President Obama’s visit to Copenhagen to canvas for Chicago’s candidacy as Olympic City 2016 was doomed to failure before the president even arrived in the Danish capital – a group of IOC nations had already decided to reject the city, Politiken has learned.
Voting on the choice between Chicago, Madrid, Rio or Tokyo had been decided beforehand as a result of what several major IOC organisations perceived as the American Olympic Committee’s greed. Chicago had been touted by bookmakers and many so-called experts as the favourite to win the voting sweepstake.
Edited by Julian Isherwood
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