Sport Venues:
Based on the figure presented on the website, for the sport venues, Rio is the weakest one. Tokyo and Madrid are competing very tightly. Although there are a lot of works to do, they have enough time and fund to do the job. On the other hand, Chicago has the least work to do, however the city has limited fund and it has not found a source of funding for one of the planned venue (at least until the report is written in March 2009). The Working Group gave feasibility grade of 0.85 to Rio, 0.9 to Chicago and 0.95 to both Tokyo and Madrid.
General Infrastructure:
All of the candidate cities have ready airports to support the Olympics. The transportation systems for Tokyo, Madrid and Chicago are also ready. Rio still has a lot of works to do, for example, the city needs to build 100 km of Bus Rapid Transits to support this big event. In term of infrastructure investment, Chicago boasts its investment plan of 27 billion USD, however the city should prove it because the actual planned budget for the investment is only 2.7 billion USD. Tokyo and Madrid have reasonable budget of 9.2 Billion USD and 8.7 Billion USD consecutively. Tokyo and Madrid have the most ready infrastructure with 0.9 in feasibility grade compared to Chicago with 0.8.
Accommodation:
Rio is behind in this criterion. Tokyo and Chicago largely exceed the benchmark. Madrid also exceeds the benchmark. The plus for Chicago is: the city has lower cost accommodation of 1,550 university campus rooms.
Based on these three criterion, Chicago is advanced in accommodation, however we must admit that Chicago is behind from Tokyo and Madrid in the other two criterion. Chicago has a lot of things to do to win the bid. However, with the hard work, Chicago still has a big chance to win.
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