Rio de Janeiro 2016

Facts

Today Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was awarded the 2016 Olympics by the IOC. Chicago was considered the favorite going in to the vote.
After the first round of IOC voting Madrid had 28 votes, Rio 26, Tokyo 22 and Chicago was eliminated with 18 votes.
In the second round of voting, Rio had 46 votes followed by Madrid with 29 votes, Tokyo was eliminated with 20 votes.
In the final round of voting, Rio had 66 votes, Madrid 32 votes.

Opinion

Today was supposed to be the day that Americans and the people of Chicago celebrated bringing the summer games to Chicago instead Rio de Janeiro was awarded the games. The fact that Madrid was a finalist had to do with the influence of Juan Antonio Samaranch who was the IOC President for 21 years.
There is nothing wrong with awarding the Olympics to a continent that has never staged the games before but in my opinion the IOC should have given the games to the USA in 2012 instead of Europe(London). Barcelona had the games in 1992.
We've lost two straight Olympic bids, 2005 New York and 2009 Chicago. I blame the lack of an American IOC voting member & George Bush's war in Iraq and unilateralism.
Chicago's ouster in the first round of voting is a slap in the face of the USA and President Obama. Chicago was the favorite. There is evidently lots of anti USA sentiment still left out there.
The USA has hosted two summer Olympic games between 1984 and 1996 and now it looks like we may go another four to eight years more without a games on our soil, that translates to 2020 and 2024. Too long in my opinion.