SALT LAKE CITY — Utah was awarded the 2034 Winter Games on July 24, Pioneer Day, in Utah.
The long-awaited vote by the International Olympic Committee on the bid that began more than a decade ago came after a presentation by Gov. Spencer Cox, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and other bid leaders at a meeting in Paris, ahead of the 2024 Summer Games.
In Salt Lake City, which hosted the 2002 Winter Games, a crowd that gathered overnight in Washington Square celebrated…