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Salt Lake City’s final approval in a vote by International Olympic Committee members will bring back the Winter Games 32 years after first hosting in 2002.

Twenty-two athletes and alumni competed in the trials. A few have already stamped their Olympic tickets to Paris.

The International Olympic Committee says voting to confirm the expected Winter Games hosts for 2030 and 2034, the French Alps and Salt Lake City, respectively, is still the plan on July 24 in Paris.

Aiming to finalize back-to-back Winter Games hosts next year, the International Olympic Committee executive board has decided to enter exclusive talks with Olympic officials in France and the United States for Salt Lake City.

Biden, who is honoring Macron with the first state dinner of his presidency on Thursday evening, said he and the French president spoke a “a good deal” about European concerns over his signature climate change law during an Oval Office meeting.

Utah World War II veteran Dean Larson received the French Legion of Honor award Thursday at the Utah State Capitol. The Legion of Honor is France’s…