Source -- Obama to Copenhagen for Chicago Olympic Bid

9/24/2009

(ATR) U.S. President Barack Obama will travel to Copenhagen next week to support the Chicago bid for the 2016 Olympics, a source familiar with planning for the IOC meeting tells Around the Rings.

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