The 2034 Winter Olympic efforts this year and in 2027 will continue to move from the successful bidding for the event to the preparations for the Games. The two years that follow — 2028 and 2029 — will involve a broad effort designed to prepare Utah 2034, the organizing committee, for the wo rk required to stage the second Winter Olympics in the state. And the tasks after that will move to the details of the blueprints for the Games. Utah 2034, as part of the recently released Games Plan, provided an outline of a timeline for the next eight years that illustrates the work to take the group to the Winter Olympics and then the period afterward. The timeline shows what the Games region should expect over the course of the planning even if it does not include details. The Games effort will become one of the overriding issues for the region, with the organizing committee, various levels of government, the resort industry, businesses and residents all having large stakes. Park City and surrounding Summit County will have an outsized role in the Games, and the organizing committee’s timeline will be of consequence across the community. Utah 2034 succeeded the committee that successfully bid for the Winter Olympics and has been moving through early tasks, including seating the leadership hierarchy and developing the Games Plan. The plan identifies a Strategic Horizon One, running from the present through 2030, and a Strategic Horizon Two, stretching from 2030 until 2034. Utah 2034 lists wide-ranging items in each of the horizons that, combined, bring the organizing committee through the Games and then to the eventual disbandment of the committee after the Olympic flame is extinguished. The Games Plan is the first version and there could be modifications to the timeline of the work. The Strategic Horizon One involves two time periods. The transition to the organizing of the Games runs from the present through 2027. Some of the planned work includes continued relationship building with various parties, fundraising, steps toward commercial programs for the Games and broadening “community engagement to inform impact and legacy priorities.” The organizing committee also intends to prepare for possibilities that could arise from the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. A two-year period of strategy follows in 2028 and 2029, with the organizing committee saying some of the key topics of the Games will be addressed. The Games Plan says there will be “high-level, long-term strategic thinking, scoping, securing resources, public engagement and communication, stakeholder experience plans, and infrastructure and venue design work.” The organizing committee also plans to “activate commercial sponsorship and licensing programs and grow revenue sources” and “maximize opportunities” of the Games in Los Angeles. The period will also involve the development of “delivery strategies for important functions and services of the Games” like transportation and security. The schedule for Strategic Horizon Two shows that stretch of the planning will be more granular. “Horizon Two, to be developed in greater detail in future Games Plan versions as we approach 2030, will take us through the operational planning and readiness processes, the delivery of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, and the transition to Games legacy realization,” the Games Plan says. There are four time periods in Strategic Horizon Two: The planning, covering 2030 and 2031. The work will include: “Integrated planning to detail what, how, when, and where services will be delivered, and how events will be operated.” The development of “detailed operating plans for each functional area, including resource requirements.” The development of the organizing committee’s plans for its workforce and building the team. The readiness, running from 2032 until October of 2033. The work will include: Building “competence and confidence in people and teams.” Testing the “fields of play, technology, and workforce preparedness.” Building “teams and test operating plans, technologies, and Games workforce.” The Games time, covering October of 2033 until March of 2034. The period covers the Winter Olympics in February of 2034 and the Paralympics that will follow shortly afterward. The work will include: The delivery of the Games and the engaging of operations for the event. The staging of the “Olympic and Paralympic Torch Relays, competitions, ceremonies, etc., including the transitions between the Games.” The dissolution and the legacy, starting in 2034 and running indefinitely. The Games Plan says work will continue “with partner and legacy organizations to realize post-Games benefits as the (organizing committee) winds down.” Each of the steps in both of the strategic horizons will have impacts in Park City and Summit County. Three competition venues — Park City Mountain, Deer Valley Resort and the Utah Olympic Park — are in the Park City area. The community will also be critical to the organizing committee’s plans for transportation, security and celebrations. In many cases, the steps outlined in the Games Plan will involve officials at the city and county levels. They will also involve the management at the competition venues and various interest groups. The leadership of Main Street, as an example, would likely play a role should celebration plans involve the shopping, dining and entertainment strip, while tourism officials would be anticipated to work with the other parties to ensure the crowds are welcomed. The selection process for the Games of 2034 changed between 2002 Winter Olympic era, when that edition of the Games was awarded nearly seven years in advance of the opening ceremony. In the current era, the selection was made nearly 10 years before the event, giving the organizing committee that much more time to plan. The post Winter Olympic organizers outline a timeline taking them to the post-Games era appeared first on Park Record. ...read more read less