In 2014, Formula One visits the Winter Olympic city of Sochi, for the inaugural Russian Grand Prix.
Winter, city life (with the concomitant shadows cast by tall buildings) and dark skin in dark climates all reduce this action.
And organizers of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002 are promising a better site, with more advertisers.
As well as creating a fabulously successful private-equity company, he turned around the failing Salt Lake City winter Olympics of 2002.
Halvorson got into the business ahead of the Salt Lake City Winter Games of 2002, where the golden, oblong bells became a sought-after souvenir.
And now Mitt Romney, about to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his leadership of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, is being accused of cronyism.
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Romney's close ties to the state of Utah, home to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, led to his hiring as the head of the troubled Salt Lake City Winter Olympics of 2002.
Romney did not land a strong counter blow, obfuscating with braggadoccio about his executive prowess balancing budgets as head of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, his career in business and as governor of Massachusetts.
Mr Romney is something of an expert on things going wrong in the Olympics, as the saviour of the Salt Lake City winter games in 2002, which appeared to be heading for disaster before he stepped in.
The idea for this trip must have been that simply seeing Mr Romney in an Olympic setting would remind potential voters of what many would see as his greatest achievement: turning around the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002.
On February 22nd, in Nagano itself, the mayor of Salt Lake City will formally invite the Winter Olympic circus to pitch its tent in his city in four years' time.
The top placing StarCraft II finishers from the MLG Winter Regional Online Qualifiers and the top eight finishers from the MLG Pro Circuit 2011 National Championships held in Providence last November, will advance to the MLG Winter Arena in New York City, February 24-26 where they will compete for Pool Play placement at the MLG Winter Championship competition and cash prizes.
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Last winter I visited Quebec City, a fortified Canadian city that can feel like a trip to France without the jetlag.
Scepticism was understandable, since an even deadlier wave of rainwater mixed with sewage engulfed the city last winter, prompting another investigation and promised cures.
Salt Lake City (Winter Games, 2002) was the first to be uncovered, followed by Sydney (Olympics, 2000) and then Nagano, Japan (Winter Games, 1998).
In addition, it plans to ramp up its presence in "hotel concepts", city breaks and winter holidays.
With its current winter season, New York City Ballet continues to create thematic programs out of its extensive repertory of mostly one-act ballets.
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He was already under indictment in a separate U.S. case accusing him of bribing Olympic figure skating judges at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
In 1999, he left the business world to become the president and chief executive of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, after fiscal and ethical problems emerged under the previous management.
Its commercial focus is looking ahead two years to the Winter Games in the Russian city of Sochi and the Youth Olympic Games in China's Nanjing and two years after that to the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Franco Aloisio, President of the Parada Foundation created in the mid 90s to help children living in the sewers in Bucharest, said the problem still existed in the city particularly in winter when temperatures drop to minus 15C but there had been an improvement.
It is this growing conviction of the economic potential of winter sports, combined with a fierce local pride, that explains why the city went to such lengths to secure the winter Olympics.
But last year they made the decision to head to Salt Lake City to watch the Winter Olympics at first hand.
Crews have been searching the site ahead of a major winter storm forecast to hit Kansas City later in the day.
Most of last winter the country's second city, Ganje, had to make do with only two hours of electricity a day.
Armed with a special smartphone app, more than 300 teams and individuals spent eight weeks last winter knocking on doors throughout the city.
Moscow (CNN) -- Russia's security service has foiled a plot to attack the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Black Sea city of Sochi, state media reported Thursday.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak cited the contributions he could offer to South Korea's efforts to draw the Winter Olympics in 2018 to the city of Pyeongchang.
The incident occurred in January 2002 just outside school grounds when the Olympic torch relay was moving through the Alaska capital on its way to the Salt Lake City, Utah, Winter Games.
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