Arguably the biggest crowd-pleaser in world sport, Usain Bolt had good reason to thank Birmingham for being the hostcityfor the Jamaican team's training camp during the build-up to the London Olympics.
In order to maintain the Olympics' prestige, and ensure it is still feasible for one city to host all of the events, the IOC will only introduce a new sport if an existing one is removed from the program.
In 1984, he bought Snowbasin Resort, less than an hour's drive northeast of Salt Lake City, and built it into another top skiing destination that served as the hostfor downhill skiing races in the 2002 Olympics.