And organizers of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002 are promising a better site, with more advertisers.

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As well as creating a fabulously successful private-equity company, he turned around the failing Salt Lake City winter Olympics of 2002.

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And now Mitt Romney, about to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his leadership of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, is being accused of cronyism.

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Lexington would plump for Mitt Romney, a youthful-looking 60-year-old with plenty of executive experience a former governor of Massachusetts who rescued the Salt Lake City winter Olympics from disaster.

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Romney's close ties to the state of Utah, home to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, led to his hiring as the head of the troubled Salt Lake City Winter Olympics of 2002.

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Romney did not land a strong counter blow, obfuscating with braggadoccio about his executive prowess balancing budgets as head of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, his career in business and as governor of Massachusetts.

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The idea for this trip must have been that simply seeing Mr Romney in an Olympic setting would remind potential voters of what many would see as his greatest achievement: turning around the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002.

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But last year they made the decision to head to Salt Lake City to watch the Winter Olympics at first hand.

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He was already under indictment in a separate U.S. case accusing him of bribing Olympic figure skating judges at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

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Salt Lake City, which has been bidding for the Winter Olympics since 1967, originally wanted to boost itself.

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Salt Lake City won the bid to host the 2002 Winter Olympics with help, it now appears, from bribery.

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Mr Romney is something of an expert on things going wrong in the Olympics, as the saviour of the Salt Lake City winter games in 2002, which appeared to be heading for disaster before he stepped in.

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The women's downhill skiing event at the Winter Olympics has been postponed because of strong winds in Salt Lake City.

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Salt Lake City (Winter Games, 2002) was the first to be uncovered, followed by Sydney (Olympics, 2000) and then Nagano, Japan (Winter Games, 1998).

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