Rio Gets the Gold for 2016 Olympics

COPENHAGEN (Oct. 2) - Let the Olympic carnival begin. And the crying, too. The International Olympic Committee's announcement Friday that Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Games reduced Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to tears again and again. The popular and populist politician known as Lula sobbed into a handkerchief at the official news conference after Rio won a comprehensive 66-32 victory over Madrid in a third and final round of voting — putting the Olympics in South

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