Delivering Success: Engagement, Legacy and Vision Olympic Winter Games 2026 Case Study Salt Lake City 2002 Since the Olympic Winter Games Salt Lake City 2002, the region has become one of the leading centres for winter sport in the USA. Such is the success of the facilities and FIS World Championships and the Utah Olympic surrounding network that ten per cent of Team Oval will be the venue for the 2020 World Single USA members at Sochi 2014 came from a single Distance Speedskating Championships. college in Salt Lake City. The Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation manages many of the former Olympic venues and works to engage young people in Utah in winter sport. Dedicated to a “sport for life” model, I’ve been riding Park City the Foundation provides opportunities both since I was seven. 14 years for those looking to reach elite levels and for I’ve been riding here… lot the wider population. Importantly, the levels of good memories. Whole of ambition and commitment remained long family up here every year… after the Games – the United States Ski and Snowboard Association opened its Centre pretty much learned of Excellence in Park City in 2009. everything that I know here. This approach has established Salt Lake City Sage Kotsenburg as a popular sporting hub. Since 2002, the annual number of visitors to the Utah Olympic Park has US athlete and winner of the 昀椀rst ever increased by a factor of four and Park City now Olympic gold medal for slopestyle records around three million visitor nights per year. snowboarding (Sochi 2014), who grew up training at venues developed for the Olympic Winter Games Salt Lake City 2002 World-class ski facilities are an attractive draw, with the number of annual skier days in Park City increasing soon after 2002 from around 1.2 million to 1.8 million and staying at that level ever since. x4 3m Most of the venues developed for the Olympic Winter Games Salt Lake City 2002 continue to increase in visitors host events with more major championships visitor numbers per year to the Utah secured for the years to come. For example, Park Olympic Park City will host the 2019 Freestyle and Snowboard Sporting Legacy 29