Olympics

I was watching ESPN when all of the sudden across the bottom of the screen flashed the message, "Chicago and Tokyo eliminated from hosting 2016 Olympic Games". I was really surprised to hear that. President Barack Obama traveled to Copenhagen Denmark to make a speech about having the games here, his wife made a speech before him. Even Oprah made a speech! Oprah! The woman who anything she touches turns to gold and any book she mentions becomes an instant best-sellar. I'm amazed. As I continued to watch, I came to learn that Chicago was the FIRST city eliminated! Chicago was eliminated before Tokyo! That turned my surprise into utter astonishment. Tokyo is so crowded for space, they couldn't have humanely built facilities for the games anyways, yet Tokyo was eliminated AFTER Chicago! Much of the world thought that Obama and Oprah pushing for the games here would have secured our bid as the winner.
As ESPN flashed to a crowd gathered in Chicago, the looks were the same as mine, pure disbelief. It was such a shock many people didn't move, they just stood and stared. I'm now convinced that in my lifetime, there will never be an Olympic Games held on U.S. soil. If Obama and Oprah can't do it, who can?!