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Summit County and Park City governments kicked off a “listening tour” this week to gather community feedback on the prospect of another Utah-hosted Olympics in 2030 or 2034.

Referees as young as 13 have been verbally assaulted, chased to their cars and even prevented from leaving the field by adults.

Twenty years ago, athletes from around the world traveled to Salt Lake City for the Winter Olympics. Among the leaders was now-Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah. He joined Pamela McCall to look back at the games and ahead to the prospect of doing it all over again.

Salt Lake City ski racer Bella Wright heads to the Beijing Winter Olympics Tuesday morning. The 24-year-old, who started racing at Snowbird in Little Cottonwood Canyon, will compete in the downhill and super-G events — where she could reach speeds of 85 mph. She’s also travelling headlong into controversy at the Olympics, with a U.S. diplomatic boycott of the games in place and tough COVID-19 restrictions.

Antes de la era COVID, sentarse hombro con hombro en un estadio con decenas de miles de espectadores gritando era lo que más esperaban los fans en el otoño. Pero con los casos de COVID-19, y las hospitalizaciones y las muertes disparándose por la variante Delta, muchos fanáticos se preguntan si esa es una buena idea.

Before the COVID era, sitting shoulder to shoulder in a stadium with tens of thousands of spectators screaming was what fans expected most in the fall. But with the cases of COVID-19, and hospitalizations and deaths skyrocketing from the Delta variant, many fans wonder if that is a good idea.

Rock climbing is making its debut in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the U.S. national team is training in Salt Lake City. For the eight elite athletes who…

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Wataru “Wat” Misaka, who died Wednesday, became the first person of color to play professional basketball in 1947.But before he rose to be an accomplished…

Debate is heating up on how universities should move forward after the NCAA’s recent announcement that college athletes may be paid for the rights to use…

Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk remembers coming to Utah in the 1990s, when Park City was one of the few places that allowed snowboarding.Utah has “always…

The University of Utah Women’s basketball team broke into The Associated Press top 25 list last week for the first time in a decade and then moved up…