In your opinion, who should've won the bid for what year and why?
Well its a tad different answer but I think Denver should have
kept the bid it won for the 1976 Winter Games-thus becoming the alternate choice in a sense -because whats posted below actually happened

Basically this would have put Denver on the map alot earlier and we could have had more planned growth since the feared unplanned growth that fueled the rejection of the games happened anyway. Also I'd probably have a cool old picture of myself at 2 at the Games with my parents .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Winter_Olympics
Host selection[edit]
Main article:
Bids for the 1976 Winter Olympics
The cities of
Denver, Colorado, United States;
Sion, Switzerland;
Tampere, Finland; and
Vancouver (with the Garibaldi mountains), Canada, made bids for the Games.
The games were originally awarded to Denver in May 12, 1970, but a 300 percent rise in costs and worries about environmental impact led to
Colorado voters' rejection on November 7, 1972, by a 3 to 2 margin, of a $5 million bond issue to finance the games with public funds.
[1][2]
Denver officially withdrew on November 15, and the
IOC then offered the games to
Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, but they too declined owing to a
change of government following elections. Whistler would go on to be associated with neighbouring
Vancouver's successful bid for the
2010 games.
Salt Lake City, Utah, which would eventually host in
2002, offered itself as a potential host after the withdrawal of Denver. The IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected
Innsbruck, which had hosted the
1964 Winter Olympics games twelve years earlier, on February 5, 1973.
The chart below displays the original vote count for the 69th
IOC meeting at
Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 1970, before the
Denver rejection and the installation of
Innsbruck, Austria, as alternate host.
[
hide]Original 1976 Winter Olympics bidding results
[3]CityCountry
Round 1Round 2Round 3Denver
United States2929
39Sion
Switzerland18
3130
Tampere
Finland128—
Vancouver—
Garibaldi