Rio De Janeiro Named Host Of 2016 Olympics

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03 Oct 2009, 10:30 am

Rio De Janeiro Named Host Of 2016 Olympics

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Rio de Janeiro was chosen Friday as the host site of the 2016 Olympic Games, brushing aside an unprecedented personal appeal from President Obama and the first lady on behalf of their home town of Chicago.

International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge, speaking in Copenhagen where the body voted, opened a ceremonial envelope and read off the vote of IOC members naming Rio as the winner. A huge crowd that had gathered in the Brazilian city sent up a roar of approval when the announcement was made.....

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03 Oct 2009, 7:39 pm

A major congrats to Rio De Janeiro for getting the Olympic bid. They totally deserve the win, it will be the first Olympics in South America. Rio is a better tourist attraction area then Chicago.

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04 Oct 2009, 1:22 am

Agreed, I would rather visit Rio than Chicago.

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04 Oct 2009, 3:41 am

Mainichi wrote:

A major congrats to Rio De Janeiro for getting the Olympic bid. They totally deserve the win, it will be the first Olympics in South America. Rio is a better tourist attraction area then Chicago.

There is only one proper place for the Olympics, and that is at Mt. Olympis. It was held there for hundreds of years, in times gone by.

What is called "The Olympics" is a fraudulent imitation of the original. The Olympics were held as a form of worship of Zeus. In the modern era it was used to promote the interests of the effete European elete and to promote a weak and feminine form of amateurism. In the original Greek Olympics the only goal was to win within the bounds of the rules. Winning wasn't the main thing. It was the only thing.

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04 Oct 2009, 5:27 am

Yes but in Rio de Janeiro, they know how to dance!
And that has no price! It's priceless!

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04 Oct 2009, 7:32 am

The IOC is a group of racist bastards! They rejected Barak, Michelle and Oprah! O.K., maybe rejecting Barak and Michelle was political. But rejecting Oprah? That was blatantly racist!

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04 Oct 2009, 7:51 am

ruveyn wrote:

[ In the modern era it was used to promote the interests of the effete European elete and to promote a weak and feminine form of amateurism. In the original Greek Olympics the only goal was to win within the bounds of the rules. Winning wasn't the main thing. It was the only thing.

Are you kidding? The ancients were the amateurs. Modern athletes sacrifice their youth to train many hours a day in the (mostly vain) hope that they can be "number one".

The Greek and Roman view was that the ideal man should be well rounded. Their ideal man would be good at sport and fighting but also well educated, and well mannered, a good dancer and a good public speaker.

I feel sorry for most of today's athletes and I detest the fat assed couch potatoes who count medals and yell "we won" as if they had something to do with it.

Our world would be better off if the athletes would get a life and the couch potatoes would get some exercise.

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04 Oct 2009, 7:59 am

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Our world would be better off if the athletes would get a life and the couch potatoes would get some exercise.

In France, we have an expression which says: "Go and make you seen by the Greeks" (or something like that).
We all know what it means.

... Yes, it used to be a man man's world, we know that.

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04 Oct 2009, 9:26 am

ruveyn wrote:

The IOC is a group of racist bastards! They rejected Barak, Michelle and Oprah! O.K., maybe rejecting Barak and Michelle was political. But rejecting Oprah? That was blatantly racist!

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Brazil has the highest population of African origin people outside the African continent. ^^

I get your sarcasm though.

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