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White House puts on a brave face over Olympics loss
Top of the TicketSo the "O team," President and First Lady Obama (two, count ???em), and Oprah Winfrey failed to carry the day in Copenhagen, and the world???s athletes will samba their way to Rio de Janeiro in 2016. The real question is...... -
Obama loses gamble -- Chicago out of Olympics contention
Top of the TicketIn a stunner, the International Olympic Committee dropped Chicago from contention for the 2016 Summer Games in the first round of voting today. Tokyo was eliminated in the second round. No word yet from the White House, where President Obama...... -
Michelle Obama: Copenhagen Olympic politics just like Iowa caucuses
Top of the TicketIn 2008, voters in the Iowa Caucus -- famous for their quirky picks -- gave a little-known Democrat named Barack Obama his first victory, propelling him toward the White House. Now, First Lady Michelle Obama is in Copenhagen, stumping for...... -
NBC's Dick Ebersol: U.S. Olympic Committee needs 'real leaders'
L.A. Times Olympics BlogNBC Sports Chairman Dick Ebersol did not only blame the U.S. Olympic Committee for Chicago's humiliating first-round ouster in the voting for 2016 Summer Olympics host. When he spoke with me Friday a few hours after it happened, Ebersol also...... -
Michelle Obama goes for the gold in Copenhagen, wearing golden clothes
Top of the TicketIt was fitting symbolism for a first lady pitching her hometown as the site of the 2016 Olympics. As the Ticket reported earlier, First Lady Michelle Obama delivered a from-the-heart pitch for Chicago to the International Olympic Committee, talking about.... -
Obama on Chicago's Olympics bid: 'The most American of American cities'
Top of the TicketFull text of president's remarks to the International Olympics Committee in Copenhagen today.... -
What Michelle Obama told the International Olympic Committee about her Chicago (and father)
Top of the TicketFull text of her plea involving her late father and what the Games would have meant to him.... -
Chicago's loss could be L.A.'s gain
L.A. Times Olympics BlogNow that the International Olympic Committee has snubbed Chicago and chose Rio de Janeiro to play host to the 2016 Summer Games, will the U.S. Olympic Committee try again to bring the Olympics to this country? How about to this...... -
What the U.S. Olympic Committee would rather keep silent
L.A. Times Olympics BlogThe United States Olympic Committee prefers the sounds of silence. Here is what -- or hear what -- it isn't saying: -- There is an open spot on the U.S. Olympic Committee board of directors -- the independent director position...... -
U.S. Olympic Committee chaos: the whole story
L.A. Times Olympics BlogThe top two officials of the U.S. Olympic Committee, acting chief executive Stephanie Streeter and board chairman Larry Probst, took actions Wednesday that were tantamount to an admission the USOC had failed Chicago in its bid to be host of...... -
Ignoble IOC treatment of Nobelist Obama
L.A. Times Olympics BlogOne thing came immediately to mind when I learned Friday morning that President Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize. Wonder what the petty pooh-bahs of the International Olympic Committee think now of embarrassing a Chicago bid endorsed by the...... -
Golf and rugby to be among sports at 2016 Olympics
L.A. Times Olympics BlogImagine what a golf course in Rio de Janeiro would look like... Lush rainforest grass surrounded by cascading waterfalls and singing vibrant-hued toucans? The world's best golfers will find out in 2016. The International Olympic Committee voted today to...
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