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    A place called Sochi (be honest, you can't pick it out on a map, even if I told you it's in Russia) gets the 2014 Winter Games, but Chicago strikes out on one pitch? "We sent our A-Team: the president [Barack Obama], his wife [Michelle Obama], Oprah Winfrey, the Olympic athletes, the mayor [Richard Daley] ... We sent our A-Team. It will be interesting to know what happened." The two Obamas. Oprah. Full Article at ESPN
    We sent our A-Team: the president [Barack Obama], his wife [Michelle Obama], Oprah Winfrey, the Olympic athletes, the mayor [Richard Daley] ... We sent our A-Team. It will be interesting to know what happened.
    SOURCE: ESPN 2 months ago
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Wojciechowski: Flame out for Chicago's '16 bid
  1. My opinion is Chicago should go for 2020 ... I think the U.S. or North America would have the best chance.
    SOURCE: ESPN 2 months ago
  2. I am terribly disappointed.
    SOURCE: ESPN 2 months ago
  3. We must go forward with our educational programs. We must go forward improving our parks. We must go forward in getting our young people involved in athletics and in sports. So let's build on this dream of getting the Olympics. And let's have our own Chicago Olympics.
    SOURCE: ESPN 2 months ago
  4. Last week, they said the first round would be kind of tricky ... because everybody is kind of voting for their own region. And North America doesn't have as many representatives as the other regions around the world. So that was going to be the trickiest part to get by that first round.
    SOURCE: ESPN 2 months ago
  5. That usually doesn't happen to me. ... It's just total shock.
    SOURCE: ESPN 2 months ago

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