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  • Could Utah host Winter Olympics with six months notice?

    08/08/2013 11:13:24 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 64 replies
    The Lowell Sun / The Associated Press ^ | August 8, 2013 | Matthew Piper, The Salt Lake Tribune
    Will Salt Lake City host the 2014 Winter Games? Almost certainly not. But could the Utah capital, logistically, host the 2014 Games? The answers range from no doubt to no chance. A grass-roots movement is afoot to boycott the Sochi Winter Olympics or move them to another city after Russian President Vladimir Putin in June signed a law banning "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations" and giving the government seemingly broad powers to discriminate against gays. Salt Lake City is on the short list of places that could conceivably host a modern-scale Winter Olympics on a moment's notice.....