{"id":5865,"date":"2009-10-02T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/sportsbooks-olympic-odds-chicago-favored-to-host-2016-olympics\/"},"modified":"2009-10-02T08:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T13:24:00","slug":"sportsbooks-olympic-odds-chicago-favored-to-host-2016-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/sportsbooks-olympic-odds-chicago-favored-to-host-2016-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Sportsbooks Olympic Odds: Chicago Favored To Host 2016 Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=3 color=blue face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue; font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/b> <span class=GramE>say<\/span> that one of the top European <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linetrackers.com\/\">sportsbooks<\/a> William Hill says that <st1:City><st1:place>Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is the 4\/5 favorite to get the 2016 Olympics bid. <st1:City><st1:place>Rio de   Janeiro<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is next at 13\/10 and <st1:State><st1:place>Madrid<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> a long shot at 10-1.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Former <st1:City><st1:place>Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> community organizer, <st1:country-region><st1:place>US<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> President Barack Obama gave the <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Windy<\/st1:PlaceName>  <st1:PlaceType>City<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> a last minute pitch to the IOC. <font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/font><font face=\"Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold\"><span style='font-family:\"Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold\"'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OffshoreInsiders.com say that one of the top European sportsbooks William Hill says that Chicago is the 4\/5 favorite to get the 2016 Olympics bid. Rio de Janeiro is next at 13\/10 and Madrid a long shot at 10-1.\u00a0 Former Chicago community organizer, US President Barack Obama gave the Windy City a last minute pitch to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/sportsbooks-olympic-odds-chicago-favored-to-host-2016-olympics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sportsbooks Olympic Odds: Chicago Favored To Host 2016 Olympics<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}