Salt Lake Figures It's About Time // Utah Capital Likely To Get 2002 Games After Past Failures

Chicago Sun-Times | June 11, 1995| | Copyright

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 ...

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