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Obama can now travel back from Denmark having at least met the Danish Monarch.
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Re: The Olympic Games 2016 goes to Rio De Janeiro
Hmmm... no contest
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Re: The Olympic Games 2016 goes to Rio De Janeiro
There were anti-Olympic demonstrations in Chicago which turned off the IOC apparently. Chicago was the heavy favourite.Azerbaboon: 9.000 Google hits and counting!Comment
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Re: The Olympic Games 2016 goes to Rio De Janeiro
Why? Are the morgues piling up with unclaimed dead bodies like in Detroit? Those were just people with nothing better to do than parade around."Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~Malcolm XComment
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Re: The Olympic Games 2016 goes to Rio De Janeiro
The Olympic Games often end up putting the hosting city in a huge debt, hard to turn the Games into a profit it seems. It took Quebec 30 years to close the 1976 Montreal Olympics debt for example.Azerbaboon: 9.000 Google hits and counting!Comment
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Re: The Olympic Games 2016 goes to Rio De Janeiro
That has always been the case though. Which city has any use for an Olympic sized swimming pool? But all of a sudden Americans are concerned with debt?Originally posted by Federate View Post
At least they beat Baku for the bid
Last edited by KanadaHye; 10-02-2009, 11:04 AM."Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~Malcolm XComment
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