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A number of Chicago grassroots citizens groups organized to oppose the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid. The Unlympics Organizing Committee organized a series of Chicago events over four Saturdays in the winter of 2009. [122] Arguably the leading organizing group against the bid was No Games Chicago.
On April 14, 2007, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) chose Chicago to run in the 2016 Olympic bidding. Chicago was chosen to host the 1904 Summer Olympics but they would be held in St. Louis, to coincide with the 1904 World's Fair. [69] The 1996 in Atlanta were the last summer Olympics to be hosted in North America.
The following is a list of bids for the Summer Olympics. It consists of the year the games were held or scheduled to be held, the date the decision was made, the city and country which issued the bid, the votes at the IOC Session for each voting round, and the ultimate host of the games.
Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games was eliminated in the first round of voting in Copenhagen, losing to Rio de Janeiro. The results of the final vote were announced at 12:50 p.m. EDT.
This year at the 2016 Rio Olympics,we witnessed a first that was very special: The United States brought the most female athletes to the Games in Olympic history -- 292 to be exact.
Pages in category "2016 Summer Olympics bids" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... File:Chicago 2016 Olympic bid logo.svg; D.
The 2016 Summer Olympics (Portuguese: Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), [C] officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad (Portuguese: Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August.
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