The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced today Rio de Janeiro as the host city for the 2016 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, beating out Chicago, Tokyo and Madrid through secret balloting of the 106-member IOC body at Copenhagen, Denmark.
Chicago, eliminated in the first of three rounds of voting, earned the title of United States Bid City for the 2016 Olympic Games on April 14, 2007. Chicago, along with the three other finalists to host the 2016 Olympic Games, was chosen as one of the four candidate cities by the IOC Executive Board at SportAccord in Athens on June 4, 2008.
