In a bit of a shock to the Whitehouse, or at least a shock at how quickly this was announced, the International Olympic Committee decided to eliminate the city of Chicago as a potential host city to the 2016 Olympic Games.

Many around the world, and in the US who were debating as to whether the city of Chicago was ready to host the Olympics, can now focus on something else as the Windy City is now eliminated from the list.

Even with President Barack Obama and his Wife traveling over to Copenhagen this week in hopes of convincing the IOC to give the next Olympics to the US, it just was not enough. There were some heated debates among citizens as to why Obama would leave the US to travel over 6K miles for this when the nation is in turmoil over the President’s Health Care Bill as well as the lack of attention or concern for the happenings in Afghanistan where the General in Charge has requested many more troops. Obama indicated he would address the War in Afghanistan within the next few weeks.

Shortly after the US was eliminated, the IOC announced that Tokyo was also no longer in contention for the bid. Right now it is between Madrid and Rio de Janeiro to host the next games.