Salt lake City 2002


THE XIX^th OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES

The city of Salt Lake City was designated for organized the XIX games of winter of 2002 by the international Olympic comity June 16 1995 facing some cities like Quebec Sion and Ostersund.
It will be the first time that the state of Utah is going to organize the games in the sanctuary of the religion Mormon with notably their center of genealogy.

Dates:	February 8 - 24
Participating N.O.C.:	77
Number of Sports:	7
Number of Events:	78
Number of Athletes:	2 399
Men:	1 513
Women:	886
Volontiers :	22 000
Medias :	8 730
Opening:	George Bush, US President
Oath:	Jim shea
Oath for officials :	Allen Church
Number of torch bearer:	12 012
Final Torch Bearers:	The Olympic champion 1980 US hockey team
Candidates cities:	Östersund (SWE), Quebec (CAN) and Sion (SUI)

The table of the medals alphabetically of the countries