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{{Infobox Olympic games|2002|Winter|Olympics|
| image       = 2002 Winter Olympics logo.svg{{!}}class=skin-invert
| image_size  = 240
| caption     = Emblem of the 2002 Winter Olympics{{efn|The emblem combines a snow crystal and a sun rising over a mountain. The yellow, orange, and blue colors represent the varied Utah landscape.}}
| host_city   = [[Salt Lake City]], United States
| motto       = ''Light the Fire Within''
| nations     = 78
| athletes    = 2,399 (1,513 men, 886 women)
| events      = 78 in 7 [[Olympic sports|sports]] (15 disciplines)
| opening     = February 8, 2002
| closing     = February 24, 2002
| opened_by   = [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]]
| closed_by   = [[President of the International Olympic Committee|IOC President]] [[Jacques Rogge]]
| cauldron    = Members of the [[Miracle on Ice|1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team]], led by team captain [[Mike Eruzione]]
| stadium     = [[Rice–Eccles Stadium]]
| winter_prev = [[1998 Winter Olympics|Nagano 1998]]
| winter_next = [[2006 Winter Olympics|Torino 2006]]
| summer_prev = [[2000 Summer Olympics|Sydney 2000]]
| summer_next = [[2004 Summer Olympics|Athens 2004]]
}}
{{2002 Winter Olympics}}
[[File:2002 Winter Olympics - Countdown Clock - 5 September 2012.jpg|thumb|Countdown clock used for the games in the shape of an [[arrowhead]]]]
[[File:Slcolympics.jpg|thumb|Salt Lake City during the 2002 Winter Olympics]]
[[File:2002 Olympic curling.jpg|thumb|Curling at [[The Ice Sheet at Ogden]] on February 22, 2002]]
[[File:2002SLC proof gold.JPG|thumb|upright=0.85|2002 Olympic Winter Games $5 coin created by the [[United States Mint|U.S. Mint]]]]
The '''2002 Winter Olympics''', officially the '''XIX Olympic Winter Games''' and commonly known as '''Salt Lake 2002''', were an international winter [[multi-sport event]] that was held from February 8 to 24, 2002, in and around [[Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]], United States.

Salt Lake City was selected as the host city in June 1995 at the 104th [[IOC Session]]. They were the eighth Olympics to be hosted by the United States, and the most recent to be held in the country until 2028, when Los Angeles will host the [[2028 Summer Olympics|34th Summer Olympics]]. The 2002 Winter Olympics and [[2002 Paralympic Winter Games|Paralympics]] were both organized by the [[Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games of 2002|Salt Lake Organizing Committee]] (SLOC), the first time that both events were organized by a single committee, and inspiring other Olympic and Paralympic Games to be organized by such since then.<ref name="SLOC_Official_Report_p35">{{cite book|last=Salt Lake Organizing Committee|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf|title=Official Report of the XIX Olympic Winter Games|year=2002|isbn=978-0-9717961-0-2|page=35|access-date=October 20, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101008034211/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf|archive-date=October 8, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> These were the first Olympic Games under the [[International Olympic Committee]] (IOC) presidency of [[Jacques Rogge]].

The Games featured 2,399 athletes from 78 nations, participating in 78 events in 15 disciplines. Norway topped the medal table, with 13 gold and 25 medals overall, while Germany finished with the most total medals, winning 36 (with 12 of them gold). The hosting United States was third by gold medals and second by overall medals, with 10 and 34 respectively. Australia notably became the first [[Southern Hemisphere]] country to ever win gold medals at the Winter Olympics.

The Games finished with a budgetary surplus of US$40 million; the surplus was used to fund the formation of the Utah Athletic Foundation—which has continued to maintain the facilities built for these Olympics. The venues have continued to be used for national and international winter sports events after the Olympics. In 2023, the IOC's Future Host Commission invited Salt Lake City to participate in targeted dialogue with the IOC as preferred host of the [[2034 Winter Olympics]]; the Games were officially awarded to  Salt Lake City–Utah in July 2024. 

==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
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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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==Development and preparation==
===Torch relay===
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| caption1 = Detail of the 2002 Winter Olympic Torch
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| caption2 = Torchbearer in Olympic [[livery]]
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{{Main|2002 Winter Olympics torch relay}}

The torch relay ceremonially began on November 19, 2001, with the traditional kindling of an Olympic flame in Olympia, Greece.<ref>{{cite news|date=November 19, 2001|title=Olympic Torch Lighting Ceremony|newspaper=KSL-TV|url=http://2002.ksl.com/news-3064i.php?p=1|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927132118/http://2002.ksl.com/news-3064i.php?p=1|archive-date=September 27, 2011|access-date=October 26, 2010}}</ref> On December 3, Greek skier Thanassis Tsailas lit the first torch from the cauldron, and transferred its flame to a ceremonial lantern for transport to Atlanta, where it arrived on December 4 to officially launch the U.S. leg of the relay.<ref name="KSL_torch_relay">{{cite news|date=December 3, 2001|title=Torch begins journey|newspaper=KSL-TV|url=http://2002.ksl.com/news-3209i.php?p=1|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927132127/http://2002.ksl.com/news-3209i.php?p=1|archive-date=September 27, 2011|access-date=October 26, 2010}}</ref><ref name="KSL_arrival">{{cite news|date=December 4, 2001|title=Torch Arrives in U.S.|newspaper=KSL-TV|url=http://2002.ksl.com/news-3214i.php?p=1|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927132147/http://2002.ksl.com/news-3214i.php?p=1|archive-date=September 27, 2011|access-date=October 26, 2010}}</ref> The route of the relay covered {{convert|13500|mi|km}}, passed through 300 communities and 46 U.S. states, and was carried by 12,012 torchbearers.<ref name="SLOC_Official_Report_route_plan">{{cite book|last=Salt Lake Organizing Committee|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf|title=Official Report of the XIX Olympic Winter Games|year=2002|isbn=978-0-9717961-0-2|page=246|access-date=October 25, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110114081247/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf|archive-date=January 14, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

The torch was modeled after an icicle, with a slight curve to represent speed and fluidity. The torch measures {{convert|33|in|cm}} long, {{convert|3|in|cm}} wide at the top, {{convert|0.5|in|cm}} at the bottom, and was designed by Axiom Design of Salt Lake City.<ref name="SLOC_torch_info">{{cite web|author=Salt Lake Organizing Committee|title=Olympic Torch Relay|url=http://www.saltlake2002.com/sloc/beyond_sport/torch_relay/tr_index.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011024141436/http://www.saltlake2002.com/sloc/beyond_sport/torch_relay/tr_index.html|archive-date=October 24, 2001|access-date=October 24, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=February 21, 2001|title=Olympic Torch Design|newspaper=KSL-TV|url=http://2002.ksl.com/news-3320i.php?p=1|url-status=dead|access-date=October 27, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927132219/http://2002.ksl.com/news-3320i.php?p=1|archive-date=September 27, 2011}}</ref> It was created with three sections, each with its own meaning and representation.<ref name="SLOC_torch_info" />

===Budget===
In February 1999, in response to the [[2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal|bid scandal]] and a financial shortfall for the Games, [[Mitt Romney]], then CEO of the private equity firm [[Bain Capital]] (and future [[2012 United States presidential election|U.S. presidential candidate]], [[U.S. Senator]], and [[Governor of Massachusetts]]), was [[Mitt Romney#2002 Winter Olympics|hired]] as the new president and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee.<ref name=":0" /> Romney, Kem C. Gardner, a Utah commercial real estate developer, and Don Stirling, the Olympics' local marketing chief, raised "millions of dollars from Mormon families with pioneer roots: the Eccles family, whose forebears were important industrialists and bankers" to help rescue the Games, according to a later report.<ref>[[Jim Rutenburg|Jim, Rutenburg]], [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/us/politics/support-for-romney-by-old-mormon-families.html "Mormons' First Families Rally Behind Romney"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170111102142/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/us/politics/support-for-romney-by-old-mormon-families.html|date=January 11, 2017}}, ''The New York Times'', web pp. 2 & 3, July 16, 2012. Retrieved July 17, 2012.</ref> An additional [[United States dollar|US$]]410&nbsp;million was received from the federal government.<ref>[[Jonathan Karl|Karl, Jonathan]], [https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/exclusive-in-02-romney-touted-d-c-connections-federal-funds/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200114225247/https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/exclusive-in-02-romney-touted-d-c-connections-federal-funds/|date=January 14, 2020}}, "EXCLUSIVE: In '02 Romney Touted D.C. Connections, Federal Funds", ''ABC News'', web pp. 1, March 2, 2012. Retrieved July 27, 2012.</ref> U.S. federal subsidies amounted to $1.3&nbsp;billion (for infrastructure improvements only), compared to $45&nbsp;billion of federal funding received by the organizing committee of the [[2014 Winter Olympics]] from the Russian government.<ref name="The Guardian">{{cite news|last=Gibson|first=Owen|date=October 9, 2013|title=Sochi 2014: the costliest Olympics yet but where has all the money gone?|newspaper=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2013/oct/09/sochi-2014-olympics-money-corruption|access-date=February 12, 2014|archive-date=March 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301062909/https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2013/oct/09/sochi-2014-olympics-money-corruption|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="GAO">{{cite web|date=2012|title=2002 Olympics to Cost US Taxpayers $1.3&nbsp;Billion|url=http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa092400b.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120902220117/http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa092400b.htm|archive-date=September 2, 2012|access-date=October 22, 2012|website=[[Dotdash|About.com]]}}</ref> The Games were financially successful, raising more money with fewer sponsors than any prior Olympic Games, which left SLOC with a surplus of [[USD|$]]40&nbsp;million. The surplus was used to create the Utah Athletic Foundation, which maintains and operates many of the remaining Olympic venues.<ref name="Marketing_Matters_6_2002">{{cite book|last=[[International Olympic Committee]]|url=http://www.olympic.org/Documents/Reports/EN/en_report_456.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.olympic.org/Documents/Reports/EN/en_report_456.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=Marketing Matters|year=2002|access-date=October 20, 2010}}</ref>

''The Oxford Olympics Study'' established the outturn cost of the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics at US$2.5&nbsp;billion in 2015-dollars and cost overrun at 24% in real terms.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Flyvbjerg|first1=Bent|title=The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games|last2=Stewart|first2=Allison|last3=Budzier|first3=Alexander|publisher=Saïd Business School Working Papers (Oxford: University of Oxford)|year=2016|location=Oxford|pages=9–13|ssrn=2804554}}</ref> This includes sports-related costs only, that is, (i) ''operational costs'' incurred by the organizing committee to stage the Games, e.g., expenditures for technology, transportation, workforce, administration, security, catering, ceremonies, and medical services, and (ii) ''direct capital costs'' incurred by the host city and country or private investors to build, e.g., the competition venues, the Olympic village, international broadcast center, and media and press center, which are required to host the Games. Indirect capital costs are ''not'' included, such as for road, rail, or airport infrastructure, or for hotel upgrades or other business investment incurred in preparation for the Games but not directly related to staging the Games. The cost and cost overrun for Salt Lake City 2002 compares with costs of US$2.5&nbsp;billion and a cost overrun of 13% for Vancouver 2010, and costs of US$51&nbsp;billion<ref name="The Guardian" /> and a cost overrun of 289% for Sochi 2014, the latter being the most costly Olympics to date. The average cost for Winter Games since 1960 is US$3.1&nbsp;billion, average cost overrun is 142%.

===Security===
[[File:WinterOlympicsMP2002.png|thumb|Spc. Patrick Jean-Mary, of Warwick, R.I., inspects two forms of identification during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City]]
The 2002 Winter Games were the first Olympic Games to take place since the [[September 11 attacks]], which meant a higher level of security than ever before provided for the Games. As a result, the [[Office of Homeland Security]] (OHS) designated the Olympics a [[National Special Security Event]] (NSSE). Aerial surveillance and radar control was provided by the [[U.S. Marine Corps|U.S. Marines]] of Marine Air Control Squadron 2, Detachment C, from [[Cherry Point, North Carolina]]. The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] and NSA arranged with [[Qwest|Qwest Communications]] to use intercept equipment for a period of less than six months around the time of the 2002 Winter Olympics.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324108204579022874091732470|title=New Details Show Broader NSA Surveillance Reach: Programs Cover 75% of Nation's Traffic, Can Snare Emails|author=Siobhan Gorman|author2=Jennifer Valentino-Devries|date=August 20, 2013|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|access-date=August 21, 2013|archive-date=December 27, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141227020803/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324108204579022874091732470|url-status=live}}. "For the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, officials say, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and NSA arranged with Qwest Communications International Inc. to use intercept equipment for a period of less than six months around the time of the event. It monitored the content of all email and text communications in the Salt Lake City area."</ref>

When he spoke during the opening ceremonies, [[Jacques Rogge]], presiding over his first Olympics as the IOC president, told the athletes of the United States:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=91925 |title=Winter Olympics Open Amid Tight Security |website=ABC News |access-date=January 31, 2012 |date=February 8, 2002 |archive-date=September 4, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904035708/http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=91925 |url-status=live }}</ref>

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===Venues===
{{Main|Venues of the 2002 Winter Olympics}}Work on venues for the 2002 Winter Olympics began as early as 1989, following the passing of a state referendum that authorized the use of taxpayer money to publicly fund the construction of new facilities for a Winter Olympics bid in 1998 or 2002. Their construction was overseen by the Salt Lake Olympic Bid Committee and the Utah Sports Authority—a body created under the referendum.<ref>{{cite news|author=Brooke Adams|date=June 22, 1995|title=2002: Utah's Olympic Venues|newspaper=Deseret News|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/424083/2002--UTAHS-OLYMPIC-VENUES.html|access-date=December 2, 2010|archive-date=October 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022055621/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/424083/2002--UTAHS-OLYMPIC-VENUES.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Robert Rice|date=August 27, 1989|title=Majority still back hosting Olympics|newspaper=Deseret News|url=https://www.deseret.com/1989/8/27/18821233/majority-still-back-hosting-olympics/|access-date=December 3, 2010|archive-date=October 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022055512/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/61145/MAJORITY-STILL-BACK-HOSTING-OLYMPICS.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

New facilities built for the Games included the [[Utah Olympic Oval]] in [[Kearns, Utah|Kearns]], [[Utah Olympic Park]] in [[Summit County, Utah|Summit County]], [[The Ice Sheet at Ogden]], and [[Soldier Hollow]] at the [[Wasatch Mountain State Park]]—the furthest competition venue from Salt Lake City.<ref name="auto">{{cite news|author=Gib Twyman|date=December 14, 2000|title=Full steam ahead for Creeper in '02|newspaper=Deseret News|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/798520/Full-steam-ahead-for-Creeper-in-02.html|access-date=December 20, 2010|archive-date=October 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022055821/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/798520/Full-steam-ahead-for-Creeper-in-02.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The [[E Center]] in [[West Valley City, Utah|West Valley City]]<ref>{{cite news|date=July 27, 1995|title=SLOOC Chooses Wisely|newspaper=[[The Salt Lake Tribune]]}}</ref> and the [[Peaks Ice Arena]] in [[Provo, Utah|Provo]] were also built with support from the SLOC, and co-hosted hockey.<ref>{{cite news|author=Dennis Romboy|date=September 17, 1997|title='Big stink' finally leads to Provo ice rinks|newspaper=Deseret News|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/583542/Big-stink-finally-leads-to-Provo-ice-rinks.html|access-date=December 7, 2010|archive-date=October 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022022012/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/583542/Big-stink-finally-leads-to-Provo-ice-rinks.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Dennis Romboy|date=October 29, 1997|title=Expansion of Peaks rinks OK'd for Games|newspaper=Deseret News|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/591673/Expansion-of-Peaks-rinks-OKd-for-Games.html|access-date=December 7, 2010|archive-date=October 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022022043/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/591673/Expansion-of-Peaks-rinks-OKd-for-Games.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Delta Center]] hosted figure skating and short track speed skating; it was renamed ''Salt Lake Ice Center'' for the duration of the Games due to IOC sponsorship rules.<ref name=":02">{{cite news|author=Seth Lewis|date=February 3, 2002|title=Jazz who? Arena gets makeover|newspaper=Deseret News|url=https://www.deseret.com/2002/2/3/19635042/jazz-who-arena-gets-a-makeover/|access-date=December 7, 2010|archive-date=October 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022055847/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/893225/Jazz-who-Arena-gets-a-makeover.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Rice-Eccles Stadium]] at the [[University of Utah]] hosted the opening and closing ceremonies.<ref name=":1">{{cite news|author=Brad Rock|date=November 16, 1997|title=A fitting farewell for U. stadium|newspaper=Deseret News|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/595049/A-fitting-farewell-for-U-stadium.html|access-date=December 6, 2010|archive-date=January 7, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107151218/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/595049/A-fitting-farewell-for-U-stadium.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The [[Olympic Village]] was built at historic [[Fort Douglas]], whose land had been acquired by the University of Utah to construct new residences. The SLOC provided funding to the project in exchange for its use during the Olympics.<ref>{{cite news|author=Lisa Riley Roche|date=January 17, 1997|title=Land for Olympic dorms called done deal|newspaper=Deseret News|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/537967/LAND-FOR-OLYMPIC-DORMS-CALLED-DONE-DEAL.html|access-date=December 14, 2010|archive-date=October 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022060051/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/537967/LAND-FOR-OLYMPIC-DORMS-CALLED-DONE-DEAL.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Main Street in [[Park City, Utah|Park City]] was converted into a pedestrian plaza during the Games, with festivities such as concerts, firework shows, and sponsor presences.<ref>{{cite web|last=Hamburger|first=Jay|title=Analysis: Park City's Main Street pedestrian idea would not recreate Olympic magic|url=https://www.parkrecord.com/news/analysis-park-citys-main-street-pedestrian-idea-would-not-recreate-olympic-magic/|access-date=August 20, 2021|website=www.parkrecord.com|date=May 24, 2020|language=en-US|archive-date=August 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820020513/https://www.parkrecord.com/news/analysis-park-citys-main-street-pedestrian-idea-would-not-recreate-olympic-magic/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Hamburger|first=Jay|title=Park City activist worries Olympics could exacerbate issues like housing, overdevelopment|url=https://www.parkrecord.com/news/park-city/park-city-activist-worries-olympics-could-exacerbate-issues-like-housing-overdevelopment/|access-date=August 20, 2021|website=www.parkrecord.com|date=June 18, 2021|language=en-US|archive-date=August 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820020511/https://www.parkrecord.com/news/park-city/park-city-activist-worries-olympics-could-exacerbate-issues-like-housing-overdevelopment/|url-status=live}}</ref> Medal presentations took place in downtown Salt Lake City; the stage for the ceremony featured the [[Hoberman Arch]], an arch-shaped metal "curtain" designed by [[Chuck Hoberman]].<ref name="SLT_unveiling">{{cite news|author=Brandon Griggs|date=January 26, 2002|title=Space-Age Arch Will Serve as Medals Plaza Curtain|newspaper=Salt Lake Tribune}}</ref>
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|| [[Deer Valley]] || [[Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Alpine skiing]] (slalom), [[Freestyle skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics|freestyle skiing]] || style="text-align:right;"|13,400 || style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite book |title=Official Report of the XIX Olympic Winter Games |last=Salt Lake Organizing Committee |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-9717961-0-2 |page=77 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf |access-date=December 30, 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110114081247/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf| archive-date= January 14, 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref>
|-
|| [[E Center]] || [[Ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Ice hockey]] || style="text-align:right;" |10,500 || style="text-align:center;"|<ref name="Salt Lake Organizing Committee 2002 89">{{cite book |title=Official Report of the XIX Olympic Winter Games |last=Salt Lake Organizing Committee |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-9717961-0-2 |page=89 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf |access-date=December 30, 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110114081247/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf| archive-date= January 14, 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref>
|-
|| [[Park City Mountain Resort]] || Alpine skiing (giant slalom), [[Snowboarding at the 2002 Winter Olympics|snowboarding]] || style="text-align:right;" |16,000 || style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite book |title=Official Report of the XIX Olympic Winter Games |last=Salt Lake Organizing Committee |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-9717961-0-2 |page=79 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf |access-date=December 30, 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110114081247/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf| archive-date= January 14, 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref>
|-
|| [[Peaks Ice Arena]] || Ice hockey || style="text-align:right;" |8,400 || style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite book |title=Official Report of the XIX Olympic Winter Games |last=Salt Lake Organizing Committee |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-9717961-0-2 |page=91 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf |access-date=December 30, 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110114081247/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf| archive-date= January 14, 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref>
|-
|| [[Delta Center|Salt Lake Ice Center]] || [[Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Figure skating]], [[Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics|short track speed skating]] || style="text-align:right;" |17,500 || style="text-align:center;"|<ref name="Salt Lake Organizing Committee 2002 89" />
|-
|| [[Snowbasin]] || Alpine skiing (combined, downhill, super-G) || style="text-align:right;" |22,500 || style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite book |title=Official Report of the XIX Olympic Winter Games |last=Salt Lake Organizing Committee |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-9717961-0-2 |page=93 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf |access-date=December 30, 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110114081247/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf| archive-date= January 14, 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref>
|-
|| [[Soldier Hollow]] || [[Biathlon at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Biathlon]], [[Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics|cross-country skiing]], [[Nordic combined at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Nordic combined]] (cross-country skiing portion) || style="text-align:right;" |15,200 || style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite book |title=Official Report of the XIX Olympic Winter Games |last=Salt Lake Organizing Committee |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-9717961-0-2 |page=81 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf |access-date=December 30, 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110114081247/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf| archive-date= January 14, 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref>
|-
|| [[The Ice Sheet at Ogden]] || [[Curling at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Curling]] || style="text-align:right;" |2,000 || style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite book |title=Official Report of the XIX Olympic Winter Games |last=Salt Lake Organizing Committee |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-9717961-0-2 |page=99 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf |access-date=December 30, 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110114081247/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf| archive-date= January 14, 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref>
|-
|| [[Utah Olympic Oval]] || [[Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Speed skating]] || style="text-align:right;" |5,236 || style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite book |title=Official Report of the XIX Olympic Winter Games |last=Salt Lake Organizing Committee |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-9717961-0-2 |page=97 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf |access-date=December 30, 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110114081247/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf| archive-date= January 14, 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref>
|-
|| [[Utah Olympic Park]]<br />([[Utah Olympic Park Track|bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track]]) || [[Bobsleigh at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Bobsleigh]], [[Luge at the 2002 Winter Olympics|luge]], [[Skeleton at the 2002 Winter Olympics|skeleton]], Nordic combined (ski jumping portion), [[Ski jumping at the 2002 Winter Olympics|ski jumping]] || style="text-align:right;" |18,100 (ski jumping)<br />15,000 (sliding track) || style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite book |title=Official Report of the XIX Olympic Winter Games |last=Salt Lake Organizing Committee |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-9717961-0-2 |page=85 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf |access-date=December 30, 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110114081247/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf| archive-date= January 14, 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref>
|}

===Transport===
The largest [[public transport]] project completed for the Games was the [[TRAX (light rail)|TRAX light rail system]], which first began operations ahead of the Games in 1999.<ref>{{cite news|last=Davidson|first=Lee|date=June 15, 2015|title=The Utah Effect: 25% of downtown Salt Lake travelers use mass transit, just 3.4% for metro area|newspaper=[[The Salt Lake Tribune]]|url=https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=2602479&itype=CMSID|access-date=March 14, 2021|archive-date=June 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616205908/https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=2602479&itype=CMSID|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="2linesopen">{{cite news|last=Davidson|first=Lee|date=August 2, 2011|title=TRAX lines opening a year early, 20% under budget|newspaper=[[The Salt Lake Tribune]]|publisher=[[MediaNews Group]]|location=Salt Lake City|url=http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52311534-78/trax-lines-jordan-west.html.csp|access-date=August 3, 2011|archive-date=October 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010225936/http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52311534-78/trax-lines-jordan-west.html.csp|url-status=live}}</ref>

To help reduce vehicle traffic to Soldier Hollow, and to provide a tourist attraction for attendees, [[Heber Valley Railroad]] offered service to [[Wasatch Mountain State Park]] on [[steam locomotives]] during the Games. After arriving, passengers then embarked to Soldier Hollow on horse-drawn [[Sled|sleighs]].<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{Cite news|date=January 6, 2002|title=Reaching the Olympics by Steam Power; Shorter Airport Waits for Special Customers|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/06/travel/reaching-the-olympics-by-steam-power-shorter-airport-waits-for.html|access-date=August 20, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=August 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820022131/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/06/travel/reaching-the-olympics-by-steam-power-shorter-airport-waits-for.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

==The Games==
===Opening ceremony===
{{Main|2002 Winter Olympics opening ceremony}}
[[File:2002 Winter Olympics flame.jpg|thumb|upright|The Olympic cauldron being lit by the 1980 U.S. men's hockey team.]]
The opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics was held at Rice–Eccles Stadium at the University of Utah on February 8, 2002. The facility was renovated and expanded for the Games.<ref name=":1" /> The Games were officially opened by President [[George W. Bush]], who was standing among the US athletes (previous heads of state opened the Games from an official box), while the Olympic cauldron was lit by members of the gold medal-winning [[United States men's national ice hockey team|U.S. men's ice hockey team]] from the [[Ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics|1980 Winter Olympics]] in [[Lake Placid, New York]] (as made famous by the "[[Miracle on Ice]]").<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|date=February 9, 2002|title=America welcomes Olympic Games|language=en-GB|work=BBC Sport|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/hi/english/front_page/front_page_news/newsid_1755000/1755575.stm|access-date=August 20, 2021|archive-date=August 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820020510/http://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/hi/english/front_page/front_page_news/newsid_1755000/1755575.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>

In an acknowledgment of the [[September 11 attacks]], the ceremony opened with the entrance of a damaged [[Flag of the United States|American flag]] recovered from the wreckage of the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]], carried by an [[Guard of honour|honor guard]] of police officers from the [[Port Authority of New York and New Jersey]], the [[New York City Police Department]], and firefighters from the [[New York City Fire Department]], joined by athletes nominated by fellow members of the U.S. team. The flag was presented during the playing of the U.S. national anthem "[[The Star-Spangled Banner]]", as performed by the [[Tabernacle Choir]].<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{cite web|date=February 7, 2002|title=9/11 Flag Rises Above the IOC Fray|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-feb-07-mn-26739-story.html|url-status=live|access-date=August 20, 2021|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820020510/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-feb-07-mn-26739-story.html |archive-date=August 20, 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=February 7, 2002|title=Ground Zero star-spangled banner to wave over Olympics|url=http://www.cnn.com/2002/fyi/news/02/07/olympic.flag/index.html|access-date=August 20, 2021|website=CNN|archive-date=February 23, 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030223044624/http://www.cnn.com/2002/fyi/news/02/07/olympic.|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Deseret News|date=February 20, 2002|title=Tabernacle Choir has been a shining star at Games|url=https://www.deseret.com/2002/2/20/19638778/tabernacle-choir-has-been-a-shining-star-at-games|access-date=August 20, 2021|website=Deseret News|language=en|archive-date=August 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820020511/https://www.deseret.com/2002/2/20/19638778/tabernacle-choir-has-been-a-shining-star-at-games|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Olympic cauldron was designed to look like an [[icicle]] and was made of glass, allowing the fire to be seen burning within, reflecting the Games' slogan "Light the Fire Within" and an overarching "fire and ice" theme. The actual glass cauldron stands atop a twisting glass and steel support, is {{convert|12|ft|m}} high, and the flame within burns at {{convert|900|F|C}}.<ref>{{cite news|author=Lisa Riley Roche|date=January 31, 2004|title=Cauldron creation detailed in book|newspaper=Deseret News|url=https://www.deseret.com/2004/1/31/19809698/cauldron-creation-detailed-in-book/|access-date=November 3, 2010|archive-date=March 13, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313223714/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/590040014/Cauldron-creation-detailed-in-book.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Together with its support, the cauldron stands {{convert|117|ft|m}} tall and was made of 738 individual pieces of glass. Small jets send water down the glass sides of the cauldron to keep the glass and metal cooled (so they would not crack or melt) and give the effect of melting ice.<ref>{{cite book|last=Salt Lake Organizing Committee|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf|title=Official Report of the XIX Olympic Winter Games|year=2002|isbn=978-0-9717961-0-2|page=207|access-date=October 20, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101008034211/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf|archive-date=October 8, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> The cauldron was designed by [[WET Design]] of Los Angeles, its frame built by roller coaster manufacturer [[Arrow Dynamics]] of [[Clearfield, Utah]], and its glass pieces created by Western Glass of [[Ogden, Utah]]. The cauldron's cost was $2&nbsp;million, and it was unveiled to the public when originally installed at Rice–Eccles Stadium on January 8, 2002.<ref>{{cite news|author=John Daley|date=January 8, 2002|title=Caldron Unveiled|newspaper=KSL-TV|url=http://2002.ksl.com/news-3656i.php?p=1|url-status=dead|access-date=November 3, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020225233236/http://2002.ksl.com/news-3656i.php?p=1|archive-date=February 25, 2002}}</ref>

Production for the opening and closing ceremonies was designed by Seven Nielsen, and music for both ceremonies was directed by [[Mark Watters]].<ref name="Air-Edel_1">{{cite web|title=Air Edel &#124; Composers &#124; MARK WATTERS|url=http://www.air-edel.co.uk/representation/composers/18/mark-watters/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505011721/http://www.air-edel.co.uk/representation/composers/18/mark-watters/|archive-date=May 5, 2011|access-date=May 14, 2011}}</ref>

===Sports===
Confirmed in 1997, this edition's sports program featured seven sports divided into 15 disciplines, totaling 78 events, an increase of 10 events over the 1998 Winter Olympics. [[Skeleton at the Winter Olympics|Skeleton]] made its return to the Winter Olympic program for the first time since [[1948 Winter Olympics|1948]], while a women's doubles event was contested for the first time in bobsleigh. A fourth distance was introduced in short track speed skating for men and women, and the pursuit events were added to biathlon and cross-country skiing. The sprint event was also added to the Nordic combined program.

{{div col}}
# '''Biathlon'''
#* {{GamesSport|Biathlon|Events=8}}
# '''Bobsleigh'''
#* {{GamesSport|Bobsleigh|Events=3}}
#* {{GamesSport|Skeleton|Events=2}}
# '''Curling'''
#* {{GamesSport|Curling|Events=2}}
# '''Ice hockey'''
#* {{GamesSport|Ice hockey|Events=2}}
# '''Luge'''
#* {{GamesSport|Luge|Events=3}}
# '''Skating'''
#* {{GamesSport|Figure skating|Events=4}}
#* {{GamesSport|Short track speed skating|Events=8}}
#* {{GamesSport|Speed skating|Events=10}}
# '''Skiing'''
#* {{GamesSport|Alpine skiing|Events=10}}
#* {{GamesSport|Cross-country skiing|Events=12}}
#* {{GamesSport|Freestyle skiing|Events=4}}
#* {{GamesSport|Nordic combined|Events=3}}
#* {{GamesSport|Ski jumping|Events=3}}
#* {{GamesSport|Snowboarding|Events=4}}
{{colend}}

''Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events contested in each separate discipline.''

===Participating National Olympic Committees===
[[File:2002 Winter Olympic games countries.svg|thumb|Participating nations]]
A total of 78 teams qualified at least one athlete to compete in the Games. Five NOCs made their Winter Olympic debut in Salt Lake, including Cameroon, Hong Kong, Nepal, Tajikistan, and Thailand.<ref name="Nations">The [http://www.olympic.org/salt-lake-city-2002 IOC site for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602104222/https://www.olympic.org/salt-lake-city-2002 |date=June 2, 2016 }} gives figure of 77 participated NOCs, however one can count 78 nations looking through official results of 2002 Games [http://www.library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/SLC2002Results1.pdf Part 1] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103193224/http://www.library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/SLC2002Results1.pdf |date=January 3, 2014 }}, [http://www.library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/SLC2002Results2.pdf Part 2] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140118121739/http://www.library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/SLC2002Results2.pdf |date=January 18, 2014 }}, [http://www.library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/SLC2002Results3.pdf Part 3] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140118091703/http://www.library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/SLC2002Results3.pdf |date=January 18, 2014 }}. Probably this is consequence that Costa Rica's delegation of one athlete joined the Games after the Opening Ceremony, or this is consequence that Puerto Rico delegation of two athletes did not start in two-man bobsleigh event.</ref> Costa Rica and Lebanon returned to the Winter games after a 10-year absence, and Fiji, Mexico and San Marino returned after 8 years. Four countries, Luxembourg, North Korea, Portugal and Uruguay which were at the 1998 Games, did not participate in 2002.

{| class="wikitable collapsible" style="width:100%;"
|-
! Participating [[:Category:Nations at the 2002 Winter Olympics|National Olympic Committees]]
|-
|
{{div col|colwidth=22em}}
* {{flagIOC|AND|2002 Winter|3}}
* {{flagIOC|ARG|2002 Winter|11}}
* {{flagIOC|ARM|2002 Winter|9}}
* {{flagIOC|AUS|2002 Winter|27}}
* {{flagIOC|AUT|2002 Winter|90}}
* {{flagIOC|AZE|2002 Winter|4}}
* {{flagIOC|BLR|2002 Winter|64}}
* {{flagIOC|BEL|2002 Winter|6}}
* {{flagIOC|BER|2002 Winter|1}}
* {{flagIOC|BIH|2002 Winter|2}}
* {{flagIOC|BRA|2002 Winter|10}}
* {{flagIOC|BUL|2002 Winter|23}}
* {{flagIOC|CMR|2002 Winter|1}}
* {{flagIOC|CAN|2002 Winter|150}}
* {{flagIOC|CHI|2002 Winter|6}}
* {{flagIOC|CHN|2002 Winter|66}}
* {{flagIOC|TPE|2002 Winter|6}}
* {{flagIOC|CRC|2002 Winter|1}}
* {{flagIOC|CRO|2002 Winter|14}}
* {{flagIOC|CYP|2002 Winter|1}}
* {{flagIOC|CZE|2002 Winter|76}}
* {{flagIOC|DEN|2002 Winter|11}}
* {{flagIOC|EST|2002 Winter|17}}
* {{flagIOC|FIJ|2002 Winter|1}}
* {{flagIOC|FIN|2002 Winter|98}}
* {{flagIOC|FRA|2002 Winter|114}}
* {{flagIOC|GEO|2002 Winter|4}}
* {{flagIOC|GER|2002 Winter|157}}
* {{flagIOC|GBR|2002 Winter|49}}
* {{flagIOC|GRE|2002 Winter|10}}
* {{flagIOC|HKG|2002 Winter|2}}
* {{flagIOC|HUN|2002 Winter|25}}
* {{flagIOC|ISL|2002 Winter|6}}
* {{flagIOC|IND|2002 Winter|1}}
* {{flagIOC|IRI|2002 Winter|2}}
* {{flagIOC|IRL|2002 Winter|6}}
* {{flagIOC|ISR|2002 Winter|5}}
* {{flagIOC|ITA|2002 Winter|112}}
* {{flagIOC|JAM|2002 Winter|2}}
* {{flagIOC|JPN|2002 Winter|103}}
* {{flagIOC|KAZ|2002 Winter|50}}
* {{flagIOC|KEN|2002 Winter|1}}
* {{flagIOC|KGZ|2002 Winter|2}}
* {{flagIOC|LAT|2002 Winter|47}}
* {{flagIOC|LIB|2002 Winter|2}}
* {{flagIOC|LIE|2002 Winter|8}}
* {{flagIOC|LTU|2002 Winter|8}}
* {{flagIOC|MKD|2002 Winter|2}}
* {{flagIOC|MEX|2002 Winter|3}}
* {{flagIOC|MDA|2002 Winter|5}}
* {{flagIOC|MON|2002 Winter|5}}
* {{flagIOC|MGL|2002 Winter|4}}
* {{flagIOC|NEP|2002 Winter|1}}
* {{flagIOC|NED|2002 Winter|27}}
* {{flagIOC|NZL|2002 Winter|10}}
* {{flagIOC|NOR|2002 Winter|77}}
* {{flagIOC|POL|2002 Winter|27}}
* {{flagIOC|PUR|2002 Winter|2}}
* {{flagIOC|ROU|2002 Winter|21}}
* {{flagIOC|RUS|2002 Winter|151}}
* {{flagIOC|SMR|2002 Winter|1}}
* {{flagIOC|SVK|2002 Winter|49}}
* {{flagIOC|SLO|2002 Winter|40}}
* {{flagIOC|RSA|2002 Winter|1}}
* {{flagIOC|KOR|2002 Winter|48}}
* {{flagIOC|ESP|2002 Winter|7}}
* {{flagIOC|SWE|2002 Winter|102}}
* {{flagIOC|SUI|2002 Winter|110}}
* {{flagIOC|TJK|2002 Winter|1}}
* {{flagIOC|THA|2002 Winter|1}}
* {{flagIOC|TRI|2002 Winter|2}}
* {{flagIOC|TUR|2002 Winter|3}}
* {{flagIOC|UKR|2002 Winter|68}}
* {{flagIOC|USA|2002 Winter|202}} '''(host)'''
* {{flagIOC|UZB|2002 Winter|6}}
* {{flagIOC|VEN|2002 Winter|4}}
* {{flagIOC|ISV|2002 Winter|8}}
* {{flagIOC|YUG|2002 Winter|6}}
{{div col end}}
|}

=== Number of athletes by National Olympic Committee ===
2,399 [[athlete]]s from 78 [[National Olympic Committee|NOCs]]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- 
! [[List of IOC country codes|IOC Letter Code]]
! Country
! Athletes
|-
| USA || {{flagIOC|USA|2002 Winter}} || 202
|-
| GER || {{flagIOC|GER|2002 Winter}} || 157
|-
| RUS || {{flagIOC|RUS|2002 Winter}} || 151
|-
| CAN || {{flagIOC|CAN|2002 Winter}} || 150
|-
| FRA || {{flagIOC|FRA|2002 Winter}} || 114
|-
| ITA || {{flagIOC|ITA|2002 Winter}} || 112
|-
| SUI || {{flagIOC|SUI|2002 Winter}} || 110
|-
| JPN || {{flagIOC|JPN|2002 Winter}} || 103
|-
| SWE || {{flagIOC|SWE|2002 Winter}} || 102
|-
| FIN || {{flagIOC|FIN|2002 Winter}} || 98
|-
| AUT || {{flagIOC|AUT|2002 Winter}} || 90
|-
| NOR || {{flagIOC|NOR|2002 Winter}} || 77
|-
| CZE || {{flagIOC|CZE|2002 Winter}} || 76
|-
| UKR || {{flagIOC|UKR|2002 Winter}} || 68
|-
| CHN || {{flagIOC|CHN|2002 Winter}} || 66
|-
| BLR || {{flagIOC|BLR|2002 Winter}} || 64
|-
| KAZ || {{flagIOC|KAZ|2002 Winter}} || 50
|-
| GBR || {{flagIOC|GBR|2002 Winter}} || 49
|-
| SVK || {{flagIOC|SVK|2002 Winter}} || 49
|-
| KOR || {{flagIOC|KOR|2002 Winter}} || 48
|-
| LAT || {{flagIOC|LAT|2002 Winter}} || 47
|-
| SLO || {{flagIOC|SLO|2002 Winter}} || 40
|-
| AUS || {{flagIOC|AUS|2002 Winter}} || 27
|-
| NED || {{flagIOC|NED|2002 Winter}} || 27
|-
| POL || {{flagIOC|POL|2002 Winter}} || 27
|-
| HUN || {{flagIOC|HUN|2002 Winter}} || 25
|-
| BUL || {{flagIOC|BUL|2002 Winter}} || 23
|-
| ROU || {{flagIOC|ROU|2002 Winter}} || 21
|-
| EST || {{flagIOC|EST|2002 Winter}} || 17
|-
| CRO || {{flagIOC|CRO|2002 Winter}} || 14
|-
| ARG || {{flagIOC|ARG|2002 Winter}} || 11
|-
| DEN || {{flagIOC|DEN|2002 Winter}} || 11
|-
| BRA || {{flagIOC|BRA|2002 Winter}} || 10
|-
| GRE || {{flagIOC|GRE|2002 Winter}} || 10
|-
| NZL || {{flagIOC|NZL|2002 Winter}} || 10
|-
| ARM || {{flagIOC|ARM|2002 Winter}} || 9
|-
| LIE || {{flagIOC|LIE|2002 Winter}} || 8
|-
| LTU || {{flagIOC|LTU|2002 Winter}} || 8
|-
| ISV || {{flagIOC|ISV|2002 Winter}} || 8
|-
| ESP || {{flagIOC|ESP|2002 Winter}} || 7
|-
| BEL || {{flagIOC|BEL|2002 Winter}} || 6
|-
| CHI || {{flagIOC|CHI|2002 Winter}} || 6
|-
| ISL || {{flagIOC|ISL|2002 Winter}} || 6
|-
| IRL || {{flagIOC|IRL|2002 Winter}} || 6
|-
| TPE || {{flagIOC|TPE|2002 Winter}} || 6
|-
| UZB || {{flagIOC|UZB|2002 Winter}} || 6
|-
| YUG || {{flagIOC|YUG|2002 Winter}} || 6
|-
| ISR || {{flagIOC|ISR|2002 Winter}} || 5
|-
| MDA || {{flagIOC|MDA|2002 Winter}} || 5
|-
| MON || {{flagIOC|MON|2002 Winter}} || 5
|-
| AZE || {{flagIOC|AZE|2002 Winter}} || 4
|-
| GEO || {{flagIOC|GEO|2002 Winter}} || 4
|-
| MGL || {{flagIOC|MGL|2002 Winter}} || 4
|-
| VEN || {{flagIOC|VEN|2002 Winter}} || 4
|-
| AND || {{flagIOC|AND|2002 Winter}} || 3
|-
| MEX || {{flagIOC|MEX|2002 Winter}} || 3
|-
| TUR || {{flagIOC|TUR|2002 Winter}} || 3
|-
| BIH || {{flagIOC|BIH|2002 Winter}} || 2
|-
| HKG || {{flagIOC|HKG|2002 Winter}} || 2
|-
| IRI || {{flagIOC|IRI|2002 Winter}} || 2
|-
| JAM || {{flagIOC|JAM|2002 Winter}} || 2
|-
| KGZ || {{flagIOC|KGZ|2002 Winter}} || 2
|-
| LIB || {{flagIOC|LIB|2002 Winter}} || 2
|-
| MKD || {{flagIOC|MKD|2002 Winter}} || 2
|-
| PUR || {{flagIOC|PUR|2002 Winter}} || 2
|-
| TRI || {{flagIOC|TRI|2002 Winter}} || 2
|-
| BER || {{flagIOC|BER|2002 Winter}} || 1
|-
| CMR || {{flagIOC|CMR|2002 Winter}} || 1
|-
| CRC || {{flagIOC|CRC|2002 Winter}} || 1
|-
| CYP || {{flagIOC|CYP|2002 Winter}} || 1
|-
| FIJ || {{flagIOC|FIJ|2002 Winter}} || 1
|-
| IND || {{flagIOC|IND|2002 Winter}} || 1
|-
| KEN || {{flagIOC|KEN|2002 Winter}} || 1
|-
| NEP || {{flagIOC|NEP|2002 Winter}} || 1
|-
| SMR || {{flagIOC|SMR|2002 Winter}} || 1
|-
| RSA || {{flagIOC|RSA|2002 Winter}} || 1
|-
| TJK || {{flagIOC|TJK|2002 Winter}} || 1
|-
| THA || {{flagIOC|THA|2002 Winter}} || 1
|}

===Calendar===
[[File:Andrea Nahrgang 2002 Olympics.jpg|thumb|Andrea Nahrgang competing at [[Soldier Hollow]] on February 18, 2002]]
In the following calendar for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, each blue box represents an event competition, such as a qualification round, on that day. The yellow boxes represent days during which medal-awarding finals for a sport are held. The number in each box represents the number of finals that were contested on that day.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=Salt Lake 2002 Official Report of the XIX Olympic Winter Games|page=41|publisher=Salt Lake Organizing Committee|date=2002|isbn=978-0-9717961-0-2|lccn=2002109189}}</ref>
:''All dates are in [[Mountain Standard Time]] ([[UTC−7]])''
{| class="wikitable" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:90%;position:relative;"
|-
| style="width:2.5em; background:#0c3; text-align:center;"|'''OC'''||Opening ceremony
| style="width:2.5em; background:#39f; text-align:center;"|●||Event competitions
| style="width:2.5em; background:#fc0; text-align:center;"|'''1'''||Event finals
|style="width:2.5em; background:#ffdead; text-align:center"|'''EG'''||Exhibition gala
| style="width:2.5em; background:#FF8888; text-align:center;"|'''CC'''||Closing ceremony
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:90%; line-height:1.25em;"
|-
! colspan=2|February
!style="width:2.5em"|8th<br />Fri
!style="width:2.5em"|9th<br />Sat
!style="width:2.5em"|10th<br />Sun
!style="width:2.5em"|11th<br />Mon
!style="width:2.5em"|12th<br />Tue
!style="width:2.5em"|13th<br />Wed
!style="width:2.5em"|14th<br />Thu
!style="width:2.5em"|15th<br />Fri
!style="width:2.5em"|16th<br />Sat
!style="width:2.5em"|17th<br />Sun
!style="width:2.5em"|18th<br />Mon
!style="width:2.5em"|19th<br />Tue
!style="width:2.5em"|20th<br />Wed
!style="width:2.5em"|21st<br />Thu
!style="width:2.5em"|22nd<br />Fri
!style="width:2.5em"|23rd<br />Sat
!style="width:2.5em"|24th<br />Sun
!Events
|-
| colspan=2|[[File:Olympic Rings Icon.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] Ceremonies || style="background:#0c3; text-align:center;"|'''OC'''|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || style="background:#FF8888; text-align:center;"|'''CC'''||
|- style="text-align:center;"
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"| [[Image:Alpine skiing pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] [[Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Alpine skiing]]
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|- style="text-align:center;"
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"| [[Image:Biathlon pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] [[Biathlon at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Biathlon]]
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|- style="text-align:center;"
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"| [[Image:Bobsleigh pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] [[Bobsleigh at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Bobsleigh]]
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|- style="text-align:center;"
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"| [[Image:Cross country skiing pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] [[Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Cross country skiing]]
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<!-- 15 -->| bgcolor=#ffcc00|'''{{tooltip|1| Women's 2x5km Pursuit}}'''
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<!-- 23 -->| bgcolor=#ffcc00|'''{{tooltip|1| Men's 50km}}'''
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|- style="text-align:center;"
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"| [[Image:Curling pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] [[Curling at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Curling]]
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<!--  T -->| 2
|- style="text-align:center;"
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"| [[Image:Figure skating pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] [[Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Figure skating]]
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<!-- 14 -->| bgcolor=#ffcc00|'''{{tooltip|1|Men's Individual}}'''
<!-- 15 -->| bgcolor=#3399ff|●
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<!-- 17 -->| bgcolor=#3399ff|●
<!-- 18 -->| bgcolor=#ffcc00|'''{{tooltip|1|Ice Dancing}}'''
<!-- 19 -->| bgcolor=#3399ff|●
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<!-- 21 -->| bgcolor=#ffcc00|'''{{tooltip|1|Women's Individual}}'''
<!-- 22 -->| bgcolor=#ffdead text-align:center"|'''EG'''
<!-- 23 -->|
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<!--  T -->| 4
|- style="text-align:center;"
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"| [[Image:Freestyle skiing pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] [[Freestyle skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Freestyle skiing]]
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<!-- 18 -->| bgcolor=#ffcc00|'''{{tooltip|1|Women's Aerials}}'''
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<!-- 24 -->|
<!--  T -->|4
|- style="text-align:center;"
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"| [[Image:Ice hockey pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] [[Ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Ice hockey]]
<!-- 8 -->|
<!-- 9 -->| bgcolor=#3399ff|●
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<!-- 21 -->| bgcolor=#ffcc00|'''{{tooltip|1|Women's Hockey}}'''
<!-- 22 -->| bgcolor=#3399ff|●
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<!-- 24 -->| bgcolor=#ffcc00|'''{{tooltip|1|Men's Hockey}}'''
<!--  T -->| 2
|- style="text-align:center;"
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"| [[Image:Luge pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] [[Luge at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Luge]]
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<!-- 11 -->| bgcolor=#ffcc00|'''{{tooltip|1|Men's Luge}}'''
<!-- 12 -->| bgcolor=#3399ff|●
<!-- 13 -->| bgcolor=#ffcc00|'''{{tooltip|1|Women's Luge}}'''
<!-- 14 -->|
<!-- 15 -->| bgcolor=#ffcc00|'''{{tooltip|1|Men's Doubles Luge}}'''
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<!--  T -->| 3
|- style="text-align:center;"
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"| [[Image:Nordic combined pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] [[Nordic combined at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Nordic combined]]
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<!-- 10 -->| bgcolor=#ffcc00|'''{{tooltip|1| Men's Individual}}'''
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<!-- 15 -->| bgcolor=#ffcc00|'''{{tooltip|1| Men's Team}}'''
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<!--  T -->| 3
|- style="text-align:center;"
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"| [[Image:Short track speed skating pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] [[Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Short track speed skating]]
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<!-- 20 -->| bgcolor=#ffcc00|'''{{tooltip|2|Men's 1500m, Women's Relay}}'''
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<!-- 23 -->| bgcolor=#ffcc00|'''{{tooltip|3|Men's 500m, Women's 1000m, Men's Relay}}'''
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|- style="text-align:center;"
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"| [[Image:Skeleton pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] [[Skeleton at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Skeleton]]
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|- style="text-align:center;"
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"| [[Image:Ski jumping pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] [[Ski jumping at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Ski jumping]]
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|- style="text-align:center;"
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"| [[Image:Snowboarding pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] [[Snowboarding at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Snowboarding]]
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|- style="text-align:center;"
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"| [[Image:Speed skating pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] [[Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Speed skating]]
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<!-- 17 -->| bgcolor=#ffcc00|'''{{tooltip|1|Women's 1000m}}'''
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<!-- 20 -->| bgcolor=#ffcc00|'''{{tooltip|1|Women's 1500m}}'''
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|-
!colspan=2| Total events !! !!4 !!5 !! 5 !! 5 !!6 !! 4 !!5 !! 6 !! 4!! 4 !! 5 !!7 !!5 !! 4 !! 7 !!2 !! 78
|-
!colspan=2|Cumulative total!! !!4 !! 9 !! 14 !!19 !!25 !! 29 !!34 !! 40 !!44 !! 48 !!53 !!60 !!65 !!69 !!76 !!78 !!
|-
! colspan=2|February
!style="width:2.5em"|8th<br />Fri
!style="width:2.5em"|9th<br />Sat
!style="width:2.5em"|10th<br />Sun
!style="width:2.5em"|11th<br />Mon
!style="width:2.5em"|12th<br />Tue
!style="width:2.5em"|13th<br />Wed
!style="width:2.5em"|14th<br />Thu
!style="width:2.5em"|15th<br />Fri
!style="width:2.5em"|16th<br />Sat
!style="width:2.5em"|17th<br />Sun
!style="width:2.5em"|18th<br />Mon
!style="width:2.5em"|19th<br />Tue
!style="width:2.5em"|20th<br />Wed
!style="width:2.5em"|21st<br />Thu
!style="width:2.5em"|22nd<br />Fri
!style="width:2.5em"|23rd<br />Sat
!style="width:2.5em"|24th<br />Sun
!Events
|}

===Medal table===
{{Main|2002 Winter Olympics medal table}}
[[File:Slc awards plaza ski jumping medals.jpg|thumb|Ski jumping medals being awarded at the Salt Lake Medal Plaza on February 13, 2002]]
[[File:Fireworks medal plaza SLC.jpg|thumb|Fireworks at the Salt Lake Medal Plaza]]
[[File:Vonetta Flowers and Jill Bakken during the medal ceremony in Salt Lake City.JPEG|thumb|upright|[[Vonetta Flowers]] and [[Jill Bakken]] during their medal ceremony at the Salt Lake Medal Plaza, after winning gold for the United States in the two-woman bobsleigh]]
At the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, the "medal plaza" was popularized as a way for the public to see presentations that would have otherwise taken place at far-flung, low-capacity or high-altitude venues and to have an evening program that often included musical performances.
{{:2002 Winter Olympics medal table}}

===Podium sweeps===
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Date
!Sport
!Event
!NOC
!Gold
!Silver
!Bronze
|-
|February 11
|[[Snowboarding at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Snowboarding]]
|[[Snowboarding at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's halfpipe|Men's halfpipe]]
|{{flagIOC|USA|2002 Winter}}
|[[Ross Powers]]
|[[Danny Kass]]
|[[Jarret Thomas]]
|-
|February 13
|[[Luge at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Luge]]
|[[Luge at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's singles|Women's singles]]
|{{flagIOC|GER|2002 Winter}}
|[[Sylke Otto]]
|[[Barbara Niedernhuber]]
|[[Silke Kraushaar]]
|}

===Records===
Several medal records were set and/or tied, including:
* Norway tied the [[Soviet Union at the 1976 Winter Olympics]] for most gold medals at a Winter Olympics, with 13.<ref name=RecordGolds>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/2.722/canada-sets-olympic-gold-record-1.971872 |title=Canada sets Olympic gold record |date=February 27, 2010 |access-date=February 27, 2010 |agency=The Canadian Press |website=[[CBC.ca]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100303045603/http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/story/2010/02/27/sp-canada-gold-otp.html |archive-date=March 3, 2010 }}</ref>
* Germany set a record for most total medals at a Winter Olympics, with 36.<ref name=RecordMedals>{{cite news | url = http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/27/us-clinches-medals-total-canada-most-golds/ | title = U.S. clinches medals mark; Canada ties gold record | date = February 27, 2010 | work = The Washington Times | location = Vancouver | access-date = March 12, 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100303001703/http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/27/us-clinches-medals-total-canada-most-golds/ | archive-date = March 3, 2010 | url-status = live}}</ref>
* The United States set a record for most gold medals at a home Winter Olympics, with 10, tying [[Norway at the 1994 Winter Olympics]].<ref name=RecordGolds/>
All of the above records were broken at the [[2010 Winter Olympics|Vancouver Olympics]] in 2010.

===Closing ceremonies===
{{Main|2002 Winter Olympics closing ceremony}}
The closing ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics was held on February 24, 2002, at Rice–Eccles Stadium. It was narrated by Utah natives [[Donny Osmond|Donny]] and [[Marie Osmond]] (who voiced [[Animatronics|animatronic]] [[dinosaur]] skeletons designed by [[Michael Curry (puppet designer)|Michael Curry]]),<ref>{{cite web|author=Deseret News|date=February 10, 2003|title=What ever happened to Salt Lake's Olympic memorabilia?|url=https://www.deseret.com/2003/2/10/19703243/what-ever-happened-to-salt-lake-s-olympic-memorabilia|access-date=September 24, 2021|website=Deseret News|language=en|archive-date=September 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924012442/https://www.deseret.com/2003/2/10/19703243/what-ever-happened-to-salt-lake-s-olympic-memorabilia|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> and featured performances by a number of musicians and bands, including [[Bon Jovi]], [[Christina Aguilera]], Donny and Marie Osmond, [[Earth, Wind & Fire]], [[Harry Connick Jr.]], [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]], [[Moby]], and [[Willie Nelson]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Wise|first=Mike|date=February 25, 2002|title=Olympics: Closing Ceremony; Games End With a Mixture Of Rowdy Relief and Joy|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/25/sports/olympics-closing-ceremony-games-end-with-a-mixture-of-rowdy-relief-and-joy.html|access-date=September 26, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=September 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926065928/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/25/sports/olympics-closing-ceremony-games-end-with-a-mixture-of-rowdy-relief-and-joy.html|url-status=live}}</ref> It also featured appearances by figure skaters such as [[Kurt Browning]], [[Dorothy Hamill]], and [[Ilia Kulik|Ilia Kulick]], as well as dancer [[Savion Glover]].<ref name=":3">{{cite web|author=Deseret News|date=March 1, 2002|title=Closing ceremonies were right in groove with one exception|url=https://www.deseret.com/2002/3/1/19640551/closing-ceremonies-were-right-in-groove-with-one-exception|access-date=September 24, 2021|website=Deseret News|language=en|archive-date=September 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924011602/https://www.deseret.com/2002/3/1/19640551/closing-ceremonies-were-right-in-groove-with-one-exception|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|date=November 7, 2001|title=Olympic Pop: Top Stars To Close Winter Games|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/77822/olympic-pop-top-stars-to-close-winter-games|access-date=September 26, 2021|magazine=Billboard|archive-date=September 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926071428/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/77822/olympic-pop-top-stars-to-close-winter-games|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Archive-Corey-Moss|title=Creed, 'NSYNC, Dave Matthews Band, More Set For Olympic Concert Series|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1451549/creed-nsync-dave-matthews-band-more-set-for-olympic-concert-series/|access-date=September 26, 2021|website=MTV News|language=en|archive-date=April 5, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080405160909/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1451549/20011218/creed.jhtml|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Departing from [[Juan Antonio Samaranch]]'s tradition of declaring each Olympics the "best ever", IOC president Jacques Rogge began a tradition of assigning each Games their own identity in his comments, describing the 2002 Winter Olympics as having been "flawless".<ref>{{cite news|last=Abrahamson|first=Alan|date=March 1, 2010|title='Excellent and friendly Games' come to a close|work=[[NBC Olympic broadcasts|NBC Olympics]]|url=http://www.nbcolympics.com/news-features/news/newsid=453954.html|url-status=live|access-date=March 1, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100310010809/http://www.nbcolympics.com/news-features/news/newsid%3D453954.html|archive-date=March 10, 2010}}</ref>

Italian singers [[Irene Grandi]] and [[Elisa (Italian singer)|Elisa]] performed during the cultural presentation by [[Turin]], host city of the [[2006 Winter Olympics]],<ref name=":3" /> while [[Josh Groban]] and [[Charlotte Church]] performed a duet of "[[The Prayer (Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli song)|The Prayer]]" as the Olympic cauldron was extinguished.<ref name=":3" />

===2002 Cultural Olympiad===
The 2002 Cultural Olympiad, which ran from January to March 2002,<ref name=prog/> was an arts festival that accompanied the 2002 Winter Olympics. It included specially commissioned works, such as [[Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater]]'s work ''Here...Now'' inspired by the life of Olympian [[Florence Griffith Joyner]], accompanied by music by [[Wynton Marsalis]].<ref>{{cite web | first=Jessica Romine |last=Peterson | title=Olympic Arts Festival | website=Dance Magazine | date=12 February 2002 | url=https://dancemagazine.com/olympic-arts-festival/#gsc.tab=0 | access-date=9 March 2025}}</ref> An art exhibition was held at [[Springville Museum of Art]] that celebrated 150 years of Utah's art history.<ref>{{cite web | title=Looking Back: Revisiting the 2002 Olympic Exhibition | website=Springville Museum of Art | url=https://www.smofa.org/looking-back | access-date=9 March 2025}}</ref> The programme also featured many other performances, including dance, theatre, singing, and literature, as well as the glass art of [[Dale Chihuly]].<ref name=prog>{{cite web | title=Olympic Arts festival : Cultural Olympiad Salt Lake 2002 / SLOC | website=Olympic World Library | date=2 March 2025 | url=https://library.olympics.com/Default/doc/SYRACUSE/60617/olympic-arts-festival-cultural-olympiad-salt-lake-2002-sloc?_lg=en-GB | access-date=9 March 2025}}</ref>

==Highlights==
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[[File:US Navy 020208-N-3995K-002 2002 Olympics - WTC Flag.jpg|thumb|Members of the US Olympic team at the [[Rice–Eccles Stadium|Rice–Eccles Olympic Stadium]] holding the American flag that flew over the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001]]
[[File:Lawton Redman 2002 Winter Olympics b.jpg|thumb|The men's 10km sprint biathlon race at [[Soldier Hollow]] during the Games on February 13, 2002]]
[[File:E center interior 2002 olympic venue.jpg|thumb|The [[E Center]] during a hockey match on February 11, 2002]]
* Competition highlights included biathlete [[Ole Einar Bjørndalen]] of Norway, winning gold in all four men's events (10&nbsp;km, 12.5&nbsp;km, 20&nbsp;km, 4 x 7.5&nbsp;km relay), [[Nordic combined]] athlete [[Samppa Lajunen]] of Finland winning three gold medals, [[Simon Ammann]] of Switzerland taking the double in ski jumping. In alpine skiing, [[Janica Kostelić]] won three golds and a silver (the first Winter Olympic medals ever for an athlete from Croatia), while [[Kjetil André Aamodt]] of Norway earned his second and third career golds, setting up both athletes to beat the sport's record with their fourth golds earned at the next [[Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics|Winter Olympics near Turin]] (Aamodt also set the overall medal record in the sport with eight).
* [[Team GB]]'s victory in [[Curling at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Women's Curling]] saw them win their first gold medal in any Winter Olympic sport since [[Torvill and Dean]] in [[1984 Winter Olympics|1984]].
* Ireland reached its best-ever position and came close to winning its first winter medal when [[Clifton Wrottesley]] (Clifton Hugh Lancelot de Verdon Wrottesley, 6th Baron Wrottesley) finished fourth in the men's skeleton event.
* A feature of these Games was the emergence of extreme sports, such as snowboarding, moguls, and aerials, some of which appeared in previous Olympic Winter Games but subsequently captured greater public attention.
* The United States completed a sweep of the podium in halfpipe [[snowboarding]], with Americans [[Ross Powers]], [[Danny Kass]], and [[Jarret Thomas]] all winning medals.
* American [[Sarah Hughes]] won the gold medal in ladies' singles figure skating. Her team-mate [[Michelle Kwan]] fell during her long program and received the bronze medal.
* China won its first and second Winter Olympic gold medals, both by women's short-track speed skater [[Yang Yang (A)]].
* In the [[Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 1000 metres|men's 1000m]] competition in short-track speed skating, Australian [[Steven Bradbury (speed skater)|Steven Bradbury]] (who had won a bronze in [[1994 Winter Olympics|1994]] as part of a relay team) became both the first-ever Australian, and the first-ever athlete from a country in the [[Southern Hemisphere]], to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics. Despite being off their pace, Bradbury benefitted from crashes involving his opponents in both the semi-finals and finals, with the latter occurring coming out of the final turn.<ref name="lastman">{{Cite news|date=February 17, 2002|title=Australia win first ever gold|work=[[BBC Sport]]|publisher=[[British Broadcasting Corporation]]|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/hi/english/skating/newsid_1825000/1825339.stm|access-date=July 21, 2009|archive-date=January 27, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110127085914/http://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/hi/english/skating/newsid_1825000/1825339.stm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="fall">{{Cite news|date=February 18, 2002|title=Australia salutes Bradbury|work=[[BBC Sport]]|publisher=[[British Broadcasting Corporation]]|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/hi/english/skating/newsid_1826000/1826962.stm|access-date=July 21, 2009|archive-date=June 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220628151235/http://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/hi/english/skating/newsid_1826000/1826962.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> A few days later in [[Freestyle skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's aerials|women's aerials]], Australian skier [[Alisa Camplin]] won Australia's second gold medal.<ref>{{cite web|title=ESPN.com - Camplin's aerials win gives Aussies second gold|url=https://www.espn.com/olympics/winter02/freestyle/news?id=1336030|access-date=September 24, 2021|website=www.espn.com|archive-date=September 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924014932/https://www.espn.com/olympics/winter02/freestyle/news?id=1336030|url-status=live}}</ref>  After the Games, the phrase "doing a Bradbury" would become a local [[idiom]] for an unexpected victory in a sporting event at the expense of one's opponents, and was added to the second edition of [[The Australian National Dictionary|<u>''The Australian National Dictionary''</u>]] in 2016.<ref>{{cite web|date=August 23, 2016|title='Do a Bradbury' and 'bogan' among 6,000 new entries in Australian National Dictionary|url=http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/aug/23/do-a-bradbury-and-bogan-among-6000-new-entries-in-australian-national-dictionary|access-date=September 25, 2021|website=The Guardian|language=en|archive-date=September 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210925193231/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/aug/23/do-a-bradbury-and-bogan-among-6000-new-entries-in-australian-national-dictionary|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Belarus's [[Vladimir Kopat]] scored a [[game winning goal]] from center ice against Sweden in the men's ice hockey quarterfinals, getting Belarus to their best place in international hockey so far.
* The [[Canada men's national ice hockey team|Canadian men's ice hockey team]] defeated the United States team 5–2 to claim the gold medal, ending a 50-year drought without hockey gold. The Canadian women's team also defeated the American team 3–2 after losing to them in [[Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament|Nagano]]. In a post-game press conference after the men's gold medal game, Team Canada's executive director [[Wayne Gretzky]] revealed that a [[Loonie|Canadian $1 coin]] (colloquially known as a "Loonie") had been secretly placed at center ice by one of the ice technicians. The "lucky Loonie" subsequently became a notable symbol of Canada's victory in the tournament.<ref>{{cite news|last=Vecsey|first=Laura|date=February 25, 2002|title=Canadians go absolutely loonie over hockey gold|work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-83322694.html|url-status=dead|access-date=August 14, 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130824213335/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-83322694.html|archive-date=August 24, 2013|via=Highbeam}}</ref><ref name="OlympicHistory">{{cite book|last=Podnieks|first=Andrew|url=https://archive.org/details/canadasolympicho0000podn/page/201|title=Canada's Olympic Hockey History 1920–2010|publisher=Fenn Publishing|year=2009|isbn=978-1-55168-323-2|location=Toronto|page=[https://archive.org/details/canadasolympicho0000podn/page/201 201]}}</ref>

==Marketing==
[[File:Boeing 777-200.jpg|thumb|right|[[Delta Air Lines|Delta]]'s [[Boeing 777]]-200ER (N864DA) in [[livery]] commemorating the Games]]The overall branding of the 2002 Winter Olympics was based on a concept entitled "Land of Contrast — Fire and Ice", which featured a palette of warm and cool colors to contrast the warmer, rugged, [[Colorado Plateau|red-rock areas]] of Southern Utah from the colder, mountainous regions of Northern Utah.<ref name="SLOC_Official_Report_designs">{{cite book|last=Salt Lake Organizing Committee|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf|title=Official Report of the XIX Olympic Winter Games|year=2002|isbn=978-0-9717961-0-2|page=206|access-date=October 20, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101008034211/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/2002v1.pdf|archive-date=October 8, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref>

The emblem for the 2002 Winter Olympics was unveiled in August 1997, consisting of a stylized snowflake with segments colored in blue, orange, and yellow. The emblem was designed to resemble an Olympic cauldron and flame, as well as a sun rising from behind mountains. The orange center section of the flame was intended to reflect traditional [[Navajo weaving]].<ref name="SLOC_Official_Report_designs" /> The official event pictograms were inspired by [[branding irons]], and the line thickness and 30-degree angles mirrored those of the emblem.<ref name="SLOC_Official_Report_designs" />

===Mascots===
[[File:Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Mascots.svg|upright|thumb|[[Powder, Copper, Coal and Otto|Powder, Copper and Coal]], the 2002 Olympic mascots]]
{{Main|Powder, Copper and Coal}}
The designs of the mascots of the 2002 Winter Olympics were unveiled on May 19, 1999, during an event marking 1,000 days until the opening ceremony.<ref>{{cite news|author=Jerry Spangler|date=May 13, 1999|title=S.L. party to offer fun, Games|newspaper=Deseret News|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/696713/SL-party-to-offer-fun-Games.html|access-date=October 31, 2010|archive-date=October 21, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021201917/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/696713/SL-party-to-offer-fun-Games.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>  The mascots represent three animals native to the [[western United States]] — a [[snowshoe hare]], [[coyote]], and [[American black bear]] respectively, with each mascot symbolizing a character from the legends of local Native Americans, and wearing a charm around their neck with an original [[Ancestral Puebloans|Anasazi]] or [[Fremont culture|Fremont]]-style [[petroglyph]]. For the first time in Olympic history, the names of the mascots were determined by a public vote, using name suggestions submitted by local students; on September 25, the names of the mascots were officially announced as Powder, Copper, and Coal respectively.<ref name="DN_names_announced">{{cite news|author=Jerry Spangler|date=September 26, 1999|title=Mascots are Coal, Powder, Copper|newspaper=Deseret News|url=https://www.deseret.com/1999/9/26/19467646/mascots-are-coal-powder-copper/|access-date=October 31, 2010|archive-date=October 21, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021201938/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/719801/Mascots-are-Coal---Powder-Copper.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Media coverage==
International Sports Broadcasting (ISB) served as the host broadcaster for the 2002 Winter Olympics; the [[Salt Palace]] convention center served as the [[International Broadcast Centre]] and press center for the Games.<ref>{{cite web|last=Jones|first=Morgan|date=February 8, 2017|title=Deseret News readers remember the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics 15 years later|url=https://www.deseret.com/2017/2/8/20605887/deseret-news-readers-remember-the-2002-salt-lake-city-winter-olympics-15-years-later|access-date=August 20, 2021|website=Deseret News|language=en|archive-date=August 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820020510/https://www.deseret.com/2017/2/8/20605887/deseret-news-readers-remember-the-2002-salt-lake-city-winter-olympics-15-years-later|url-status=live}}</ref> The IOC estimated that the 2002 Winter Olympics were viewed by over two&nbsp;billion people worldwide, with 13&nbsp;billion viewer-hours watched.<ref name="Marketing_Matters_6_2002" />

In the United States, the 2002 Winter Olympics were broadcast by [[NBC Olympic broadcasts|NBC-owned networks]]. They were the first Winter Olympics under a multi-year rights agreement between NBC and the IOC, under which it would hold exclusive rights to all Olympic Games from [[1996 Summer Olympics|1996]] through [[2008 Summer Olympics|2008]]. The contract had excluded the 1998 Winter Olympics, as [[CBS Olympic broadcasts|CBS Sports]] had an existing deal to exclusively televise the Winter Olympics from [[1992 Winter Olympics|1992]] through 1998.<ref>{{cite web|title=NBC MAKES $2.3 BILLION BET ON OLYMPIC TV RIGHTS|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-12-13-9512130286-story.html|url-status=live|access-date=August 20, 2021|website=chicagotribune.com|date=December 13, 1995 |language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018102339/http://www.chicagotribune.com:80/news/ct-xpm-1995-12-13-9512130286-story.html |archive-date=October 18, 2018 }}</ref>

NBC partnered with [[HDNet]] to produce an eight-hour block of daily coverage in [[High-definition television|high definition]], which was carried by HDNet and on the [[Digital television in the United States|digital]] signals of participating NBC [[Network affiliate|affiliates]].<ref>{{cite web|date=December 17, 2001|title=NBC, HDNet To Team For HDTV Broadcast of Winter Olympics|url=http://www.twice.com/news/tv/nbc-hdnet-team-hdtv-broadcast-winter-olympics/3952|access-date=February 7, 2015|website=Twice|archive-date=February 9, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150209043956/http://www.twice.com/news/tv/nbc-hdnet-team-hdtv-broadcast-winter-olympics/3952|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Kovacs|first=Bob|date=January 23, 2002|title=2002 Winter Olympics: Bigger, Faster, Better|url=https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/2002-winter-olympics-bigger-faster-better|url-status=live|access-date=August 20, 2021|website=TVTechnology|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820023855/https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/2002-winter-olympics-bigger-faster-better |archive-date=August 20, 2021 }}</ref> Despite being held in a [[Mountain Time Zone|time zone]] only one hour ahead of [[Pacific Time Zone|Pacific Time]], NBC still [[Broadcast delay|tape delayed]] much of its coverage for the west coast, although Salt Lake City's local NBC affiliate [[KSL-TV]] was given permission to air the live, east coast broadcasts to ensure their availability in the Games' host city.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Sandomir|first=Richard|date=February 12, 2002|title=OLYMPICS: TELEVISION; NBC's Olympic Coverage Is Shown 'Live' on Tape|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/12/sports/olympics-television-nbc-s-olympic-coverage-is-shown-live-on-tape.html|access-date=August 20, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=August 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820023854/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/12/sports/olympics-television-nbc-s-olympic-coverage-is-shown-live-on-tape.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Deseret News|date=April 6, 2001|title=TV briefs|url=https://www.deseret.com/2001/4/6/19579164/tv-briefs|access-date=August 20, 2021|website=Deseret News|language=en|archive-date=August 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820023854/https://www.deseret.com/2001/4/6/19579164/tv-briefs|url-status=live}}</ref>

Coverage of the Games by the [[Seven Network Olympic broadcasts|Seven Network]] in Australia featured ''[[The Ice Dream with Roy and HG|The Ice Dream]]'', a miniseries presented by comedy duo [[Roy and HG]] as a follow-up to ''[[The Dream with Roy and HG|The Dream]]''—their series for the [[2000 Summer Olympics]]. The series featured a running gag of the duo proposing an Australian bid to hold the [[2010 Winter Olympics]] in the resort town of [[Smiggin Holes, New South Wales]].<ref>{{cite magazine|author=Bower, Amanda|date=February 25, 2002|title=Olympics 2010: On to Smiggin Holes!|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|publisher=Time Inc|url=http://www.time.com/time/olympics2002/article/0,8599,212844,00.html|url-status=dead|access-date=May 10, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020226001045/http://www.time.com/time/olympics2002/article/0,8599,212844,00.html|archive-date=February 26, 2002}}</ref>

==Legacy==
===Ski industry and winter sport===
[[File:Utah Olympic Oval.jpg|thumb|Utah Olympic Oval]]
The 2002 Winter Olympics brought a huge amount of success to the Utah skiing industry. Since hosting the Winter Games, Utah has seen a 42% increase in skier and snowboarder visits {{as of|2010|lc=y}}–11. This increase resulted in direct expenditures from skiers and snowboarders growing 67% from $704&nbsp;million in 2002–2003 to $1.2&nbsp;billion in 2010–2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ksl.com/article/19155597 |title=Economic impact of 2002 Olympics still felt |last=Lee |first=Jasen |date=February 8, 2012 |website=[[KSL.com]] |access-date=March 14, 2021 |archive-date=April 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423174619/https://www.ksl.com/article/19155597 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Fourteen venues were constructed or expanded in preparation for the Winter Games. One of the venues constructed for the Games was the [[Utah Olympic Park]], which has proven to be one of the most successful venues to date because it has been maintained in top competition form. Owing to the routine maintenance of the park, Utah has been able to host a large number of winter competitions since 2002, including more than 60 World Cup events (e.g. the [[FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup]]), as well as seven world championships, and various other sporting events. Hosting these high-profile competitions has resulted in approximately $1&nbsp;billion being injected into the local economy.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/news/salt-lake-city-still-basking-in-2002-winter-games-legacies |title=Salt Lake City still basking in 2002 Winter Games legacies |date=January 21, 2014 |website=olympic.org |access-date=June 21, 2016 |archive-date=August 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807041445/https://www.olympic.org/news/salt-lake-city-still-basking-in-2002-winter-games-legacies |url-status=live }}</ref> During 2013–2014, Utah held 16 various winter sport events, bringing $27.3&nbsp;million to the economy of Utah.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.heraldextra.com/business/local/winter-sports-industry-crucial-to-utah-economy/article_5ecca646-e487-553c-98f5-e8ea04da8ff1.html |title=Winter sports industry crucial to Utah economy |date=December 15, 2013 |last=Hesterman |first=Billy |work=[[Daily Herald (Utah)|Daily Herald]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216233150/https://www.heraldextra.com/business/local/winter-sports-industry-crucial-to-utah-economy/article_5ecca646-e487-553c-98f5-e8ea04da8ff1.html |archive-date=December 16, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> After holding the Olympics, Utah became home to two National Governing Bodies of Sport.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://le.utah.gov/publicweb/MCKELMK/PublicWeb/21717/Utah_Olympic_&_Sports_Legacy_Q1_2014resized.pdf |title=Utah:The State of Sport, The Olympic Flame Continues to Burn |date=2014 |work=Utah Sports Commission |via=[[Utah State Legislature|le.utah.gov]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911032638/https://le.utah.gov/publicweb/MCKELMK/PublicWeb/21717/Utah_Olympic_%26_Sports_Legacy_Q1_2014resized.pdf |archive-date=September 11, 2015 |url-status=dead |access-date=August 4, 2021 }}</ref> The [[U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association]] is headquartered in [[Park City, Utah]] and the U.S. Olympic speed skating team is based out of the [[Utah Olympic Oval]].

===University of Utah expansion===
The [[University of Utah]] was one of the hosts of the 2002 Winter Olympics; the planning committee approached the University of Utah and asked them to build several student dormitories which would serve as athletes' accommodation during the Games. It was agreed that the university would pay approximately $98&nbsp;million out of the total required amount of $110&nbsp;million to complete the construction. As a result, students of the university have benefited as almost 3,500 of them would be housed here after the Games. This was a great economic benefit to the university since the amount of money used to complete such dormitories could take long to be afforded. The university was also asked to expand [[Rice Eccles Stadium]] to accommodate 50,000 people up from 32,000. The university would then be refunded almost $59&nbsp;million and be given an extra $40&nbsp;million for its maintenance.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/09/realestate/the-2002-olympics-are-transforming-salt-lake-city.html |title=The 2002 Olympics Are Transforming Salt Lake City |work=The New York Times |last=Kopytoff |first=Verne |date=November 9, 1997 |access-date=February 19, 2022 |archive-date=February 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220220035904/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/09/realestate/the-2002-olympics-are-transforming-salt-lake-city.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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The 2002 Olympic Games also benefited the university economically since the [[Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Cauldron Park]] was elevated by the renovations that took place. Ice rinks were very scarce in Utah, but they became plentiful and offered several entertainment and training opportunities for hockey players and figure skaters due to the Olympic Games. The Cauldron Park located at the University of Utah which was built with $6.5&nbsp;million in profits and had the following features: a visitors' center which had a theater that showed a thrilling movie about the Olympic Games of 2002 and a "park" which had a dazzling pool and a V-shaped stone wall with the names of all the medalists of the 2002 Olympic Games. Besides, the park had 17 plates that hung on the stadium's fence celebrating the highlights of each day of the Olympics. All these features acted as tourist attraction that boosted the economic development of the university. In addition, it is indicated that the approximate value of media exposure through print during the Games was equated to $22.9&nbsp;million. Mainly, this was a huge economic benefit to the university as more and more people got to know about the educational establishment, and this also boosted enrollment and future development.

===Immigration===
Holger Preuss in his book ''The Economics of Staging the Olympics: A Comparison of the Games 1972–2008'' argues that "The export of the 'Olympic Games' service results in an inflow of funds to the host city, causing additional production which, in its turn, leads to employment and income effects."<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GQzccu2Qw-oC&q=%22inflow+of+funds%22 |title=The Economics of Staging the Olympics: A Comparison of the Games 1972–2008 |isbn=978-1-8-4376-893-7 |last=Preuss |first=Holger |year=2004 |publisher=Edward Elgar |page=36 |access-date=May 3, 2021 |archive-date=March 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240308183132/https://books.google.com/books?id=GQzccu2Qw-oC&q=%22inflow+of+funds%22#v=snippet&q=%22inflow%20of%20funds%22&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> According to the study "2002 Olympic Winter Games, Economic, Demographic and Fiscal Impacts", the estimated creation of new job years of employment was 35,424, and additional earnings of $1,544,203,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://digitallibrary.utah.gov/awweb/awarchive?type=file&item=12491 |title=2002 Olympic Winter Games – Economic, Demographic and Fiscal Impacts |date=November 2000 |publisher=State of Utah, Governor's Office of Planning and Budget |website=digitallibrary.utah.gov |pages=4, 14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428145956/https://digitallibrary.utah.gov/awweb/awarchive?type=file&item=12491 |archive-date=April 28, 2021 |url-status=live |access-date=April 28, 2021}}</ref> It was noted that the increase of Olympic related job started in 1996 and continued until 2003. These effects can be estimated on the ground of historical relationship between job and corresponding population growth. A lot of people migrated into the future place of the [[Olympic Games]] for expanding and favorable employment opportunities that the Olympics ensured. Although residents occupied many of the higher paying jobs created by the Games, many of the vacated jobs were filled by immigrants who relocated for the better employment opportunities.

Basically, the immigration rate was even larger because the employees immigrated with their families. The additional people paid diverse taxes and fees from their income, creating additional revenue on the state and local levels.

===Employment===
Olympic related jobs in Utah started in 1996 with slight job opportunities of less than 100. However, from the job measurement conducted from 1996 to 2002, steady attainment of job opportunities established and a maximum level was noted in 2001 where there were 12,500 job opportunities attained yearly, and approximately 25,070 jobs created in 2002.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/0047287502041001006|title=Nonhost Community Resident Reactions to the 2002 Winter Olympics: The Spillover Impacts|first1=Cary|last1=Deccio|first2=Seyhmus|last2=Baloglu|date=August 1, 2002|journal=Journal of Travel Research|volume=41|issue=1|pages=46–56|via=SAGE Journals|doi=10.1177/0047287502041001006|s2cid=154897887|access-date=September 7, 2021|archive-date=March 8, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240308183129/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0047287502041001006|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Therefore, from 1996 to 2002 the sum of employment equated to 35,000 jobs which lasted a year. February 2002 is when the highest employment opportunities were created compared to other years. There were around 25,070 job opportunities created compared to 35,000 created from 1996 to 2001.

It is difficult to quantify the impact of the 2002 Olympics on the [[unemployment rates]] in Utah, due mostly to the effect of the [[early 2000s recession]]. In 1996, the unemployment rate in Utah was approximately 3.4%, while the U.S. national average was 5.4% and by the end of 2001, the unemployment rate in Utah was around 4.8%, while the national average had risen to 5.7%.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://data.bls.gov/ |title=Databases, Tables & Calculators by Subject |publisher=Data.bls.gov |date= |access-date=February 10, 2022 |archive-date=December 3, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203213338/http://www.data.bls.gov/ |url-status=live }}</ref> There was a high percentage of visitors to the Games, which raised the number of tourists whose consumption and demand prompted the establishment of job opportunities to meet the demands.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pace |first=Levi |date=2006-07-25 |title=Economic Impact of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games |url=https://gardner.utah.edu/_documents/publications/econ-dev/olympics-econ-impact.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013004057/https://gardner.utah.edu/_documents/publications/econ-dev/olympics-econ-impact.pdf |archive-date=2017-10-13 |access-date=2022-07-23 |website=University of Utah Center for Public Policy and Administration}}</ref>

===2034 Winter Olympics===
{{more information|Bids for the 2034 Winter Olympics}}
In 2017, an exploratory committee was formed to consider a Salt Lake City bid for a future Winter Olympics.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Kamrani|first1=Christopher|last2=Gorrell|first2=Mike|date=October 16, 2017|title=Utah takes big step toward bidding for 2026 or 2030 Winter Olympics|work=Salt Lake Tribune website|url=http://www.sltrib.com/sports/2017/10/16/utah-forms-exploratory-committee-for-2026-or-2030-winter-games/|access-date=October 21, 2017|archive-date=October 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020075041/http://www.sltrib.com/sports/2017/10/16/utah-forms-exploratory-committee-for-2026-or-2030-winter-games/|url-status=live}}</ref> In December 2018, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC, now the [[United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee]] [USOPC]) named Salt Lake City as its preferred candidate to bid for a future Winter Olympics, citing that its experience and existing venues could be leveraged.<ref>{{cite news|date=December 2018|title=Salt Lake City gets go-ahead to bid for Winter Olympics|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|url=https://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-winter-olympics-20181214-story.html|access-date=December 14, 2018|archive-date=December 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215091645/https://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-winter-olympics-20181214-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In February 2022, amid the [[2022 Winter Olympics]] and the 20th anniversary of the Games in Salt Lake City, the USOPC stated that it was "already in dialogue with the IOC, not yet for a specific year but as part of their evolving process", and acknowledged that there was "very high excitement and support from the local population."<ref>{{Cite web|date=February 10, 2022|title=Officials to meet next week to discuss 2030 Winter Olympic Bid in Salt Lake City|url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1119076/salt-lake-olympic-bid|access-date=February 15, 2022|website=Inside the Games|archive-date=February 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220216043013/https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1119076/salt-lake-olympic-bid|url-status=live}}</ref>

In November 2023, the IOC's Future Host Commission recommended that Salt Lake City–Utah be invited to engage in "targeted dialogue" with the IOC Executive Board, as preferred host for the [[2034 Winter Olympics]]; the Future Host Commission cited the bid's reliance on private funding, as well as plans to reuse much of the infrastructure that was originally built for the 2002 Games.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-11-29 |title=SLC named preferred host for '34 Winter Olympics |url=https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2023/11/29/salt-lake-city-named-preferred-host-2034-winter-olympics |access-date=2024-01-26 |website=Sports Business Journal |language=en |archive-date=January 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240126033059/https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2023/11/29/salt-lake-city-named-preferred-host-2034-winter-olympics |url-status=live }}</ref>

On July 24, 2024, during the [[142nd IOC Session]] in Paris just before the [[2024 Summer Olympics]] in that city, Salt Lake City–Utah was selected to host the 2034 Winter Olympics and [[2034 Winter Paralympics|Paralympics]]. IOC President [[Thomas Bach]] said: "Salt Lake City and Utah are long-time friends of the Olympic Movement, and we are confident that they will organize exceptional Olympic and Paralympic Games, just as they did years ago. The legacy of 2002 is tangibly and passionately alive in Utah. The legacy of 2034 starts today."<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 24, 2024 |title=IOC elects French Alps 2030 as Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games host |url=https://olympics.com/ioc/142nd-ioc-session |access-date=July 24, 2024 |website=International Olympic Committee}}</ref> With the 2034 Winter Olympics, Salt Lake City will become the fourth city to host multiple Winter Games after Innsbruck ([[1964 Winter Olympics|1964]] and [[1976 Winter Olympics|1976]]), Lake Placid ([[1932 Winter Olympics|1932]] and [[1980 Winter Olympics|1980]]), and Cortina d'Ampezzo ([[1956 Winter Olympics|1956]] and [[2026 Winter Olympics|2026]]).

==Concerns and controversies==
===Disqualifications for doping===
{{further|Doping at the Olympic Games#2002 Salt Lake City}}
The 2002 Winter Olympics were the first Winter Olympics held after the formation of the [[World Anti-Doping Agency]], resulting in the first instances of athletes being disqualified for failing drug testing.<ref>{{cite news |title=Expect illegal drugs at 2012 Olympics |author=Bob Weiner & Caitlin Harrison |url=http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/50948868-82/drug-games-olympics-athletes.html.csp |newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune |date=December 29, 2010 |access-date=January 7, 2011 |archive-date=March 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322004515/http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/50948868-82/drug-games-olympics-athletes.html.csp |url-status=live }}</ref> Athletes in [[cross-country skiing (sport)|cross-country skiing]] were disqualified for various reasons, including [[doping (sport)|doping]] by two Russians and one Spaniard, leading Russia to file protests and threaten to withdraw from the competition.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/22/sports/olympics-protests-russians-threaten-to-pull-out-of-games.html |title=OLYMPICS: PROTESTS; Russians Threaten To Pull Out Of Games |first=Michael |last=Janofsky |date=February 22, 2002 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=August 24, 2021 |archive-date=August 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210824142254/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/22/sports/olympics-protests-russians-threaten-to-pull-out-of-games.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Pairs figure skating judging controversy===
{{Main|2002 Winter Olympics figure skating scandal}}
A major scandal emerged during the [[Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics|pairs figure skating competition]]; the Canadian pair of [[Jamie Salé]] and [[David Pelletier]] narrowly lost to the Russian pair of [[Elena Berezhnaya]] and [[Anton Sikharulidze]], despite the Canadians being deemed the favorites to win after their free skate program. The French judge [[Marie-Reine Le Gougne]] alleged that the head of the [[French Federation of Ice Sports]], [[Didier Gailhaguet]], had pressured her to judge the competition in favor of Russia regardless of performance. Amid criticisms of the incident by both Canadian and American media outlets, and suspicions that this was part of a [[vote swapping]] scheme with Russia to benefit the French ice dance team, the [[International Skating Union]] (ISU) voted to suspend Le Gougne for failing to immediately inform officials of Gailhaguet's actions. They also recommended to the IOC that the gold medal be jointly awarded to both pairs. An IOC panel voted in favor of the motion, resulting in both Salé and Pelletier, as well as Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze, being jointly awarded gold medals.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Swift|first=E. M.|date=February 25, 2002|title=Thorny Issue|url=https://vault.si.com/vault/2002/02/25/thorny-issue-canadian-pair-david-pelletier-and-jamie-sale-got-belated-gold-even-as-a-judging-scandal-so-shook-the-sport-that-it-brought-talk-of-long-overdue-reform|magazine=Sports Illustrated|access-date=August 20, 2021|archive-date=March 12, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230312044551/https://vault.si.com/vault/2002/02/25/thorny-issue-canadian-pair-david-pelletier-and-jamie-sale-got-belated-gold-even-as-a-judging-scandal-so-shook-the-sport-that-it-brought-talk-of-long-overdue-reform|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Reaction2">{{cite news|last=Sandomir|first=Richard|date=February 19, 2002|title=As the Story Unfolds, NBC Has the Biggest Part|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/sports/sports-media-as-the-story-unfolds-nbc-has-the-biggest-part.html|access-date=August 20, 2021|archive-date=April 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416045518/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/sports/sports-media-as-the-story-unfolds-nbc-has-the-biggest-part.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Disqualification of Kim Dong-Sung===
{{Main|Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres#Controversy}}
In the final race A, with one lap remaining and currently in second place, [[Apolo Ohno]] of the United States attempted to make a pass on the leader [[Kim Dong-Sung]] of South Korea, who then drifted to the inside and as a result, Ohno raised his arms to imply he was blocked. Kim finished first ahead of Ohno, but the Australian referee [[James Hewish]] disqualified Kim for what appeared to be impeding, awarding the gold medal to Ohno.<ref name="stptimes">{{Cite news|title=Ohno finishes second, then first as winner is disqualified |date=August 24, 2002 |work=St. Petersburg Times |url=http://www.sptimes.com/2002/02/21/Olympics/Ohno_finishes_second_.shtml |access-date=March 14, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081208161638/http://www.sptimes.com/2002/02/21/Olympics/Ohno_finishes_second_.shtml |archive-date=December 8, 2008 }}</ref><ref name="protestDQ">{{Cite news |title=South Korean DQ'd; officials promise protest |date=February 23, 2002 |url=http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/winter02/speed/news?id=1337596 |work=[[ESPN]] |access-date=March 14, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210232707/http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/winter02/speed/news?id=1337596 |archive-date=December 10, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The South Korean team immediately protested the decision of the chief official of the race, but their protests were denied by the [[International Skating Union]] (ISU).<ref name="disqualified">{{Cite news |title=Ohno disqualified in 500, U.S. falls in 5,000 relay |date=February 23, 2002 |url=http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/winter02/speed/news?id=1339742 |agency=[[Associated Press]] |via=[[ESPN]] |access-date=February 16, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060301220624/http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/winter02/speed/news?id=1339742 |archive-date=March 1, 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="protestDQ"/><ref name="sportslaw2002">Epstein (2002), 272–273.</ref> The South Korean team then appealed to the [[International Olympic Committee]] (IOC) and the [[Court of Arbitration for Sport]] (CAS).<ref name="disqualified"/><ref name="sportslaw2002"/> The IOC refused to see the case, stating, "This is a matter for the ISU to decide on. At this time, the IOC has received no proposal and taken no action".<ref name="disqualified"/><ref name="sportslaw2002"/>

The disqualification of Kim upset South Korean supporters, many of whom directed their anger at Ohno and the IOC. A large number of e-mails protesting the race results crashed the IOC's email server, and thousands of accusatory letters, many of which contained death threats, were sent to Ohno and the IOC.<ref name="disqualified"/><ref>{{Cite news |title=Skating union rejects protest of South Korean's DQ |date=February 21, 2002 |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2002/speed_skating/news/2002/02/21/south_korea_lawsuit_ap/ |agency=[[Associated Press]] |via=[[CNN]] |access-date=February 16, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061029051444/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2002/speed_skating/news/2002/02/21/south_korea_lawsuit_ap/ |archive-date=October 29, 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="YNA1">{{Cite news |author1={{Lang|ko|강훈상}} |script-title=ko:동계올림픽 쇼트트랙 판정에 네티즌 분노 '폭발' |trans-title=Netizens explode their anger over short track ruling at the Winter Olympics |date=February 21, 2002 |url=https://n.news.naver.com/news/article/001/0000132685 |agency=[[Yonhap News Agency]] |via=[[Naver]] |access-date=August 22, 2021 |archive-date=August 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210822125637/https://n.news.naver.com/news/article/001/0000132685 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="YNA2">{{Cite news |author1={{Lang|ko|강훈상}} |script-title=ko:美 쇼트트랙 오노선수 홈페이지 '다운' |trans-title=Website of American short track player Ohno crashed |date=February 21, 2002 |url=https://n.news.naver.com/news/article/001/0000132730 |agency=[[Yonhap News Agency]] |via=[[Naver]] |access-date=August 22, 2021 |archive-date=August 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210822125616/https://n.news.naver.com/news/article/001/0000132730 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="YNA3">{{Cite news |author1={{Lang|ko|이정진}} |script-title=ko:IOC 홈페이지 마비 사태 |trans-title=IOC's website paralyzed |date=February 22, 2002 |url=https://sports.news.naver.com/news.nhn?oid=001&aid=0000132808 |agency=[[Yonhap News Agency]] |via=[[Naver]] |access-date=August 22, 2021 |archive-date=August 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210822125618/https://sports.news.naver.com/news.nhn?oid=001&aid=0000132808 |url-status=live }}</ref> South Korean media accused Ohno of simulating foul, using the [[Konglish]] word "Hollywood action".<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hjLMb8bJNmfxBpn75QuYzRj6sHUg| title=Ohno slammed by Koreans in bitter echo of 2002| date=February 16, 2002| access-date=March 11, 2014| agency=[[Agence France-Presse]]| archive-date=February 20, 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100220194707/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hjLMb8bJNmfxBpn75QuYzRj6sHUg| url-status=dead}}</ref> The controversy continued at the [[2002 FIFA World Cup]], held jointly in South Korea and Japan several months after the Olympics.<ref name="Sports Illustrated"/> When the [[South Korea national football team|South Korean soccer team]] scored a goal during the [[2002 FIFA World Cup Group D#South Korea vs United States|group stage match]] against the [[United States men's national soccer team|U.S. team]], South Korean players [[Ahn Jung-Hwan]] and [[Lee Chun-Soo]] made an [[Goal celebration|exaggerated move]] imitating the move Ohno had made during the speed skating event to imply the other athlete had drifted into his lane.<ref name="Sports Illustrated">{{Cite magazine |title=Korean Hostility |last1=Cazeneuve |first1=Brian |publisher=[[Time Inc.]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222133741/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1114728/index.htm |archive-date=February 22, 2014 |date=December 13, 2004 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1114728/index.htm |access-date=November 2, 2014 |via=[[CNN]]}}</ref>

==See also==
{{IOC seealso|games=2002 Winter Olympics }}
* [[2007 Winter Deaflympics]]
* [[:Category:Competitors at the 2002 Winter Olympics]]

==References==
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* [http://www.saltlake2002legacy.com/ Official Salt Lake 2002 Legacy website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170109032219/http://saltlake2002legacy.com/ |date=January 9, 2017 }} and [https://web.archive.org/web/19990427103510/http://www.slc2002.org/home.html archive of website] on the [[Wayback Machine]]
* [http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2FUSHS_Olyleg Olympic Legacy image archives] – Utah State Historical Society
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090209215737/http://www.engenmuseum.org/2002exhibits 2002 Olympic Winter Games Museum] in [[Park City, Utah]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080131182045/http://www.stadium.utah.edu/venue_facts/cauldron.html 2002 Olympic Cauldron Park] in Salt Lake City.

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