2002 Winter Olympics

Also known as Salt Lake City 2002, Salt Lake 2002, SLC 2002

19th edition of Winter Olympics, in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

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The 2002 Winter Olympics was the 19th edition of the Winter Olympics, held in Salt Lake City, Utah. This international sporting event brings together athletes from around the world to compete in winter sports like skiing, ice skating, and ice hockey.

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Official name: XIX. Olympesch Wanterspiller
Official website: olympics.com/en/olympic-games/salt-lake-city-2002
Image: Salt Lake 2002 torch cu.jpg

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point in time: 2002-02-00
Commons category: 2002 Winter Olympics
edition number: 19
start time: 2002-02-08
end time: 2002-02-24
number of participants: 2399
described at URL: www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/2002

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The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 (Arapaho: Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: Tit'-so-pi 2002; Navajo: Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: Soónkahni 2002), were an international winter multi-sport event that was held from February 8 to 24, 2002, in and around Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

Salt Lake City was selected as the host city in June 1995 at the 104th IOC Session. They were the eighth Olympics to be hosted by the United States, and the most recent to be held in the country until 2028, when Los Angeles will host the 34th Summer Olympics. The 2002 Winter Olympics and Paralympics were both organized by the Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC), the first time that both events were organized by a single committee, and inspiring other Olympic and Paralympic Games to be organized by such since then. These were the first Olympic Games under the International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidency of Jacques Rogge.