Salt Lake City: Official Development News Thread - Part 3

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Originally Posted by Deek1978

This might sound really stupid, so forgive me... but I've been very turned off by the Olympic Games this year. I also just ran across this article: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/russia-s-forgotten-city-of-the-sochi-games-192622719.html?vp=1

Now I'm thinking that instead of Salt Lake City bidding for the Olympics, perhaps St. George should. All of the venues will be just as close as they are to Sochi.

This really isn't news or a big deal.

To be fair, the 2002 Salt Lake games were spread out as well. Park City, Provo, Ogden, Midway, and KEARNS (wow...smh; maybe Adler is the new Kearns ), all had events long with Salt Lake. Also to be realistic the Salt Lake Olympic committee made it seem like it was Utah 2002 and not Salt Lake 2002.

This is how winter Olympics are now. In 2010 Vancouver had events in Whistler, and I'm sure there are other winter Olympic cities that had their games spread out as well.

I'm sure if Denver gets the winter Olympics in 2026, you'll see events in Breckenridge, Vail, and maybe even Aspen.

I think the bigger deal and problem in Sochi is the cover up of poverty, the lack of good snow, and the temporary housing situation for the athletes and media members.