By Lisa Riley Roche | Desert News
Reno-Tahoe, one of Salt Lake City’s competitors for another Winter Games, dropped out Monday, leaving only Denver also still in the running to be chosen to bid by the U.S. Olympic Committee.
The announcement from Reno-Tahoe comes as the USOC is set to conduct site visits as well as polling to determine public support before making a choice for a future Winter Games, likely 2030, as soon as the end of the year.
“We have maintained from the start that a Reno-Tahoe bid would have to make sense economically, environmentally and socially,” Brian Krolicki, chairman of the Reno Tahoe Winter Games Coalition, said in a news release.
“Given the parameters and conditions presented, we cannot make the numbers pass muster. To continue, at this point, would be untenable and unwise,” he said. The news release called it a “necessary decision.”
