After waiting over 12 years for someone to tell the full story of the No Games Chicago campaign, Tom Tresser decided to do it himself. “No Games Chicago: How a Small Group of Citizens Derailed the City’s 2016 Olympic Bid” is available from Routledge Press. Get more details, as well as access all sorts of …
Check out this interview from February 4, 2022.
This book examines the changing nature of opposition to bidding for and hosting the Olympic Games in contemporary American cities. It explores and critiques the process by which cities bid for the Olympics in the current context of the International Olympic Committee’s changing bid requirements and from the social justice perspectives of Olympics opponents. Using …
Coming up this October will be the ninth anniversary of the vote by the International Olympic Committee that send the 2016 Games to Rio and not Chicago. Aside from the scholarly article you can see in a post below, the story of No Games remains unreported in the mainstream press. In this video Tom Tresser, …
Nine years later but better late than never! No Games Chicago finally gets into the mainstream media record via a chapter in the 2016 book Sport, Protest and Globalisation – Stopping Play by Jon Dart and Stephen Wagg. The chapter is ironically (or prophetically) titled “Chicago 2016 Versus Rio 2016: Olympic ‘Winners’ and ‘Losers’” by …
You can’t make this stuff up! Rio 2016 head arrested for corruption. He had 16 gold bars worth almost $2 million! Can you imagine the corruption, waste and debt that would’ve piled up by a Chicago Olympics??
Professor Allen Sanderson, an economist at the University of Chicago, and a frequent contributor to local publications, has become the latest commentator to erase successful anti-Olympic protest efforts from the public record. In a July 13, 2017op-ed piece for the Chicago Tribune Prof. Sanderson opines that the Olympics may soon go the way of the …
In the summer of 2007 Bob Quellos wrote this piece for CounterPunch. This was the first in-depth critique of Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympic Games. He didn’t know it at the time, but this was the start of what would become No Games Chicago. “In May 2006, proud leaders of the City of Chicago …
Ben Joravsky, writing in the Chicago Reader on August 3, 2016 said this about opposing the 2016 bid: Let’s face it, folks: When it came to Daley, everybody in Chicago was a rubber stamp. Well, not everybody. At this point, I’d like to distribute some symbolic gold medals to the few intrepid souls who had …
Two more latecomers to the ranks of No Games Chicago! Chicago Tribune sports reporter David Haugh writes “In retrospect…” David – we said ALL those things seven years ago. Where were you? Oh, yeah – you, like the paper you work for and the billionaire who owned it then (Sam Zell) were BIG boosters of …