Whenever the possibility of hosting another Winter Olympics comes up, Utah leaders are quick to repeat their slogan, that they are “ready, willing and able.”
That was the common theme as roughly a dozen members of Salt Lake City’s Olympic Exploratory Committee met formally for the first time Monday since being formed last month to assess the possibility of bidding on the 2026 or 2030 Winter Games.
“We have to nail it,” said Fraser Bullock, the committee’s co-chairman and the chief operating officer for Salt Lake’s 2002 organizing committee. “Nobody around this table wants anything to do with a games that doesn’t have a surplus.