Another Salt Lake Olympics?

The U.S. Olympic Committee has preferred Salt Lake City over Denver as candidate city for the 2030 Winter Olympics.

This decision comes at a time when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is seeing interest in hosting Olympic Games fall dramatically based on ever escalating expectations from the IOC and mushrooming costs that peaked at Sochi. Salt Lake think it would only cost them $1.5 billion, but I bet that, when all is said and done, the tab will closer to $10 billion (in today's dollars).

Salt Lake City would also prefer the 2030 date, but might settle for the 2026 if support for it keeps on eroding. Already, Calgary residents have resoundingly voted against the plan to bid for the 2026 Games. The vote left Sweden’s Stockholm and an Italian bid involving Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo as the only candidates left in the race.

The Swiss city Sion, Japan’s Sapporo and Graz in Austria all withdrew earlier this year, while Turkey’s Erzurum was eliminated from the bidding process by the IOC, which will elect the winning bid in June 2019.

Now, do I care if we were to get the Games once more?

Not really, but it's a big and easy target for politicians and for the Mormon Church that sees the event as an opportunity to showcase to the world its weird set of beliefs...