You can almost eat Salt Lake City’s bad air. What hosting the Olympics would do about it.
Likely little this session, but the air quality will still probably be better in 2034 than it was in 2002.
(Ryan Galbraith | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Olympic Torch travels across the Great Salt Lake on Feb. 6, 2002. An inversion turned Utah's skies brown in the days prior to those Winter Games but it cleared out just before Opening Ceremony.
Julie left the beach of Santa Cruz, Calif., where she worked for 17 years, for the mountains of Salt Lake City in 2019. She has covered the NBA Finals, the Super Bowl, the World Series, the Maverick's big wave surf contest and two Olympics. A Colorado native, she enjoys creating her own adventure, occasionally with her husband and two kids in tow.
Julie left the beach of Santa Cruz, Calif., where she worked for 17 years, for the mountains of Salt Lake City in 2019. She has covered the NBA Finals, the Super Bowl, the World Series, the Maverick's big wave surf contest and two Olympics. A Colorado native, she enjoys creating her own adventure, occasionally with her husband and two kids in tow.