I heard today on the radio that it was more likely that the first real chance Chicago would have to be voted a host city would be 2024... A professor at some university (he predicted that Chicago would be out in the first round) was talking this morning saying that now that a games is in the western hemisphere for 2016 (Rio de Janeiro) the next goals will be to take the games back to the east (Asia), and also into Africa as there has never been one there yet. So that Immediately cancels out 2018 and 2020.

There is also a lot of bad sentiment from the IOC against the American Olympic committee that has occurred since the 1980's when the US Olympic committee said that they should get a disproportionately larger sum of the advertising revenue because most of the ads come from the US anyway.

Taking this into account, the next games after an Asian and African olympics will swing more in favor of Western Europe in 2022....

So, like I said at the beginning, the soonest that an Olympics will be more favorably due in the USA will be 2024 at the earliest.

(For the link below, you can listen to the interview in the end of the 7AM into the beginning of the 8AM podcast for 10/5/09 .... that is when I heard it driving to work)
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