Most of that bill — $90,000 — went to Dunn Communication, which provided public relations for the project and made a documentary video. Another $40,684 went to reimburse team members for their expenses. The rest was for miscellaneous expenses. The major private sponsors included the George S. & Delores Dore Eccles Foundation, the Willard Eccles Foundation and Devine Racing, which manages the Salt Lake City Marathon.

The accounting didn't make clear which expenses were paid for with city tax dollars and which ones were paid by sponsor dollars. However, Anderson said that is a moot point since all the city money will be paid back.

It is tradition for the previous Olympic Winter Games host to deliver a message on peace, youth and the environment to the next host of the Winter Games. According to that tradition, the message has to be delivered by environmentally friendly transportation that doesn't burn greenhouse gases.

In April, the message was taken by bicycle from Salt Lake City to New York, by sailboat from New York to Belgium, and then by bicycle across Europe to Torino. Anderson and Lyon joined the group in France on July 19. The crew spent the next 12 days biking though the French Alps and northern Italy en route to Torino.

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