PARIS (AFP) -- A week after the International Olympic Committee's Evaluation Commission ended their trips round the four cities bidding to win the right to host the 2016 Olympic Games the perception is still that Chicago will have to trip over their laces if they are not to win it.
A source close to the IOC told AFP that "it is Chicago's to lose" after Morocco's 1984 Olympic 400 metres hurdles champion Nawal El Moutawakel and her fellow IOC Evaluation Commission members had left the last of the four cities Madrid.
"Chicago would have to mess up in a huge way at the moment for them not to win the race," the source said under condition of anonymity. "All they have to do is keep their nerve and play safe. Nothing fancy." AFP report
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