Olympic Snowboarding Returning to Park City
Olympic Snowboarding Returning to Park City
Published : 08-Apr-2024 08:56
America's largest ski area, Park City Mountain Resort (PCMR), has been named an official venue of the Salt Lake City-Utah bid to host the 2034 Olympic Winter Games.
Pending confirmation of the 2034 Olympic events, PCMR will host competitions in men's and women's snowboarding halfpipe, snowboarding slopestyle, freestyle skiing halfpipe and freestyle skiing slopestyle.
The resort was the host of snowboarding competitions at the 2002 Games just a few years after it first allowed snowboarders on to its slopes. It was one of the last major US ski areas to allow snowboarding and even today two of the three resorts that still ban the sport from their slopes in the US are in Utah, one of them, Deer Valley, also in Park City.
"We are honored to work with the bid committee to create a uniquely meaningful "Home Games" experience for hundreds of U.S. athletes in 2034 and to welcome athletes from across the world, fostering unity and inspiring youth through the Olympic values. We can't wait to welcome the world to Park City in 2034!" a PCMR spokesperson said.
The IOC has not yet announced the hosts of the 2030 Winter Olympics but plans to do so, and the hosts of the 2034 Games on the eve of the start of the Paris Summer games later this year. It has said the French Alps are the preferred bidders for 2030, Utah for 2034.
Besides the 2002 Winter Games, PCMR has hosted 20 years of America's Opening World Cup races and the 2011 FIS Freestyle World Championships.
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