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The Denver Winter Olympics referendum was held in November 1972 following the awarding to Denver of the 1976 Winter Olympics. [1] [2]The selection process for the 1976 Winter Olympics consisted of four bids, and saw Denver, Colorado, United States, selected ahead of Sion, Switzerland; Tampere, Finland; and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Later that year on 7 November, Colorado voters rejected partially funding the games in a referendum, [8] [9] and for the first time a city awarded an Olympics rejected them. [10] Denver officially withdrew on 15 November, [ 11 ] and the IOC then offered the Olympics to Whistler, British Columbia , Canada, but they declined, owing to a change of ...
The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games (German: XII. Olympische Winterspiele , French : XIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver ) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1976 ( Austro-Bavarian : Innschbruck 1976 ), were a winter multi-sport event celebrated in Innsbruck , Austria, from February 4 to 15, 1976.
The company said Friday it will shut down its Olympic Channel on Sept. 30. The company had previously shut down its NBCSN sports network at the end of last year. A spokesperson for NBC Sports says ...
A turn toward extravagance. Forty years ago, the Olympics were also at a crossroads. After the 1968 Mexico City Games and 1972 Munich games were marked by deadly violence and the 1976 Montreal ...
The prestigious alpine downhill race, the showcase event of the Winter Olympics, was planned for Beaver Creek by the Denver Olympic Organizing Committee. After state voters handily passed a referendum in 1972 to stop state funding for the Olympics, [3] the 1976 games were reassigned to Innsbruck, Austria, [4] [5] which had hosted in 1964.
He was skating on thin ice. Meagan Duhamel won a bronze medal in pairs figure skating (seen here celebrating) and a gold medal in the team event with Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Richard Douglas Lamm (August 3, 1935 – July 29, 2021) was an American politician, writer, and attorney. He served three terms as the 38th Governor of Colorado as a Democrat (1975–1987) and ran for the Reform Party's nomination for President of the United States in 1996.