The 2016 Olympics will be going south of the Equator:
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (CNN) — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee announced Friday.
It is the first time South America will host an Olympics event. The city has budgeted $14.4 billion to the effort, the largest amount of any of the four finalists, according to IOC figures.
The final vote was down to Rio and Madrid, Spain. In earlier voting, Chicago, Illinois, and then Tokyo, Japan, were eliminated from contention.
This will be the first time that the Olympics will be held in South America, and it means that we’ll be getting plenty of NBC remotes from Ipanema Beach.
In fact, here are two correspondents now
October 2nd, 2009 at 3:10 pm
How could Chicago possibly compete?
I, for one, think it’s great that Rio got the games. Definitely time for a South American country.
October 8th, 2009 at 12:04 am
Hopefully as the Brazilians burn down the Amazon at alarming rates that spew way more CO2 into the atmosphere than the US and Europe combined, it won’t lead to too many smoke filled; rainouts in which all the athletes and tourist get dengue fever. Hopefully the figure out how to divert the sewer pipes away from Copacobana beach so that the beach volleyball players aren’t running through the usual sludge that washs ashore.