![The IOC is expected to award the 2034 Winter Games to Salt Lake City creating a unique opportunity for American Olympic sports. The IOC is expected to award the 2034 Winter Games to Salt Lake City creating a unique opportunity for American Olympic sports.](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/AP24101849764122.jpg?w=140)
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Scott M. Reid
Scott M. Reid is a sports enterprise/investigative reporter for the Orange County Register. He has also covered 12 Olympic Games, five World Cups, four Women's World Cups and World Championships in track and field and gymnastics, the relocation of the NFL to Southern California and Los Angeles being awarded the 2028 Olympic Games. His work for the Register has led to investigations by the International Olympic Committee, the U.S. Olympic Committee, the U.S. Department of Education, the California Legislature, and the national governing bodies for gymnastics, swimming, track and field and badminton. It has also been cited in U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives hearings and investigations. Reid won the National Headliner award for sports reporting and the Investigative Reporters and Editors sports investigative reporting award in 2023. He has also won 16 Associated Press Sports Editors awards for investigative reporting since 1999. He has also been honored by APSE for game writing, and enterprise, news, and beat reporting. Prior to joining the Register in 1996, Reid worked for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Dallas Times Herald. He has a B.A. in the History of the Americas from the University of Washington.
Location: Southern California
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![The IOC is expected to award the 2034 Winter Games to Salt Lake City creating a unique opportunity for American Olympic sports. The IOC is expected to award the 2034 Winter Games to Salt Lake City creating a unique opportunity for American Olympic sports.](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/AP24101849764122.jpg?w=140)
![Mahuchikh broke the 37-year-old world record in the high jump earlier this month, a leap she said was inspired by the Ukrainian people. Mahuchikh broke the 37-year-old world record in the high jump earlier this month, a leap she said was inspired by the Ukrainian people.](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/AP24191633420658.jpg?w=132)
High jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh taking her fight for Ukraine to Paris Olympics
![Paris has sold a record number of tickets that for Games that will feature historic venues and once in a generation athletes. But can it revive enthusiasm and restore fiscal responsibility for the Olympic movement? Paris has sold a record number of tickets that for Games that will feature historic venues and once in a generation athletes. But can it revive enthusiasm and restore fiscal responsibility for the Olympic movement?](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/LDN-L-OLY-OVERVIEW-0721-KB31-1.jpg?w=140)
Can Paris reboot the Olympic Games?
![The storied Pacific Palisades course is one of more than a dozen venue selections revealed by LA28 in its second wave of choices. The storied Pacific Palisades course is one of more than a dozen venue selections revealed by LA28 in its second wave of choices.](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/LDN-L-GENESIS-0219-DC-41.jpg?w=132)
Riviera Country Club to host Olympic golf in 2028
![McLaughlin-Levrone runs the 400-meter hurdles in 50.65 seconds, her fifth world record in three years vindicating the plan by coach Bobby Kersee. McLaughlin-Levrone runs the 400-meter hurdles in 50.65 seconds, her fifth world record in three years vindicating the plan by coach Bobby Kersee.](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/US-Track-Trials-3-1.jpg?w=132)
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone sets world record in Olympic Trials finale
![Spot on Team USA caps a season for Long that has become a tribute to her late mother. Spot on Team USA caps a season for Long that has become a tribute to her late mother.](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/AP24182020429672_f281df-1.jpg?w=132)
A dream finish: McKenzie Long joins Gabby Thomas on the Olympic team
![Lyles and Davis-Woodhall would both prevail on night at Hayward Field that highlighted America's depth in the sprints. Lyles and Davis-Woodhall would both prevail on night at Hayward Field that highlighted America's depth in the sprints.](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/AP24182091316327-1.jpg?w=132)
Olympic trials: Noah Lyles, Gabby Thomas, Tara Davis-Woodhall highlight big day
![Gabby Thomas also runs world leading time at Olympic trials. Gabby Thomas also runs world leading time at Olympic trials.](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/AP24181110982489_d72c30.jpg?w=132)
Track and field trials: Grant Holloway just misses world record
![The three-event NCAA champion, still dealing with the sudden death of her mother in February, wins her opening round Olympic Trials 200-meter heat. The three-event NCAA champion, still dealing with the sudden death of her mother in February, wins her opening round Olympic Trials 200-meter heat.](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/AP24180041585617.jpg?w=132)
Track and field trials: Sprinter McKenzie Long inspired by late mother
![Lee, the 2021 Olympic all-around champion, returns to the Olympic trials in her native Minnesota after three trying years. Lee, the 2021 Olympic all-around champion, returns to the Olympic trials in her native Minnesota after three trying years.](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/AP23238097270352.jpg?w=132)