Gov. Spencer Cox said Wednesday he was looking at “the best of Utah” when he addressed the steering committee formed to advise organizers of the 2034 Winter Games at the end of their first in-person meeting.

“It’s been a rough couple of weeks for our state. Certainly there are a lot of people that didn’t know much about Utah,” the governor said, but being an Olympic host “may be the one thing that they do know.”

In remarks that Cox said were different than he planned to make, he repeated what he was told about the deadly shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10 that put the state in the spotlight.

While at the University of Notre Dame to participate in a discussion about “Pragmatism over Polarization,” the governor said he was approached by an

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