(24 Jul 2024)
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Paris, France – 24 July 2024
1. Various of Utah Governor Spencer Cox walking
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Spencer Cox, Utah Governor:
"There was significant risk. We started hearing several days ago that there was a possibility that they wouldn’t even take a vote today. After all of this work and this long journey and all the preparations, you can imagine how that would have gone over. But they also recognise that there’s danger in, in kind of turning off Salt Lake City, who has done everything right. They recognise it was not our fault that these conversations were happening. And so they very wisely came together and said, ‘okay, is there another path? Can we at least agree to work on this problem together?’"
3. Various of poster cutaway
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Spencer Cox, Utah Governor:
"What we’ve agreed to do is just support the world, the international doping federations as they work together. And we agree that if, if the United States does not support or violates the the World Anti-Doping Federation’s rules, that they can withdraw the Games from from us and from the United States. That was the only way that that we could we could guarantee that we would get the Games."
5. Cutaway of media
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Gene Sykes, Chairman of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee:
"I want to emphasise the United States actually is very supportive of the World Anti-Doping Code and the World Anti-Doping Agency. We want it to be as strong as possible. With that, we have the way to solve this issue and I am very, very confident."
7. Cutaway of media
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Erin Mendenhall, Salt Lake City Mayor:
"We are not the same today as we were in 2002. We will present the world a new version of Salt Lake City in Utah because that’s naturally becoming more sustainable, more welcoming, and give a level of fulfilment about humanity across the globe that will be absolutely unique to Salt Lake City."
9. Cutaway of Olympic rings
STORYLINE:
Salt Lake City has been formally awarded the 2034 Winter Olympics following a vote by the International Olympic Committee in Paris.
The decision gives Utah its second Games after hosting in 2002. Salt Lake City was the lone contender the Olympic committee was considering for 2034.
Climate change and high operational costs have reduced the number of cities willing and able to host the Winter Games.
Utah has capitalized on low interest elsewhere.
The 2034 plan requires no new permanent construction since all 13 venues are already in place.
Before the vote, Olympic officials inserted into Salt Lake City’s host contract a clause that said local officials must work with current and future U.S. presidents and members of Congress to alleviate concerns about a U.S. federal investigation of suspected doping by Chinese swimmers.
The committee’s unprecedented strong-arm tactics seemed to send a message that the FBI should back away from the case.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox agreed to the committee’s demands but told reporters after the vote that the shakeup nearly delayed the bid agreement.
For Cox, securing the bid was central to his goal of cementing the state as North America’s winter sports capital.
He and other local leaders were in Paris for the presentation, while many winter Olympians stayed in town to train and join in the festivities.
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