The cities officially submitting a bid application prior to the IOC deadline are:
Vancouver (Canada), Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Jaca (Spain), Salzburg (Austria), Pyeongchang (Korea), Harbin (People's Republic of China), Bern (Switzerland), and Andorra La Vella (Andorra).
All eight cities submitted a completed copy of the questionnaire they had received last December, by the IOC deadline.
The questionnaire, which asks applicant cities to give information on a wide variety of criteria, including sports and telecommunications infrastructure, transportation and accommodation facilities, environmental conditions and finance, is part of the new bidding process developed as a result of the IOC reforms passed in December 1999.
The eight questionnaires will be studied by a working group comprising members of the IOC administration and external persons who will assess the applicant cities' ability to organise and stage high level international multi-sports events against a set of eleven criteria.
The findings of the study will be presented by the working group to the IOC Executive Board at its meeting in Lausanne on August 28-29, and the list of candidate cities will then be drawn up, from which the host city will be elected and announced during the IOC Session in Prague in July 2003.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed eight cities have submitted bids to host the 2010 Winter Games.
