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Olympic Winter Games Vancouver 2010
12 - 28 February

 


Wayne Gretzky, ice hockey legend and Canadian Prime Minister Jean ChetienVancouver (Canada), Salzburg (Austria), Pyeongchang (Korea) and Bern (Switzerland) were accepted as candidate cities to host the XXI Olympic Winter Games in 2010 by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) executive board on 28 August 2002. On 27 September 2002, the city of Bern withdrew its candidature to host the XXI Olympic Winter Games in 2010.

The candidate cities were selected after a study of their application was made by a working group comprising IOC administration members and external experts. An assessment was made of each applicant city's ability to stage high-level, international, multi-sport events and their ability to organize quality Olympic Winter Games in 2010 against a set of 11 technical assessment criteria:

• government support and public opinion
• general infrastructure
• sports venues
• Olympic village
• environmental conditions and impact
• accommodation
• transport
• security
• experience from past sports events
• finance
• general concept

The three remaining candidate cities submitted their candidature file to the IOC in January 2003. These were then analyzed in detail by the IOC Evaluation Commission which also made inspections of the candidate cities, before issuing a report in May 2003.

The final decision on the host city for the XXI Olympic Winter Games, Vancouver, was made by the full IOC membership during the 115th IOC Session in Prague on 2 July 2003.

  

 
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