Utah 2034
Salt Lake City hosts the 2034 Winter Games, and the funding arrived eight years early. Sourced coverage of Podium34, Utah 2034 Champion Schools, Utah Youth Sports Giving Day and the athlete pipeline — who the money actually reaches, and who it misses. Elevating every sport in Utah.
Last updated November 1, 2026
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Olympic values went into 72 Utah elementary schools across seven districts. The committee has not said which 72, or how the districts were chosen.
Open route146 Utah youth-sports nonprofits, a $3 million target and the match pool behind it — the Games committee's first community-impact programme.
Open routeThe 2027 U.S. Figure Skating Championships come to the 2034 figure skating venue Jan. 5-10.
Open routeLooking for the Red Rocks, BYU, Utah State or Southern Utah gymnastics? That is a different section — this page is about the 2034 Winter Games.
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Park City moguls skier Alli Macuga, a 2023 junior world champion and FIS Rookie of the Year, reached two World Cup podiums in 2023-24 and is on the 2026-27 U.S. moguls B team. The World Cup visits Deer Valley in January.
Park City aerials skier Tasia Tanner, the 2023-24 FIS Rookie of the Year and a University of Utah graduate, placed 11th in the 2026 Olympic final. The World Cup comes to Deer Valley in January.
Park City freeskier Marin Hamill, a University of Utah graduate, was second at the Laax World Cup in January 2026 to clinch her second Olympics, then won X Games knuckle huck gold. Her 2026-27 season.
Park City's Josie Johnson won the first U.S. Youth Olympic ski jumping medal in 2024, competed at the 2026 Olympics and is the only woman on the 2026-27 U.S. A team. The World Cup visits Lake Placid in February.
Salt Lake City's Mary Bocock, a Rowland Hall graduate and the 2022-23 NorAm champion, made her Olympic debut in 2026, posted a career-best World Cup 11th and is on the 2026-27 U.S. Alpine A Team.
Salt Lake City's Isabella "Bella" Wright, raised racing with the Snowbird Sports Education Foundation, skied her second Olympics in 2026 and is on the 2026-27 U.S. Alpine B team. Her World Cup best is seventh.
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Ashley Farquharson is a Park City luger who won bronze in women's singles at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, the second U.S. Olympic medal in the event and the first since 2014. A two-time Olympian and Park City High School graduate, she leads USA Luge's women on the Fall 2026 National Team.
Kaila Kuhn is a U.S. freestyle aerials skier who lives in Park City and lists the University of Utah as her school. She won Olympic gold in mixed team aerials at Milano Cortina 2026, swept both aerials world titles in 2025, the first aerialist to win two golds at one world championships, and is on the 2026-27 U.S. Freestyle Ski Team A team.
Sydney Peterson is a U.S. Para Nordic skier pursuing a PhD in neuroscience at the University of Utah. She won three golds and a silver at the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games and has seven Paralympic medals, four of them gold. She is on the A team of the 2026-27 U.S. Para Nordic Ski Team.
Jaelin Kauf is a U.S. freestyle moguls skier who lives in Salt Lake City and lists the University of Utah as her college. She has three Olympic silver medals, two of them from Milano Cortina 2026, 18 World Cup wins and 53 World Cup podiums, and in 2024-25 won the moguls, dual moguls and overall Crystal Globes.
Breezy Johnson is the Olympic downhill champion, winning gold at Milano Cortina 2026, and a two-time world champion from 2025. She grew up in Victor, Idaho, and moved to Salt Lake City for high school at Rowland Hall's Rowmark Ski Academy, graduating in 2013. U.S. Ski & Snowboard still lists Rowmark as her club.
Kaysha Love is a Herriman, Utah, native and USA Bobsled pilot who won the women's monobob world title at Lake Placid in 2025. A former Herriman High and UNLV sprinter, she raced at the Beijing 2022 Olympics as a push athlete and at Milano Cortina 2026 as a pilot, finishing fifth in two-woman, and has seven World Cup wins.
Lauren Macuga is a Park City alpine skier on the U.S. Alpine Ski Team's A team. She won her first World Cup race, a super-G at St. Anton, on Jan. 12, 2025, and took super-G bronze at the 2025 World Championships, then tore the ACL in her right knee in training in November 2025, which ruled her out of the Milano Cortina Games. She is back on snow and aiming at the 2026-27 season.
Kate Delson is a Para snowboarder who has been based in Utah since November 2023 and now lives in Park City, riding for Team Utah. At her first Paralympics, Milano Cortina 2026, she won gold in banked slalom and silver in snowboard cross, and in 2025-26 she won the overall World Cup title. She is on the A team of the 2026-27 U.S. Para Snowboard Team.
Corinne "Corie" Stoddard is a short track speed skater who moved to Salt Lake City at 17 to train full time with the U.S. national team, which is coached at the Utah Olympic Oval in Kearns. At Milano Cortina 2026 she won bronze in the 1,500 meters, which US Speedskating called the first Olympic 1,500m podium for an American woman, and she added a world championship bronze in March 2026. She is on the 2026-27 US Speedskating Short Track National Team.
Faye Thelen, who races as Faye Gulini Thelen, is a snowboard cross rider from Salt Lake City and a five-time Olympian, from Vancouver 2010 to Milano Cortina 2026. She was fourth at Sochi 2014 and seventh at Milano Cortina 2026 after returning to racing as the mother of two young children. A Westminster accounting graduate, she is on the 2026-27 Toyota U.S. Snowboard Team.
Zoe Atkin is a freeski halfpipe skier who grew up in Park City, Utah, where her family moved when she was 9, and competes for Great Britain. She won bronze at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics, Great Britain's first Olympic freeski halfpipe medal by GB Snowsport's account, and she is the 2025 world champion and a two-time halfpipe Crystal Globe winner. A Winter Sports School graduate who was a Stanford senior in the 2025-26 school year, she is on GB Snowsport's 2026-27 Freeski World Cup Squad.
Hilary Knight is a U.S. women's ice hockey forward from Sun Valley, Idaho, who shares a home in Salt Lake City with speed skater Brittany Bowe, Team USA and NBC Olympics reported. At Milano Cortina 2026, her fifth Olympics, she scored the late tying goal in a 2-1 overtime win over Canada for her second Olympic gold and set U.S. women's Olympic records for goals and points. She plays for PWHL Detroit and is on the U.S. roster for the 2026 IIHF Women's World Championship.
Erin Jackson is a long track speed skater from Ocala, Florida, who lives in Utah, trains with the U.S. national team at the Utah Olympic Oval and earned an associate degree from Salt Lake Community College. She won the 500 meters at the Beijing 2022 Olympics, carried the U.S. flag at the Milano Cortina 2026 opening ceremony, and set the American 500m record of 36.57 at the Oval in November 2025. She is on the 2026-27 US Speedskating Long Track National Team.
Mary Bocock is an alpine ski racer from Salt Lake City who came up through Rowmark Ski Academy at Rowland Hall. She won the 2022-23 NorAm Cup overall and super-G titles, made her Olympic debut in the super-G at Milano Cortina 2026 and finished that season with a career-best 11th place in a World Cup super-G. She is on the A team of the 2026-27 Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team.
Isabella "Bella" Wright is a downhill and super-G skier from Salt Lake City who grew up racing with the Snowbird Sports Education Foundation. A two-time Olympian, she was 21st in the super-G at Beijing 2022 and 21st in the downhill at Milano Cortina 2026, and her best World Cup result is seventh in the downhill at the 2023 World Cup Finals in Soldeu. She is on the B team of the 2026-27 Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team.
Tasia Tanner is a freestyle aerials skier from Park City, Utah, who learned the sport on the water ramps at the Utah Olympic Park. She was named FIS Rookie of the Year in aerials for 2023-24, reached the women's aerials final at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics and placed 11th, and set a World Cup best of fourth in January 2026. A University of Utah graduate, she is on the 2026-27 U.S. Freestyle Ski Team's aerials B team.
Marin Hamill is a freeski slopestyle and big air skier from Park City, Utah, and a University of Utah graduate. A two-time Olympian, she was 12th in slopestyle at Beijing 2022 and 16th at Milano Cortina 2026, and she was second in the Laax World Cup in January 2026, the result that made her the first U.S. woman confirmed for the 2026 Olympic slopestyle and big air team. She won knuckle huck gold at the 2026 X Games and is on the 2026-27 U.S. Freeski Team.
Josie Johnson is a ski jumper born and raised in Park City, Utah, who now lives and trains in Lillehammer, Norway. She won silver at the 2024 Youth Olympic Games, which USA Ski Jumping called the first U.S. Youth Olympic medal in ski jumping, competed at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics and placed ninth in a World Cup in February 2026. She is the only woman on the A team of the 2026-27 Stifel U.S. Ski Jumping Team.
Alli Macuga is a freestyle moguls skier from Park City, Utah; U.S. Ski & Snowboard lists her college as the University of Utah. She won the dual moguls and the mixed dual moguls team event at the 2023 Junior World Championships, was named FIS Rookie of the Year for 2022-23, and reached two World Cup podiums in 2023-24, when she finished fifth in the overall moguls standings. She is on the moguls B team of the 2026-27 Stifel U.S. Freestyle Ski Team, and her sisters Lauren and Sam also ski for the United States.
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