Let the Games begin: The Salt Lake City 2034 Olympics by the numbers

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SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Here's the first number: 10. That's how many years will pass before Salt Lake City, Utah, can actually roll out the red carpet to the world for the 2034 Winter Olympic Games.

By the time that's done, however, Utah officials will have spent decades of putting together their official bid and trying to figure out the Games' economic, logistical, and infrastructural impacts on the Beehive State.

One factor in the city's favor is that it previously hosted the Winter Games in 2002. The fact that Salt Lake City and Park City still have all the functional venues from the last Games worked in their favor in today's vote. The International Olympic Committee voted 83-6 to bring the Games back to the U.S. for the fifth time since the Winter Games started in 1924.