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(17 Jun 2009) [[HEADLINE: Chicago makes bid for 2016
CAPTION: The four cities bidding for the 2016 Olympics took their case directly to the voters on Wednesday, stressing the backing of their government leaders and promising financial security for their multi-billion-dollar projects. (June 17)
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Representatives from the Second City were first in line Wednesday to make their pitch for hosting the 20-16 Olympics.
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Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo are all in the running to hold the Summer Games.
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Their representatives spent the day in Switzerland meeting with Olympic officials, and those from Chicago emerged from their closed-door session rather pleased.
SOT Pat Ryan, Chairman Chicago 2016
"I think the team did very well, lots of good questions, very healthy dialogue which we were very pleased about so....we would've been worried if there weren't a lot of questions but there were a lot of questions, so it was quite good."
Of course, so too were those from Tokyo.
SOT Dr Ichiro Kono, Chairman Tokyo 2016
"I am very much happy to have completed our presentation and question and answer session, but we are now ready to move to the next, to the last stretch."
As with everything these days the focus was on money and which cities were in the best shape.
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Chicago is the only one of the four not to have full government financial backing.
However the White House impressed the I-O-C with a tape reiterating it's support for the games.
SOT Kevan Gosper, Australia IOC Member:
"She came up and gave the video and gave a very good endorsement of White House interest and concern and no I just thought as I said it was very professional, very complete."
A final decision will be announced this October.
STORY NUMBER: 610043
DATELINE: Lausanne, 17 June 2009
LENGTH: 04:30

1. Pan of water feature outside Olympic Museum
2. Mid shot museum entrance
3. Pan of Chicago delegation with chairman Pat Ryan arriving to give their presentation
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Pat Ryan, Chairman Chicago 2016 Olympic Bid Committee:
"I think the team did very well, lots of good questions, very healthy dialogue which we were very pleased about so....we would've been worried if there weren't a lot of questions but there were a lot of questions, so it was quite good."
5. Top shot of Tokyo delegates entering auditorium to present their bid
6. Mid of Tokyo delegation posing for media following their presentation
7. SOUNDBITE (Japanese, with simultaneous translation in English) Shintaro Ishihara, Governor of Tokyo and President of the Tokyo 2016 Olympic Bid Committee:
"In the last ten years we have rehabilitated our fiscal position in Tokyo metropolitan area and we have set aside enormous amounts of money as a reserve fund for the games."
8. Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Bid Committee arriving for their presentation
9. Zoom out to Brazilian Olympic Committee and Rio de Janeiro 2016 Bid Committee president Carlos Arthur Nuzman, pan right to other members Rio de Janeiro delegation
10. Nuzman walking out to meet the media
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Carlos Arthur Nuzman, President of the Brazilian Olympic Committee and of the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Bid Committee:
"A lot of games concentrated in Europe, a lot in Asia, and the special United States. And now the South Hemisphere has the right. We have now a continent of four-hundred (million) people, one (hundred) and eighty (million) young. Then I think now it's fair for the olympic movement to bring this to Rio."
17. Pan right of news conference

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