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Somewhere between Qatar's promise to unify the world, Australia's pledge to throw the best party on earth and Japan's plan to simulcast the tournament to crowds all over the world in 3-D, a serious question arose about Thursday's vote for the host nation of the 2022 World Cup: What happens if the U.S. actually loses this thing?
Coming on the heels of Chicago's last-place showing in its bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics and New York's failure in 2005 to land the 2012 games, such a result would effectively prove a point that many people have already assumed—that the rest of the world no longer considers the U.S. to be an attractive destination for prestigious global sporting events.
It would also serve as a rebuke to the U.S. bid committee's message, which essentially...
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