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Show Torch flickers Olympic hope PARK CITY A member of the International Olympic Site Evaluation Commission and Park City's mayor lighted a torch on Main Street to underscore the state's efforts to host the 1998 Winter Olympic Games. 'Our citizens are ready and committed to the Olympic movement' move-ment' Mayor Brad Olch said following the Jan. 15 lighting ceremony. The flame, atop a six-foot-tall torch built and donated to the city by Mountain Fuel Supply Co., will bum until the Olympic bid is announced an-nounced in June during meetings in Birmingham, England, the mayor said. |