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The Joe Quinney Winter Sports Center is a museum building within the Utah Olympic Park in Summit County, Utah, United States, that houses both the Alf Engen Ski Museum and the Eccles Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Winter Games Museum, as well as the main offices of the Utah Athletic Foundation (also known as the Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation).
2002 • 2006 • 2010 • 2014 • 2018 • 2022 • 2026 • 2030 • 2034: ... Olympic Legacy Plaza; 2002 Winter Olympics opening ceremony; P. Powder, Copper, Coal ...
Salt Lake City was chosen over Québec City, Canada; Sion, Switzerland; and Östersund, Sweden, on June 16, 1995, at the 104th IOC Session in Budapest, Hungary. [2] Salt Lake City had previously come in second during the bids for the 1998 Winter Olympics, awarded to Nagano, Japan, and had offered to be the provisional host of the 1976 Winter Olympics when the original host, Denver, Colorado ...
Following the Olympics, the arch was moved to the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Cauldron Park at the University of Utah where, along with the Olympic cauldron, it was one of the main features and an important part of Salt Lake's Olympic legacy. In August 2014, the arch was removed from the park [1] and placed in storage, where 29 pieces were stolen. [2]
The Salt Lake Olympic Square was located in downtown Salt Lake City, and was a four-block area open only to pedestrians during the 2002 games. The Olympic Square was home the Olympic Medals Plaza and the Salt Lake Ice Center, and also included the 22,000 sq ft (2,000 m 2) Olympic Superstore, which sold officially licensed products. The square ...
An Olympic Film Collection of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage (OFCH) includes fifty feature-length films providing a chronicle of the modern Olympic Games. [1] [2] A collection of many Official films was restored, [3] and released as a 2017 home video box set under the title 100 Years of ...
The 2002 Winter Olympic Games Snowboarding competition consisted of men's and women's halfpipe and parallel giant slalom events. The snowboarding competition took place at Park City, over a five-day period. [1] [2]
Because of the way his ancestor did, Copper represents Higher from the Olympic motto. His favorite color is turquoise green as seen on his gloves and badge. He tends to love Jell-O. He is one of the three Olympic mascots and one of the four mascots of Salt Lake City 2002. His name comes from the mineral of the same name.