Through the years Coeur d’Alene has been able to attract its fair share of high-profile businesses, tourists and events.

According to a new Washington Post report, though, maybe the Lake City should take aim at hosting the world’s largest event.

The Post article named Coeur d’Alene as the most similar city in the U.S. — based on altitude, topography and population — to PyeongChang, South Korea, the host of this year’s Winter Olympics.

Officials in PyeongChang claim the city’s altitude of 700 meters (2,300 feet) is ideal for the human biorhythm, prompting the slogan “Happy 700.”

Although Mayor Steve Widmyer didn’t know whether his biorhythm was improved by living in Coeur d’Alene, he said the city does provide its residents a certain peace of mind.

“Those who grow up here and move away desire to get back here,” Widmyer told The Press. “You enjoy traveling to other places and enjoying what they have to offer. But at the end of your trip, you are always looking forward to getting back to that peace of mind that our home, Coeur d’Alene, has to offer.”

This idea of biorhythm — on which the science community isn’t sold — is what originally led the Post to compare American cities to PyeongChang.

The authors first considered altitude, finding that 930 cities in the United States lie within 100 meters (328 feet) of the Korean host city’s elevation.

After factoring in population — PyeongChang is home to roughly 43,000 people — the list was trimmed to eight.

Of those eight, four were knocked out because they have no Olympic-sized mountain peaks in the area. Two more finalists in California had mountains nearby, but the average temperatures certainly weren’t right for winter sports.

That left two Idaho cities: Coeur d’Alene and Caldwell.

While Caldwell sits only 45 miles from Bogus Basin ski area, Coeur d’Alene boasts a higher number of nearby slopes — namely Silver Mountain to the east and Schweitzer Mountain to the north, both of which have higher vertical drops than Bogus Basin.

And just in case that wasn’t enough to break the tie, the predicted temperature in PyeongChang on Feb. 9, the opening day of the Winter Olympics, is 31 degrees.

The projected high here in Cd’A for that day? You guessed it, 31 degrees.

As for his hypothetical pitch to the International Olympic Committee, Widmyer said Coeur d’Alene could offer more than just an abundance of natural resources and hotels.

“What makes us a special place are the people who live here, people who would welcome guests from all over the world and make sure they enjoy a fantastic experience,” Widmyer said. “Our people do this every year. And to borrow a line from a company I first worked for out of college in Coeur d’Alene, ‘our people make the difference.’”