I Now Know How A Cubs Fan Feels

It's the eighth inning with your team five outs away from a trip to the World Series.  The stadium is abuzz with excitement as everyone can taste victory and is getting ready for the achievement they've been waiting their entire lives for.  This is a sure thing. 

All of the sudden a freak, unexpected play sets off a chain reaction that brings your world crashing down around you.  A huge buzz kill has ripped through your fandom that is so strong, you lose the next game and go home empty handed, again.

The city of Chicago not only lost it's bid for hosting the 2016 Summer Olympics but was knocked out in the first round.  When the votes were counted and released, it wasn't even close.  Many "experts" speculated that the star power assembled behind the Chicago bid would be too much for the other cities and a Chicago victory was a sure thing.

In the end, the desire of the International Olympic Committee to stage a Summer Olympic Games in South America won out.  The people of Chicago were not so much angry as shocked.  Everyone said we were in there.  They said it was between Chicago and Rio.  Instead it was between Madrid, with a last minute plea from former IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch on his death bed, and Rio. Chicago didn't even make it out of the first round of the playoffs, again.

How could it have gone so wrong, so unlike everyone said it would be?  What did the IOC members see that could have swayed them so completely one sided?