On Friday October 2, 2009, President Obama flew to Copenhagen, Denmark to urge the International Olympic Committee to pick his hometown of Chicago to be the host of the 2016 Olympic games. Accompanying the President included first lady, Michelle Obama, as well as talk show host Oprah Winfrey.

We used Social Radar to research the 2016 Olympic games chatter.

We decided to pull a chart of positive, negative, and conflicting chatter over October 1 to October 3, 2009.

Let’s also take a look at the context of the chatter from the October 1 to October 3, 2009.

The data clearly shows that the overall sentiment of Rio de Janerio being chosen to host the 2016 Games as positive (as you can see from the words highlighted in green).  However, the news that Chicago was cut first round was devastating to many as you can see by the volume of negative words used.

We also decided to look at the positive and negative conversation trend (green and red lines) correlating with conversation volume (the bars) from the month leading up to the announcement to the day following the announcement.

As you can see, there was a significant amount of positive chatter in the month leading up to the announcement. However, on October 2 we see the negative trend line increase while the positive trend line decrease. This change in trends could be due to the mixed emotions felt by many. Sadly, there will be no Olympic games for Chicago in the near future.