the 27th Olympic Winter Games 2034 are awarded to Salt Lake City hundreds of sports fans are gathered outside City Hall to watch live as the international Olympic Committee in Paris officially Awards the bid to Salt Lake City to host the Winter Olympic Games in 2034 the city first hosted in 2002 and has been on a decades long mission to host again that’s included preserving nearly all 2002 venues and keeping the Olympic fever burning strong the community Salt Lake City is the only city in the mix for 2034 the operational costs of hosting a games are quite high and that climate change is making it increasingly difficult for cities to host the Winter Olympic Games but Utah is capitalizing on that lack of Interest elsewhere pitching itself to the ioc as a possible permanent rotation of hosts in the years to come