He wore it at the 10th anniversary celebration of the 2002 Olympic Games. And in December 2012, when Utah officials announced the state was ready to host another Games. And again at the 15th anniversary of the 2002 Games this February.
At the unveiling of the newly formed Olympic Exploratory Committee (OEC) in the Rice-Eccles Stadium tower Thursday afternoon, the Utah businessman and former chief operating office of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee recalled being in the same room 15 and a half years ago during the Closing Ceremony of the 2002 Olympic Games, before watching the fireworks go off from the roof of the stadium with then-Gov.