tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7288656006847355129.post8718304235880533062..comments2023-06-30T06:36:24.307-07:00Comments on ...An Old Lady's Game.: A Comment, please....Barbb bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636150622598577684noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7288656006847355129.post-87011588823114680092009-10-05T12:11:56.533-07:002009-10-05T12:11:56.533-07:00Well, we agree on the part about not being such a ...Well, we agree on the part about not being such a fan of the Olympics, Period. (I bet I know a Red-Head who would beg to differ with both of us!)For the athletes, it is great, of course.<br />Asia just had the Olympics.<br />Mike Quigley, the Congressman elected to serve out the rest of Rahm E's term, was sited in the WSJ as pointing out that Chicago lacked a Federal guarantee to pay for the Games; other candidate's gov'ts had guananteed their bids. OK, but everybody had to know that going into it.Barbb bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13636150622598577684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7288656006847355129.post-19899348620952683002009-10-04T20:15:05.115-07:002009-10-04T20:15:05.115-07:00Not a fan of the IOC/Olympics period -- I'm no...Not a fan of the IOC/Olympics period -- I'm not convinced that they do any good for anyone involved, save the medalists. Games seem to utterly wreck every city they touch, like a debilitating urban-planning hernia, few cities are capable of absorbing the expansion that the games demand. And knowing Daley, I think this would have been even more the case for Chicago.<br /><br />Hope Rio can take it run with it. But, much like a Grammy, I think this is a distinction that any self-respecting individual should be glad NOT to receive. Not sure Obama deserves such a dressing-down. Hatoyama was also in Copenhagen, but no one seems to be tsk-tsking him for dropping the ball.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14673486594672441195noreply@blogger.com