Applicant Cities Comparison
| Category | Details | Sochi Russia |
Salzburg Austria |
Jaca Spain |
Almaty Kazakhstan |
Pyeongchang South Korea |
Sofia Bulgaria |
Borjomi Georgia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population | City (2005) | 333,267 | 149,997 | 12,322 | 1,185,696 | 45,482 | 1,090,295 | 13,725 |
| Country (2005) | 143,420,309 | 8,184,691 | 40,341,462 | 15,185,844 | 48,294,134 | 7,450,349 | 4,677,401 | |
| Public opinion, support | City | 84% | 60% | 91% | 83% | 97% | 81% | |
| Country | 53% | 72% | 85% | 92% | 74% | 86% | ||
| Bid budget (million US$) | Phase I | 10.0 | 2.7 | 1.3 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 0.5 | 2.2 |
| Phase II | 17.5 | 5.1 | 10.7 | 16.0 | 16.0 | 12.5 | 5.0 | |
| Main airport, 2005/2014 |
Name | Sochi International | Salzburg Airport | Zaragoza Airport | Almaty International | Incheon International | Sofia International | Tbilisi International |
| Distance (km) | 6 | 5 | 156 | 22 | 241 | 10 | 203 | |
| Runways | 2/2 | 1 | 2 | 1/2 | 2/3 | 1 | 2/2 | |
| Terminals | 1/2 | 2 | 1/2 | 1/2 | ||||
| Gates | 8/27 | 18 | 3 | 44/74 | 7 | 2/6 | ||
| Cap./year | 215,213 | 1,650,000/3,000,000 | 2,000,000/4,000,000 | |||||
| Cap./day | 40,000 | 24,000/48,000 | ||||||
| Cap./hour | 1,200/2,500 | 12,000/17,253 | /2,000 | |||||
| Longest distance* | km | 86 | 83 | 180 | 61 | 124 | 156 | 199 |
| min | 94 | 65 | 150 | 93 | 76 | 135 | 196 |
*Airports not included
Note: the cities are listed in the presentation order defined by the IOC during its Executive Board of October 26, 2005.
Read more about this topic: Bids For The 2014 Winter Olympics
Famous quotes containing the words applicant, cities and/or comparison:
“We have two kinds of “conference.” One is that to which the office boy refers when he tells the applicant for a job that Mr. Blevitch is “in conference.” This means that Mr. Blevitch is in good health and reading the paper, but otherwise unoccupied. The other type of “conference” is bona fide in so far as it implies that three or four men are talking together in one room, and don’t want to be disturbed.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: “his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.””
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)