The country's president was blunt. "It is," Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said, "Brazil's time." And the International Olympic Committee agreed with him. Snubbing Chicago on a chilly Danish evening of high drama, the IOC sent the 2016 Olympics to Rio, Brazil's bustling fun-loving but crime-ridden city of beaches and mountains, romance and slums.
President Barack Obama's appeal fell on deaf ears. Chicago was knocked out in the first round — in one of the most shocking defeats ever handed down by the committee of former Olympians, sports administrators, royals and other VIPs. They were wowed by Rio's enchanting sales pitch: some 400 million sports-mad people on a giant untapped and vibrant continent just yearning, hoping, that the Olympics finally might come to them. The story written by John Leicester continues at http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hH9JJ1DfoPLIegRa3XdI6RlJaIHAD9B3G51G0
I am glad that they have got it. Good luck Rio & hopefully I will be there to see the Samba danceJ if not I will watch this from my hometown in Kabirwala, as I have always done in my life:
