Bob Evans has been co-anchor of FOX 13 News at Nine since October 1995. Previously, he worked as an anchor/reporter for KUTV and at stations in Kansas City, Spokane and Boise.
SALT LAKE CITY — FOX 13 News sat down with former Utah Governor Mike Leavitt on the lessons learned since the 2002 Utah Winter Olympics as Salt Lake City is chosen for 2034.
"It was a powerful moment. It's rare that anyone who was part of it and it was most everyone who was in Utah at the time, they were either pulled over at the side of the road, listening to the radio, or in front of a television set at work or at, at school or at home," he said.
It began in the 1970s when Utah tried to qualify as a bidder during the ski industry's emergence as a global phenomenon.
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