{"id":6534,"date":"2016-05-04T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/05\/04\/why-do-cities-keep-vying-to-host-the-olympics\/"},"modified":"2016-05-04T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T08:32:00","slug":"why-do-cities-keep-vying-to-host-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/why-do-cities-keep-vying-to-host-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Cities Keep Vying To Host The Olympics?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Frank Deford<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

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The Brazilian Olympic Committee president shows the lantern containing the Olympic flame brought from Greece as he deplanes in Brasilia on May 3. The three-month torch relay across Brazil will end at the opening ceremony on Aug. 5 at Maracana stadium in Rio. Eraldo Peres\/AP<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

toggle caption<\/strong> Eraldo Peres\/AP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On Thursday, it’ll be three months ’til the Olympics begin. Usually, there’d be a panic now that construction was way behind schedule, but, incredibly, only a couple of major projects remain incomplete in Rio.<\/p>\n

No, rather the question remains how much can go haywire during the Games to distract us from our enchanting presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

Click the audio to hear Frank Deford’s take on this issue.<\/em><\/p>\n

Let’s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> (Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n

Source:: http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/05\/04\/476617987\/why-do-cities-keep-vying-to-host-the-olympics?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The Brazilian Olympic Committee president shows the lantern containing the Olympic flame brought from Greece as he deplanes in Brasilia on May 3. The three-month torch relay across Brazil will end at the opening ceremony on Aug. 5 at Maracana stadium in Rio. Eraldo Peres\/AP<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

toggle caption<\/strong> Eraldo Peres\/AP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On Thursday, it’ll be three months ’til the Olympics begin. Usually, there’d be a panic now that construction was way behind schedule, but, incredibly, only a couple of major projects remain incomplete in Rio.<\/p>\n

No, rather the question remains how much can go haywire during the Games to distract us from our enchanting presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

Click the audio to hear Frank Deford’s take on this issue.<\/em><\/p>\n

Let’s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> (Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}