Chicago lost the 2016 Summer Olympic Games to Rio de Janeiro. Unless they are going to adjust the dates, the Summer games will occur during Winter in Brazil. Wikipedia (yeah, I know, not the most authoritative source) says the 2016 games will occur from August 5 through 21. August in the Southern hemisphere (that’s where Brazil is for you recent public school graduates) is like February in the Northern hemisphere. This isn’t an EPIC fail, it’s an OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL fail.
OK, I checked a little further and it turns out that Rio is fairly tropical. The lowest recorded temperature is around 40 F with an average for August between 64 F on the low side and 81 F on the high side. Still, the Summer games will, for the first time ever, be held in South America**, a place where it is officially Winter. Maybe not a gold medal fail but still a fail.
** I am reminded (thanks c_t!) of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Also, there were the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne (which I don’t remember because they were 2 years before I was born). So, I have revised my post and I now stand corrected (orthopedic shoes).
Forgetting about the 2000 Summer Olympics in Syndney?
civil_truth Friday, October 2nd at 9:33PM EDT (link)Last time I looked, Sydney was also south of the equator.
And Rightly So!
Make that Sydney -nt-
civil_truth Friday, October 2nd at 9:34PM EDT (link)And Rightly So!
Which were held September 15 to October 1
Lammo Saturday, October 3rd at 2:40AM EDT (link)which is more like March/April and thus closer to Spring. Technically, when they started it was officially Winter and so I will change it. Still, I don’t recall Chicago bidding in 2000 and losing to Sydney and Bill Clinton didn’t embarrass us in the process so it’s still a major fail.
ACORN: Association of Criminals Obama Represented in the Nineties. (jupitersuite)
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No argument with your last sentence here -nt-
civil_truth Saturday, October 3rd at 11:28AM EDT (link)And Rightly So!