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3 Cities Face Vote for 2014 Winter Games

Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:09:46 PM
By STEPHEN WILSON

Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer, left, and Guatemala's President Oscar Berger look at photographers after a press conference in Guatemala City, Tuesday, July 3, 2007. The International Olympic Committee, IOC, holds its 119th meeting in Guatemala City to decide Wednesday among Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi, South Korea's Pyeongchang and Austria's Salzburg as the 2014 Winter Olympics host city. Gusenbauer is in Guatemala to support Salzburg's bid.  (AP Photo/ Moises Castillo)GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Reward Russia with its first Winter Olympics? Take the games to a new Asian market in South Korea? Or return to the Austrian Alps for the first time in nearly 40 years?

That's the choice facing the International Olympic Committee on Wednesday in the closely contested vote for the host city of the 2014 Winter Games.

Amid frantic lobbying in the final hours of the campaign, the race was too tight to call between Sochi, Russia; Pyeongchang, South Korea, and Salzburg, Austria.


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