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Article: Salt Lake Figures It's About Time // Utah Capital Likely To Get 2002 Games After Past Failures
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 11, 1995
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BUDAPEST, Hungary Salt Lake City has been bidding to host the
Winter Olympic Games for almost 30 years. The effort seems about to
pay off.
The Utah capital will be the favorite when the 96 members of the
International Olympic Committee vote by secret ballot Friday to
designate the host city of the 2002 Games.
Entering the final days of the campaign, Salt Lake City has
maintained its front-runner status over its three rivals: Quebec,
Canada; Sion, Switzerland; and Ostersund, Sweden.
Salt Lake has been the top contender since 1991, when it lost by
four votes to Nagano, Japan, in the election that determined the host
for the 1998 Olympics.
Though by no means a shoo-in, Salt Lake is ...