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Bids for the 1998 Winter Olympics

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Committee
  
IOC

Winner
  
Nagano (46 votes)

Decision
  
15 June 1991

Bids for the 1998 Winter Olympics

Election venue
  
Birmingham 97th IOC Session

Runner-up
  
Salt Lake City (42 votes)

The selection process for the 1998 Winter Olympics consisted of five bids, and saw Nagano, Japan, be selected ahead of Salt Lake City, United States; Ă–stersund, Sweden; Jaca, Spain; and Aosta, Italy. The selection was made at the 97th IOC Session in Birmingham, United Kingdom, on 15 June 1991.

The Nagano Olympic bid committee spent approximately $14 million to entertain the 62 International Olympic Committee members and many of their companions. The precise figures are unknown since Nagano, after the IOC asked that the entertainment expenditures not be made public, destroyed the financial records.

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Bids for the 1998 Winter Olympics Wikipedia