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By Alan Abrahamson
NBCSports.com
Posted: Nov.29, 2006, 4:16 pm EST
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait -- Chicago has emerged as a more intriguing possibility than Los Angeles, but any U.S. campaign for the 2016 Summer Games faces significant challenges and it's not at all clear the United States Olympic Committee should mount such a bid, an informal survey of leading International Olympic Committee members indicates.
An American bid must confront and contend with the distinctive U.S. role as the world's lone superpower as well as resentment within the IOC over financial advantages the USOC has long enjoyed, according to more than 20 IOC members interviewed here, including all but a few of the IOC's policy-making executive board.
Some of those interviewed said there's no question the U.S. should bid. "I think they should (bid) because one day we have go to back to the United States," one member said.
But others said a U.S. bid, no matter how credible, is likely to be doomed from the start.
"I wonder if it's wise," one member said. "The mood in the world is anti-American. Your president is a catastrophe."
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