Tag: olympics

Sugar Ray Leonard says he was abused

Boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard has released a book about his life entitled The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring, and although it’s of a tell-all nature, there’s one little detail Leonard decided to leave out.  In one chapter, the boxer talks about inappropriate sexual advances that were made against him when he was a teenager, by an Olympic boxing coach that Leonard was training with, but he fails to name the coach in question.

According to Leonard, there were two specific incidents that left him scarred for life – one in a hot tub when he was fifteen, and a second incident a few years later that apparently involved intimate touching.  Yikes!  I wonder who the coach is.

No Chicago Olympics – Rio de Janeiro Wins Olympic Bid

Despite a massive campaign and a heartfelt appeal from President Barack Obama himself, there will be no 2016 Chicago Olympics. Instead, the International Olympic Committee vote has awarded the 2016 Olympic Summer Games to Rio de Janeiro.

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“To host athletes and visitors from every corner of the globe is a high honor and a great responsibility,” President Obama told the IOC in a plea for them to vote Chicago as the 2016 Summer Olympics host city. “And America is ready and eager to assume that sacred trust.”

Although Chicago was considered a frontrunner for the 2016 Summer Games, the city was eliminated in the first round of the IOC vote while Tokyo was eliminated in the second round, leaving the final decision between Rio de Janeiro and Madrid. The final vote was announced Friday morning as 32 votes for Madrid and 66 for Rio.

“I honestly believe it is Brazil’s time,” Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told the IOC voters. “For the others it will be just one more Games. For us it will be an unparalleled opportunity.”

Tens of thousands celebrated in Rio after the announcement was made by IOC president Jacques Rogge. In Chicago, bid leaders are now faced with the stark realization the city spent more than $50 million on a failed Olympic bid.