Left field
The Reuters global sports blog
from Raw Japan:
The 2016 Gold
Less than a month until the International Olympic Committee's selection of the winning city in the 2016 Olympic bid campaign, and the IOC in a report Wednesday has the candidates in a dead heat.
All bid cities -- Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo -- will make a push before the Oct. 2 decision in Copenhagen, with billions of dollars in investment and national prestige at stake.
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