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COPENHAGEN -- Eleven shots of tequila were lined up across the bar. The guy paying, a member of Chicago's 2016 Olympics bid committee, assured me that he wouldn't be doing all 11 by himself. It was a night to drown sorrows at the Hard Rock Cafe, an American-based establishment where a saddened and dazed Chicago crew -- routed in the first round, like the Cubs in the playoffs -- had many more questions than answers at tables around a chilly, rainy city."How much of this had to do with anti-Americanism?'' asked one.
Plenty, I said. And when another emphasized that Chicago won't be bidding in 2020 and maybe ever again, it occurred to me that the U.S. shouldn't, either -- at least until President Obama has his house in order, until the chaotic U.S. Olympic Committee makes peace with the International Olympic Committee, until America figures out how to politick within the Olympic movement and until America improves its image and softens its relationships with a world that still views the U.S. as an arrogant monster.
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