[Andria Hall, Cnn Anchor:] The next summer games will be held in 2004 in Athens, Greece, but you don't have to wait quite that long, for four years at least, to get your Olympic fix. The winter games are just two years away in Salt Lake City, Utah. As CNN's Greg LaMotte reports, the athletes can't wait to compete.
[Greg Lamotte, Cnn Correspondent:] Flying high, giving it their all, pumped no, it's not the summer games, although it is still very warm. These athletes love snow. And after seeing the games in Sydney, they couldn't be any higher in anticipation of the 2002 winter games in Salt Lake City, Utah.
[Picabo Street, 1998 Gold Medalist:] Every winning moment, every losing moment, every struggle, every strife, every achievement that goes on there really motivates you to get up every day and train.
[Lamotte:] Construction is on schedule. The venues are either in place or getting there. The dings in the city's infrastructure are getting a face lift. Athletes are in training, including ones from Down Under who have been watching the games in Sydney.
[Shannon Leotta Freestyle Aerial Skier:] To see it every day and get glimpses of what you can be a part of is just incredible. And it's definitely extra motivation.
[Lamotte:] The training facilities are state of the art. It's 85 degrees, and these athletes are ski jumping on artificial turf. Others are hoping to make a splash in 2002 with their snowboarding skills. But despite all the excitement, all the work, all the training, there is still that cloud of scandal hovering over Salt Lake City.
[Terry Orme, "salt Lake Tribune":] I think Utahns are tired of the "best games money can buy" sort of jokes and things like that. And I think there's a worry that the games, when they happen, the scalp is going to be ripped off that wound.
[Lamotte:] The two former heads of the Salt Lake City bid committee, Tom Welch and Dave Johnson, are scheduled to be tried in federal court, accused of, among other things, bribing International Olympic Committee officials in order to win the 2002 games.
[Mayor Rocky Anderson, Salt Lake City:] If anything good is going to come of this and I think there will be a lot of good it's that things will be reformed in the Olympic movement.
[Matt Romney, Salt Lake Organizing Committee:] The scandal was apparently perpetrated by a very few people a long time ago associated with winning the bid for Salt Lake City. It has nothing to do with the athletes who are coming. And it's the athletes that the people of the world want to watch.
[Lamotte:] In fact, it seems many people are more worried about...
[Hall:] Traffic.
[Lamotte:] Clearly there is optimism the scandal will have blown over by the time the games begin. As for the athletes, they say all they've got time to think about is the color gold. Greg LaMotte, CNN, Salt Lake City, Utah.