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The country is over run by illegal aliens, and foreigners with questionable legality flew planes into the World Trade Center, so if they don't like it, it doesn't bother me a bit.

Its odd that a lot of people seem to be making such a huge deal about losing this bid....yet as far as I can remember no one made this big of a deal when New York City lost the bid for the 2012 Olympics...

Chicago lost it because the world, unlike the Americans, can smell the fetid, corrupt air of the city run by the Dem machine for over 50 years.

you reap what you sow America.I'm a Canadian just getting back from a Vegas trip...I will never forget walking through customs screening with my shoes and belt removed having to hold up my pants and face the grim faces and questioning of the security.A friend was pulled aside asked the same questions several times and electronically finger printed.I mean come on!

I understand that Chicago wasn't the best city for the Olympics, but i question the choice of Rio as the winner. I city that has such blatant inequality and degrees of violence is also a deterrent to tourism. While I am excited there will be a South American Olympics I feel that other cities on the continent could have served a better hosting sites.

I would assume that the Munich Olympic murders would provide sufficient support for enhanced customs and security procedures. To hear a representative from a Muslim country complain is ludicrous.

I think it was many factors. Tokyo, Madrid, and Rio banding together to push Chicago out because it was a threat to all three bids in a way that none of the cities was a direct threat to each other. The fact that the former IOC chair was Spanish. The fact that South America had never had the Olympics. The fact that The World Cup had been Awarded to South Africa and it was setting a trend for opening up new avenues for global sport. The increased security costs being most evident in America of all nations in a post 9/11 world. The constrictive passport and airport security measures not in place in the other competing nations. Blago. I mean there are plenty of things conspiring against Chicago.

One thing is certain. The IOC is off Oprah's favorite things list.

Here we go with liberal excuses for the annointed ones failure

i believe the count on the first round voting from all european countries was 0 for Chicago.....
are we getting the message?
prob not.
i'm sure there were many variables in the decision, but i think the word was out and chi-town was the goat for the US of A.
yer welcome countrymen

I hate the US airports. I'm american but I'm also Asian.
I was standing a few feet away from my mom, waiting for her to go through the customs line (i already went through) and then this Miami security women told me to stick close to my mom. (At the time I was 17 but she told me I looked 14)

She made it sound like I was going to run wild in the airport. A complete pain and often insulting.

Of course there is a problem with foreigners entering the US, we live in a police state.

Rio is safer, for ones money......

Who wants to party in this poor excuse of a third world country?

You know, it's a wonderful thing being a Canadian Citizen. At major airports, we have preclearance so our plane arrives as a US domestic flight.

Although you Americans need to train more cheerful people to work for the DHS. When I go back to Canada by car, people are always cheerful. When I'm driving pass the border, the US customs always seems like they're gonna tase someone.

Try getting through Customs at LAX, that is the worst thing about traveling. I have no problems getting to other countrys customs but the U.S Customs uggggggg! Hate it!

American airports r no fun to go through, especially if u arriving from another country. Happy rio won, rio much more beautiful than boring chicago.

No. It lost because it ws time for Latin America to have a turn.

They must not know about the Southern Border. Just walk on through....no one will stop you.

No, Chicago is not a sore loser. The majority of people who live here don't want the olympics. The city just sold all of its parking meters because it couldn't pay the bills.
Like a poor person going to the pawn shop, then inviting everyone over for the baddest party on the block. Chicagoans can breath a sigh of relief. No host city in modern history has even come close to breaking even on an olympic games.
As for Rio? The police there kill an average of 3 people a day & their poor don't even live in proper buildings, but shanty towns. 6&1/2 years to clean up the worst crime of any of the contending host cities. Hopefully Brazil is so welcoming to it's foreign visitors that they'll allow them to bring their guns to Rio...

Would it be totally wrong to say the facial expressions in that photo crack me up for some reason?

Rio a nice place for Brazilians, but a dangerous place for Tourists, 3 times more than Chicago.

US passport control, a major problem ,out of human reach. Most African countries have no electronic passport, how should they?

For the rest, US must change or people meet elsewhere.

I agree I think every country deserves a turn. Not to mention brazil has always participated in the olympics.

It seems that there is a lot of talk, and upset about the result of the 2016 Olympics bid. But why aren't people happy that South America will host the games for the first time in the Olympics history?