The International Olympic Committee was re-founded in Santiago, Chile in 2001, but the new IOC found it impossible to make concrete plans for a new Games for several years. In 2006, the Alpine Confederation approached the IOC, now based in Auckland, New Zealand, with a bid to host a Winter Games on a limited scale, as a forerunner to a full-fledged Olympics to be held at a later date. The IOC was wary at first, since any Games held in the AC would attract a limited pool of teams, mainly European. Nevertheless, there was a clear need to move forward, and the IOC accepted the Alpine bid. It made the announcement at the same time it announced that Auckland would host the first postwar Summer Games in September 2010; these Auckland Games would later be postponed to 2012.
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| - The International Olympic Committee was re-founded in Santiago, Chile in 2001, but the new IOC found it impossible to make concrete plans for a new Games for several years. In 2006, the Alpine Confederation approached the IOC, now based in Auckland, New Zealand, with a bid to host a Winter Games on a limited scale, as a forerunner to a full-fledged Olympics to be held at a later date. The IOC was wary at first, since any Games held in the AC would attract a limited pool of teams, mainly European. Nevertheless, there was a clear need to move forward, and the IOC accepted the Alpine bid. It made the announcement at the same time it announced that Auckland would host the first postwar Summer Games in September 2010; these Auckland Games would later be postponed to 2012.
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| - The International Olympic Committee was re-founded in Santiago, Chile in 2001, but the new IOC found it impossible to make concrete plans for a new Games for several years. In 2006, the Alpine Confederation approached the IOC, now based in Auckland, New Zealand, with a bid to host a Winter Games on a limited scale, as a forerunner to a full-fledged Olympics to be held at a later date. The IOC was wary at first, since any Games held in the AC would attract a limited pool of teams, mainly European. Nevertheless, there was a clear need to move forward, and the IOC accepted the Alpine bid. It made the announcement at the same time it announced that Auckland would host the first postwar Summer Games in September 2010; these Auckland Games would later be postponed to 2012. The Alpine Confederation's concept - a limited Olympic event basically regional in scope - helped to inspire the plan, announced in 2009, for small-scale Winter Games to be held in several cities in September 2010. The AC took four years to prepare for its celebration of the Games. While Zürich was the official host city and the site of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, events were held at venues throughout the Confederation, befitting the decentralized nature of the AC.
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