Olympics

COPENHAGEN - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stood at the front of the delegation about to deliver Rio de Janeiro's merits as a potential Olympic host and suddenly found himself breaking into song with his compatriots.

Windy City blown away in 2016 Olympic votingCOPENHAGEN — Chicago can't blame it all on Rio.

An Olympic-sized whipping for ChicagoPresident Barack Obama was in the comfort of his private quarters on Air Force One somewhere over the Atlantic when he got the news. The vote was in, his adopted hometown had been trounced, and the embarrassment of the U.S. Olympic movement now officially stretched all the way to the White House.

Samba! Rio wins right to host the 2016 OlympicsCOPENHAGEN — The country's president was blunt. "It is," Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said, "Brazil's time."

Obama's Copenhagen trip wasn't cheapWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's failed bid to bring the 2016 Olympic Games to Chicago cost more than a bruised ego.