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“Gulp.”
That must have been Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley’s reaction as he sat in the stands of Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium watching the $100-million, triumphantly staged Olympic opening ceremonies.
Daley’s vision of a 2016 Olympics in Chicago pales in comparison to China’s mind-bending pyrotechnics and its cast of ten thousands, the stupefying grandiosity of the stadium, clean-as-a-whistle new subway lines, the glittering infrastructure, the ebullient but always respective Chinese masses, the permanent new competitive venues and a list of other superlatives as long as the Great Wall.
If Daley wasn’t thinking to himself, “My God, what I have gotten us into?” he’s delusional, or worse.Read more in The Chicago Daily Observer
1 comment:
Dennis, it appears that you have lost sight of the true importance of the games. As usual, you miss the point.
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