After all the meetings and news conferences, all the lengthy detailed discussions and all the endless what-ifs that have accompanied the past six years since Salt Lake City and Utah made it known that an Olympic return would not only be possible, but welcomed, the United States Olympic Committee arrived for its one-day, on-site visit.
The five-person USOC team landed in Salt Lake City a day after spending Tuesday up the road in Denver from USOC headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo., to hear Denver’s neighborly pitch for why it should be the USOC’s pick to bid on a future Olympic Winter Games.