Venues of the 2002 Winter Olympics
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The 2002 Winter Olympic Games were held in and around Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The games ran from February 8 to 24, 2002, and the Paralympics from March 7 to 16, 2002. The sporting events were held in ten competitive venues, while non-competitive events, such as the opening ceremony, were held in six other venues. Three venues were also created for training purposes. All Olympic venues were scattered throughout Northern Utah.
In November 1989 Utah's voters passed the Olympic referendum, which allowed construction to begin on a few of the future Olympic venues. The construction was to proceed using public funds which would be repaid with profits following the games. As part of the referendum the state created the Utah Sports Authority who would work closely with the Salt Lake Olympic Bid Committee and other Olympic organizers to ensure the venues complied with Olympic standards. Two years later Salt Lake City lost its bid to host the 1998 Winter Olympics, but construction continued on the new venues. By the time Salt Lake City bid again, in 1995, the venues had been completed. On June 16, 1995 the International Olympic Committee awarded Salt Lake City the games, and the newly completed venues were cited as one of the key factors in the successful bid.
The Utah Sports Authority constructed two of the Olympic venues, the Utah Olympic Park and Utah Olympic Oval. Prior to the games the authority turned over ownership of the venues to the Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC) who, following the games, turned ownership of the venues over to the Utah Athletic Foundation.
The Deer Valley Resort is located 36 miles (58 km) east of downtown Salt Lake City, in Park City, Utah. Deer Valley has been a popular skiing location since the 1930s and was improved by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) who built many of its first ski trails and other facilities during the winter of 1936–1937. In 1946 local citizens built the first ski lifts, and the area became known as Snow Park. In 1981 a private resort officially opened in the same area as Deer Valley and has grown to include six mountains with six bowls, 930 acres (380 ha) of glade skiing and 560 acres (230 ha) of snow-making. The resort totals 2,026 acres (820 ha) in size.
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