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  1. Feb 8, 2002 · Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympic Games Legacy. Discover the lasting legacy that this edition of the Olympic Games created for its hosts. Memorable Firsts. By taking the silver medal in singles luge, Georg Hackl of Germany became the first person in Olympic history to earn a medal in the same individual event five times in a row.

  2. Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic Winter Games, athletic festival held in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S., that took place Feb. 8–24, 2002. The Salt Lake City Games were the 19th occurrence of the Winter Olympic Games. Scandal and fears of terrorism marked the 2002 Games long before the Olympic torch arrived.

  3. Overview. The roller coaster saga of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games began when Salt Lake City was selected as the host city at the 1995 IOC Session. Salt Lake City had bid for 1998 but lost out to Nagano, and its 2002 bid was so strong that the IOC needed only one round of voting to award the Utah city the bid, almost by acclamation.

  4. Aug 10, 2011 · After losing a close vote for the 1998 Olympic Winter Games, Salt Lake City was the runaway winner for 2002. Canada once again set a national record for Winter Olympic medals with 17, including seven gold. One of the biggest stories of the Games was Canada's return to ice hockey prominence as both the men's and women's teams won gold.

  5. Medal Table. See the list of teams and medals won by each. Official list of medal winners and results by sport at the Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic Games. Celebrate medal-winning moments by the world's top athletes.

  6. The Utah Olympic Oval provided Salt Lake 2002 with the fastest and highest speed skating track in history, at an elevation of 1,425 metres above sea level. The Olympic team from a unified Germany emerged the most successful over the course of Games, with an Olympic Winter Games record of 35 medals. Germany's medal tally for Salt Lake 2002 ...

  7. Re-live medal-winning moments and celebrate the world's finest athletes in their quest for gold at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.