Olympic
Winter Games Vancouver 2010
12 - 28 February
Vancouver
(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.