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To: Chas. who wrote (55811)	10/4/2009 2:44:24 PM
From: carranza2	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217917

Awarding the games to Rio was an exercise in simple fairness. Since 1968, when Mexico hosted them, no Latin American country has been selected. In contention was the US, who has gotten them a number of times in the relatively recent past...Los Angeles, Atlanta....and Spain which just had them in Barcelona. The stellar services the Spaniard [I cannot recall his name] has provided in organizing them over the years were not worth selecting Spain again so soon after Barcelona. His service can be honored in many other ways. And no South American country has ever had them. It was time. I was certain Rio would get them. From a political standpoint, Obama's intervention was beyond stupid. His prestige could only suffer. It was all down side and very little upside.