LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- All seven cities vying for the 2014
Winter Olympics returned profiles of their bids to the IOC by
Wednesday's deadline.
The cities are: Almaty, Kazakhstan; Borjomi, Georgia; Jaca,
Spain; Pyeongchang, South Korea; Salzburg, Austria; Sochi, Russia;
and Sofia, Bulgaria. The International Olympic Committee will
select the host in July 2007 in Guatemala City.
The bidders responded to a 25-point questionnaire covering
venues, financing, transportation, housing and security. The
documents will be studied by an IOC group, and the IOC executive
board will decide in June whether to accept all seven as official
candidates or cut the list.