Olympic vote – Rio or Chicago?

The 45min final presentations go Friday. Followed by the vote.

I’m already starting to feel badly for Rio. Perhaps the Olympics will never be hosted in South America if they don’t win this time.

Tokyo will not win, despite a last minute desperate pitch from their new PM.

… Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama plans on Tokyo winning the 2016 bid. He says that it doesn’t matter if other cities are ahead because they will come from behind. Hatoyama’s confidence comes from the face that Tokyo is in the strongest financial position to host the games in the post-recession economy. If Tokyo was a county, it would have the 15th highest GDP in the world. …

Aunt Joyce’s Ice Cream Stand