Comments on: Tokyo misses out on 2016 Olympic Games

By: reesan

reesan — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:52:10 +0000

Carnivale, samba, Copacabana, Ipanema and home of the Brazilian (the people and the wax)… can’t be all bad!

By: Corve DaCosta

Corve DaCosta — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:31:17 +0000

From the video presentations I saw online Rio’s plans were unique, attractive and concrete. Kudos to them. Hope it turns out well. Tokyo’s bid fell short to me.

By: The Envoy

The Envoy — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:32:41 +0000

I’m part of the pro-Rio gang though.

By: sixmats

sixmats — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:42:31 +0000

I’m glad Rio got it. Maybe it will push them to clean up the city (and modernize) like what happened with Beijing. There will be a lot of international scrutiny on them.

By: Sanjo-chan

Sanjo-chan — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:51:15 +0000

I was hoping for Tokyo to win as well for the same reasons to visit Japan. ^o^
But I think Rio is better prepared than Chicago is.. Though it would have been nice if Chicago won (so I can go back to my hometown!), but the city has too many problems to accommodate everyone.

By: yonasu

yonasu — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:45:33 +0000

Well I hoped for Tokyo as I’d like to go there and see the olympics live, it’s not like I’m gonna go to Rio to see them. But I’m 5 hours ahead of Rio which I guess is a bit better than 7 hours behind…

By: moemoekyun

moemoekyun — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:43 +0000

why in tokyo why not chose bigger place not a big city ^_^

By: MKL

MKL — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:09:10 +0000

Well, I was hoping for Chicago. It would be a goose bumps moment to see Obama (wheather he’d be president or not) opening the games. Plus Americans are excellent when it comes to organizing big events. While I am happy for Rio and Brazil, I wonder, if they are up for the task to organize one of the biggest (if not the biggest) events in the world. I wish them best of luck.

By: Freedomwv

Freedomwv — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:03:09 +0000

I am kind of surprised Rio got the games. Are they ready for such an event?

By: Muza-chan

Muza-chan — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:16:56 +0000

To be honest, I wasn’t very happy about Tokyo’s candidature, so I’m kind of relieved it ended this way.
Like most of the comments from your previous post, I also was concerned that for a city like Tokyo, the Olympics would have done more bad than good.