Obama in Denmark to pitch Olympics bid (AP)

Courtesy Yahoo! Sports - Top News  Fri, 10/02/2009 - 00:16

President Barack Obama, and others, listen as Chicago Mayor Richard M Daley speaks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009, during an Olympics event.

In a quick dash of salesmanship, President Barack Obama is in the Danish capital, putting his personal powers of persuasion on the line to boost Chicago's Olympics bid.

The president arrived in Copenhagen on Friday morning for a whirlwind trip of less than five hours, with Chicago-backers hoping that would be sufficient to give Obama's adopted home town the advantage it needed to win the...


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