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| Updated: 2:14 p.m. During his lifetime, M. Walker Wallace — a Utah businessman and real estate investor with a well-known family pedigree — helped lay the foundation for Utah’s sports, culture and tourist industries. Sapporo, Japan, would get the bid that year and it would be more than three decades before Salt Lake City would actually host the Games, said his son, Matthew Wallace. But that trip to Rome planted the seeds. Walker Wallace — whose U.S. Ski team career was cut short by a broken leg — also helped establish Snowbird and Park City ski resorts. He was part of the commi...