The 2002 Olympic Winter Games were held in Salt Lake City, Utah.
By early 1999, the event was $379 million in debt. It was announced that Frank Joklik, president and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC), and Dave Johnson, vice president, along with others had been involved in perks, benefits, and bribes that enabled [...]
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Leadership in the 2002 Winter Games
Mitt Romney & The Olympics
It was a selfless motive that led Mitt to return to Utah at a comfortable point in his family life and career at Bain, to salvage the Olympics and resuscitate the spirit of the games. He didn’t do it for the glory, the applause, the money, the attention. He made an inconvenient move for the [...]
