... the same continent twice in a row and London has the Games for 2012. For the same reason, Vancouver hosting the 2010 Winter Games probably didnâ t help a North American cityâ s chances for a Summer Games in 2016. In the end, Rioâ s bid from stem to ...

... alone. The Russian city of Sochi has a budget of $12 billion to build nearly all venues from scratch for the 2014 Winter Games. Chicago's bid relies heavily on existing and temporary venues, and organizers estimates construction and operation ...

... USBSF) with sleds designed using NASCAR technology. The so-called Bo-Dyn sleds finally broke through at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City when the U.S. team ended its 46-year Olympic drought with three medals a gold, a silver and ...

... Olympic Committee expels six members for taking cash, travel and lavish gifts from the winning Utah bidders for the 2002 Winter Games. 2000 Some 500 members of a doomsday cult die in a church fire in a remote part of southwestern Uganda. After the ...

... by security forces. The Black Sea resort of Sochi was elected the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics, taking the Winter Games to Russia for the first time. Bill Pinkney, the last survivor of the original members of the musical group The Drifters ...

... then Russian president, went to the IOC meeting in Guatemala last year and was instrumental in Sochi getting the 2014 Winter Games. "When you look at this history of world leaders attending meetings, it's an amazing, colossal impact," Irish ...

... Lake City Olympic organizers are alleged to have used bribery and the services of influence-peddlers to land the 2002 Winter Games. The International Olympic Committee and the Salt Lake Organizing Committee have launched inquiries into reports a ...

... payments and gifts from Salt Lake City Olympic officials during and after the successful effort to play host to the 2002 Winter Games. Pound also was quoted in today's Kitchener-Waterloo (Ontario) Record as saying he was once turned down a $1 ...

... City bid committee spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on International Olympic Committee members to secure the 2002 Winter Games. But Tanner said his bill is not a reaction to the bribery scandal. He said he has been working on it for 18 months ...

... stemming from Salt Lake's winning bid for the 2002 Winter Games. "There are cases among them that are just unacceptable ... selection of the next Olympic host city -- for the 2006 Winter Games -- moved a big step forward as an IOC evaluation panel ...