Posted inMarch 16, 1998: Olympic onslaught: Salt Lake City braces for the winter games

Colorado refused to play

Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. In 1972, four years before Colorado was to host the world’s biggest winter sports extravaganza, the state got cold feet. Businessmen and politicians had been working to lure the winter Olympics to Colorado since the 1950s. But when the Olympic flag arrived in Denver, […]

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