Bids for the 2014 Winter Olympics

Seven cities complaint to the International Olympic Committee ( IOC) an application for the implementation of the 2014 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in 2014. Applications of Almaty for Kazakhstan, Bordschomis for Georgia, Jaca in Spain and Sofia in Bulgaria have not been approved in June 2006 for the final selection. While Jaca and Sofia had been repeatedly applied to host the Winter Olympics, it was for Almaty and Borjomi, the first application in history. For all four, it would have been the first Winter Games of the country, in Spain in 1992 already took place Summer Games. Reasons for not considering for example, were the long commute between the 200 km distant venues Borjomi and Tbilisi in Georgia's application, which is not planned in Jaca opening and closing ceremonies in the Spanish and the inadequate response to the IOC questionnaire in the Bulgarian application. The approval for the final decision about the venue, the South Korean city of Pyeongchang received, the Austrian Salzburg and the Russian Sochi.

• 2.1 The candidature of Pyeongchang
• 2.2 The candidature of Salzburg
• 2.3 The candidature of Sochi

Application Process

Evaluation of the Candidate Cities

A 13-member IOC Evaluation Commission, headed by IOC Vice- President Chiharu Igaya visited in early 2007, the three candidate cities, and made a picture of the possible venues. The Commission's report provided an assessment of the candidates, which is a clue to the choice decision of the IOC members. In early June 2007, the reports were published. While Pyeongchang application was presented as the best of the three and there were no criticisms in the applications of Salzburg, the low budget, as well as the accommodation of the athletes and too small a media center were criticized and Sochi, the absence of all competition venues, environmental hazards and the transport infrastructure was criticized. While the candidacies of Pyeongchang and Salzburg were judged to be excellent with the attribute, Sochi only got the touch very well.

Choice of venue

The final decision on the venue of the Games fell in Guatemala City on July 4, 2007. 103 voting members of the IOC were allowed to vote, the members of the candidate countries were not allowed to exercise their right to vote. Before the election, the three candidates had to present another chance the merits of their application in a final presentation.

Salzburg failed in the first ballot with 25 votes, while Pyeongchang received the most votes. In the second ballot was defeated Pyeongchang, as with the candidacy four years earlier, with 47 to 51 votes to Sochi. Thus in 2014 the first Winter Olympic Games in Russia and in a subtropical city by the sea, but also for the first time held in the Caucasus.

Overview of Nominations

The candidacy of Pyeongchang

Pyeongchang was the first city that the bid to host the 2014 Winter Olympics filed in December 2004, after they had prevailed in the national selection against Muju. The South Korean city applied already for the 2010 Winter Games, Vancouver but lost in the second round by 53:56 votes. Pyeongchang wanted to get a second time after the Summer Games in Seoul 1988 Olympic Games to South Korea and planned " Olympic Games of short distances" so that all venues would have been reached within an hour of Pyeongchang from.

All ice sports with the exceptions bobsleigh, luge and skeleton should be in Gangneung, located approximately 20 kilometers east of Pyeongchang discharged. The ski and snow resort and an ice channel should occur in the main town itself or in Jungbong and Bogwang, west of Pyeongchang and consisted partly already during the application process.

The candidacy of Salzburg

Salzburg applied after 2010 for the second time in a row and for the fourth time for the Olympic Winter Games and the Austrian Olympic Committee got preference over Innsbruck. The application for 2014 was more compact than those for 2010, partly because of the deletion of Kitzbühel, St. Johann and Ramsau as venues. Among the strengths of the candidacy not only the short distances between the venues, but the high degree of re-use of the sports facilities, the experience in organizing major sports events, the popularity of winter sports in Austria, as well as the snow safety of the venues were called. In addition, the application experienced a growing support among the population, as well as by the Austrian Government to The Chancellor Bauer. The Austrian application had by far the lowest budget, as most sports venues already exist. The application of Salzburg consisted of a concept with two cores (two cluster concept): an ice region around the city of Salzburg and a snow region im Pongau. Then there was the bobsled and luge track in the Bavarian Berchtesgaden.

The candidacy of Sochi

Sochi competed for the second time to host the Olympic Games. However, the city was not accepted in the competition for the award of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games as an official candidate. Sochi has been the application with the highest budget, as all venues need to be built. Russian President Vladimir Putin made ​​an important for the organization of the Games to Russia. Therefore, the Russian government also invested a lot of money, 12 billion U.S. dollars. In the application and the construction of sports venues Two thirds of this will be invested in infrastructure. The ski area in the district of Krasnaya Polyana was opened in 2007 and is intended to be the primary venue for the competitions in the open air, while the city of Sochi will even accommodate all indoor competitions. Here, the ice rinks are located in a park and be within walking distance. The large number of rooms and the high level of support from the population and from politicians counted as the strengths of this candidacy.