Why Chicago lost the bid for the Olympics in 2016

[Occhidiangela]

Latin America has never had a *single* Olympic games. It was time. Chicago's bid was what it was, and Obama was probably doing the right thing to support it, but the IOC made the right decision. I don't think this had much to do with the US, and a lot to do with Latin America.

One might also point out that, whatever Chicago's reputation as a gang center, it lost to Rio de Janeiro. If gang violence was a decisive issue, you'd have thought maybe Tokyo might have won?

-Jester

Sir, Latin America is not South America. Latin America had an Olympics in Mexico City, in 1968, if you consider Latin America to be those places speaking Latin based lingo, (such as the Barrio of Los Angeles.)

However, many conventions hold Mexico to be in North America, so, you might check the conventions that hold Latin America as being south of Mexico and north of Colombia, which is the convention most typically used.

Occhi