The IOC announced that Chicago and Tokyo have been rejected as sites for the 2016 Olympics. Rio de Janeiro and Madrid are the finalists. The announcement as to who will host the 2016 Olympics will happen between 12-12:30 EST.

President Obama joined his wife, Michelle, in Copenhagen today in an effort to make a final push to bring the Olympics to U.S. soil again ahead of the 2016 Olympics announcement. Chicago is one of the finalists and the odds are not bad for the Windy City. Mrs. Obama and Oprah Winfrey arrived prior to the President Obama and have blazed a trail in Copenhagen showing their determination to bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago.

Due to his commitment to the health care reform issue, it was reported earlier in the month that President Obama would not be able to travel to Denmark to lend his support to have the US Olympics in Chicago in 2016. It was announced today that he will now travel to Copenhagen to join his wife, Michelle, and urge Olympics organizers to select Chicago to host the 2016 Games.

Dancing is not a sport is it? Okay I do not want to start that argument. In fact many of the athletes that appeared on ABC's hit show Dancing With The Stars will quickly agree that is and that it is one of the toughest things they have ever done.

Michelle Obama is hoping that the 2016 Olympics will be held in Chicago. Mrs. Obama was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, not far from the suggested locations for the 2016 Olympic Games. President Barack Obama is sending his wife Michelle to Copenhagen next month in hopes that she can urge Olympics organizers to select Chicago to host the 2016 Games.

Chuck Daly, who coached the Detroit Pistons to back-to-back NBA championships in 1989 and 1990, using a tough, physical style of play that eearnined his team the moniker "Bad Boys," has died at the age of 78.

Michael Phelps, 14-time Olympic Gold Medal swimmer, with the record for most gold medals, has been called an All-American boy, the boy next door, and a "Golden Boy." Endorsements have already been forthcoming, but what now, after the British paper News of the World caught him on camera smoking weed?

In what must be one of the most spectacular Olympic closing ceremonies of all time, maybe only coming second to the opening event, China closed the 29th Olympiad on Sunday 24th August. In a complete contrast to the bright pink, red and white of the Chinese performance, London offered something of a grim view for the future and 2012.

The Antikythera Mechanism, which was used in ancient Greece to make astronomical calculations, has now been discovered to also record the times of the Olympiads.

The big day approaches, and as with any of the previous Olympic Games, in any city , whichever country, the controversy has now started. If it isn’t infrastructure problems or stadiums not finished, it is accommodation which is inadequate, small or both. It’s either security which is too heavy or it’s not heavy enough. Why should the Beijing Olympics in 2008 be any different?