Four years ago, in what now seems like a picture-perfect forecast, Fraser Bullock called Salt Lake City and Utah “the poster child for what should happen after an Olympics.” The onetime chief operating officer for the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Committee wasn’t wrong then. And, four years later, that hasn’t changed.
Salt Lake City is, by all logical standards, the front-runner for another Winter Games bid by the United States Olympic Committee set to be announced by year’s end. That is due largely to everything that’s happened since the Olympic cauldron was extinguished inside Rice-Eccles Stadium over 16 years ago.