Security Blanket
The Secret Service leads the effort to protect 2,500 Olympic athletes and a million spectators
Still, Camillo and Governor Leavitt know that no one can guarantee an incident won't occur, no matter how much fencing goes up-and 3 miles of chain-link fence already ring the Olympic Village where athletes and officials will stay. "What would it say if the world, because of fear, chose not to meet as a civilized people?" asks Leavitt. After taking every reasonable precaution and more, he believes the games, and the show, must go on.
Securing the Winter Olympics
This year's Olympics in Salt Lake City, from February 8 to 24, will feature the most extensive security measures ever. Some 10,000 security personnel, costing $310 million, will be on hand. The federal government's share will be more than $230 million--more than twice the amount it spent on the much larger 1996 summer games in Atlanta.
SECURITY AT ALL VENUES
All sites will be secured by Secret Service agents and National Guard members.
Spectators must take shuttle buses or walk to the venues.
Spectators must pass through magnetometers and have their bags searched.
No large backpacks or food or drink will be allowed.
Delivery vehicles will be searched and screened before approaching sites.
All venues will have a 300-foot standoff zone for vehicles.
OLYMPIC SITES
(1) Ice Sheet at Ogden: ice curling
(2) Snowbasin ski area: downhill and slalom skiing
(3) Salt Lake Ice Center: figure and speed skating
(4) Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium: opening and closing ceremonies
(5) Utah Olympic Oval: speed skating
(6) E Center: ice hockey
(7) Utah Olympic Park: bobsled, luge, skeleton, ski jump, Nordic skiing
(8) Deer Valley Resort: freestyle and slalom skiing
(9) Park City Mountain Resort: snowboarding, giant slalom skiing
(10) Soldier Hollow: Nordic, biathlon, and cross-country skiing
(11) Peaks Ice Arena: ice hockey
(12) Media Center: center for 9,000 accredited media members
SALT LAKE CITY INTL. AIRPORT
Armed National Guard members will be on duty in the airport, which will be the first in the nation to screen each checked bag for explosives. No flights will take off or land during opening and closing ceremonies.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE
F-16s will enforce a 52-mile-radius restricted flight zone over Salt Lake City and nine Olympic venues throughout the games.
OLYMPIC MEDALS PLAZA
The site of all medals ceremonies--to be held in the evening--and headline concerts. The plaza is in an eight-square-block area in downtown Salt Lake City surrounded by fencing and open only to pedestrians with tickets who pass through magnetometers.
OLYMPIC VILLAGE
Covering 70 acres of the University of Utah campus, the village will house 3,500 athletes and officials in 20 buildings. It is surrounded by 10-to-12-foot chain-link fences topped by motion detectors. Athletes and officials will have their own E-mail addresses and be encouraged to use the village's cybercenter instead of the mail.
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Salt Lake City
Great Salt Lake
Utah Lake
Provo
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215, 15, 80, 84, 40, 189, 15
BY THE NUMBERS
A central command post will coordinate a vast security apparatus:
THE CHALLENGE
Spectators 1 million
Daily arrivals in Utah 70,000
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