Editing 2002 Winter Olympics (section)

==Host city selection==
{{Main|Bids for the 2002 Winter Olympics}}
Salt Lake City was chosen over Québec City, Canada; Sion, Switzerland; and Östersund, Sweden, on June 16, 1995, at the 104th [[IOC Session]] in [[Budapest]], Hungary.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aldaver.com/votes.html |title=IOC Vote History |access-date=June 10, 2008 |archive-date=May 25, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080525070757/http://www.aldaver.com/votes.html |url-status=usurped }}</ref> Salt Lake City had previously come in second during the bids for the [[1998 Winter Olympics]], awarded to [[Nagano, Nagano|Nagano]], Japan, and had offered to be the provisional host of the [[1976 Winter Olympics]] when the original host, [[Denver, Colorado]], withdrew. The 1976 Winter Olympics were ultimately awarded to [[Innsbruck]], Austria.

There was a [[2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal|scandal]] involving allegations of bribery used to win the rights to the Games. Prior to its successful bid, Salt Lake City had attempted four times to secure the games, failing each time. In 1998, members of the [[International Olympic Committee]] (IOC) were accused of taking gifts from the [[Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games of 2002|Salt Lake Organizing Committee]] (SLOC) during the bidding process. The allegations resulted in the expulsion of several IOC members and the adoption of new IOC rules. Although nothing strictly illegal had been done, it was felt that the acceptance of the gifts was morally dubious. In addition, legal charges were brought against the leaders of Salt Lake's bid committee by the [[United States Department of Justice]].<ref name="NY_Times_dec2003">{{cite news|author=Lex Hemphill|date=December 6, 2003|title=Acquittals End Bid Scandal That Dogged Winter Games|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/06/sports/olympics-acquittals-end-bid-scandal-that-dogged-winter-games.html|access-date=August 18, 2011|archive-date=April 7, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110407032408/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/06/sports/olympics-acquittals-end-bid-scandal-that-dogged-winter-games.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Investigations were also launched into prior bidding process by other cities, finding that members of the IOC received bribes during the bidding process for both the [[1998 Winter Olympics]] and [[2000 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Mallon|first1=Bill|year=2000|title=The Olympic Bribery Scandal|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv8n2/johv8n2f.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv8n2/johv8n2f.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|journal=The Journal of Olympic History|publisher=International Society of Olympic Historians|volume=8|issue=2|pages=11–27|access-date=July 31, 2012}}</ref> In response to the scandal, [[Mitt Romney]] was hired as the new president and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee in February 1999.<ref name=":0">{{cite news|last=Johnson|first=Kirk|date=September 19, 2007|title=In Olympics Success, Romney Found New Edge|newspaper=NY Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/us/politics/19romney.html|access-date=August 31, 2012|archive-date=October 29, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071029161106/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/us/politics/19romney.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Penner |first=Mike |date=1999-02-12 |title=Romney Is Selected President |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-feb-12-sp-7524-story.html |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref>

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|+ 2002 Winter Olympics bidding result<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gamesbids.com/eng/past.html |title=GamesBids.com - Past Results |date=January 24, 2011 |website=www.gamesbids.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124022022/http://www.gamesbids.com/eng/past.html |archive-date=January 24, 2011}}</ref>
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! City
! Country
| style="background:silver;"|'''Round 1'''
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||[[Salt Lake City]] ||{{flagu|United States}}|| align=center|'''54'''
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||[[Östersund]]||{{flagu|Sweden}}||align=center|14
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||[[Sion, Switzerland|Sion]]||{{flagu|Switzerland}}||align=center|14
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||[[Quebec City]] ||{{flagu|Canada}}||align=center|7
|}