The fix may not be in.
The IOC delegates have been making a lot of noise about having the first games in South America sooner rather than later.
Rio is also one hour ahead of the world’s most profitable TV market in the Eastern Time Zone. Chicago is one hour behind, so it doesn’t make a practical difference for viewership and advertising dollars between Rio and Chicago.
Chicago pols may be the most corrupt in the USA, but even the most corrupt Chicago pol is cleaner than the average Rio pol. Rio will double Chicago’s bribes without batting an eye.
And we might just get to see Obama take another pie in the face with his pie-in-the-sky diplomacy.
I do not know about that, all this brought many memories back to me about how Alanta won the 1996 games and the city that was trying to out bid Alanta, Athens WANTED the games badly because it would be held in the same city that got the modern games going a century earlier, in 1896 at the time. We remember what happened, Atlanta got the games and Athens was told YOU ARE NOT READY. I get the same FUNNY GUT FEELING Rio will get the same answer. History tends to repeat itself. I hope I am wrong, but again we humans love to do the insane thing or repeating itself. We will know tomorrow.