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2018 Winter Olympics

The 2018 Winter Olympics, formally called the XXIII Winter Olympic Games, will be an international athletic event that has yet to be organized by the International Olympic Committee. The organization under the leadership of Jacques Rogge is currently preparing to mount calls for cities to bid for the honor of hosting the event.

2018 Winter Olympics - Potential bids

United States cities have already announced plans to compete for the opportunity to host the 2018 Winter Olympics. Salt Lake City, Utah has shown its interest in hosting the games for the second time. The Lake Tahoe region, which is divided between California and Nevada and has also hosted the Winter Olympics (Squaw Valley 1960), has also conducted feasibility studies for these Games.

Denver, Colorado is conducting a feasibility study for either the 2018 Winter Olympics or 2020 Summer Olympics. However, Denver has the dubious distinction of being the only city to reject hosting duties after being awarded the hosting rights without a compelling reason (Rome rejected its hosting duties for the 1908 Summer Olympics because of reconstruction efforts following a volcanic eruption). This is widely viewed as a huge hindrance to the bid effort, if not killing it completely. Lake Placid, New York is also rumored to be considering a bid.

The French Olympic committee will need to choose between three potential candidate cities -- Annecy, which had originally intended to bid for the 2014 Winter Olympics, has been joined in the running by Grenoble and Gap.

Other possible candidate cities include Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Beirut, Lebanon; Stockholm, Sweden; Quebec City, Canada,; Moscow, Russia; and Tromsø, Norway.

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