Chicago, Tokyo and Madrid are competing with Rio. But the economic crisis has stretched infrastructure and sports marketing budgets in the Northern Hemisphere and Brazil, one of the emerging G20 economies, already has the knack of doing more with less. The Rio city government has put up a big countdown pylon on Copacabana beach tracking the days until October 2nd, when the IOC will announce the winner.

Chicago, Tokyo and Madrid are competing with Rio. But the economic crisis has stretched infrastructure and sports marketing budgets in the Northern Hemisphere and Brazil, one of the emerging G20 economies, already has the knack

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