[print]
Seven Applicant Cities have entered the race to win the right to host the 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games: Sochi, Russia; Salzburg, Austria; Jaca, Spain; Almaty, Kazahstan; PyeongChang, South Korea; Sofia, Bulgaria and Borjomi, Georgia.
After the Games in Torino, the IOC will review the Applicant City Questionnaires which were submitted on February 1, 2006. On June 22nd, the IOC Executive Board will announce which of the Applicants have qualified to become Candidate Cities and the 2014 Race will enter its final year of competition.
As the list that follows indicates, the 2014 Race will unfold in a series of milestones that culminate in Final Presentations by the Candidate Cities in July of 2007 in Guatemala City.
| 1st February 2006 | Submission of the Application File and Guarantee Letters to the IOC |
| 10th -26th February 2006 | XX. Olympic Winter Games in Torino |
| 10th -19th March 2006 | IX. Paralympic Winter Games in Torino |
| 21st -23rd June 2006 | The IOC selects the Candidate Cities. The standards for the Candidature File, as well as the exact procedure are communicated to each Candidate City by the IOC. |
| 1st February 2007 | Submission of Candidature File to the IOC |
| February/March 2007 | Attendance of the IOC Evaluation Commission in Candidate Cities |
| June 2007 | Publication of the report of the Evaluation Commission |
| July 2007 | 119th IOC Session: Election of the Host City 2014 |
