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Suburbs to be represented in Copenhagen
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 2 months ago
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With more than $50 million at stake for Northwest suburban businesses, the president of the Woodfield Chicago Northwest Convention Bureau is going to Copenhagen to show support for the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid. Fran Bolson, the bureau's president and...
Tags: obama, Chicago Marathon, International Olympic Committee, Michelle Obama, Copenhagen, Rio de Janeiro, Barack Obama, IOC, Tokyo, Madrid
Holding Out for Obama to Elevate Chicago Bid
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Citing the pressing issue of health care reform , Obama has said he will not make the trip for the I.O.C.’s vote on Friday in Copenhagen. But his wife, Michelle Obama , a lifelong Chicagoan, will mingle with the roughly 100 I.O.C. voters and plug her...
Tags: International Olympic Committee's congress, Chicagoan, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Michelle Obama, Madrid, Copenhagen, Yukio Hatoyama
What if we got the 2016 Games?
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 2 months ago
Credibility It won't be enough for some Chicagoans to await word here on Oct. 2 about who wins the 2016 Summer Games. Will he go or won't he remains a question, despite the latest indications that President Barack Obama likely will not appear in Copenhagen... Look...
Tags: Chicago, Rio de Janeiro, London, olympic bidding, Denmark, Madrid, Ban Ki-moon, summer olympic, Sweden, Tiger Woods, Copenhagen
Divided Olympic loyalties
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Chicago's Olympics bid has divided boosters from naysayers, the enthusiastic from the skeptical. But the issue has caused inner conflict for one group of Chicago residents: those with loyalties to rival bidders Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo or Madrid. "Probably...
Tags: Chicago, Richard Daley, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, People's Republic of China, Madrid, 60th anniversary
Diversity key to games bid success
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 2 months ago
Credibility Cook County Reporter ldonovan@suntimes.com Mayor Daley's Olympic bid team is entering the final week of the campaign for the 2016 Games, and experts agree that pulling ahead in the tight race requires everyone from the White House on down to sell the...
Tags: International Olympic Committee, NBC Chicago, Chicago Tribune, Madrid, Copenhagen, Rio de Janeiro, Barack Obama, Spain, Rudy Fernandez, Tokyo, Denmark
5 gold medalists will pitch Chicago for Olympics
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Only one of the five, 1992 triple jump winner Mike Conley of Luther South High School, is a Chicagoan. And the most famous athlete associated with Chicago, two-time Olympic basketball champion Michael Jordan, is absent from the group of 26 announced Wednesday...
Tags: Chicago, Tokyo, IOC, Copenhagen, winning bids, Rio de Janeiro, olympic games, International Olympic Committee, bids leader, Japan
Brazil legend Romario turns sights on politics
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | 2 months ago
Credibility Former Brazil football striker Romario, who won major titles on the field and courted controversy off it, took a step towards a political career on Tuesday when he joined a leftist Brazilian party. Romario, who retired from football last year but remained...
Tags: Romario, Brazilian Socialist Party, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
Brazil sees Obama absence helping others in vote!
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | 2 months ago
Credibility Brazil sees Obama absence helping others in vote Updated on Saturday, September 19, 2009, 11:14 IST Rio De Janeiro: US President Barack Obama’s absence from next month’s vote for the host city of the 2016 Olympic Games could diminish Chicago chances,...
Tags: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
Tokyo aims at green Games to help save the earth
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | 2 months ago
Credibility Tokyo is offering the "best" bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics among four rival candidates with a global mission, the city's governor and bid chief Shintaro Ishihara said Friday. "A completely new Olympic Games, that will save the Planet Earth, can be...
Tags: Tokyo, Chicago, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
USA Today: Botafogo reaches Copa Sudamericana round of 16
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | 2 months ago
Credibility Defender Wellington scored a late winner as Botafogo beat Atletico Paranaense 3-2 to reach the final 16 of the Copa Sudamericana on Wednesday. Botafogo, winning for the first win in more than a month, advanced past the Brazilian round of the South American...
Tags: Botafogo, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
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