The United States has hosted the Olympics a total of 8 times and the World Cup one time. Due to the mass amount of times that the USA has hosted major sporting events this paragraph is going to focus mainly on the most recent one, the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games. The games provided a massive boost to Utah's economy. Utah spent $2.1 billion directly on the game's, only around $1.3 billion dollars directly impacted Utah's economy, since that money originated from outside of the state and remained in the state afterwards. The other $800 million was spent out-of-state or was money that was already in Utah. The olympics created 25,000 jobs for the games and upwards of 1500 jobs still in existence today. This high job growth was predicted
