Bids For The 2014 Winter Olympics
Seven applicant cities presented bids to host the 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympics (formally known as XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games) to the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The IOC Executive Board shortlisted three cities—Sochi, Russia; Salzburg, Austria; and Pyeongchang, South Korea—with Sochi winning the IOC's July 2007 final vote.
The three selected candidates, chosen on June 22, 2006, delivered to the IOC their Candidature Files (known as bid books) on January 10, 2007. From February to April 2007, an ad-hoc committee performed visits to the candidate cities and prepared an evaluation report which was released one month before the election.
The election by exhaustive ballot took place on July 4, 2007 in Guatemala City during the 119th IOC Session; Sochi beat out Pyeongchang by four votes in the second round of voting to win the rights to host after Salzburg had been eliminated in the first round.
Read more about Bids For The 2014 Winter Olympics: Final Round, Evaluation of The Applicant Cities, Applicant Cities Comparison, Applicant Cities Venues List, Potential Bids
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