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Utah’s Olympic quest really began as a 1960s ploy for publicity — and it worked
Editor’s note • This story, republished now as Salt Lake City wins a second bid for the Winter Olympic Games, first appeared in The Salt Lake Tribune on Feb. 2, 2002. The opening of the 2002 Winter Olympics were the culmination of seven years of hard work by Utah organizers. Yet the efforts to stage a Utah Olympics began not in 1995, when Salt Lake City won the 2002 hosting rights, but 30 years earlier, when another generation of Utahns first sought the Games.
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