Even the timeline seems to be in Salt Lake City’s favor when it comes to putting together a bid for a Winter Olympics a decade from now.
The International Olympic Committee wants to know by March 31 what city the United States will put forth as a candidate to stage the 2026 Winter Games. While the U.S. Olympic Committee has not yet disclosed a process for picking its candidate for that competition — Denver and Reno-Tahoe also have expressed interest — it probably will need to have detailed bid documents in hand by the end of February to meet that deadline.