Its official, Brazil’s Rio de Janiero won the rights to host the 2016 games. It’s going to be the first Olympic Games to be held in the South American Continent. Rio’s victory came as a surprise since other candidate cities such as Madrid, Tokyo and Chicago are tough competitors.
Rio’s candidacy focused in an argument stressing that previous games were never held in the South American continent. It was unlikely that Tokyo would be awarded the hosting since it was only recently that Beijing hosted the Games. The lukewarm reception of the Tokyo residents did not help its candidacy either. Although Madrid already build stadiums and sent their reigning monarch to campaign, it also did not help their candidacy for obvious reasons that London is hosting the 2012 games. As for Chicago, people there are campaigning for Rio to win fearing that the Olympic Games will only exacerbate the prices of the real estate in the City. Chicago’s defeat is a big slap on Obama’s face. It just shows that he is just a good talker but couldn’t close a deal.
The 2016 Olympics is going to be another exciting game. I hope that the Philippine Olympic Team would finally relent to the pressures of the public to drop their Olympic dreams altogether. There’s no chance that a Filipino athlete would be able to get an Olympic gold unless our sports governing bodies and our government gives full support for our athletes training.
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looking forward nga tani sa philippines naman ang olympics..whahha.san'o pa ayhan?whahaha..:)
Oo nga. Malakas daw ang emotional appeal ng Rio at natalo pa nya ang presence ni Obama sa IOC. But I guess it's high time Olympics get its first taste of a new location.
It may be farfetched before Manila gets to host the Olympics. What I'm hoping is to see the Olympics held in any Mideast country -- Qatar, for example.
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