The kick in the nuts they deserve

The 2016 Olympics were awarded to Rio de Janeiro, but for most media outlets, the big story is that Chicago was eliminated first...from the Telegraph Journal, "Senior Australian IOC member Kevan Gosper surmised that Asian voters may have banded together for Tokyo in the first round, at Chicago's expense.
"I'm shocked," Gosper said. "The whole thing doesn't make sense other than there has been a stupid bloc vote."
He worried that the shock exit could do "untold damage" to the already testy relations between the IOC and the U.S. Olympic Committee. They had recent flare-ups over revenue sharing and a USOC TV network.
"To have the president of the United States and his wife personally appear, then this should happen in the first round is awful and totally undeserving," Gosper said."

It's amazing that people feel that the United States DESERVE to host the Olympics again, even though they hosted in 1980, 1984, 1996, and 2002...by contrast, no other nation has even hosted twice in that timeframe...also, add in the fact that the US got caught bribing officials to get the 2002 Salt Lake City games and it is clear that they deserve NOT to host the Olympics until more nations get a chance to host. What kind of International event would it be if one country was guaranteed to host it every couple of years...

Barack Obama was campaigning for the Olympics in his home town, which means that there is a very good chance that they tried to bribe their way to another games, because frankly, Chicago is a terrible choice when stacked up with a Madrid or a Rio de Janeiro (Barcelona is the only Spanish city where the Olympics have been and that was 24 years prior, and the Olympics have NEVER been to South America).

The US consistently points out the flaws with other countries when they are bidding, ignoring their own problems...for example, "Rio's bid, while high on romance, is not without risk. Because of Rio's high crime and murder rates, security will be a constant issue in 2016. Preparing Rio for the Olympics will cost billions of dollars - money that critics said could have been better spent on tackling the city's social problems." This completely undermines the fact that the US has high crime and murder rates as well...with a little research, Brazil sees 25.7 people per 100,000 murdered versus 5.7 for the US...on the other hand, the US has 4160.51 criminals per 100,000 versus only 927.41 for Brazil...

And then there is the USOC...the USOC is a terrorist organization in and of itself...it hides failed drug tests from the IOC, it helps its athletes get away with cheating (there have even been allegations going so far as to suggest that the USOC gave the illegal substances to the athletes)...but the biggest problem the USOC has created is with their planned channel, USOC TV...USOC TV is intended to show all things Olympics, including trials...it doesn't matter that NBC has a channel, Universal Sports, which currently does the same, or that NBC has a LEGAL contract for the rights to show the Olympics, the USOC still intends to go ahead with plans...from the Seattle Times, "Result: The USOC, famous for its insulting "cease-and-desist" letters to small businesses (including a former Olympic National Forest worker who dared publish a mountain trail map with the word "Olympic" in the title) got a little cease-and-desist letter of its own, from the IOC, the Chicago Tribune's Phil Hersh reports today.
It apparently didn't mean much to USOC leaders roughing it at a Sun Valley confab. They barged ahead with previous plans to announce the new network, anyway. And then they feigned surprise at word of raised IOC hackles.
This comes on top, recall, of an ongoing, long-simmering dispute between the two groups over distribution of international broadcast and sponsorship revenues -- a split that much of the rest of the Olympic world believes unfairly favors the United States. That dispute was put on hold recently, much to the relief of Chicago 2016 organizers looking down the barrel of an Oct. 2 IOC host city selection vote. This is the critical time period when peace and calm generally are expected to reign, not only in bidding cities, but between the bidding nations and the IOC."

The USOC, the people who put in the Chicago bid, have been trying to undermine the International Olympic Commitee, prompting Seattle Times to mention, "No sooner had USOC leaders Wednesday finished trumpeting their new, long-discussed U.S. Olympic Network, a joint venture with Comcast expected to launch sometime in 2010, than International Olympic Committee officials were responding angrily to what they called a pattern of American arrogance."

Simply put, a bid that was rife with problems at all levels failed as it should have, yet now the US wants to world to believe they were wronged, even as they are trying to undermine a legally agreed upon deal...