The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIX Olympic Winter Games were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in February 2002 in and around Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The motto chosen was Light The Fire Within.
Salt Lake City became the most populous area ever to have hosted a Winter Olympics; at the time of the Olympics its metropolitan population was 1,516,227. Turin would become the most populous area to host the W...
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The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIX Olympic Winter Games were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in February 2002 in and around Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The motto chosen was Light The Fire Within.
Salt Lake City became the most populous area ever to have hosted a Winter Olympics; at the time of the Olympics its metropolitan population was 1,516,227. Turin would become the most populous area to host the Winter Olympics four years later, and will be surpassed again when Vancouver hosts the 2010 Winter Olympics.. It was also the most ecologically varied area to hold the Winter Olympics; a large hot and arid desert lies just to the west of Salt Lake City.
Other candidate cities were: Quebec City, Quebec, Canada; Sion, Valais, Switzerland; and Östersund, Sweden. Salt Lake City was selected as host city on June 16, 1995, at the 104th IOC Session in Budapest, Hungary. Olympic venues were scattered around Salt Lake City, as well as in the mountains...
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