Spencer is a reporter and Multi-Media Journalist at FOX 13 News.
KEARNS, Utah — These days at the Utah Olympic Oval in Kearns, you'll find all sorts of skaters. From those training for competition to young kids just learning about the joy of a clean sheet of ice.
"You can see great stories of kids that have come up and moved on and are winning medals through our program," he said just days ahead of Utah making its final pitch to win the 2034 Olympics."To see them out here learning like this, the one thing that goes through my mind is, man, I started late and I wish I would have started earlier."
Skaters who train at the oval do so with some of the best, and on an ice sheet that has set a world record every single year. As Hess dreams of future Olympics, Parra still remembers his gold medal win in the 1500M event and the awards ceremony like the day it happened.
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