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Winter Olympics Will Return to Salt Lake City, Site of Bidding Scandal, in 2034

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Salt Lake City, where a brazen bribery scandal ahead of the 2002 Winter Olympics helped change the way host cities are chosen, was given a second chance on Wednesday when it was named as the site of the 2034 Winter Games.

But its victory came only after a dramatic decision to revise the host city contract that Salt Lake City and Utah officials had signed. That change would allow the I.O.C. to pull the Games if any effort was made to undermine the authority of the World Anti-Doping Agency, the global regulator of doping in sports.