Salt Lake City, Utah, will host the 2034 Winter Olympics, the International Olympic Committee announced Wednesday.
According to the Associated Press, about a thousand sports fans gathered in downtown Salt Lake City at 3 a.m. local time — 11 a.m. in Paris — to watch the long-anticipated announcement on a livestream.
Salt Lake City previously hosted the 2002 Games, which proved to be an advantage. The group which organized the bid claimed that every Olympic venue in use 22 years ago could be re-used for the 2034 Games, and the event could be financed without the use of public funds.
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No other formal bids for the 2034 Olympics were submitted. Munich, Germany; and a conglomerate bid among Carinthia, Austria, Friuli-Venzia Guilia, Italy, and Slovenia announced they would explore bids.
Ultimately, the IOC’s first choice was its only choice.
In April, IOC members toured Salt Lake City and found a former Olympic host undeterred by financial forces and climate change, which led few rival cities to even explore bidding on the 2034 Games.
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