(ATR) The elections in the U.S. come with some links to the Olympics.
Former Salt Lake City 2002 President Mitt Romney will head to Washington as the new U.S. Senator from Utah. He was the easy victor over a Democratic challenger in the November 7 vote.
Romney, 71, was recruited from the business world in 1999 to rescue the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics which were floundering amid the aftermath of the bidding scandal involving IOC members.
Romney left soon after the end of the Games to stage a successful run for governor of Massachusetts. Twice he tried to run for U.S. President, in 2012 as the nominee of the Republican Party.
Romney will take office in January for a term of six years.
His election comes just as Salt Lake City is being considered by the U.S.Olympic Committee as the next Winter Olympic bid from the United States. That decision is expected in December by the USOC Board of Directors. Reno-Tahoe in Nevada and Denver, Colorado are the two other candidates.
The involvement of Romney could be an advantage to Salt Lake City as the U.S. mounts an international bid. The other two cities lack that level of an Olympic connection. Regardless, Romney’s familiarity with the Olympics could make him a point person in the Senate on matters relating not only to a Winter Olympic bid, but also to 2028 host city Los Angeles.
For Los Angeles 2028, the election will give the Olympic committee a strong connectionto the Congress. The overall victory by the Democratic Party for control of the House of Representatives, means that Nancy Pelosi will be the speaker of the house, if she is chosen as a leader. If the Republicans had won control of the house, another Californian, Kevin McCarthy would likely have taken the speaker’s post.
Dick Fosbury, the gold medalist in the high jump at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, is about to become a county commissioner in Ketchum. Idaho.
He easily won his election Tuesday as a Democrat. Fosbury says his vote total, 6868, seemed uncanny with this being the 50th anniversary of the Mexico City Games.
Reported by Ed Hula.
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