Lost Olympics

For the past few weeks there has been a great deal of excitement over the location of the 2016 Olympic Games. There were four cities vying for the Olympic bid: Tokyo, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Chicago. With the struggling US economy many believed the Olympic Games would give this country a much needed economic boost once the games came in 2016. One thing many people didn’t and know is that hosting the Olympic Games would cost our country over one billion dollars just to build the stadium to hold the games. This newly built stadium would only be temporary for the 2016 games.
Even President Obama put forth a great effort to help bring the games to Chicago. President Obama even traveled to Copenhagen in an attempt to argue the case for the U.S. To the surprise of many Chicago was the first city to be eliminated. Tokyo followed soon after as the second city to be eliminated. In the end that favored Rio de Janeiro beat out Madrid for the 2016 Olympic Games.
In my opinion Chicago was beat out due to the strong opposition that much of the world has towards the United States. Although it was just speculation experts believed that a Chicago was the best candidate for the 2016 winter Olympic capital Games, and the fact that it was immediately eliminated is somewhat suspicious. The judges were even told before hand to vote on an unbiased basis.
As far as the economy is concerned I don’t believe the loss of the Olympics is going to affect us too severely. 2016 is a little less than seven years away. While the Olympics would help our economy, I believe that in seven years we will not be in the financial trouble we are now. It still would have been nice to have something like that to get our country excited. We will just have to find something else to unify us.