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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 (142 articles) washingtonpost.com (142 articles) news.bbc.co.uk (138 articles) nytimes.com (128 articles) latimes.com (128 articles) boston.com (125 articles) baltimoresun.com (97 articles) dallasnews.com (83 articles) suntimes.com (77 articles) sfgate.com (75 articles) abcnews.go.com (68 articles) cbc.ca (49 articles) nypost.com (28 articles) timesonline.co.uk (26 articles) foxnews.com (24 articles) ft.com (21 articles) sportsillustrated. cnn.com (12 articles) cbsnews.com (12 articles) cnn.com (11 articles) money.cnn.com (8 articles) latimesblogs. latimes.com (6 articles) wired.com (5 articles) usatoday.com (3 articles) health.nytimes.com (2 articles) swamppolitics.com (2 articles) haaretz.com (2 articles) blog.wired.com (2 articles)	Chicago Stays in Running After Early Vote to Decide Host of 2016 Olympics Summary from multiple countries, from articles in English Chicago joined three cities Wednesday in moving a step closer to becoming the host of the 2016 Olympics, setting up a final, fierce race to see which one will hold those Summer Games. (article 1) Local Olympic hopefuls graduated to the next round Wednesday as Chicago was named one of four finalist cities eligible to host the 2016 games. (article 2) (Roslan Rahman/Getty Images) The International Olympic Committee ratified a rule Thursday that will keep athletes convicted of doping out of future Olympics. (article 6) Athletes who receive six-month suspensions or more for doping will be banned from the following Games under the new rule, which comes into effect July 1. (article 6) Chicago was one of four cities selected as bid finalists Thursday, along with Tokyo; Madrid, Spain, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (article 5) ATHENS (Reuters) - Seven cities bidding for the 2016 Olympics will hear on Wednesday whether they have made an International Olympic Committee shortlist, allowing them to enter a final round of bidding ahead of next year's decision. (article 4) 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 Canada, from articles in English (1 articles) [compare] Summary from United States, from articles in English (4 articles) [compare] Summary from the United Kingdom, from articles in English (1 articles) [compare] Event tracking: Track this story's development in time Story keywords IOC, Chicago, Doha, Olympic, bid Source articles Chicago Stays in Running After Early Vote to Decide Host of 2016 Olympics (nytimes.com, 06/05/2008, 571 words) Chicago named a finalist to host the Olympics, but... (suntimes.com, 06/05/2008, 422 words) Four on 2016 Olympics short-list (BBC News, 06/04/2008, 447 words) ABC News: 2016 Olympic Games Hopefuls Eye IOC Shortlist (ABCNews, 06/03/2008, 347 words) ABC News: Chicago in Final Four for 2016 Olympics (ABCNews, 06/04/2008, 340 words) IOC rule keeps drug cheats out of future Games (cbc.ca, 06/05/2008, 192 words) blaster@cs.columbia.edu