The critical concern of the Canadian Border authorities was that Ms. Goodman would be discussing the 2010 Winter Olympic games in Vancouver. This is not a joke.
Tom Tresser | Posted 10.19.2009 | Chicago
If citizens want to be protected from bad government and further rip-offs, we are going to have to rise to a new level of involvement. I have little hope that our elected representatives will truly represent us.
AP | BRETT MARTEL | Posted 10.14.2009 | Chicago
NEW ORLEANS — The ousted CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee said changing leadership and strained relations with international Olympic officials ...
Tom Tresser | Posted 10.12.2009 | Chicago
We had penetrated the multiple rings of security, outfaced the bureaucracy of the International Olympic Committee and stood our ground to deliver information that the mayor, the 2016 Committee and the entire business elite of Chicago didn't want to see and didn't want to acknowledge.
Len Berman | Posted 10.09.2009 | New York
Joe Torre used to say about the 1996 Yankees that "everyone wants to be the hero, but no one wants to talk about it." Left unsaid in sports is that nobody wants to be the goat.
AP | EDDIE PELLS | Posted 10.08.2009 | Chicago
Six months of shaky decisions and turmoil came to a head for the U.S. Olympic Committee on Wednesday when its acting CEO said she would step down, bri...
Chicago Tribune | Kathy Bergen and Philip Hersh | Posted 10.06.2009 | Chicago
Though Chicago's campaign for the 2016 Summer Games went down in flames in the first round of voting, there was nothing more the city could have done ...
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
That conservatives have such a blind, ignorant, hot hatred for Barack Obama and for anything that isn't them, that they'll sell America down Grover Norquist's bathtub drain just to have their way.
Chris Prevatt | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
But it is one hell of a leap to compare Obama's participation in Chicago's Olympic bid to his health care reform efforts.
AP | GRAHAM DUNBAR | Posted 10.04.2009 | Chicago
COPENHAGEN — The International Olympic Committee's marketing boss believes Chicago's rejection by Olympic voters will not affect the status of I...
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 10.05.2009 | World
Team Obama needs -- as the International Olympics Committee has just done -- to be continually reminded that the rest of the world is not an American kick ball.
Mike Hegedus | Posted 12.03.2009 | Media
Chicago was never the favorite, even if Oprah thought it was. All it takes is a quick understanding of how the IOC votes, who the 100 IOC voters are, and which way the international wind is blowing.
Roger Wolfson | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
It benefits a President to realize he can lose. It benefits a President to realize the stakes are real and failure - real, abject failure - is an option decidedly in play.
Sandip Roy | Posted 12.02.2009 | Chicago
The world didn't reject Obama. It's gotten the symbolism of his election. Now it's time to go beyond the symbols. Five hours of Obama isn't enough change.
Chris McGowan | Posted 12.02.2009 | World
Brazilians would be far better off if its populace refused to tolerate the rogues' gallery that populates its government. But despite its social problems, the Rio Olympics may be the most entertaining Games ever.
Michael D. Brown | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
Brazil was among the last to enter into the current world recession, but is among the first to begin to emerge from the recession. And therein is why Chicago did not get the Olympics.
Denver Business Journal | Denver Business Journal | Posted 12.02.2009 | Denver
Chicago's loss will not be Denver's gain -- at least in 2018, local leaders say. ...
Christopher DeSa | Posted 12.02.2009 | World
In choosing Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, the IOC gave the people of South America its long-deserved first chance to see the Olympics come to their continent.
AP | NANCY ARMOUR | Posted 12.01.2009 | Chicago
COPENHAGEN — They shelved long-awaited plans for a TV network after only a month, and made nice with International Olympic Committee members who...
Michael Russnow | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics
Obama is not a miracle maker, but he will have at least tried to win the IOC bid. And during it all, he and the government will continue in any necessary actions.
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 11.27.2009 | Chicago
WHAT: Selection of the host city for the 2016 Summer Olympics. WHERE: Copenhagen....
Alden Loury | Posted 11.25.2009 | Chicago
Olympics have displaced more than two million people in the last 20 years, especially minorities and the poor. With or without the Games, we're witnessing the clearing of two miles of lakefront property.
Jane Dwyre Garton | Posted 11.22.2009 | Chicago
What cannot be overlooked in a maze of economic development, sponsorship, job creation, urban renewal, and transportation concerns is the Paralympics, which follow after each Olympics.
AP | STEPHEN WILSON | Posted 11.22.2009 | Chicago
LONDON — President Barack Obama has written to International Olympic Committee members promising the United States would "welcome the world with...
AP | STEPHEN WILSON | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago
LONDON — IOC president Jacques Rogge said disputes with the U.S. Olympic Committee will have "no negative effects whatsoever" on Chicago's chanc...
Dave Zirin | Posted 11.28.2009 | Sports