The cities in the running are Tokyo, Madrid, Rio De Janeiro, and Chicago. The winner will be announced Friday in Copenhagen and the general consensus is that this is a choice between Rio De Janeiro and Chicago.
If it's in Chicago, I might actually be able to go if it goes there, I've always wanted to go to the Olympics. What city do you think the games will go to?
Chicago would be nice, then I might actually be able to go.
It'd be interesting if it were in Chicago... I'm 15-30 minutes away...
I live in Atlanta, so I saw it when they were here. In fact since I go to Georgia Tech I can swim in the pool the Olympics were held in. It's quite neat actually.
You really can't go wrong with any of those choices, but with the president of the United States being from there politically as with his wife being from there herself, the odds are slightly stacked in Chicago's favor. Not that I'm complaining, I'm from there as well. Besides, that city needs a bit of a face lift. But if anyone has a chance to go, then go, it's a great city.
The only thing I hate is that NY has had the Olypmics, like what, three times as well as L.A. yet Chicago never got mentioned once? East and West coast bias! I CALL BIAS!
Chicago is pretty close to me, so that would be neat.
Rio de Janeiro is where it's going to be held. I heard Obama was pushing for Chicago, so I'm happy it's elsewhere. I mean, he may be president, but he shouldn't get influence (not that he did I think).
Rio won because of modern warfare 2.
lol, just kidding.
Rio won because there's never been an Olympics in South America.
Now we just have Africa and Antarctica left as places to host the Olympics. Cairo 2032 and the Australian Antarctic Territory 2034 FTW! :P
Quote from: Tupin on October 02, 2009, 01:37:08 PM
Australian Antarctic Territory 2034
Don't you mean 2036? I'd like to see how the swimmers would do with the temperature there.
Quote from: ＬＯＴＯＳ on October 02, 2009, 05:45:09 PM
Don't you mean 2036? I'd like to see how the swimmers would do with the temperature there.
Yeah, I got the dates mixed up. I'd imagine they would only have the winter Olympics there, if they ever do.
Maybe by 2036 Antarctica will be warm enough for some Winter Olympics.
Honestly, Toky would've made the most sense, and been kind of cool. :)
All of your hopes and dreams were crushed.
Quote from: Customrobo13 on October 05, 2009, 11:55:13 AM
All of your hopes and dreams were crushed.
Except for the person who actually lives near Chicago and knows that
a) The Olympics are a politically-correct clusterintercourse (no one had the balls to accuse China of anything back in 2008)
b) Traffic is bad enough in Chicago without any special events
c) All of the money to construct new facilities will come from taxpayers, especially evil whitey suburbanites
d) It will create a bunch of jobs (entry-level ones that illegal immigrants snatch up, and high-level ones that clouted people with connections to Black Jesus and the Chicago Democratic Machine will snatch up)
Thank God that Rio got it.