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Sep 12, 2019 · At the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, eight athletes carried in the American flag that was flying above the World Trade Center on 9/11. There was not a dry eye in that stadium. That flag was a symbol of all the innocent lives we lost that day.
- From Scandal to ‘Knocked Down Again with 9/11’
- ‘The World Would Never Be The Same’
- Anthrax Scare During 2002 Games
- Remembering The Lives Lost
The 2002 Winter Games had been expected to showcase how far the Olympic movement had come following the worldwide scandal surrounding Salt Lake City’s successful bid, when details surfaced of the city’s selection of the cash payments, scholarships and gifts handed out to International Olympic Committee members. Just days before 9/11, Fraser Bullock...
Hours after the attacks, Romney told the Deseret Newsthat while, “no one person can definitively make that call today,” he was “very confident the Games will go forward” and that how public safety and other plans for 2002 would change would be up to local, state and federal authorities as well as Olympic officials. Romney spoke to the newspaper on ...
Although that’s ultimately what happened, former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt said that for several hours early on in the Games, it appeared anthrax — a bacteria used as a biological weapon that had already killed five Americans and sickened 17 others in post-9/11 attacks by mail — had been detected at the Salt Lake City International Airport. “We had a ...
This is the time of year that Raney Norman usually digs out the bracelet with Stackpole’s name on it from her jewelry box and quietly reflects on the victims of 9/11. Team USA athletes didn’t talk much about the bracelets during the 2002 Games, she said, instead keeping their feelings private. A decade ago, on the 10th anniversary of the attacks, t...
Sep 11, 2016 · The Salt Lake City Winter Olympics went on to become, from a sports and business perspective, a relative success compared to other Olympics. But prior to the start of the Games, with 9/11 heavy on organizers’ and casual spectators alike, security was a major priority.
Feb 7, 2022 · A general view of downtown Salt Lake City at night during the Salt Lake Winter Olympics on February 23, 2002 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Organizers have already secured 21,000 hotel rooms in and around Salt Lake for the 2034 games.
Sep 16, 2018 · After the 9/11 attacks, organizers of the 2002 Winter Olympics — held just five months later — considered keeping fans away amid worries about terrorism, and perhaps merely televising...
Oct 30, 2021 · The caulderon from the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City has been moved to a new plaza in a new location just outside Rice-Eccles Stadium at the University of Utah.
Sep 12, 2023 · Team USA athletes and NYC first responders presented an American flag that had been buried in the rubble during the September 11th attacks at the Winter Olympic Games Salt Lake City 2002...
