Salt Lake City 2002: How a Mountain Town Laundered Global Terror Into Olympic Gold
The 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City were billed as a celebration of human excellence, a moment when the planet’s finest athletes gathered in Utah to glide, spin, and occasionally face-plant for the greater glory of their flag-bearing overlords. From the vantage point of 2024—after two decades of pandemics, populist coups, and the slow-motion…