazil.html, By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO, New York Times, September 27, 2009

I do expect Brazil to win because I expect many in the Olympic community want its rise to be codified in this manner, just like China's.

Plus, South America has never hosted.

Get into the Core, host the Olympics--as I noted in Blueprint.

Comments

[Andrew in DC]

The video of WGN-TV (Chicago) was particularly interesting. Especially when the announcer attempted to posit that the results were so "shocking" because of Obama's popularity and then he contrasted them against Bush's unpopularity in NYC's failed 2002 bid -- and lay the blame against the Iraq war.

... Should we tell him that the NYC bid (which was surpassed by SLC - so obviously the bid wasn't rejected for Anti-American sentiment) was done in 1995(?). Is he really blaming Governor Bush and the 1st Gulf War for NYC's loss? How embarrassing.

http://www.breitbart.tv/pandemonium-in-the-broadcast-center-chicago-loses-olympics-bid/(scroll forward to about 2:47)

[Mark]

Thank God!

Chicagoland area roads and infrastructure are already screwed up enough as it is. I won't even start on the corrupt bidding process that pervades the road building and big construction industries in the County of Crook...Kingdom of Chicago...His Honor Richard Daley presiding.

[Elmer Humes]

I agree with those who exposed the Olympic's math: Europe 20, North America 12, South America 0! On a world basis this is politically outrages & embarrassing. No wonder Rio won so big!How did Obama's staff let him get so far out on this weak limb? He seems to be foolishly moving out on several other "weakening limbs".

[joe Michels]

This is too bad. The US is a great country and Chicago a fantastic city. Maybe next time.

[Tom Barnett]

I agree with Elmer. Brazil a no-brainer after China.

Who knows how freaked out America is by 2016, security-wise? Whereas Rio will still be Rio.