Salt Lake Metropolis to host 2034 Winter Olympics

Paris. The Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday awarded Salt Lake Metropolis the 2034 Winter Video games, the second Olympic version in simply six years in america after the 2028 Summer season Video games in Los Angeles.

The selection of the capital of the state of Utah, which already organised the Winter Video games in 2002 and which has the mandatory infrastructure, was past doubt for the reason that IOC chosen it final November to interact in a “particular dialogue”.

Salt Lake Metropolis was elected with 83 votes in favor, six towards and 6 abstentions.

“We’re prepared, every thing is in place,” bid chief Fraser Bullock informed IOC members gathered in Paris for his or her 142nd session.

However a query has emerged between the Olympic world and america, making its manner into the debates on Wednesday and even into the host metropolis’s new contract: the difficulty of the 23 Chinese language swimmers who examined optimistic in 2021 with out being sanctioned.

In an unprecedented transfer, the IOC included in its settlement with Salt Lake Metropolis a clause for cancelling the venue “within the occasion that the supreme authority of the World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) just isn’t absolutely revered,” stated its vp John Coates.

The opening by the US justice system of a legal investigation into the dealing with of this WADA case has alarmed the IOC and worldwide federations, who worry that america is setting itself up as a brand new anti-doping police pressure within the identify of the Rodchenkov Legislation, by which it claims extraterritorial jurisdiction.

Future organisers and the US Olympic Committee (USOPC) are even being requested “to interact in discussions that have to be held with varied US authorities” – in brief, to place stress on US anti-doping chief Travis Tygart and the federal government – “to completely respect WADA’s authority,” Coates added.

Fraser Bullock and USOPC President Gene Sykes, who can be elected to the IOC on Wednesday night, have stepped up their help for WADA’s function “as the final word anti-doping authority.”

“We can be at your facet within the seek for an answer to this downside,” IOC President Thomas Bach assured them.