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Search for: Offline summarization (match summaries) Hybrid summarization Online summarization Offline summarization (match articles) U.S. World Finance Sci/Tech Entertainment Sports View Today's Images Back to Archive Index About Newsblaster About today's run Newsblaster in Press Academic Papers Article Sources: seattletimes. nwsource.com (197 articles) washingtonpost.com (161 articles) boston.com (152 articles) baltimoresun.com (113 articles) latimes.com (112 articles) news.bbc.co.uk (108 articles) sfgate.com (108 articles) cbc.ca (108 articles) dallasnews.com (88 articles) ft.com (60 articles) suntimes.com (59 articles) nypost.com (55 articles) abcnews.go.com (55 articles) timesonline.co.uk (46 articles) cnn.com (21 articles) foxnews.com (15 articles) business. timesonline.co.uk (14 articles) wired.com (12 articles) cbsnews.com (12 articles) sportsillustrated. cnn.com (4 articles) nature.com (3 articles) money.cnn.com (2 articles) haaretz.com (2 articles) opinion. latimes.com (2 articles) travel. timesonline.co.uk (2 articles) blogs.ft.com (2 articles) weblogs. baltimoresun.com (1 article)	IOC picks Chicago among four finalists for 2016 Summer Olympics Summary from multiple countries, from articles in English ATHENS A leading International Olympic Committee official heated up the war of words over the United States' portion of Olympic revenues Tuesday, and the escalation of rhetoric could burn Chicago's bid for the 2016 Summer Games. (article 1) IOC member Hein Verbruggen of the Netherlands called the U.S. Olympic Committee's share an " immoral amount of money compared to what other people get. (article 1) In Athens, where Chicago will likely be named one of the finalists today, the U.S. Olympic Committee was under fire Tuesday for what critics said was its refusal to renegotiate its "immoral" share of global Olympic revenues. (article 2) Qatar's Doha, which was rated by the IOC's working group as the third best overall bid, Azerbaijan's Baku and the Czech capital Prague fell at the first hurdle. (article 5) Chicago, Madrid, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro are the cities shortlisted by the International Olympic Committee to host the 2016 Olympic Games. (article 8) " All the bids were of a very high standard Rogge said later in a separate IOC statement. (article 6) The IOC's Executive Board will pick an unspecified number of cities for the shortlist, before candidates submit detailed files and allow IOC evaluators to inspect their bids ahead of the decision in October 2009. (article 4) Other summaries about this story: Summary from the United Kingdom, from articles in English (1 articles) [compare] Summary from United States, from articles in English (8 articles) [compare] Event tracking: Track this story's development in time Story keywords IOC, Doha, Chicago, bid, Olympic Source articles United States' portion of Olympic revenue is hot topic (L.A. Times, 06/04/2008, 609 words) USOC spat over revenues may imperil Chicago's bid... (suntimes.com, 06/04/2008, 244 words) Antonio Pettigrew agrees to return relay gold medal (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 06/04/2008, 689 words) ABC News: 2016 Olympic Games Hopefuls Eye IOC Shortlist (ABCNews, 06/03/2008, 347 words) Four cities chosen as 2016 Games candidates (Washington Post, 06/04/2008, 302 words) IOC picks Chicago among four finalists for 2016 Summer Olympics (L.A. Times, 06/04/2008, 595 words) IOC picks Chicago among 4 finalists for 2016 Games (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 06/04/2008, 917 words) Four on 2016 Olympics short-list (BBC News, 06/04/2008, 449 words) Chicago named a finalist to host the Olympics, but... (suntimes.com, 06/05/2008, 422 words) blaster@cs.columbia.edu