Chicago Makes Its Bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics
audrey
21 July, 2009 10:09
Since being chosen as one of the four Candidate Cities for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games (along with Madrid, Spain; Rio De Janiero, Brazil and Tokyo, Japan), Chicago has had a steady stream of events to showcase its advantages – and make its best appeal for winning the final vote to host the Games, officially known as the XXXI Olympiad.
Chicago won its place as the United States candidate city by beating out four other cities which had hoped to be the American representative for the Games: Houston, Texas; San Francisco and Los Angeles, both in California; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It then went on to make the cut for the final four Candidate cities – with Doha, Qatar; Baku, Azerbaijan and Prague, Czech Republic being eliminated in an earlier selection process by the International Olympics Committee (IOC). (More)
