While more than 120 experts performed painstakingly detailed work putting together the facts, figures and ideas behind Salzburg's bid in English and French, the IOC's official languages, and supplementing them with plans, guarantees and graphics, the resulting document does not just stand out due to its contents, but also due to its 'packaging' — thanks to the lovingly creative efforts of a local bookbinder.

The craft of bookbinding by hand has a venerable tradition in Austria and excels in implementing any wish a customer might have. Such as the special design requirements of Salzburg Winter Games 2014 GmbH. Salzburg 2014 placed an order for 500 complete slipcases, comprising inner and outer slipcases, all lovingly made by hand.

Bookbinder Dieter Stundner: “That was really something quite special for me as a bookbinder, to create a slipcase for these important documents, thus lending such an excellent concept a face, and both framing and containing it.”

Fedor Radmann: “Our bid for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games comes from both the heart and the head, and this is what the slipcase reflects. On the one hand, the contents of the Bid Document are based on precise research and concise ideas, developed by 120 experts. On the other hand, the Bid Doc II draws on the public’s enthusiasm for sport, the beauty of our landscape, and of course Austrian hospitality.

The eight ambassadors for the Salzburg 2014 bid have expressed their full support in writing on the back of the slipcase, with a statement and their signatures:

Dieter Kalt jnr., on behalf of the ambassadors, accepted the Bid Document from the hands of bookbinder Dieter Stundner.

“I really like the case, and am greatly impressed by the bookbinder's painstaking work, but also by the work performed by the bid committee in compiling these facts and figures. As ambassadors, we are full of hope that the IOC will award the Winter Games to Salzburg on the 4th of July in Guatemala City.”

On the 10th of January, a delegation from Salzburg 2014 will hand over 100 copies of the Bid Document to the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne, Switzerland.