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Ethics Watchdog Seeks Records on White House Officials, Failed Olympics Bid
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 17 days ago
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Cook County Circuit Court against Chicago Mayor Richard Daley’s office. The city failed to provide the information requested under the Chicago Freedom of Information law, according to Judicial Watch. The organization wants records on correspondence...
Tags: Chicago Freedom of Information, Valerie Jarrett, Obama White House, olympic bid, Judicial Watch, Barack Obama, Tom Fitton, failed olympic, ethics waiver, seeking records, Denmark, Copenhagen, Fitton, Chicago, Chicago bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics, Politics
Olympic questions rise from rubble
Chicago :: IL :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility As Chicago 2016 winds down its operations, questions continue to bubble up about how bid leaders miscalculated their chances of hosting the Olympic Games . Many of the questions have come from Washington, where White House aides over the weekend said...
Tags: NBC Chicago, Regional Loyalties Killed Chicago, Business Reporter Chicago, Patrick Ryan, Rio de Janeiro, IOC, Tokyo, olympic bid, Copenhagen, summer games
Golf & rugby await Olympic vote
Copenhagen :: Denmark | about 1 month ago
Credibility The International Olympic Committee's executive board voted to include both at a meeting two months ago. But the recommendation must be rubber-stamped by a full meeting of the IOC congress in Copenhagen. Top golfers Padraig Harrington and Michelle Wie...
Tags: Jonah Lomu, rugby sevens, International Olympic Committee, Shintaro Ishihara, olympic bid, Rio de Janeiro, Copenhagen, Tokyo, sevens olympic, Pádraig Harrington
Dunkin' Donuts gives away coffee
Copenhagen :: Denmark | about 1 month ago
Credibility Dunkin' Donuts is giving away coffee Monday at all of its locations in Chicago and the suburbs as a consolation in these trying, post-Olympic bid times. The company first announced its promotion last week, saying it would offer a free medium coffee to...
Tags: IOC Congress, Chicago, Jacques Rogge, Rio de Janeiro, big money, olympic bid, choose hosted, South American, hosted city, president jacques
Obama lends weight to Chicago Olympic bid
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 2 months ago
Credibility Flying in to Copenhagen for the IOC’s gathering to decide the host city, the US president described himself as a “passionate supporter” of the Olympic movement, saying he shared its values and beliefs and that the Olympics “helps us understand one another...
Tags: Chicagoan Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Mr Obama, IOC Evaluation Committee, summer games, president barack, olympic bid, Rio de Janeiro, Copenhagen, Tokyo
Michelle Obama, Oprah Hit Copenhagen for Olympics Bid
Copenhagen's star power got a big boost today with the arrival of Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey, in town to push Chicago's bid for the Games. Oprah was greeted with "bad weather for hair" and a throng of fans crying "Oprah! Oprah!" as she walked...
Tags: Copenhagen, Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Olymics, Chicago Olympics, Olympic Bid, Washington, Obama, First Lady, Nadia Comăneci
Tokyo makes environment a priority in 2016 bid
Madrid :: Spain | 2 months ago
Credibility Tokyo organizers touted their bid Tuesday, saying the compact plan shows that even the world's largest cities can make environmental sustainability a reality. Tokyo will use several renovated venues from the 1964 Olympics, and its Olympic stadium would...
Tags: Tokyo, olympic bid, tokyo olympic, Spain, Madrid
Half a million turn out to support Madrid's Olympic bid
Madrid :: Spain | 2 months ago
Credibility There is large popular support in the city for the 2016 bid Despite the rain, nearly half a million people collected at the Cibeles fountain in the centre of Madrid on Sunday to support the city’s candidature for the 2016 Olympics.
Tags: Madrid, olympic bid, Spain
Obama's message is real clear politics
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Some think President Barack Obama was playing Zorro on the White House lawn Wednesday, fencing with an Olympic foil, with Mayor Richard Daley looking on. Others figured the president was Han Solo to the mayoral Yoda, foreshadowing a climactic scene to...
Tags: Tokyo, Copenhagen, olympic bid, Yukio Hatoyama, Barack Obama, Chicago, Japan, International Olympic Committee, prime minister, IOC
IOC member: Get Obama to support bid
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 2 months ago
Credibility That's what Richard Pound, a Canadian IOC member, told reporters in Chicago Monday night. Chicago enters the final stretch of the competition for the 2016 Summer Games, neck in neck with finalist cities Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo. While the other...
Tags: Chicagoan, olympic bid, IOC, First Lady Michelle Obama, Copenhagen, Mayor Daley, Denmark
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