The Park City area may not host any ski-racing events in a future Winter Olympics, representatives of the committee seeking a Games said on Friday, a dramatic change from earlier iterations of a venue map as well as a significant departure from the competition grid from the Games of 2002.

High-ranking figures from the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games met with Park City and Summit County leaders on Friday at the Marsac Building, covering a range of issues related to the work toward a Winter Olympics.

The Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games briefly addressed the conceptual map of the competition venues as part of the discussion, including delivering a statement that there are no intentions to use the planned Deer Valley East Village expansion in Wasatch County for competitions.

The representatives after the meeting provided updated information regarding the proposed venue map.

According to the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games, each of the ski-racing disciplines — downhill, super-G, giant slalom and slalom — are proposed to be staged at Snowbasin. Park City Mountain was the giant slalom venue in 2002 while the slalom races were held at Deer Valley Resort that year.

An early concept map for a second Games, dating to 2018, indicated Park City Mountain would not host ski races, but Deer Valley had been seen as a venue for ski racing at that time. There had always seemed to be a possibility of certain events being moved to other venues as the map was finalized, but an alteration as significant as removing ski-racing events from the Park City area is especially notable. There is the possibility of additional changes to the venue map as the overall blueprints for a Games are prepared.

The Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games provided a summary of the current plans for the Park City-area venues:

• Deer Valley would host the freestyle skiing disciplines of aerials and moguls.
• Park City Mountain would host undetermined snowboarding and freestyle skiing events.
• The Utah Olympic Park would host the sliding sports, ski jumping and the ski jumping portion of the Nordic combined. There would be undetermined freestyle skiing events and undetermined snowboarding events held at the park.

The venue map is critical to the overall plans since it will influence many of the other logistical aspects of a Games, such as transportation, parking and the competition grid.

Staging a future Winter Olympics without any ski-racing events at Park City Mountain or Deer Valley would mark a profound rearrangement from the 2002 era, effectively moving the community from the traditional Games disciplines to the newer ones. Park City Mountain was especially recognized at the time as a ski-racing venue, hosting the America’s Opening stop on the World Cup circuit.

The International Olympic Committee in the summer is expected to select Salt Lake City as the host of the Games in 2034. The Park City area would have an large role in a second Games, as was the case during the Winter Olympics in 2002.

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