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Countdown 2002
• The selection process for an Executive
Producer for the Games’ Opening and
Closing Ceremonies has begun. SLOC
issued “invitations to apply” to more than
50 production entities in mid-December.
An announcement of the Executive
Producer will be made by fall 1999.
• SLOC sponsored a “School to Skate” program for about 90 students at Wasatch
Elementary School in Provo. The program
teaches students about Speed Skating.
The clinic included classroom instruction
on the history and technical aspects of the
sport as well as on-ice training at one of
the Olympic venues.
• The remaining test events for SLOC in the
winter 1999 are the U.S. Alpine and
Freestyle Skiing Championships at
Snowbasin, Park City and Deer Valley on
March 16-25.
• SLOC conducted a “Sport to Sport” luge
camp for 13 hearing-impaired children at
the Utah Winter Sports Park. Luge is a
sport that requires fine muscle control and
extreme sensitivity, and deaf children
innately develop a keen sense of touch for
the sport.
• About 25 representatives of the Salt Lake
City religious community participated in
the first Interfaith Relations Roundtable in
November 1998. Volunteer chaplains will
represent a variety of faiths at religious
centers in the Athletes Village for services
and counseling.
• Mickey Ibarra, James Lyons and Jim Easton
were speakers at the Olympic
Environmental Education Leadership
Summit sponsored by SLOC in November
1998 in Salt Lake City.
• The SLOC Web site at www.slc2002.org
averaged 1.7 million monthly hits in 1998,
including 4.3 million hits during the
Nagano Games and 2.5 million hits in
November in conjunction with the PreGames volunteer registration program.
IHC is donating its services to SLOC as part
of is commitment to community service. All
services will be closely coordinated with
state, county, city, and SLOC officials to provide the proper services required for the
Games.
Dianne Hesleph, SLOC Director of Education,
consults with a budding artist at the Cool
Winter Games™ launch in Salt Lake City.
Utah’s “Cool Winter Games”
More than 100 schoolchildren from
Washington and Wasatch Elementary
Schools launched a SLOC education program, the “Cool Winter Games™” art
project in downtown Salt Lake City. About
150 young artists drew “cool” themes on a
canvas that stretched 137 meters — the
length of the existing Olympic ski jumping
record — across the west side of the Salt
Lake City and County Building.
Three “Cool Winter Games™” art projects
will be conducted by 2000. The goal is to
reach about 250,000 children (K-6) in 500
public and private elementary schools
throughout the state. SLOC’s Educational
Advisory Committee selected this year’s
theme, “Cool Courage of Olympic
Athletes.” A different theme for the annual
project will be announced each fall.
SLOC plans to use the artwork to decorate
the Olympic Village at the University of Utah
and other Olympic venues.
New SLOC Staff
Kevin Donovan , the creative director
behind the design and development of a
65-acre All-American SportPark in Las
Vegas, has been selected as SLOC’s Director
of Image to coordinate and manage the
“Look of the Games” visual identity program … Perkins Miller , former
editor-in-chief of Mountain Sports and
Living magazine, joins SLOC as Director of
Publications … Don Moro, from the
Canadian Hockey Association, has been
named as Director of Ice Hockey …
Seileen Mullen Murphy, who has
worked with the U.S. Department of
Defense since 1993, has been appointed as
the Director of Federal Government
Relations … Don Pritchard, with more
than 20 years experience is the food and
beverage industry, has been selected as
Director of Food Services … Douglas E.
Rollins, MD, Director of the Center for
Human Toxicology at the University of
Utah, has been selected as SLOC’s Medical
Director for Doping Control … Marty
Schueren, who has extensive management
experience with the Texas Rangers Baseball
Club, Atlanta Committee for the Olympic
Games and the Georgia Dome, has been
named Director of Ticketing … William R.
Shaw, who has worked in government
affairs for Utah Power/Pacificorp since
1981, has joined SLOC as Director of State
and Local Government Relations … Marv
Smalley, who served as the U.S.
Department of Defense liaison for the 1996
Olympic Games, has been named SLOC’s
Director of Security … SLOC has seven
Olympic athletes on its staff with the additions of Lyle Nelson, Biathlon Project
Manager, a four-time Olympian and U.S.
flag bearer at the 1988 Olympic Winter
Games in Calgary, Andreja McQuarrie
(1984, alpine skiing, Yugoslavia) as
Manager of NOC Services, and Dawn
Allinger (1996, team handball, USA) as
Youth Sports Coordinator.
From the President
OLYMPIC
NEWS
S A LT L A K E C I T Y, U TA H • W I N T E R 1 9 9 9 • I S S U E 3
Upfront with President Mitt Romney
On February 11, 1999,
the Board of Trustees
for the Salt Lake
Organizing Committee
asked me to be the
new President and
Chief Executive Officer
for the Olympic Winter
Games of 2002. I accepted the position
because I believe the Olympic Games are
one of the world’s most important symbols
of peace, and because the Olympics help
create true heroes for our children.
And I will embrace this job because I believe
that the serious errors of a relative few
should not diminish the Olympics for us all.
The mistakes will not be forgotten, however. A breach of trust so severe merits
unflinching correction. The SLOC ethics
report, which was released on February 11,
1999, is a first step: Those findings precipitated important and courageous changes.
But the past should no longer be SLOC’s
focus. Our work now is to get the 2002
Games ready for the athletes.
The Games, and our three-year preparation
for them, must reflect the highest level of
conduct. There is no justification for compromising integrity. I will form a task force
to ensure that SLOC follows the highest
Copyright 1999 SLOC. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without prior written permission of SLOC. All rights reserved.
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ethical code, and I will support an ongoing,
independent ethics review. I expect all
employees and trustees to sign a written
code of conduct.
SLOC will spend what we earn and no
more. We will not leave unpaid bills for taxpayers. I will work immediately with SLOC
staff to develop contingency budgets,
preparing for varying revenue levels. No
shortfall is acceptable.
I will also form a group of Olympic
Ambassadors to work with the USOC and
SLOC to market the Games, in Utah and
across the country. And we will count on
Utah businesses to lead the way.
SLOC will work to preserve the environment, and Utahns will share in the thrill of
the Games just as they now endure the
agony of construction delays.
Our youth will share in the Olympic spirit.
Thousands will attend the Games, and we
will leave world-class sport facilities for generations of aspiring young athletes.
These are our top priorities at SLOC, but we
have many other goals. We want to put on
the best Olympic Winter Games in history,
and we want to share the spirit of the U.S.
and the American West with the world,
making Utah, and America, proud.
Mitt Romney
President and CEO
Salt Lake Organizing Committee
for the Olympic Winter Games of 2002
(SLOC)
XIX Olympic Winter Games
February 8-24, 2002
VIII Paralympic Winter Games
March 7-16, 2002
257 East 200 South, Suite 600
Salt Lake City, Utah 84111
Tel: 801-212-2002
Fax: 801-364-7644
www.slc2002.org
SLOC Board of Trustees
Sandra Baldwin*
James C. Beardall
Lane Beattie*
Teresa Beck*
Lewis Billings
Roger Black
Kenneth Bullock*
Camille Caine
Joan Calder
Joseph A. Cannon
R. Don Cash*
Keith Christensen
Deedee Corradini*
Forrest Cuch
Kathaleen Cutone
Anita DeFrantz*
Randy Dryer*
James L. Easton*
Spencer F. Eccles*
Dennis D. Ewing
Maria J. Garciaz
Robert H. Garff (chair)*
Joan Guetschow*
Tom Hori
William Hybl*
G. Frank Joklik
Nolan Karras
John Krimsky, Jr.
Michael O. Leavitt*
Dr. James Bernard Machen
Larry Mankin
Henry Marsh
James S. Morris
Brad Olch
Grethe B. Peterson
John Price*
Mitt Romney*
John Ruger*
Mike Schlappi*
Richard D. Schultz*
Zianibeth Shattuck-Owen
Gerald R. Sherratt
Bennie Smith, Jr.
Bill Stapleton*
Marty Stephens*
Gordon Strachan
Picabo Street
Jack Swartz*
Lillian Taylor
Diana Thomas
Richard Velez
Marion Willey
* Indicates SLOC Management Committee Members
The SLOC Board of Trustees is scheduled
to meet on the following dates in 1999:
April 8, July 8 and October 14. In addition,
the SLOC Management Committee will
meet on March 11, May 13, June 10,
September 9 and November 11.
Volunteer Registration
As of February 1999, SLOC’s first volunteer
registration advertisement had been
answered by nearly 9,300 applicants for
Pre-Games volunteer positions. In the three
weeks following the volunteer launch on
November 15, 1998, SLOC had 6,335 completed volunteer applications in its database
and about 3,000 application forms in processing.
“The response has been steady and consistently strong,” said Shelley Thomas, SLOC
Senior Vice President of Communications
and Public Affairs. “We have easily surpassed our volunteer needs for this winter
season. However, the registration process
remains open as we seek to put together a
committed workforce for the years ahead.”
This year’s volunteer candidates will aid in
the daily operations of SLOC central offices,
and others will help stage the U.S. Alpine
Championships and U.S. Freestyle
Championships at Park City, Deer Valley and
Snowbasin in March.
“The submission of an application does not
guarantee a volunteer position,” Thomas
said. “The Organizing Committee will
review the qualifications of every volunteer
and match the best volunteers with the
most suitable jobs.”
SLOC projects a need for 8,000 volunteers
in the Pre-Games period leading up to the
2002 Games. Some volunteer positions
require certain language, sport field-of-play,
medical or technology skills. General volunteer roles include administrative, hosting,
information, and athlete and spectator support.
Prospective Pre-Games volunteers can still
apply. The quickest and easiest way is online
at www.slc2002.org. Requests for an application can also be made through a
voice-recorded message by calling (801)
212-3000.
Venue Construction
In October, the SLOC Board of Trustees
approved four contracts for design and construction of Olympic venues at Soldier
Hollow in Wasatch Mountain State Park
and at the Oquirrh Park Oval in Kearns.
S A L T
L A K E
For Oquirrh Park, the SLOC Board awarded
contracts to Gillies Stransky Brems Smith
Architects (GSBSA) for Part II Design Services
and Layton Construction for construction
management. EDAW, Inc., was selected for
Part II Design Services at Soldier Hollow. The
Trustees also formally approved the Venue
Use Agreement between SLOC and the
state of Utah for Soldier Hollow.
committed $23.2 million to enclose the
facility by early fall 2000.
The Utah Winter Sports, site of Bobsleigh,
Luge, and Ski Jumping, will receive roughly
$1.4 million for the construction of bobsleigh and luge start houses, workshops,
storage areas, and track shading and snowmaking facilities.
Olympic Sport Program
Transportation Grants
Salt Lake 2002 will be offering the largest
Olympic Winter Games program ever with
70 events in 14 disciplines and seven sports.
A final sport program will be presented to
the IOC in 1999.
In October, the U.S. Government awarded
$90 million in discretionary transportation
funds to the state of Utah for four major
transit and highway projects, including $75
million for projects related to the 2002
Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
Two Biathlon events — men’s and women’s
pursuit races — have been added to the
program. The number of teams in the
women’s Ice Hockey tournament has been
increased from six to eight. The men’s and
women’s Curling tournament has also been
increased from 16 to 20 teams.
The Oquirrh Park Oval, site of 10 long-track
speed skating events, will consist of both
permanent and temporary facilities. The
permanent facilities will include an enclosure of the track, a center ice sheet (30
meters by 60 meters), and an adjoining
support building with locker rooms and
offices, encompassing about 250,000
square feet.
The Utah Sports Authority, which owns the
Utah Winter Sports Park, received $150,000
on Nov. 19, 1998, which allowed the venue
to open in early October for on-ice U.S.
team training in Bobsleigh and Luge. SLOC
will take over operation of the Utah Winter
Sports Park on April 1, 1999, and has estimated $45 million for preparation of the
Winter Sports Park venues for Olympic
competition.
Layton Construction Co., Inc., will serve as
Construction Manager for the permanent
facilities at Oquirrh Park. Work will begin by
April 15, 1999, to ensure the Oval is complete for training and test events in fall
2000.
Soldier Hollow, site of Cross-Country,
Biathlon and Nordic Combined, is also slated to receive $70,000 to help fund the
design and completion of the 5k crosscountry skiing loop for the 1998-99 ski
season.
Podium 2002
Technology Systems Integration
Kids Pins
As part of its Podium 2002 program, the
U.S. Olympic Committee will donate $3.5
million to SLOC. The funds will be used for
venue and equipment enhancements at the
Oquirrh Park Oval, Utah Winter Sports Park
and Soldier Hollow.
The IOC has appointed SEMA Group, a
leading global Information Technology company, to provide systems integration,
operations management and applications
delivery for the Olympic movement from
2001-2008.
Artwork created by Randi Honsvick, a sixthgrade student at Mill Creek Elementary
School in Salt Lake County, will be the first
child-designed lapel pin in the “2002
Kids™” commemorative pin program
from SLOC.
Podium 2002 is an $18-million USOC fund
designed to support athletic success at the
2002 Olympic Winter Games by supporting
Olympic hopefuls, sport National Governing
Bodies and the Organizing Committee.
SEMA Group, a European-based systems
integration company, has extensive experience in event management, having
provided successful IT systems for the 1992
Barcelona Games and other major sporting
events.
The design will be reproduced by Aminco
International, a SLOC licensee, in spring
1999 as part of its line of kids’ pins.
Aminco, which has already designed six
pins to date depicting youth participating in
winter sport activities such as figure skating
and skiing, plans to produce about 200 different pins for the 2002 Kids™ program.
“These enhancements benefit everyone
from athletes aiming for the 2002 Games
to future generations of skaters, lugers,
bobsledders and skiers,” said Cathy
Priestner Allinger, SLOC Managing Director
of Sport. “This is a great opportunity for the
USOC to improve venues at the development stage.”
The Oquirrh Park Oval will receive nearly $2
million for a second ice sheet, year-round
ice operations, equipment, and strength
and conditioning facilities.
SEMA will be a key participant in the new
Olympic Information Technology Group.
This group will provide and operate a comprehensive, cost-efficient information
technology plan to support the staging of
the 2002 Olympic Winter Games.
Announcement of venue results management and computer hardware providers will
be forthcoming from the IOC.
W I N T E R
G A M E S
Proceeds from the sale of these pins will go
to the “Olympics for Youth and Children
Fund” which purchases Olympic and other
Games-related tickets for kids. Although the
sale of Olympic license plates is the fund’s
primary income, SLOC and Aminco want to
sell about 500,000 pins, contributing
$35,000 to the program.
Mill Creek Elementary is the first of four
schools that will participate this year in the
pilot program. Other schools representing
Utah’s geographical regions will be identified later this year.
SLOC received its first grant of $85,000
from the USOC on Nov. 19,1998, for the
design of the second ice sheet. SLOC has
O L Y M P I C
Mill Creek Elementary School in Salt Lake
County participated in the 2002 Kids™ program
by submitting designs for potential lapel pins.
S A L T
L A K E
O L Y M P I C
W I N T E R
G A M E S
Federal matching funds are being made
available as part of the 1999 U.S.
Department of Transportation appropriations for projects that will be essential to the
Olympic transportation system.
Four projects directly funded by the
Secretary of Transportation include the new
access road to Soldier Hollow, State Route
248, the I-80 interchanges at Silver Creek
and Kimball Junction, and the I-15 reconstruction project. In his announcement,
Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater
noted that the federal funding for I-15 will
allow two additional Olympic projects—the
Utah Winter Sports Park access road and
the interchange at US 89 and I-84—to
move forward in fiscal year 1999.
These discretionary grants follow Congress’
1999 Omnibus Appropriations Bill. This bill
included $15 million for the Trappers Loop
connector road at the Snowbasin Ski Area
and $1 million in funding for Olympic transportation planning.
Intermountain Health Care
SLOC and Intermountain Health Care (IHC)
have officially signed an agreement for IHC
to provide health and medical services for
the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
SLOC selected IHC as the medical provider
last year. Both organizations spent several
months reviewing the medical needs of
both Games in order to prepare the final
agreement.
IHC will provide health services for Olympic
and Paralympic athletes, officials, media,
sponsors, suppliers, spectators, guests, staff,
volunteers, and contractors at competition
sites and other venue facilities. IHC will also
provide and equip first aid stations, coordinate recruitment and training of medical
volunteers, staff a medical command center
and provide support for doping control and
gender verification programs.
Countdown 2002
• The selection process for an Executive
Producer for the Games’ Opening and
Closing Ceremonies has begun. SLOC
issued “invitations to apply” to more than
50 production entities in mid-December.
An announcement of the Executive
Producer will be made by fall 1999.
• SLOC sponsored a “School to Skate” program for about 90 students at Wasatch
Elementary School in Provo. The program
teaches students about Speed Skating.
The clinic included classroom instruction
on the history and technical aspects of the
sport as well as on-ice training at one of
the Olympic venues.
• The remaining test events for SLOC in the
winter 1999 are the U.S. Alpine and
Freestyle Skiing Championships at
Snowbasin, Park City and Deer Valley on
March 16-25.
• SLOC conducted a “Sport to Sport” luge
camp for 13 hearing-impaired children at
the Utah Winter Sports Park. Luge is a
sport that requires fine muscle control and
extreme sensitivity, and deaf children
innately develop a keen sense of touch for
the sport.
• About 25 representatives of the Salt Lake
City religious community participated in
the first Interfaith Relations Roundtable in
November 1998. Volunteer chaplains will
represent a variety of faiths at religious
centers in the Athletes Village for services
and counseling.
• Mickey Ibarra, James Lyons and Jim Easton
were speakers at the Olympic
Environmental Education Leadership
Summit sponsored by SLOC in November
1998 in Salt Lake City.
• The SLOC Web site at www.slc2002.org
averaged 1.7 million monthly hits in 1998,
including 4.3 million hits during the
Nagano Games and 2.5 million hits in
November in conjunction with the PreGames volunteer registration program.
IHC is donating its services to SLOC as part
of is commitment to community service. All
services will be closely coordinated with
state, county, city, and SLOC officials to provide the proper services required for the
Games.
Dianne Hesleph, SLOC Director of Education,
consults with a budding artist at the Cool
Winter Games™ launch in Salt Lake City.
Utah’s “Cool Winter Games”
More than 100 schoolchildren from
Washington and Wasatch Elementary
Schools launched a SLOC education program, the “Cool Winter Games™” art
project in downtown Salt Lake City. About
150 young artists drew “cool” themes on a
canvas that stretched 137 meters — the
length of the existing Olympic ski jumping
record — across the west side of the Salt
Lake City and County Building.
Three “Cool Winter Games™” art projects
will be conducted by 2000. The goal is to
reach about 250,000 children (K-6) in 500
public and private elementary schools
throughout the state. SLOC’s Educational
Advisory Committee selected this year’s
theme, “Cool Courage of Olympic
Athletes.” A different theme for the annual
project will be announced each fall.
SLOC plans to use the artwork to decorate
the Olympic Village at the University of Utah
and other Olympic venues.
New SLOC Staff
Kevin Donovan , the creative director
behind the design and development of a
65-acre All-American SportPark in Las
Vegas, has been selected as SLOC’s Director
of Image to coordinate and manage the
“Look of the Games” visual identity program … Perkins Miller , former
editor-in-chief of Mountain Sports and
Living magazine, joins SLOC as Director of
Publications … Don Moro, from the
Canadian Hockey Association, has been
named as Director of Ice Hockey …
Seileen Mullen Murphy, who has
worked with the U.S. Department of
Defense since 1993, has been appointed as
the Director of Federal Government
Relations … Don Pritchard, with more
than 20 years experience is the food and
beverage industry, has been selected as
Director of Food Services … Douglas E.
Rollins, MD, Director of the Center for
Human Toxicology at the University of
Utah, has been selected as SLOC’s Medical
Director for Doping Control … Marty
Schueren, who has extensive management
experience with the Texas Rangers Baseball
Club, Atlanta Committee for the Olympic
Games and the Georgia Dome, has been
named Director of Ticketing … William R.
Shaw, who has worked in government
affairs for Utah Power/Pacificorp since
1981, has joined SLOC as Director of State
and Local Government Relations … Marv
Smalley, who served as the U.S.
Department of Defense liaison for the 1996
Olympic Games, has been named SLOC’s
Director of Security … SLOC has seven
Olympic athletes on its staff with the additions of Lyle Nelson, Biathlon Project
Manager, a four-time Olympian and U.S.
flag bearer at the 1988 Olympic Winter
Games in Calgary, Andreja McQuarrie
(1984, alpine skiing, Yugoslavia) as
Manager of NOC Services, and Dawn
Allinger (1996, team handball, USA) as
Youth Sports Coordinator.
From the President
OLYMPIC
NEWS
S A LT L A K E C I T Y, U TA H • W I N T E R 1 9 9 9 • I S S U E 3
Upfront with President Mitt Romney
On February 11, 1999,
the Board of Trustees
for the Salt Lake
Organizing Committee
asked me to be the
new President and
Chief Executive Officer
for the Olympic Winter
Games of 2002. I accepted the position
because I believe the Olympic Games are
one of the world’s most important symbols
of peace, and because the Olympics help
create true heroes for our children.
And I will embrace this job because I believe
that the serious errors of a relative few
should not diminish the Olympics for us all.
The mistakes will not be forgotten, however. A breach of trust so severe merits
unflinching correction. The SLOC ethics
report, which was released on February 11,
1999, is a first step: Those findings precipitated important and courageous changes.
But the past should no longer be SLOC’s
focus. Our work now is to get the 2002
Games ready for the athletes.
The Games, and our three-year preparation
for them, must reflect the highest level of
conduct. There is no justification for compromising integrity. I will form a task force
to ensure that SLOC follows the highest
Copyright 1999 SLOC. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without prior written permission of SLOC. All rights reserved.
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ethical code, and I will support an ongoing,
independent ethics review. I expect all
employees and trustees to sign a written
code of conduct.
SLOC will spend what we earn and no
more. We will not leave unpaid bills for taxpayers. I will work immediately with SLOC
staff to develop contingency budgets,
preparing for varying revenue levels. No
shortfall is acceptable.
I will also form a group of Olympic
Ambassadors to work with the USOC and
SLOC to market the Games, in Utah and
across the country. And we will count on
Utah businesses to lead the way.
SLOC will work to preserve the environment, and Utahns will share in the thrill of
the Games just as they now endure the
agony of construction delays.
Our youth will share in the Olympic spirit.
Thousands will attend the Games, and we
will leave world-class sport facilities for generations of aspiring young athletes.
These are our top priorities at SLOC, but we
have many other goals. We want to put on
the best Olympic Winter Games in history,
and we want to share the spirit of the U.S.
and the American West with the world,
making Utah, and America, proud.
Mitt Romney
President and CEO
Salt Lake Organizing Committee
for the Olympic Winter Games of 2002
(SLOC)
XIX Olympic Winter Games
February 8-24, 2002
VIII Paralympic Winter Games
March 7-16, 2002
257 East 200 South, Suite 600
Salt Lake City, Utah 84111
Tel: 801-212-2002
Fax: 801-364-7644
www.slc2002.org