Rio Awarded 2016 Olympics, NOT Chicago

Brazilians celebrate after Rio de Janeiro won the nomination to host the 2016 Olympic Games at the Copacabana beach. (AP Images)"]

Talk about a real bummer. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Chicago this morning, hoping to hear some good news from the International Olympic Committee. Instead, they were completely stunned (*partially because they couldn't understand what the IOC President was saying) when their Windy City was eliminated from the bid after the first round of voting.

Huge screens had been set up in the Daley Center and when IOC President Jacques Rogge appeared in the screens to announce, "The city of Chicago, having obtained the least number of votes, will not participate in the next round," everyone just sort of looked at each other. Dazed and confused.

Instead, the 2016 Summer Olympics were given to Rio de Janeiro and neither President Barack Obama nor Oprah Winfrey can do anything to change that fact.

Sorry, Chicago. That totally sucks. But hey, if you can afford a trip to Rio come 2016 you can make an appearance wearing your Chicago Bears jersey or your Chicago Cubs/White Sox jersey or your vintage Chicago Bulls jersey -- and they'll be totally jealous because Mr. fancy pants Jacques Rogge won't be awarding them any MLB, NFL or NBA teams anytime soon. So there.

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*When the 2010 Winter Olympics were awarded to Vancouver, I was at GM Place to hear Jacques Rogge make the announcement and the same thing (sort of) happened to all of us. In his thick Dutch accent he said, "The 2010 Winter Olympics goes to the city of Vancouver." But to US (I swear to God) it sounded more like, "...the city of PyeongChang." So we all sat there in disbelief, watching the big screen and the thousands of South Koreans who had gathered in their fair city cheer...until we all collectively realized that what he had really said was "Vancouver."   And then we cheered and laughed our asses off.