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Obama to visit Denmark for Olympics bid

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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will travel to Denmark to support Chicago's bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics, projecting the highest-ever White House profile in lobbying for the international event.

Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to the president, told The Associated Press early Monday that Obama will leave Thursday and join his wife, Michelle, in Copenhagen, where they'll make the pitch to the International Olympic Committee. Obama would be the first U.S. president to actually appeal in person to the International Olympic Committee for an Olympics event.

The International Olympic Committee is meeting in Copenhagen to select a host city for the 2016 Summer Games. Chicago faces tough competition from Rio de Janeiro, Madrid and Tokyo.

The White House later formally announced the trip, saying that Obama and his wife "will both make presentations to the IOC during Friday's session. They will discuss why Chicago is best to host the 2016 Summer Games, and how the United States is eager to bring the world together to celebrate the ideals of the Olympic movement." The IOC is scheduled to decide the site on Friday.

While in Denmark, the statement said, Obama and his wife also will meet with Queen Margrethe and the president will meet with Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen of Denmark.

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7 comments // Obama to visit Denmark for Olympics bid

  • Kylsport
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      Kylsport  

    • Go ahead and use our tax dollars to promote your home city and state. Am I the only one who see our president with mixed priorities and self-serving?

    • 3 years ago
  • current89
  • Kylsport
  • slarabee
  • JohnA
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      JohnA [removed]  

    • So if they have the Olympics in Chicago, that will use a lot of land. Space for the Olympic village, places for the athletes to stay, things like that. So someone in Chicago stands to make a lot of money if the Olympics come there. And Obama just happens to know people that live in Chicago. And some of them own land. Tony Rezco anyone?

    • 3 years ago
  • Ihatethemall
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      Ihatethemall  

    • Guess this is more important than talking to General McChrystal.
      he's trying to pay back the democratic machine in Chicago that helped give him his start.
      The democratic machine in Chicago rolls on

    • 3 years ago

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