Olympic digest: Salt Lake City and French Alps awarded Winter Games

Salt Lake City was awarded the 2034 Winter Olympic Games following a vote of the International Olympic Committee.

The US city, which hosted the 2002 Winter Games, earned 83 votes out of 89 at the IOC session, having been named the preferred choice in June.

"To the people celebrating back home: we are back baby, the Olympics are coming back to Utah," said Utah governor Spencer Cox, who was part of the presentation team, along with Olympic skiing champion Lindsey Vonn, to the IOC session in Paris.

A large crowd had gathered back in Salt Lake City to watch the announcement on big screens.

Salt Lake City had initially wanted to bid for the 2030 Games, which were awarded to France, but dropped those plans due to the date being too close to the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

The French Alps will host the 2030 Winter Olympics at an International Olympic Committee Session in Paris.

The award is subject to guarantees by the next French prime minister, and ratification by the national assembly by a deadline of 1 March.

The Games are set to take places at venues across the northern and southern Alps, with ice events staged in Nice on the Cote d'Azur.

IOC president Thomas Bach said: "We have full confidence in France to organise an outstanding edition of the Olympic Winter Games, with the same creativity, imagination and flair we are currently experiencing at Paris 2024."

It will be the fourth time the Winter Olympics have been staged in France, following the inaugural edition in Chamonix in 1924, Grenoble in 1968, and 1992 in Albertville.

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