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Post by Perry Spring on Aug 12, 2012 17:41:23 GMT -5
US City to host the Summer Olympics
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Post by Allen on Aug 13, 2012 11:03:49 GMT -5
E please
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Post by zippolover on Aug 13, 2012 13:13:34 GMT -5
Duluth?
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Post by Perry Spring on Aug 13, 2012 14:11:12 GMT -5
No E, and this is a US City that has previously hosted the Summer Olympics...
Duluth is not correct, sorry.
US City to host the Summer Olympics
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Post by Allen on Aug 13, 2012 16:39:26 GMT -5
R Please
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Post by Perry Spring on Aug 13, 2012 17:09:59 GMT -5
No R, sorry
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Post by Perry Spring on Aug 13, 2012 18:10:46 GMT -5
US City to host the Summer Olympics
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Here is a clue: This city hosted the Olumpics the same year they hosted a World's Fair, and there was no tv coverage....
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Post by zippolover on Aug 14, 2012 4:14:17 GMT -5
Saint Louis?
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Post by Perry Spring on Aug 14, 2012 6:26:43 GMT -5
That is correct!!
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Post by Perry Spring on Aug 14, 2012 6:30:33 GMT -5
The year was 1904...
Seems Chicago was to have hosted, but die to the World's Fair, St. Louis was given the nod.
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Post by Perry Spring on Aug 14, 2012 6:31:26 GMT -5
Would you like to start the next puzzle?
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Post by Levon on Aug 14, 2012 8:21:43 GMT -5
cool
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Post by Allen on Aug 14, 2012 9:50:40 GMT -5
Cool
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Post by Perry Spring on Aug 14, 2012 17:15:05 GMT -5
It's kind of hard to imagine that the Summer Olympics took a backseat like that, but things were so different back then. The city of Chicago, Illinois, had won the original bid to host the 1904 Summer Olympics, but the organizers of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis would not accept another international event in the same time frame. The exposition organization began to plan for its own sports activities, informing the Chicago OCOG that its own international sports events intended to eclipse the Olympic Games unless they were moved to St. Louis. Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement, gave in and awarded the games to St. Louis. Wonder where Bob Costas was to report the goingson?
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Post by Allen on Aug 15, 2012 7:10:06 GMT -5
Chicago, my home town! I was not there yet either.
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