Controversy in the olympic games

Any chance of the Mile High City landing the 2030 Winter Olympics melted like snow under the bright Colorado sun on December 14, when the U.S. Olympic Committee announced that it was choosing Salt Lake City over Reno and Denver as this country's contender for the Games that year. Residents of Utah's capital city had been loud in their support of the bid, while in this town...not so much. After all, Coloradans had voted in 1972 not to spend public money on the Winter Games, which had already been awarded to Denver for 1976. And that was the end of that.Continue ReadingExcept that periodically, Denver boosters float the idea of bringing the Olympics here, and last year, Mayor Michael Hancock created an exploratory committee to look into a potential Denver bid for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games."Some things never stay dead," says Richard Lamm, who was a 34-year-old state representative when he led the fight to put the Olympics to a vote, and was elected governor of Colorado … [Read more...] about Dick Lamm Says Olympic Games May Have a Duty to Die

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