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The Italian Olympic Committee has rejected a bid by Bari for the 2020 Summer Games.
The ousted CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee said changing leadership and strained relations with international Olympic officials were "far secondary" factors in Chicago's failed bid host the 2016 Summer Games.
Six months of shaky decisions and turmoil came to a head for the U.S. Olympic Committee on Wednesday when its acting CEO said she would step down, bringing more chaos to an organization that was humiliated when Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Games fell flat.
The cost of Chicago's defeat in its bid to host the 2016 Olympics will be felt in the value of the next U.S. broadcast deal.
Chicago's dream of an Olympics stimulus is over with the 2016 Summer Games going to Rio de Janeiro. And the loss amounts to more than a bruised ego for the nation's third-largest city.
Chicago's dream of an Olympics-sized stimulus was dashed when the 2016 Summer Games were awarded to Rio de Janeiro, and the loss amounts to more than a bruised ego for the nation's third-largest city.
Combining hometown pride and political muscle, President Barack Obama lobbied Olympic leaders on Friday to give the 2016 Summer Games to Chicago, saying a nation shaped by the people of the world "wants a chance to inspire it once more."
Friday's vote by the International Olympic Committee in Copenhagen to select the host city for the 2016 Summer Games is too close to call.
Brazilians are confident that if the International Olympic Committee practices what it preaches, then Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Summer Games.
Chicago first lady Maggie Daley and more than a dozen athletes are on their way to Copenhagen, where the International Olympic Committee will decide whether her city will host the 2016 Summer Games.
For a city that has never held an Olympics, Copenhagen will become an Olympic capital of sorts next week when it hosts an international meeting to decide the site for the 2016 Summer Games.
President Barack Obama has written to International Olympic Committee members promising the United States would "welcome the world with open arms" if Chicago is awarded the 2016 Summer Games.
IOC president Jacques Rogge said disputes with the U.S. Olympic Committee will have "no negative effects whatsoever" on Chicago's chances of landing the 2016 Summer Games.
Tokyo's Olympic bid organizers have urged new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to join them in Copenhagen for the International Olympic Committee's vote on the host city for the 2016 Summer Games.
As Michelle Obama prepares to make a highly personal appeal in Denmark on behalf of Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, the White House is leaving open the possibility that President Barack Obama will make a last minute decision to join her.
President Barack Obama staged a homecoming-style Olympic rally at the White House Wednesday, saying the whole country is rooting for his hometown of Chicago in its efforts to host the 2016 Summer Games.
Take it from a man who should know: The race for the 2016 Olympics is as close as can be.
Procter & Gamble will become an official sponsor of the U.S. Olympic teams for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2012 Summer Games in London, the company and the U.S. Olympic Committee announced in a joint statement Tuesday.
Imagine the scene: Tiger Woods lining up a 20-foot putt on the final hole with an Olympic gold medal at stake.
President Barack Obama renewed his support for Chicago's Olympic bid Tuesday, telling African Olympic leaders in a video message the 2016 Games would give America the chance to "renew our bonds of friendship around the world."
The Olympic Council of Asia has endorsed the bid of Tokyo to host the Summer Games in 2016.
The main stadium for the 2012 London Olympics might not be downsized after the games because of England's bid for the 2018 World Cup.
Beijing Olympic organizers say they made a profit out of hosting last year's Summer Games.
The International Olympic Committee announced a deal on Thursday for 20 Arab states to broadcast the 2014 Sochi Olympics and Summer Games in 2016.
Heavy stuff - 'Oopsie' moment for rowing pairThe Canadian rowing program is one of the most experienced and well-run in the world. But they had a bit of a lapse today. the Canadian women's pair got relegated to last after their boat did not meet the minimum weight requirement.
Father of former Olympian killed in BeijingBEIJING - The murder of the father of a former Olympian at a Beijing landmark cast a sad shadow over the first full day of Olympic competition Saturday, just hours after China's jubilant opening of the Summer Games. Todd and Barbara Bachman of Lakeville, Minn.
Too young for Beijing?I doubt I'm the only person out there who believes the IOC will rue the day they selected China to be the host of this year's summer Olympics.
Chickens In China Are So Full of Steroids that Olympic Athletes Will Test Positive If They Eat Them"We had it tested and it was so full of steroids that we never could have given it to athletes. They all would have tested positive."
Is China really a fit and proper place to stage the Games?I have to wonder, if the Bush administration werent so deeply involved in the theory of reckless capitalism and immediate globalization, would they be protesting China's hosting of the 2008 Summer Games?
Olympic athletes may be allowed to blog - Yahoo! NewsThe International Olympic Committee said Wednesday it is considering whether to let athletes post personal diaries on the Internet — so long as the Olympic village isn't turned into a "Big Brother" reality TV show.
Olympics - Moth threatens to turn China's 'Green Olympics' brownA ravenous plant-eating moth is threatening China's forests ahead of the 2008 Olympic Summer Games, and officials are trying various sexual attractants, insecticide lamps, and even bees to combat the problem.
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