| Salt Lake City |
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| GER |
12 |
16 |
7 |
35 |
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| USA |
10 |
13 |
11 |
34 |
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| NOR |
11 |
7 |
6 |
24 |
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| CAN |
6 |
3 |
8 |
17 |
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| RUS |
6 |
6 |
4 |
16 |
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| AUT |
2 |
4 |
10 |
16 |
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| ITA |
4 |
4 |
4 |
12 |
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| FRA |
4 |
5 |
2 |
11 |
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| SUI |
3 |
2 |
6 |
11 |
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| NED |
3 |
5 |
0 |
8 |
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Key players in Utah's bid and organizing effort
Mitt Romney: President and chief executive officer of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee
Experience: Romney, the son of former Michigan Gov. George Romney, grew up in Michigan and has spent most of his adult life in Massachusetts, but has close ties to Utah. His father grew up in Utah and Romney attended Brigham Young University. He also has a home in Deer Valley and is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Utah's predominant religion.
Mitt Romney
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After graduating from BYU, Romney went on to get a joint law/business degree from Harvard, doing it in three years, again with honors.
After college he went to work for Bain & Co., an international consulting firm. He broke off to form Bain Capital, a venture-capital firm specializing in takeovers and company restructuring. He has 18 partners in Bain Capital, but he is the sole shareholder, president and undisputed leader of the company. Bain Capital is the money behind the Staples office supplies store chain and 120 other companies ranging from Domino's Pizza to the Italian yellow pages. It manages about $500 million in investments.
When Bain & Co., his former company experienced severe financial troubles, Romney's new firm returned and resurrected it, saving the jobs of several hundred people and 25 offices worldwide.
In 1994 Romney failed in his bid to unseat Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. Interestingly, Romney raised more than $95,000 from Utahns during his Senate race — more than Utah's own congressmen Jim Hansen and Bill Orton at the same time.
Olympic history: Romney, the Boston-based venture capitalist with Utah ties, was named CEO of SLOC on Feb. 11, 1999, replacing Frank Joklik, who resigned during the early stages of the bid bribery scandal.
Utah officials selected Romney because of his leadership style, his speaking ability and his prudent business skills. He has a history of obtaining results without using the same types of business practices that tarnished Salt Lake's bid. Romney cited his concern about the tarnished rings as a primary motivation for taking the job.
Shortly after his selection, Romney reassured existing and potential Olympic sponsors that the Games would be successful. He also promised to protect Utah's environment and have Utahns share in the thrill of the Games. He promised the local volunteer effort would be unlike any in Olympic history. He quickly reminded SLOC's board of trustees that the 2002 Winter Games would be about sport and athletes, not business and managers.
Romney slashed more than $180 million from SLOC's budget and helped bring in about $200 million in new sponsor revenue. He has managed to divert the world's attention from the scandal and has promised the Games will come in on budget. He's backing that up by waiting to be paid until 2002—if there's money left after all the bills from the Games are paid.
Tom Welch: Former chairman of the Salt Lake Bid Committee and former CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee
Experience: An Ogden native, Welch is a former student body president of Weber State University. Prior to his work on Utah's Olympic efforts, he was executive vice president and corporate attorney for Smith's Food & Drug. He also was involved with the Salt Lake City Airport Authority, the Chamber of Commerce board and United Way fund drives.
Olympic history: For a decade Welch worked as an unpaid volunteer leading the campaign to bring both the 1998 Winter Games and then the 2002 Winter Games to Salt Lake City.
Tom Welch
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After winning the bid in 1995, he began receiving a salary of $315,000 per year, later increased to $325,000 per year, as president of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee.
He resigned from SLOC in July 1997 after being charged with a class B misdemeanor, domestic violence battery, in an assault on his wife, Alma. He pleaded no contest to the charge. The couple later divorced. He remarried and now lives with his wife in Huntington Beach, Calif. He also has a home in the Park City area.
After his resignation, Welch initially was to receive a $1 million payment from SLOC for his years of leading the bid effort without compensation plus $10,000 a month as a consultant in addition to $500,000 in retirement benefits. After the compensation package was widely criticized, Welch voluntarily gave up the $1 million payment.
SLOC ended his monthly $10,000 consulting payments and cut off his $500,000 in retirement benefits in January 1999 after the bribery scandal surfaced.
After a 19-month federal investigation, a federal grand jury indicted Welch in July 2000 on 15 charges of fraud, conspiracy and racketeering. In July 2001 a federal judge dismissed four racketeering charges. Four months later the judge dismissed the remaining counts.
Dave Johnson: Former vice president of the Salt Lake Bid Committee and Salt Lake Organizing Committee
Experience: A Salt Lake City native and University of Utah graduate, Johnson began his career as a car salesman for SLOC chairman Robert Garff's auto dealerships. He is a past director of sport development for the state's Community and Economic Development Office and moved on to head the Utah Sports Foundation when it was created in 1985. He also worked for Turner Broadcasting in coordinating sites for the Goodwill Games.
Olympic history: Johnson, because of his role with the Utah Sports Foundation, became involved in the Olympic bid effort in the mid-1980s. As vice president of the Salt Lake Bid Committee, he played a major role in fund raising and playing host to members of the International Olympic Committee during bids to bring the 1998 and later the 2002 Winter Games to Salt Lake City.
Dave Johnson
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In 1995, Johnson became a vice president for the Salt Lake Organizing Committee. It was a letter from Johnson to the daughter of an IOC member regarding a tuition payment, a copy of which was leaked to a Salt Lake television station, that led to widespread news reports about the bribery scandal beginning in November 1998.
Less than two months after the scandal surfaced he resigned from SLOC, along with SLOC President and CEO Frank Joklik. At the time, Johnson was making about $200,000 a year and would have earned a $60,000 per year pension had he stayed with SLOC through the 2002 Games.
After a 19-month federal investigation, a federal grand jury indicted Johnson in July 2000 on 15 charges of fraud, conspiracy and racketeering. In July 2001 a federal judge dismissed four racketeering charges. Four months later the judge dismissed the remaining counts.
Johnson still lives in the Salt Lake area with his wife, Kim Johnson, a morning news anchor at KSL-TV.
Frank G. Joklik: Former CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee
Experience: Joklik was born in Austria and grew up in Australia. He attended the University of Sydney where he earned a doctorate in geology. He attended Columbia University in 1953 as a Fulbright Scholar.
Frank Joklik
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He started his career as an exploration geologist in Canada and later worked for Kennecott Corp. In 1964 he managed projects for AMAX Inc. in Australia. He rejoined Kennecott in 1979 as a senior vice president and within a few years was running the Bingham Canyon copper mine. He retired from Kennecott in 1993. He accepted an executive position in November 1995 with MK Gold Co.
Olympic history: Joklik was a top fund-raiser during Utah's bid for the 1998 Winter Games. After Salt Lake narrowly lost that bid to Nagano, Japan, he was appointed in October 1991 as chairman of the Salt Lake Bid Committee. In August 1995, after Salt Lake City won the 2002 Winter Games, Joklik was named chairman of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee's board of trustees.
In August 1997, after Tom Welch resigned in the wake of spouse abuse allegations, Joklik was selected as president and chief executive officer of SLOC — an appointment endorsed by national and international Olympic officials. He led SLOC the first year for free until his annual salary was set at $280,000, but he received no retirement benefits.
In January 1999, a couple months after the bribery scandal broke, Joklik resigned in a move Gov. Mike Leavitt called necessary to restore public confidence in the organizing process.
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