2034 Olympics in Utah: Where’s the Plan?

As we heard yesterday, Salt Lake City was just named “preferred host” for the 2034 Winter Games. This terms means that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) acknowledges that Salt Lake 2034 is its preferred host city for the 2034 Winter Olympic Games barring a catastrophe. 

The organizing committee can therefore finalize agreements, ensure it has government backing, and then formally sign at the Paris Games this summer. Good enough. 

Now, do we need or want the Games? The answer is probably “Want”, because I personally don’t have much love for the IOC and don’t believe we need more people in our already overcrowded and trampled mountains, including my Park City hometown.

The only justification in favor of this event, and for Park City in particular, is to get Federally funded infrastructure to improve transit within our town as well as in and out. 

For that though, wouldn't it be nice to work on a comprehensive plan, then see one, along with a budget and some contingency plans, including of course a list of “legacy objectives” that would leave our venues in some much better conditions than the 2034 Games might find them, well before the deal is inked in Paris? 

Are we going to see this? Is that too much to ask?