Barack Obama did not just receive the American Olympic and Paralympic delegation at the White House at the end of September. The President of the United States also spoke at length, in an interview published Monday October 3 in New York Magazine, on Chicago's bid for the 2016 Games, a file for which he was personally committed. “An extremely well-prepared delegation had gone to Copenhagen to make a presentation and Michelle (Obama) was with them,” he explains. I got a call saying that everyone thought that if I went there we would have a good chance of winning and that it might be worth a day's return trip. So I went there. We subsequently understood that the IOC's decisions were similar to those of FIFA: a little rigged. By all objective criteria, the American application was the best.” Not sure that Barack Obama's words will be very appreciated in Lausanne, at a time when Los Angeles is in the race with Budapest and Paris for the organization of the 2024 Games.
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