Ten days before the IOC vote in Guatemala City, the race for the 2014 Winter Games is too close to call, according to the Around the Rings Olympic Bid Power Index. PyeongChang (Korea), Salzburg (Austria) and Sochi (Russia) all have the same score - 83 points each out of a possible 110....The ATR Bid Power Index, which was released on Monday, is the final ranking before the July 4th vote in Guatemala City. It is a ranking based on 11 criteria, which include subjective points such as ambience and objective details such as accommodations or transport. The index is based on multiple visits by ATR reporters to the cities in the past 2 years’, coverage of presentations by the cities around the globe, and scrutiny of bid documents, and interviews with bid officials, International Olympic Comittee members and other sports leaders.
The index is not meant to predict but to compare some of the major points that go into a successful Olympic Games. Judgments are based on nearly 20 years of covering Winter and Summer Olympics and the bids that led to them.
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