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Olympics – Carlos Nuzman – The Father Of Rio 2016

 Dignitaries and representatives from four countries, US, Spain, Brazil and Japan were galore in the Bella Center Convention Center, Copenhagen, Denmark; eagerly awaiting the announcement of Jacques Rogge, the President of the International Olympic Association at 1830 hours as to who would host the 2016 Summer Olympics; Bella center was buzzing with activities; the final process of selecting the venue through voting by the 97 members out of 106 members of IOC, was on for the four candidate cities, Chicago, US, Madrid, Spain, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil and Tokyo, Japan. The center witnessed hectic parleys and diplomatic activities to woo the members to vote for their country.

A Brazilian Icon

Who is Carlos Nuzman? Behind every great success, there’s a great man or lady. Of course, Brazil has a great gentleman. To be more precise: Carlos Arthur Nuzman, one of the world’s best Olympic czars. Thanks to his talent & genius, Brazil –it is by far the largest country in South America– has been elected host city of the XXXI Olympic Summer Games in 2016. For the first time since 1968, the Summer Olympics will be held in a Latin American nation (the Games of the XIX Olympiad were held in Mexico City). He worked very hard for this for a very long time. For his Olympian background, Nuzman, President of the Brazilian Olympic Committee, is one of the favorites to be the next Head of the International Olympic Committee.

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In the second round of election, Rio secured 46 votes, Madrid 29 and Tokyo 20. Hence, Japan had to make its exit, after the second round was over. Since, no candidate city had secured more than 50 + votes in the second round of voting, a third and final round of voting was necessitated.

In the third round of voting, the contest was narrowed between Brazil and Spain, in which Brazil scored 66 votes and Spain scored only 32 votes; thereby Rio De Janeiro became the winner candidate.

The Historic Announcement:

On 2, October,2009;1830 hours; The IOC President, Jacques Rogge made the historic announcement that Rio De Janeiro would host the summer Olympics of 2016, creating a sensation across the world and making the people of Brazil ecstatic.For the first time in the history of Olympics, Rio De Janeiro, a city of Brazil, a South American country has been chosen to host the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Factors that might have acted against the election of Chicago, Madrid and Tokyo:-

Despite US making its bid sincerely and a towering personality like President Obama making his presence at Copenhagen before the IOC members and making a speech; despite having other credentials like the infrastructure as well as the previous experience of holding such events etc were not lacking; still US could not win over the IOC members in its favor because: US had already hosted a number of Olympic games the most recent being the 1996 At Lanta Olympics. However, US has one consolation: the forthcoming Winter Olympic Games, 2010, is being held in Vancouver, Canada. Spain already had the honor of holding Olympic Games in Barcelona, in the year 1992, most recently; Similarly Japan had already hosted Olympic games in the year 1964. These factors might have considerably influenced IOC members in not voting in their favor.

Factors that tilted the balance in favor of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil :

The most clinching factor that tilted the balance in favor of Rio De Janeiro was that no South American country was ever awarded a chance to host Olympic Games and Brazil was bidding for the first time to host Summer Olympics. However, Brazil was not lagging behind in other positive factors. The city of Rio De Janeiro had budgeted $ 14.4 billions to the effort, the largest amount than any of the four finalists, according to the IOC reports. It shows the growing and fast recovering economy of Brazil under the dynamic leadership of its President Lula. Brazil also had the honor of holding Pan American Games most recently in the year, 2007.Brazil’s bidding process began as early as July, 28, 2006 and the bid was recognized by IOC on September 14, 2007. And above all, the city of Rio De Janeiro was fully equipped to hold all the events of Olympics except soccer

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