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Games-accredited media

Games-accredited media will be asked to show their accreditation card at all times to access the IOC hotels and the MMC.

Non-Games-accredited media

Special accreditation cards will be issued for media representatives who are not accredited to cover the Games. These are for media wishing to cover the meetings and attend the briefings at the MMC. These accreditation cards will be valid from 1 to 7 February and will only give access to the lobby of the hotels where the IOC meetings will be taking place and to the MMC’s conference room where the IOC briefings and news conference will be held.

In order to be eligible, non-Games-accredited media representatives must complete and submit the accompanying individual form together with a passport photo to the IOC Department of Communications by 25 January 2002. The form and photo should be mailed to the address provided on the form attached.

Journalists failing to meet this deadline will not be accredited. No late requests will be accepted in Salt Lake City.

Accreditation

Only journalists with valid media credentials are allowed to apply for this special accreditation card.

Accreditation cards must be picked up in person in Salt Lake City at the Little America Hotel starting 1 February. Please go to the IOC Welcome Desk near the elevator bank, and ask for the Department of Communications.

Accreditation cards will be provided only upon presentation of a passport plus a valid press card or another document issued by the press body to which the journalist belongs, confirming his function and mission and the authority of the person(s) signing such document. Any person not able to provide the required documentation will not receive the accreditation card.

The media will be able to view the proceedings of the Session via closed TV circuit in the lobby of the Little America Hotel, in the Grand America Hotel (location of viewing room still to be confirmed) and at the MMC.

As the MMC is within walking distance, no working facilities will be set up in the IOC hotels.

Executive Board and Session rooms: only a limited group of photographers and cameramen, whose composition the IOC will decide beforehand, will be permitted to enter the meeting rooms each morning from 1 to 6 February at 8:50, before the start of meetings.

Abravanel Hall – Opening Ceremony of the 113th Session – 3 February, 7 p.m.
A limited number of invitations will be distributed to the media on the day. A pool of photographers and cameramen will also be organised (details to be provided in Salt Lake City). Media representatives wishing to attend this event are invited to register at the office of the IOC Communications Department at the Little America Hotel. The IOC will then make a selection.

Because of the MMC’s proximity, media representatives are encouraged to either use the tramway or walk between the meeting hotels and the MMC.