The winner of the 2020 Summer Olympic bid is going to be announced by the IOC in Buenos Aires next month. The three finalists for the bid are Istanbul, Madrid, and Tokyo.
The one of the three (according to Wikipedia) that seems to be the furthest shot right now is Madrid. There seem to have been some scandals of a sort that have lessened its chances for getting the bid.
So that leaves Istanbul and Tokyo. Go Tokyo. Ganbatte!!
I said it a few years ago on this same blog, but what I said then still holds: If Turkey ever decides to go the way of a country like Venezuela or Bolivia, and breaks off all its ties with Israel, then I am going to formally renounce my Turkish citizenship. The Islamic fundamentalist crackpot running the country has been in charge now for almost 10 years. Why has the military there been unable to overthrow him as they've done in the past with extremist leaders since the republic's founding in 1923?
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