The Games featured 2,399 athletes from 78 nations, participating in 78 events in 15 disciplines, held throughout 165 sporting sessions. The 2002 Winter Olympics and the 2002 Paralympic Games were both organized by the Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC), the first time that both events were organized by a single committee. Utah became the fifth state in the United States to host the Olympic Games, after Missouri, New York, California, and Georgia. These are the most recent Olympics to be held in the United States and the first to take place under the IOC presidency of Jacques Rogge.