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Salt Lake City formally awarded 2034 Olympic Games

Salt Lake City formally awarded 2034 Olympic Games
This year's summer Olympics will recognize athletes accomplishments in *** new way. *** way that's almost hard to believe didn't exist prior to now. Gold medal, track and field winners will receive equal prize money regardless of their home country. The announcement serves as *** reminder of the physical and financial burden athletes carry just to attend, not to mention win gold at the Olympics from sponsorships on Wheaties boxes to gold medals being an Olympic athlete is big business, but the majority of athletes don't achieve well from their talents. The financial cost associated with being an Olympic athlete can be high and the payoff extremely varied. In April 2024 world athletics, the umbrella organization for global track and field events made *** pivotal announcement, track and field, gold medalists regardless of their country will receive equal pay about $50,000 for individual athletes. Relay teams will split the winnings since Olympians and niche events only get the spotlight briefly during the week's long games. It can cast *** heavy financial burden in the off season. Not to mention winnings vary wildly depending on the country at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo US gold medalists received 37,500 silver, received 22,500 bronze. 15,000 plus health care. By comparison, Singapore offered its gold medalists *** staggering 1 million Singapore dollars, which is equivalent to $734,890. Indonesia reportedly gave its winning athletes six figure payouts too. During the 2016 Rio Olympics, gold medalist from Indonesia won $346,000 plus *** lifetime annual stipend. These monetary changes reflect an uphill battle for athletes to financially support themselves while competing for their country. The issue of Olympic athlete pay has evolved over the recent decades. The ethos of the Olympics previously centered around amateurism rather than playing for money, giving an advantage to upper class athletes who typically had the time and resources to train and participate in the games. It wouldn't be until the 19 eighties when the US was losing badly in basketball that pro US athletes could finally participate, resulting in the iconic dream team of 1992 and redeemed team of 2008. Removing the amateurism requirement was *** landmark decision that literally altered history. In 1982 the IOC reinstated the late Jim Thorpe as *** co winner for the 1912 Olympic Decathlon and Pentathlon after disqualifying him for playing professional sports prior to the games, the IOC just in 2022 further declared him the sole champion of those events The reins station also meant that Thorpe became the first indigenous Olympic gold medalist for the United States. Although the World athletics prize money only extends to gold medal winners. The world athletics is hopeful that it will soon be expanded to silver and bronze too.
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Salt Lake City formally awarded 2034 Olympic Games
Salt Lake City will be an Olympics host again after the IOC formally awarded the 2034 Winter Games to the United States bid on Wednesday, after a power move by Olympic officials who want to shut down a U.S. federal investigation of suspected doping by Chinese swimmers.The capital city of Utah was the only candidate after the International Olympic Committee gave Salt Lake City exclusive negotiating rights last year in the process that was fast-tracked for 2034.The campaign team presenting the bid on stage to IOC members included the Governor of Utah Spencer Cox, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and Alpine ski great Lindsey Vonn. Back home, a 3 a.m. public watch party gathered to see a broadcast from Paris.Before the vote, Cox agreed to pledges demanded by IOC leaders. The Olympic officials inserted a clause in the host city contract that said local officials must work with current and future U.S. presidents and members of Congress “to alleviate your concerns” about the federal investigations into doping.What was set to be a simple coronation of Salt Lake City became tangled up by the IOC. President Thomas Bach is angry that the FBI is investigating the World Anti-Doping Agency's decision to accept China's explanations for positive drug tests of 23 swimmers before the Tokyo Olympics.The IOC got promises from U.S. Olympic officials and Utah contingent to accept a new clause that lets the Olympic body terminate Salt Lake City’s deal if the authority of WADA was undermined.It was an unprecedented move by the IOC that seemed to send a message the FBI should back away from the Chinese swimmers' case. It can be investigated in the U.S. under federal legislation named for a whistleblower of Russian state doping at the 2014 Sochi Winter Games.“We will work with our members of Congress," Gov. Cox said ahead of the 2034 vote, "we will use all the levers of power open to us to resolve these concerns.”Salt Lake City’s final approval came in an 83-6 vote by IOC members that bring back the Winter Games 32 years after first hosting in 2002. Tight security surrounded those Olympics, the biggest international sports event hosted by the U.S. following the Sept. 11 attacks five months earlier.The 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games are part of Olympics lore for the bid bribery scandal that emerged in 1998 of IOC members seeking and getting favors from campaign officials. It led to sweeping anti-corruption reforms at the IOC.For its second turn Salt Lake City will get almost 10 full years to prepare — the longest lead-in for a modern Winter Games — amid longer-term concerns about climate change affecting snow sports and reducing the pool of potential hosts.Salt Lake City opted to target 2034 and so avoided potential commercial and logistical clashes with the 2028 Summer Games being hosted by Los Angeles.In a separate decision earlier in Paris, the 2030 Winter Games was awarded — with conditions — to France for a regional project split between ski resorts in the Alps and the French Riviera city Nice.That project needs official signoff from the national government being formed, and the Prime Minister yet to be confirmed, after recent elections called by President Emmanuel Macron. He helped present the 2030 bid Wednesday to IOC members.

Salt Lake City will be an Olympics host again after the IOC formally awarded the 2034 Winter Games to the United States bid on Wednesday, after a power move by Olympic officials who want to shut down a U.S. federal investigation of suspected doping by Chinese swimmers.

The capital city of Utah was the only candidate after the International Olympic Committee gave Salt Lake City exclusive negotiating rights last year in the process that was fast-tracked for 2034.

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The campaign team presenting the bid on stage to IOC members included the Governor of Utah Spencer Cox, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and Alpine ski great Lindsey Vonn. Back home, a 3 a.m. public watch party gathered to see a broadcast from Paris.

Before the vote, Cox agreed to pledges demanded by IOC leaders. The Olympic officials inserted a clause in the host city contract that said local officials must work with current and future U.S. presidents and members of Congress “to alleviate your concerns” about the federal investigations into doping.

What was set to be a simple coronation of Salt Lake City became tangled up by the IOC. President Thomas Bach is angry that the FBI is investigating the World Anti-Doping Agency's decision to accept China's explanations for positive drug tests of 23 swimmers before the Tokyo Olympics.

The IOC got promises from U.S. Olympic officials and Utah contingent to accept a new clause that lets the Olympic body terminate Salt Lake City’s deal if the authority of WADA was undermined.

It was an unprecedented move by the IOC that seemed to send a message the FBI should back away from the Chinese swimmers' case. It can be investigated in the U.S. under federal legislation named for a whistleblower of Russian state doping at the 2014 Sochi Winter Games.

“We will work with our members of Congress," Gov. Cox said ahead of the 2034 vote, "we will use all the levers of power open to us to resolve these concerns.”

Salt Lake City’s final approval came in an 83-6 vote by IOC members that bring back the Winter Games 32 years after first hosting in 2002. Tight security surrounded those Olympics, the biggest international sports event hosted by the U.S. following the Sept. 11 attacks five months earlier.

The 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games are part of Olympics lore for the bid bribery scandal that emerged in 1998 of IOC members seeking and getting favors from campaign officials. It led to sweeping anti-corruption reforms at the IOC.

For its second turn Salt Lake City will get almost 10 full years to prepare — the longest lead-in for a modern Winter Games — amid longer-term concerns about climate change affecting snow sports and reducing the pool of potential hosts.

Salt Lake City opted to target 2034 and so avoided potential commercial and logistical clashes with the 2028 Summer Games being hosted by Los Angeles.

In a separate decision earlier in Paris, the 2030 Winter Games was awarded — with conditions — to France for a regional project split between ski resorts in the Alps and the French Riviera city Nice.

That project needs official signoff from the national government being formed, and the Prime Minister yet to be confirmed, after recent elections called by President Emmanuel Macron. He helped present the 2030 bid Wednesday to IOC members.