As expected, in the early hours of Pioneer Day in Utah, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted in Paris to award the 2034 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games to Salt Lake City.
But the announcement of the award was not without drama. When the Utah contingent, led by Gov. Spencer Cox, arrived in Paris to make what it expected to be a mostly ceremonial bid presentation and accept the IOC’s coronation, it was met with some complicated political wrangling. The IOC demanded that Utah’s bid leaders sign an agreement to pressure U.S. federal officials to end an ongoing investigation into suspected doping at the Summer Games in Tokyo four years ago.
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