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© St. Petersburg Times, published February 26, 2002
SALT LAKE CITY -- A Secret Service document detailing security arrangements for Vice President Dick Cheney at the Closing Ceremony was left at a Salt Lake City store Sunday by two agents shopping for souvenirs.
"It had a pretty detailed description about what was going on," said Clayton Greenhalgh, the store owner who discovered the document lying on a counter after the agents purchased two $11 Olympic hats.
Secret Service spokesman Marc Connolly declined to comment.
The log described seating arrangements at Rice-Eccles Stadium for Cheney, his wife and daughter and other dignitaries.
It also detailed more than a dozen areas of the stadium where Cheney was to go, including one "meet and mingle" session and the Presidential Box.
WHEATIES BOX: Sarah Hughes' performance landed her on a boxes of Wheaties. The cereal company will make the boxes with the figure skating gold medalist available in March.
CELEBRATION: More than 100,000 Croats greeted skier Janica Kostelic in Zagreb after she won four medals, including three golds.
NO CELEBRATION: Spain's Royal Palace called off a welcoming reception for Johann Muehlegg after the cross-country skier was stripped of one of his three gold medals for a doping offense.
Meanwhile, Muehlegg said he was confident a backup test, scheduled for late Monday, would prove him innocent.
NO STOMP: Members of the U.S. women's hockey team did not desecrate a Canadian flag, American and Canadian officials said after a joint investigation.
After the gold-medal victory, Canadians said they were angered American players stomped on a flag in their locker room.
PAYBACK: Organizers say they will deliver two checks to the Utah Capitol today. One check will repay Utah $59-million for building two of the Olympic venues. Another leaves a $40-million investment fund to pay for venue upkeep.
LOOKING AHEAD: A Reno, Nev., group is talking about bidding for the Winter Games, possibly as soon as 2014 but more likely 2018.
Jim Vanden Heuvel said he believes chances are better than 50-50 local organizers will conduct a feasibility study.
RATINGS: NBC's prime-time coverage attracted 19.2 percent of U.S. television viewers, the second-highest average for a Winter Games. 1994 had a 27.8.
Canada's 5-2 victory in the men's hockey gold-medal game attracted 10.7 percent of U.S. viewers, the highest rating for a hockey game since the 1980 Olympic gold-medal game got a 23.2.
TAX MONEY: More than $285,000 that was supposed to go to Massachusetts Olympic athletes instead went to the U.S. Olympic Committee, according to a state audit.
Payments were supposed to benefit athletes from Massachusetts, auditor Joseph DeNucci said. Instead, contributions were sent to the U.S. Olympic Committee for general purposes.