SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s capital city is announcing details of a large viewing party for the upcoming 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, while it continues to prepare to host the global event in 2034.
Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall will unveil details at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. The event will be open to all Utahns during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, taking place in Italy from Feb. 6-26, 2026, and March 6-15, 2026.
The International Olympic Committee named Salt Lake City as the host of the 2034 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. Hundreds celebrated outside of the Salt Lake City-County Building as the vote was finalized in the early morning hours last year.
Olympic organizers announced last month that they had already secured more than $200 million in fundraising commitments, accounting for over two-thirds of their $300 million target goal for event planning. The bulk of the money needed to pull off the event is expected to arrive after the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, when Salt Lake City will be able to tap into sponsorship money.
The mayor is also expected to provide new information about planning for the 2034 Games, including impact and legacy efforts. Salt Lake City first hosted the Winter Olympics in 2002, which generated about $7.5 billion economic output in 2023 dollars, according to an analysis by the University of Utah Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute released last year.
The institute estimated that hosting the event again will spur $6.6 billion in output over the next decade, generating a slightly smaller impact because fewer infrastructure projects will be needed to pull it off, since many of the 2002 venues have been maintained since the event.
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