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Video: Chicago Hopes to Show Profit With 2016 Olympics

Posted January 16, 2008 at 03:04 PM by Martin Kennedy

Section: Summer 2016

Chicago plans to spend $900 million to build an Olympic stadium and other venues. However, as CBS 2’s chief correspondent Jay Levine reports in the following video, the city still believes it can show a profit in 2016.

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Video: China Grooms Future Olympic Stars in … School?

Posted January 5, 2008 at 05:23 PM by Adam Jacobs

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In the following video a correspondent from Reuters News discusses what some might call China’s “questionable” attempt at molding future Olympic medalists and other star professional athletes from a young age and on an institutional level.

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Coe Sees Olympic Lessons

Posted September 8, 2007 at 06:21 PM by Adam Jacobs

Section: London 2012, Events, Track & Field

In a video interview by Dan Sloan of Reuters, track legend and London Olympics Organizing Committee Chairman Sebastian Coe discusses the lessons to be learned from the IAAF World Championships in Osaka.

Despite the historic and dramatic races and performances at the World Championships, Coe…

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