Don't you just love it when the underdog wins, and wins spectacularly.
Rio has won the right to stage the 2016 games and for once the oratory of Chicago's Obama didn't win the day, in fact, it may have actually been a negative, or at least the snub that he didn't stick around to hear the result was a negative. The days are gone when the US President can just swan into town and we will all swoon at his rhetoric