Scott blackmun biography

Scott A. Blackmun ’82

Two Thousand and nine is a year that members of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) would probably prefer to forget. Reeling from the stinging loss of its bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games in Chicago—ousted in the first round of voting, despite a very public trip by President and Mrs.

Obama to Copenhagen to support the bid—the USOC couldn’t avoid the beating it received in the press, its icy relationship with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) exposed in headline news. “It was a defeat for the USOC, not for Chicago,” said Denis Oswald, an IOC member from Switzerland, in a New York Times report.

Following the unsuccessful New York bid to host the 2010 games—the failure of the estimated $50 million Chicago bid exposed cracks in both the national and international relationships with the USOC. Leaders of the U.S. 
National Governing Bodies (NGBs) publicly called for the resignation of Stephanie Streeter (BA ’79), the USOC interim chief executive w