PARIS (AP) — Salt Lake City will be an Olympics host again after the IOC formally awarded the 2034 Winter Games to the United States bid on Wednesday, after a power move by Olympic officials who want to shut down a U.S. federal investigation of suspected doping by Chinese swimmers.

The capital city of Utah was the only candidate after the International Olympic Committee gave Salt Lake City exclusive negotiating rights last year in the process that was fast-tracked for 2034. …

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    2 months ago

    Huh? I went to the 2002 Olympics, so I don’t have other motives. I am literally stating my lived experience, before last year, there was a 5 year stretch of little snow. The resorts (Brighton was where I liked to snowboard) had to frequently close large parts of the mountain for the majority (if not the entire) year.

    Yes, I don’t doubt the governor and IOC say there will be snow. I don’t doubt that there won’t be enough snow, artificial or no, for something like this. But the ski resorts, IOC, and governor can’t tell the future, especially in 10 years, and they have a huge reason to make people believe what they want, it’s tourism money on the line. The ski resorts will sell passes so long as they have one route open, that’s their business. It has little to do with the climate.

    I really don’t know why me commenting my actual lived experience pissed you off so much.