Winter Olympics return to America in Utah awe and security
Salt Lake City hosts the 2002 Winter Games amid high security after Sept. 11. The opening ceremony at Rice-Eccles Stadium draws 55,000 spectators with tickets from 400 to 885 dollars. IOC allows the World Trade Center flag. Amy Peterson to carry another flag. More than 2,500 athletes from 77 countries, 80,000 daily spectators expected.
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Salt Lake City
Rockies
America
Utah
Patricia Haslam
Bountiful
Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium
Olympic Grounds
U.S
Mitt Romney
Romney
Olympic Eye
Olympic Media Center
Bush
U.N
Kofi Annan
International Olympic Committee
New York
Amy Peterson
Jeremy Bloom
Olympic Winter Games facts and top medalists summary
A compact record of Winter Games sites by year and host city with top career medalists across Nordic skiing, speed skating, bobsled, luge, figure skating, and more. Names include Smetanina, Dahlie, Torvill and Dean, Hedlund, Romme, Pechstein, Timmer, and others, with notable margins and scores across 1924 to 1998.
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Chamonix
France
St. Moritz
Switzerland
Lake Placid
N.Y
Gammisch-Partenkirchen
Germany
Brom Dahtie
Norway
Raisa Smetanina
Soviet Union
di Centa
Italy
Lyubov Egorova
Larissa Lazutina
Russia
Lydia Skoblikova
Bjorn Dahlie
Andrea Ehrig
East Germany
Bogdan Musicl
Yelena Valle
Uniland
Olympic TV Schedule Highlights Major Figure skating and Hockey
The listing details NBC CNBC and MSNBC Olympic schedule from Feb 9 to Feb 24. It covers opening ceremony ski events, speedskating, cross country, hockey matchups, figure skating, alpine events, snowboarding, biathlon, and closing ceremonies with times across stations. Multiple days feature Finland United States Canada Sweden Russia Germany and other nations in hockey and skiing events.
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Avuay Nbc
NBC
CNBC
Slovakia
Germany
Austria
Latvia
SNBC
Canada
Kazakstan
Ukraine
Switzerland
Belarus
France
United States
Newboard
MSNBC
Japan
Sweden
Russia
Norway
Denmark
China
Tba
Czech Republic
Finland
Britain
Hoax device found near Olympic media center in Salt Lake City
Police exploded a plastic bag filled with fuses and wire near the Olympic media center calling it a hoax device. The bag contained no explosives and was possibly a test run to gauge authorities reaction as pedestrians crowded the area before the opening ceremony.
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Salt Lake City
Olympic Media Center
Craig Gleason
Police Department
Media Center
Olympic Joint Terrorism Task Force
Gleason
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Christopher
Tim
Alpine
Anton Sailor
Madeleine Berthod
Orturn Enderlein
Jayne Torvill
Christopher Dean
Janet Lynn
John Curry
Erik Hedlund
Hiroyasu Shimizu
Ids Postma
Netherlands
Adne Sondral
Gianni Romme
Hjalmarndersen
Catriona LeMay Dean
Marianne Timmer
Gunda Niemann-Stimemann
Claudia Pechstein
Christina Baas-Kaiser
Takafumi Nishitani
Satoru Terao
Isabelle Charest
South Korea
Olympic TV
Tadeo
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