re: #549 buster

Does anybody think that maybe the you-tube video of an honor student being beaten to death by a mob only three days or so before the IOC vote had an impact? The media kept telling us that is was Chicago or Rio, and Chicago had the edge. Then all of a sudden they are out in round one.

As soon as I saw the screaming headline about the murder, I knew it was over for Chicago.

And I had to wonder, how much of the responsibility for that belongs to the city and the culture it fosters?