Organizers of Utah's 2034 Winter Olympic bid plan to pack downtown Salt Lake City with events, their venue plain shows, including big air, speedskating and curling.
Big air event slated for “Park Place” just north of the Delta Center, while curling also expected to move downtown
The most striking new site, undoubtedly, will be the downtown big air skiing and snowboarding ramp. Organizers plan to hold the competition on a massive scaffolding built on the Park Place parking lot, also known as Block 85, north of the Delta Center. Passersby will likely be able to peep competitors’ high-flying flips and twists from the sidewalk along South Temple.
“I think that’s awesome,” he said. “It has the most public transportation available to get to there, and downtown there’s a lot of other entertainment. It’s kind of perfect.”Stevenson said he’s not sure he’ll be competing in the Olympics in 10 years, but if he is, he won’t be worried about the snow. He pointed out that a month ago he skied in an outdoor big air contest on a scaffolding in Saudi Arabia.
“It’s the gamut. It’s ski resorts, it’s government-run ice or community ice rinks, it’s these legacy venues,” he said. “We figured out a way to keep them operating because of having an endowment from the 2002 Games. That, to me, is what we hope to show to the IOC when the Future Commission comes here next week.”
Yaroslav Shchur practices with the Ukraine curling team at the Utah Olympic Oval, on Tuesday, May 17, 2022.
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