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Article: Salt Lake City Wins Bid to Host 2002 Winter Olympics
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- The Washington Post
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- June 17, 1995
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Salt Lake City yesterday was chosen by the International Olympic
Committee to host the 2002 Winter Games.
The Utah city got 54 of 89 votes cast on the first ballot by IOC
members at a meeting in Budapest. Ostersund, Sweden, and Sion,
Switzerland, received 14 votes each and Quebec City got seven votes.
"No city prepared more completely than Salt Lake City, no bid was
more thorough and detailed, and at all times, the athletes of the
world were the principal focal point of the effort," LeRoy T. Walker,
president of the U.S. Olympic Committee, said in Budapest.
The 2002 Games will be the first Winter Games in the United States
since the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y., and the second time in ...