Please note that the following article was published on October 2, 2009. This is not new news, but it's new if you didn't know it was news!  Just sayin' . . .

Lalo de Almeida for The New York Times

A gathering at the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro after the city won the bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games.

Rio Wins 2016 Olympics in a First for South America

COPENHAGEN — When Rio de Janeiro was elected host city for the 2016 Olympic Games on Friday, the room where its bid team gathered turned into a boisterous party with members in uniform navy or moss green blazers hugging, dancing, crying and waving Brazilian flags. The bid leader, Carlos Arthur Nuzman, yelled, “We did it! We did it!”