Obama’s Olympic Audience

Ted Bromund / October 01, 2009

Today, President Obama flies to Copenhagen to lobby the International Olympic Committee to award the 2016 Summer Games to Chicago. So we know that President Obama wants the Olympics.

But do the Olympics want the United States? The IOC’s history of the Games, titled “Athens to Athens,” was written by British journalist David Miller and published in 2003. Here is the IOC’s official statement, on page 345, on 9/11 and the 2002 Salt Lake City Games. It sheds light on what the IOC thinks of the US: (more…)