XXVII Olympic Winter Games

Host city	Salt Lake City, United States
Opening	10 February 2034
Closing	26 February 2034
Stadium	Rice–Eccles Stadium
Winter ←  French Alps 2030 TBD 2038 → Summer ←  Brisbane 2032 TBD 2036 → 2034 Winter Paralympics

The 2034 Winter Olympics, officially known as XXVII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Salt Lake City-Utah 2034, is an upcoming international multi-sport event scheduled to take place in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, from 10 to 26 February 2034. ^[1] Salt Lake City was elected at the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) 142nd Session in Paris on 24 July 2024, two days before the start of the 2024 Summer Olympics. ^[2]

They will mark the fifth Winter Olympics and the tenth Olympics overall to be hosted by the United States. Salt Lake City previously hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics.

The new IOC bidding process was approved at the 134th IOC Session on 24 June 2019 in Lausanne, Switzerland. The key proposals, driven by the relevant recommendations from Olympic Agenda 2020, are: ^{[3] [4]}

• Establish a permanent, ongoing dialogue to explore and create interest among cities/regions/countries and National Olympic Committees for any Olympic event
• Create two Future Host Commissions (Summer and Winter Games) to oversee interest in future Olympic events and report to the IOC executive board
• Give the IOC Session more influence by having non-executive board members form part of the Future Host Commissions.

The IOC also modified the Olympic Charter to increase its flexibility by removing the date of election from 7 years before the games, and changing the host from a single city/region/country to multiple cities, regions, or countries.

According to the Future Host Commission's rules of conduct, the new IOC bidding system is divided into 2 dialogue stages: ^[5]

• Continuous dialogue involving non-committal discussions between the IOC and interested parties (City/Region/Country/NOC interested in hosting) with regard to hosting future Olympic events.
• Targeted dialogue with one or more interested parties (called preferred host(s)), as instructed by the IOC Executive Board. This follows a recommendation by the Future Host Commission as a result of continuous dialogue. Following a recommendation by the International Olympic Committee (IOC)'s Future Host Commission for the Olympic Winter Games, the IOC Executive Board (EB) on 29 November 2023 invited the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) into "Targeted Dialogue" towards hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games 2034 in Salt Lake City. ^[6]

Salt Lake City–Utah was confirmed as host of the 2034 Winter Olympics at the 142nd IOC Session on 24 July 2024 in Paris, France. As per the new format of choosing future Olympic Games host cities from the IOC's Agenda 2020, the vote was in a form of a referendum to the 95 IOC delegates. ^[7] Like the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics, the 2030 and 2034 Winter Olympics were awarded simutaneously; the first to France and the second to the United States.

The IOC insisted that Salt Lake City agree that it may "terminate Olympic host city contracts in cases where the supreme authority of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in the fight against doping is not fully respected or if the application of the world antidoping code is hindered or undermined." This was intended to undermine the United States Department of Justice's criminal investigation into the allegations that the World Anti-Doping Agency failed to sanction drug use by Chinese swimmers. ^{[8] [9]}

2034 Winter Olympics host city election

City	NOC name	Yes	No	Abs
Salt Lake City– Utah	United States	83	6	6

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A decision on the 2034 Winter Olympics host city was delayed until 24 July 2024, to allow the IOC more time to carefully plan the future of the Winter Olympics. ^[10] However, at the 141st IOC Session in Mumbai, where these games were originally set to be awarded, the IOC approved to award both the 2030 and 2034 Winter Olympics at the 142nd IOC Session in Paris on the eve of the 2024 Summer Olympics. ^[11]

The majority of the venues were previously used during the 2002 Winter Olympics. ^[12]

• Rice–Eccles Stadium – Opening & Closing Ceremony
• Delta Center – Figure Skating, Short track speed skating
• Maverik Center – Ice hockey
• Utah Olympic Oval – Speed skating
• Olympic Medals Plaza – Big Air

• Weber County Ice Sheet – Curling
• Snowbasin Resort – Alpine Skiing

• Soldier Hollow – Biathlon, Cross-Country Skiing
• Utah Olympic Sliding Centre – Bob, Skeleton, Luge
• Utah Olympic Park Jumps – Ski Jumping, Nordic Combined
• Deer Valley Resort – Aerials, Moguls
• Utah Olympic Track – Ski Cross, Snowboard Cross, Parallel giant slalom
• Park City – Halfpipe, Slopestyle

• Peaks Ice Arena – Ice hockey

The broadcasting rights to these games will be announced at a later date as all of the IOC's contracts are currently set to end after the 2032 Summer Olympics.^{[ citation needed]}

• List of IOC country codes