The fallout from Chicago’s losing bid for the 2016 Olympics reached a resounding thud Wednesday when USOC acting CEO Stephanie Streeter, on the job for seven months, said she wouldn’t be a candidate for the permanent job. “Permanent” being a rather fleeting status, of course.
Alan Abrahamson has the background at Universal Sports. USOC board chairman Larry Probst — whose own status may be endangered — talks about a dramatic change in thinking and engagement with the rest of the Olympic world.
It’s astonishing it’s gotten that bad.