“[The Olympic Committee] wants the games to go someplace where people love the Olympics,' Romney said. 'And Utah has proven that this is something we absolutely adore.”
Sen. Mitt Romney tries his hand at curling during a visit to the Utah Olympic Oval in Kearns, Friday, May 27, 2022.Utah Sen. Mitt Romney has no say in the International Olympic Committee’s decision on where to hold the 2030 Winter Games.The senator was at the Utah Olympic Oval on Friday to receive a curling lesson from the Ukrainian national team that, thanks in part to Romney’s intervention, will be stationed in Utah until Russia’s invasion of that country ends.
“Clearly, having a community show such interest in Olympic sport makes it more likely for the Olympic Committee to say, ‘Hey, this is a place to bring the Olympics,’” Romney said. “They want the games to go someplace where people love the Olympics. And Utah has proven that this is something we absolutely adore.”
After his few attempts at the sport — “the hardest part is getting down on my knee” — Romney spoke with the Ukrainian team via an interpreter. He told them that he and Frazer Bullock, the chief organizing officer of the Salt Lake City Olympics, helped build the Oval for the 2002 Winter Games. Bullock, who also tried his hand at curling for the first time Friday, is the president of the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games that is jockeying to host the 2030 or 2034 Olympics.
Yet Nikolov expressed his gratitude at being given a safe haven from the fighting in his home country, where his mother, father, older sister and niece still live. He appreciated going to a place he’d heard of before, if only because he follows the NBA and has watched the Utah Jazz on TV. Sen. Mitt Romney visits the Ukrainian national curling team at the Utah Olympic Oval in Kearns, Friday, May 27, 2022.
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