{"id":244518,"date":"2026-05-26T22:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/244518\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T22:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:49:08","slug":"a-winter-olympics-in-nyc-heres-what-new-yorks-governor-says-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/244518\/","title":{"rendered":"A Winter Olympics in NYC? Here\u2019s what New York\u2019s governor says \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s no secret that there\u2019s been interest in another Olympics for Lake Placid<\/a>, New York.<\/p>\n

The site of both the 1932 and 1980 Winter Games has been floated for years as a potential bidder on behalf of the U.S. Even before Utah was awarded the 2034 Winter Games<\/a>, state lawmakers in New York were pushing<\/a> for a feasibility study.<\/p>\n

Now, it appears New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is on board<\/a>. <\/p>\n

New York\u2019s interest could someday pit the Empire State against Utah, where Olympic organizers including Gov. Spencer Cox<\/a> have made it clear they want to see the Winter Games return on more or less a regular basis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hochul is calling for the small community in the Adirondack Mountains to team up with New York City to host a future Winter Games. Just like at Italy\u2019s 2026 Winter Games<\/a>, dubbed the most widespread ever, venues would be several hundred miles apart.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve actually been having significant meetings on this, putting together the individuals who I would want to be part of a committee. It\u2019s complicated, but we are up for it,\u201d the N.Y. governor told The Athletic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, center, arrives ahead of Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla’s visit to the 9\/11 Memorial, Wednesday, April 29, 2026, in New York. | Yuki Iwamura, Associated Press <\/p>\n

The New York Times sports outlet posted Monday that Hochul \u201cinsisted that there is \u2018sincere\u2019 political ambition\u201d for bringing back a Winter Games, describing herself as \u201csomeone who will never forget the 1980 Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n

She recalled working at a pizzeria as a college student during the famed \u201cMiracle on Ice\u201d<\/a> men\u2019s hockey match that saw the Soviet team defeated by the U.S., \u201clistening to it on the radio and announcing to all the restaurant patrons what was happening play-by-play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hochul said she\u2019s been to Lake Placid \u201cmany times. To me, it is a shrine to the perseverance<\/a> of American athletes at that time that we still have with us today. \u201cI want to continue that celebration and have many more \u2018Miracles on Ice\u2019 in New York City and in Lake Placid.\u201d<\/p>\n

For her, \u201cthat\u2019s the fascinating connectivity,\u201d she told The Athletic. \u201cWhat other part of the world can offer this opportunity to provide what New York City has but also the most beautiful place in the world, with the Adirondack (mountains)?\u201d<\/p>\n

What would a Lake Placid-NYC Olympics look like?\"\"Spectators watch the Grand Prix Eastern Cup cross country ski race in the stadium at the Nordic Center on Mt Van Hoevenberg along side the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation World Cup race as New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority holds multiple events on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022, in Lake Placid, N.Y. | Hans Pennink, Associated Press <\/p>\n

Details of the bid are yet to come. But there\u2019s some clues in Lake Placid\u2019s successful pitch<\/a> to serve as a backup site for bobsled, luge and skeleton at this year\u2019s Winter Games had Italy\u2019s much-delayed <\/a>new track not been finished in time. <\/p>\n

The New York track turned out not to be needed, of course. But New York state was prepared to commit $30 million<\/a> to hosting the competitions, according to a report last year in the Adirondack Explorer.<\/p>\n

In addition to offering the use of the Mount Van Hoevenberg sliding venue, Lake Placid\u2019s Olympic Regional Development Authority also planned to rent Rockefeller Center in Manhattan for \u201cred carpet rink medal ceremonies,\u201d the Adirondack newspaper reported.<\/p>\n

A longtime advocate of a joint Lake Placid-New York City bid, state Assembly member Robert Carroll, said Madison Square Garden and other well-know arenas could be utilized for ice sports like figure skating, hockey, curling and speed-skating.<\/p>\n

Also, the Brooklyn Democrat said in a USA Today Network op-ed<\/a>, \u201ciconic outdoor settings could push the boundaries of what a Winter Games looks like \u2014 Big Air at Citi Field or Yankee Stadium, or even a cross-country sprint through Central Park.”<\/p>\n

Combined with the upstate snow sports venues that New York taxpayers invested more than $600 million<\/a> in ahead of hosting a 2023 event, Carroll said there would be \u201clittle to no new sports infrastructure\u201d required for an Olympics.<\/p>\n

However, he said another Olympics could spur improvements in the busy rail corridor connecting New York City to update communities as well as encourage the construction of new accommodations for athletes and others that later could be used as affordable housing.<\/p>\n

While Carroll doesn\u2019t specify which Olympics New York would bid for, the International Olympic Committee already has exclusive negotiations<\/a> underway with Switzerland for the 2038 Winter Games that follow Utah\u2019s, leaving 2042 as the next opening.<\/p>\n

Even though the 2028 Summer Games<\/a> are also in the U.S., in Los Angeles, he said in the op-ed, \u201cThere is no reason the United States, with its continental scale, world-class infrastructure and global reach, cannot host three Games within a 14-year span.\u201d<\/p>\n

Utah\u2019s hopes for many more Winter Games <\/p>\n

It\u2019s too soon to say when Utah would try to host for a third time, said Fraser Bullock, president and executive chair of the Organizing Committee<\/a> for the 2034 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point, we\u2019re just focused on 2034. When we do a great in 2034, it just bodes well for a future bid whenever that comes. But we\u2019re not talking about that at this point,\u201d Bullock said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a big opportunity<\/a> in front of us, and we want to make sure we maximize our success.\u201d<\/p>\n

When it comes to helping Team USA <\/a>athletes train to compete in Winter Games, he said Utah and Lake Placid are partners, both using former Olympic venues that have continued to be maintained. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that Lake Placid supports the Olympic and Paralympic<\/a> movement is fantastic,\u201d Bullock said. \u201cWhat they\u2019re doing in terms of year in and year out is great. But when it comes to hosting future Games, we may be competitors, maybe not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Utah offers \u201ca very different model\u201d for a Winter Games, he said, citing venues that are already in place from hosting the 2002 Winter Games<\/a>, all located within an hour of a single athletes village at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe think that\u2019s a great model for us and so we hope to have many Games, not only in 2034, but many Games down the road in the future,\u201d Bullock said. That\u2019s the case whether or not the IOC decides to rotate<\/a> the Winter Games among a set group of hosts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we have to be able to do is be awarded based on our merits,\u201d he said. \u201cAs we\u2019ve demonstrated before, we\u2019ve got a strong model<\/a>. In any future competition, whether its domestically or internationally, our model will continue to stand strong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s no secret that there\u2019s been interest in another Olympics for Lake Placid, New York. The site of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[95496,9,11,10,83094,17318,15559],"class_list":["post-244518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-2002-olympic-archive","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news-division","tag-news-feed-national","tag-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}