from Sports Illustrated
"It's fine to wave the Olympic flag and get all gooey-eyed about girls tumbling," says Tom Tresser, a Chicago educator and organizer of the ad hoc group "No Games Chicago," who went to Switzerland in June to lobby the IOC against picking his hometown. "But the city is broke as a stone."
Olympic bid cities of course must agree to shoulder whatever cost overruns the Games may incur if they want to play host. Surely a worthwhile risk for Sochi. But Tresser asserts that Chicago can't afford it by inverting the cliché "stone-broke." Readers may associate stones with coldness or death before financial disadvantage.
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