Rio seems most likely Olympic City 2016

It’s far from a done deal.

In fact, I think Chicago will win out in the end. Madrid would be the second most likely, IMHO.

… there is an art to the way the International Olympic Committee drafts reports such as the one it made public Wednesday evaluating the four cities in the hunt for the 2016 Summer Games.

It’s not just what the report says, it’s how it says it and, almost important, what it doesn’t say.

Thus there’s an art as well to reading between the lines of these things, which is why Rio de Janeiro emerged as the report’s clear winner, the report not only buying into the Brazilian vision of the bid as catalytic force but reciting the “potential power of the Games to transform a city, a region and a country.”

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