Judgment Day(s)

The sensational and scandalous revelations surrounding Salt Lake City’s bid for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games resulted in wide public disbelief and embarrassed Olympic officials worldwide. When frantic finger-pointing subsided and investigations by several commissions and organizations were completed, the end results were a changing of the guard to lead SLOC, dishonored and discharged IOC members, federally indicted Salt Lake City Olympic bid leaders, and hesitant international corporate sponsors. In the end, however, two indelible exclamation points punctuated the Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games record. First, the grandeur and quality of the Salt Lake City Olympic endeavor ranked it