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Robo
Formerly Roboman, still
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Portland, OR
 
2010-03-11, 23:36

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Originally Posted by PKIDelirium View Post
Yeah, 2016's choice was terrible. Tokyo would have been the safest and most well-equipped city out of all the finalists.
Tokyo's bid got the highest technical score. Rio got the lowest. I'm not going to write Rio off or anything -- I'm happy for them that they have a chance to really take the spotlight on the world stage -- but, yeah, being IIRC the first South American city to bid (and not being up against London or Paris ) certainly helped.

and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong
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