As many Utahns spend this week remembering the 2002 Olympic Games, KUER News begins a special 5-part series examining Utah’s Olympic Legacy a decade after the world put its spotlight on Salt Lake City. How did the games make us a better community? What did we learn about ourselves? And how will the Olympic spirit continue to exist in […]
Read MoreThe Olympic Games are arguably the pinnacle of sports. The athletes who are considered the best of the best in their respective events square off in representation for their home nations. Billions of people tune in to watch the Olympic Games, directly representing their significance.
Read MoreExactly 20 years ago today, the 2002 Olympic Winter Games kicked off with an emotional Opening Ceremony in Salt Lake City. A landmark Paralympic Winter Games followed a few weeks later.
Read MoreThe 2022 Winter Olympics haven’t even started and the University of Utah has already won gold. When the Winter Games commence on Feb. 4, there will be 38 athletes with ties to the U competing in Beijing, the most of any university in the world. Thirty-one of those Olympians will be representing Team USA.
Read MoreThe spirit of the Games continues to thrive at the University of Utah as today the U unveiled the newly completed Olympic and Paralympic Cauldron Plaza at Rice-Eccles Stadium. University of Utah President Taylor Randall, with local, state and Utah Olympic and Paralympic dignitaries, unveiled the new plaza that commemorates the historic Salt Lake 2002 […]
Read MoreUtah gymnasts Grace McCallum, MyKayla Skinner and Kara Eaker will all head to the Tokyo Olympics after the long journey to get there ended in triumph Sunday night at the Olympic Team Trials. Incoming freshman McCallum earned a berth as a member of the four-gymnast Team USA squad, while Skinner collected her Olympic berth as […]
Read MoreFormer Utah NCAA champion skier and Olympic gold medalist Kathy Kreiner-Phillips will be inducted into the Pac-12 Hall of Honor on Friday, March 13, at the Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Tournament in Las Vegas.
Read MoreGround has broken on the Rice-Eccles Stadium expansion. One of the first steps is to temporarily remove the Olympic cauldron so it can be fully refurbished and out of the way during construction.
Read MoreThe 2018 Winter Olympic Games are underway in PyeongChang, South Korea. Congrats to all the Utes representing the USA and other countries around the world.
Read MoreSlides, spins, jumps and glides: It’s not just Olympians’ years of training that makes their amazing feats possible — it’s also science. Every athlete’s dazzling ski jump or exhilarating luge run is a careful balance of human movement against the forces of gravity, friction and drag. Eight of the Winter Olympic sports take place on […]
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