Ouch.
We’re not even the Second City.
To Cub fans, the feeling should be familiar: Soaring expectations, followed by the cold slap of defeat.
But the stunning collapse of Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games on Friday--despite personal lobbying by President Obama, the city was knocked out in the first round of voting by the International Olympic Committee--needs to put into proper perspective: This is a major disappointment, not a crushing calamity.
Chicago is a resilient city. It has been through worse. And it will rise again. While it is a shame that Chicago did not get a chance to put its Olympic ideas into practice. It would be a greater shame, now that the city has lost its bid, if these ideas withered on the vine instead of flowering, as they should.
RIO was always on lock for the 2016 bid simply because the Olympics have never been held in South America.
Also take a minute to check out brother Kevin Powell's essay in the Huffington Post....
