The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that all
seven cities applying to become candidates to host the XXII Olympic
Winter Games in 2014 have returned their responses to the IOC
Candidature Acceptance Procedure questionnaire.
Sochi (Russia), Salzburg (Austria), Jaca (Spain), Almaty
(Kazakhstan), PyeongChang (Republic of Korea), Sofia (Bulgaria), and
Borjomi (Georgia) * had until midnight on 1 February to submit their
files to the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The completed questionnaire, which marks the first phase in the
procedure leading to the election of the host city of the Olympic
Winter Games in 2014, should, through the responses to the 25
questions asked and guarantees requested, provide the IOC with an
overview of each Applicant City's project. For full details, please
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The responses will now be studied by an IOC-appointed working group
and by the IOC Executive Board, the latter meeting in June to decide
which cities will be accepted as Candidates Cities. 1
The Applicant Cities will now take part in an Observer Programme at
the Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games which opens in nine days.
The election of the 2014 host city will take place in Guatemala City
in July 2007.