Salt Lake 2002 Retrospective

IOC advisor and major event expert Adam Gray joins the Salt Lake 2002 Retrospective podcast and remembers an unconventional wedding proposal, winning over skeptics, needing more snowcats and a dirty bus gets into the venue (recorded 23 February 2021). 

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Show Notes:

WARM UP
00:26 - Welcome Adam!
03:31 - Tokyo 2020 plans

PRELIMS
06:32 - Tokyo as an inflection point
10:06 - From Sydney to Salt Lake

QUARTERFINALS
12:41 - A Christmas plan
15:07 - The phone call

SEMIFINALS
18:47 - Swimming to skiing (and skeptics)
22:41 - The discipline of delivering major events

FINALS
30:14 - A request from Spence Eccles
33:41 - Snowbasin contingencies

MIXED ZONE
40:42 - The first time skiing at Snowbasin
44:45 - Skiing the downhill with Herwig Demschar

PODIUM
50:04 - A training accident
54:59 - "I was asleep for two days"

COOL DOWN
59:38 - Avoiding a venue evacuation
1:08:16 - "Two ears and one mouth"