re: #139 SixDegrees

The Olympic thing boils down to this: $4.8 billion bid by Chicago versus $12.8 billion bid by Rio. End of story.

That’s not entirely accurate. Rio has to build much of its sports venues and infrastructure to make the bid happen. Chicago already has much of the sports venues built, along with the mass transit to make it work.

Money plays a strong role, but it wasn’t the only role.