John Furlong, CEO of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, Canada in a car with the event's logo.

THE CITY OF DALLAS SUBMITS ITS BID FOR THE 20-10 OLYMPICS.

VANCOUVER 2010 2010 WINTER OLYMPIC PRESS CONFERENCE

A soccer player kicks a ball out of the air.

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VANCOUVER OLYMPICS 2010 PRESSER W/ JULIA MARCUS, LEANNE SMITH, LINDSEY VONN, CHELSEA MARSHALL / FEED IN PROGRESS

When looking at this year's roster for the men's and women's USA Olympic curling teams, Minnesota and Wisconsin connections are everywhere.They competed this weekend for their chance to represent the country next year during the 2022 Beijing Winter Games. Of the four main curlers on the men's team, three are from Minnesota. On the women's team, two are from Minnesota."Curling is here to stay. It's really cool to have a hometown vibe with those teams," said former Olympic curler John Benton, now the director of curling for Four Seasons Curling Club in Blaine. Benton played with some of the soon-to-be Olympians when he curled in the 2010 Olympics, including John Shuster."What is the draw to curling? I think the draw to this is you look at curling as an Olympic sport, and you say, 'I can do that!' What other Olympic sport can you really do that with?" he said.Director of Men's Coaching Phill Drobnick is also from Minnesota."It's exciting for USA Curling to be able to send two medal contenders to the Olympic games," he shared upon returning home from the trials in Omaha.Drobnick says the next couple of months will be filled with ice time and competition leading up to February."It'll be practice, practice, practice," Drobnick said. "Really focusing on the physical side and the mental side, and really making sure they're prepared for the battle that will come at the Olympics." Athletes make it look easy with their special shoes, brooms, sweeping techniques and holding that pose."It takes a lot of core strength: your abs, your glutes, your quads," Benton said. "There's a lot of lower body in the delivery, and there's a lot of upper body in the sweeping, so it's a really good workout."A sport with many complexities that more spectators are taking notice of."Our top-level athletes are all about growing the sport together, and they want to share their support with everyone else across the country," Drobnick added.While Minnesota and Wisconsin are known for curling, Benton says curling clubs are popping up all over the country with interest in California, Arizona and the Carolinas.

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The official mascots of the 2010 Vancouver B.C. Olympics MIga, Quatchi and Sumi are dancing on set in a news studio.

This fascinating full color, silent home movie from June, 1941 shows the American Sokol Slet, a gymnastics and sporting competition, held in Chicago including Soldier Field. The film begins with important members of the organizing committee meeting to plan the games. At 1:27, a sign announcing the games is seen at the Sokol headquarters and shortly thereafter is a title card noting that for three days competitions in diving, gymnastics, swimming and athletics were held in Douglas Park, Pilsen Park, and the Sokol Chicago gymnasium. Various sporting events are seen including track at 5:40, women and then men's gymnastics at 6:40, etc. At 18:00, a swimming and diving competition is shown with ladies posing in one-piece swimsuits, and men at 20:10. At 20:15, rehearsal is seen at Soldier Field. At 25:58, the crowded parking lot of Soldier Field is seen on the day of the big event, and a color guard is seen at 27:00 marching across the field. The flag is saluted and the competition begins, with an enormous crowd in attendance including Colonel V.S. Hurban, the Czech ambassador to the USA. The Polish ambassador is also shown at 34:00, J. Ciechanowski.<p><p>The Sokol movement (from the Slavic word for falcon) is an all-age gymnastics organization first founded in Prague in the Czech region of Austria-Hungary in 1862 by Miroslav Tyrš and Jindrich Fügner. It was based upon the principle of "a strong mind in a sound body." The Sokol, through lectures, discussions, and group outings provided what Tyrš viewed as physical, moral, and intellectual training for the nation. This training extended to men of all ages and classes, and eventually to women.<p><p>The movement also spread across all the regions populated by the Slavic culture (Poland (Sokól), Slovene Lands, Serbia (SK Soko), Bulgaria, the Russian Empire (Poland, Ukraine, Belarus), and the rest of Austria-Hungary (e.g. present day Slovenia and Croatia)). In many of these nations, the organization also served as an early precursor to the Scouting movements. Though officially an institution "above politics," the Sokol played an important part in the development of Czech nationalism, providing a forum for the spread of mass-based nationalist ideologies. The articles published in the Sokol journal, lectures held in the Sokol libraries, and theatrical performances at the massive gymnastic festivals called slets helped to craft and disseminate the Czech nationalist mythology and version of history.<p><p>The Slet are milestones in the life of the Sokol movement. They are periodic gymnastics festivals, surveys of what has been accomplished in the past working period and demonstrations of individual and collective achievement in the field of physical culture. To the Sokols, they are as significant as the Olympic games were to the ancient Hellenes. The Slets are organized on a regional, national and international scale. The most<p>significant and the most famous, however, are the international Sokol Slets, held every six years at Praha, Czechoslovakia (Prague, Czech Republic). The first slet was held in 1882, in<p>celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Sokol organization, and was presided over and directed by Dr. Miroslav Tyrs. Every subsequent Slet reflected the amazing<p>growth of the movement and the spreading of the Sokol idea far beyond the national frontiers of Czechoslovakia. This constant progress is probably best documented by the growing numbers<p>of gymnasts participating in the various Slet events and in the growing number of countries represented. While the first Slet in 1882 was, more of less, a local affair with 720 gymnasts<p>taking active part, the tenth Slet, held in 1938, was a significant international affair, with more than 250,000 gymnasts participating actively in the gymnastics displays – among them Sokols<p>from all over the world. Transcending all man-made barriers – national, social and political – the Sokol Slets have become manifestations for international understanding and brotherhood. <p><p>We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example like: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference."<p><p>This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com

PAN RIGHT TO LEFT FROM OLYMPIC RINGS AND STATUE TO CROWDS OF PEOPLE OR SPECTATORS WALKING TOWARDS MODERN GLASS BUILDING, STADIUM, GYMNASIUM OR ARENA. SPORTS.

Construction for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics is under way with a new cross-country ski trail and ski jumps.

A JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT HAS LOST THE FINGERS ON HIS LEFT HAND AFTER A TUG OF WAR GAME

TAPE: EF02/0727 IN_TIME: 23:31:14 DURATION: 3:52 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Lausanne - 28 August 2002 SHOTLIST: 1. Exterior International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters 2. Close up of Olympic symbol over entrance 3. Wideshot of presser 4. Midshot of presser 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Francois Carrard, Director-General International Olympic Committee "The IOC Executive Board has decided to accept today the cities of - I give them in an order which is the order of presentation so please do not deduct any mysterious combinations because this was an order which was drawn - the cities of Vancouver, British Columbia; Salzburg, Austria; Bern, Switzerland, and Pyeongchang, South Korea were accepted as candidate cities to host the 21st winter Olympic Games in 2010." 6. Cutaway 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Francois Carrard, Director-General International Olympic Committee "There is no discussion. Again, I think our president is very clear, as soon as this matter came out he immediately decided to investigate, he immediately asked the Ethics Commission to enter, he immediately instructed me and others to investigate everywhere. And so there would be no point to start discussing assumptions of results or whatever as long as we don't know who did what." 8. Cutaway 9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Francois Carrard, Director-General International Olympic Committee "This was in response to certain rumours saying is the figure skating, as such, in question as a sport. There has never been any proposal to remove it but there were rumours circulating and during this discussion we quite firmly said there is no such proposal and it remains on the sport. And Mr Carrar in anticipation disclosed to us just that figure skating is not being questioned either by the programme commission. We will have the full report by Mr Carrar tonight." 10. Cutaway 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Francois Carrard, Director-General International Olympic Committee "The IOC Executive Board also decided this morning, on the basis of a report by the Ethics Commission, to propose the exclusion of Mr Hasan. This exclusion will be decided upon by the session in Mexico in November." 12. Cutaway 13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Egon Winkler, chief executive of Austrian 2010 olympic bid "The fact that Salzburg is among the candidates is fantastic news not only for me but it is also wonderful news for Salzburg and the whole of Austria because I think Olympic winter games have a dimension for the whole country." Q: Will you be ready? "We are certainly ready. Up to now we have prepared ourselves very well and I think this is proven by the fact that we are now a candidate city and we will certainly work very hard because we find that now as an obligation to work very hard to convince the members of the IOC in July next year that we are very good." 14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kim Nam-Soo, managing director of Korean 2010 Olympic bid "I am very pleased and proud of being chosen as a candidate city for the 2010 winter Olympics. We understand Pyeongchang, South Korea has the capability to host the 2010 winter olympics 15. Exterior of IOC headquarters STORYLINE: The front-running cities of Vancouver, British Columbia, and Salzburg, Austria, were among four finalists selected on Wednesday in the race for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Bern, Switzerland, and Pyeongchang, South Korea, also made the cut as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) executive board halved the field of eight candidates to a short list of official bidders. Eliminated from the race were Andorra La Vella, Andorra; Harbin, China; Jaca, Spain, and Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The 2010 winner will be selected by the full IOC assembly at its session in Prague, Czech Republic, in July, 2003. Meanwhile, the IOC confirmed that figure skating would remain in the Olympics despite the judging and fixing scandals which tainted the sport at the Salt Lake City Games. Director general Francois Carrard said the executive board declared its support for skating to dispel speculation the sport could be kicked out of the games. Also announced from the IOC's Swiss headquarters, was the decision of the executive board to recommend the expulsion of Indonesian committee member Mohamad "Bob" Hasan. Hasan, a business partner of former Indonesian strongman Suharto and an IOC member since 1994, is in an Indonesian jail serving a six-year sentence on corruption charges. The final decision to exclude Hasan must be made by the full session of the IOC, meeting in Mexico in November.

Construction for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics is under way with new luge and ski runs.

TAPE_NUMBER: EF01/0157 IN_TIME: 04:14:08 LENGTH: 03:32 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: FEED: VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) SCRIPT: Bosnian/Serbo-Croat/Nat XFA On the 17th anniversary of the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics, the Bosnian Olympic Committee and Sarajevo City council announced on Thursday that the Bosnian capital will once again be a candidate for the Winter Olympics. At an official ceremony at Olympic hall 'Zetra', Sarajevo mayor Muhidin Hamamdzic said that city of Sarajevo is going to prepare necessary documentation to apply for the Winter Olympics of 2010. After four years of war, most of the Olympic facilities in Sarajevo are completely destroyed, and Bosnia will need millions of dollars to reconstruct the objects needed for such a large sporting event. Mount Jahorina, is the only ski resort that works in full capacity in Bosnia after the war. Among the many foreign diplomats present at the ceremony, was the U-S ambassador to Bosnia, who was very pleased about the prospect. In addition to the diplomats, local skiers and tourists were equally pleased, claiming that Sarajevo was a great candidate for the 2010 Olympic Games. SOUNDBITE: (Bosnian) "In 1984 Sarajevo showed that it can organize the best Olympic games in the world until that time. Sarajevo in 2010 can do it again - without any doubt...organize very successful Olympic games." SUPER CAPTION: Bogic Bogicevic, Chairman of Bosnian Olympic Committee and one of the organizers of 1984 Olympics SOUNDBITE: (English) "I think that we'll get support from the whole international community, especially sports associations." SUPER CAPTION: Jadranko Prlic, Bosnian foreign minister SOUNDBITE: (English) "When you are gone through a devastating war, this is about the spirit of the human condition. It is about the spirit of people who come back from such devastation. I'll do everything to support this idea.This is a great idea and this is what all people of Bosnia should put their efforts behind." SUPER CAPTION: Thomas Miller, US ambassador to Bosnia SOUNDBITE: (English) " I'm happy for Sarajevo. The ski slopes here are beautiful. Sarajevo should organize the Winter Olympics again. This is great", Mirjana Granzov, Yugoslav champion in giant slalom SHOTLIST: Sarajevo, Bosnia - February 8, 2001 1. Wide shot Zetra Olympic hall ceremony 2. Screen showing footage of 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics 3. Various of guests 4. Sarajevo mayor announcing the decision 5. People applauding 6. Various of the ceremony 7. SOUNDBITE: (Bosnian) Bogic Bogicevic, Chairman of Bosnian Olympic Committee and one of the organizers of 1984 Olympics 8. Poster Sarajevo Winter Olympics 2010 9. Various of the guests 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jadranko Prlic, Bosnian foreign minister 11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Thomas Miller, US ambassador to Bosnia 12. Sarajevo children chorus singing 13. Ski lift at Mount Jahorina 14. Various skiing 15. Wide shot Olympic slide 16. Mirjana Granzov skiing 17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mirjana Granzov, Yugoslav champion in giant slalom 18. Pan across Mount Jahorina?