Winter Olympics

The Zimbabwe sports minister is just the 10th leader in the IOC's 131-year history after one of the most open Olympic elections in decades.

Former Utah House speaker and U.S. Senate candidate Brad Wilson is the new CEO of the Utah Olympic organizing committee.

The Macuga sisters Sam, Lauren and Alli all compete in a different ski discipline and all three could very well make the U.S. team for the Milan-Cortina Olympics next winter.

A senior IOC official says scheduling the 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia back-to-back with the 2034 Salt Lake City Winter Games would pose “no risk” to the Olympics.

During his visit to Utah, IOC President Thomas Bach hoped to ease worries that Salt Lake City could lose the 2034 Winter Olympics if organizers don’t fulfill an agreement to play peacemaker between anti-doping authorities.

Instead of reexamining a drug-fighting law that Olympic leaders don’t like, a bipartisan group in Congress is proposing a new bill that would hold back funding for the World Anti-Doping Agency if it doesn’t do its job better.

After having a rough go during her competition days, Vonn is taking on the responsibility for the planned family village at the Olympics 10 years from now.

The International Olympic Committee said Utah could remain the host of the 2034 Winter Games if they didn’t undermine the World Anti-Doping Agency.

They’ve been going at it for decades. The tension reached a new level when the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2034 Winter Olympics to Salt Lake City but inserted contract language demanding its leaders pressure the U.S. government to lobby against a anti-conspiracy law passed in 2020.

Although the state has changed a lot since it first hosted the Games in 2002, people say Utah knows what to expect this time around.

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.

What was the mood back in 1995 when Utah found out it would host the 2002 Winter Olympics? We asked longtime Salt Laker, and retired NPR national correspondent, Howard Berkes to walk us down memory lane.