The International Olympic board was preparing Friday to elect a host city for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, a prize so sought-after that presidents, sports legends and royalty have turned out to lobby for their country's applicant city.
Four cities on four continents are in the running as IOC members gather at Denmark's modern Bella Center convention hall in Copenhagen. Each city will have about an hour to make a final presentation and answer questions before the vote begins Friday evening.
The U.S. city of Chicago would have been the front-runner on qualities alone, even if U.S. President Barack Obama hadn't come to Copenhagen to push for his hometown, experts said.
The presence of Obama, the first U.S. president to attend an IOC vote - is the talk of the town. His wife, first lady Michelle Obama, is also in Copenhagen to lobby for Chicago and has promised, half teasingly, that the "gloves are off."
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Four cities on four continents are in the running as IOC members gather at Denmark's modern Bella Center convention hall in Copenhagen. Each city will have about an hour to make a final presentation and answer questions before the vote begins Friday evening.
The U.S. city of Chicago would have been the front-runner on qualities alone, even if U.S. President Barack Obama hadn't come to Copenhagen to push for his hometown, experts said.
The presence of Obama, the first U.S. president to attend an IOC vote - is the talk of the town. His wife, first lady Michelle Obama, is also in Copenhagen to lobby for Chicago and has promised, half teasingly, that the "gloves are off."
useful links: transport rankings
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