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Exclusive: How Rio won its bid  to host the 2016 Olympics Friday, 02 October 2009   By David Owen in Copenhagen October 2 - If anyone harboured lingering doubts over whether the International Olympic Committee  (IOC) made the right choice  in the Danish capital today,  they evaporated within seconds  of the start of the victorious  Rio de Janeiro press conference. The atmosphere of exuberance before the massed  ranks of the world’s television cameras was so  overpowering that even Jacques Rogge, the legendarily sober  IOC boss, cracked a smile. As the host-city contract was signed, the aisles  rang out with song as supporters gave vent to  months – in some cases years – of bottled-up tension.   Let’s just say it was no surprise when some  Brazilian geezer took it upon himself to scatter  golden confetti over proceedings. Yet the main lesson from Rio’s win had little to do  with its global reputation as a good-time town.   The Brazilians had done their homework and  prepared mightily f