Colorado’s Ava Keenan, and 22 other young skiers and snowboarders on the National Brotherhood of Skiers team, is working with the organization to diversify the highest levels of those sports.
Winter Olympics
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As Olympians race in Beaver Creek, they worry about the “Winter” disappearing from Winter Games
By Howard Fendrich and Pat Graham, The Associated Press BEAVER CREEK — Ski racers settling into the start gate for Alpine World Cup events in the Rocky Mountains in early December squinted through sunshine that carried the temperature toward 50 degrees and glanced down at a course covered with pristine — and manufactured — snow. […]
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Colorado’s high-flying skiers, snowboarders dominating as the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics close in
Colorado’s top freeskiers and snowboarders had a busy December as they dominated contests that served as qualifiers for the Winter Olympics in Beijing in February. The three events this month — Big Air at Steamboat, U.S. Grand Prix at Copper Mountain and the Dew Tour at Copper Mountain — were among the first steps to […]
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Why pro skier Gus Kenworthy jumped to Great Britain’s Olympic squad from the U.S. team
Gus Kenworthy, the Telluride-raised freeskiing pioneer and two-time Olympian who has helped establish the U.S. as an international halfpipe and slopestyle skiing powerhouse, announced earlier this month that he will ski for Great Britain as he tracks toward the 2022 Winter Olympics in China. His mom is British and Kenworthy was born outside London, where […]
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Denver passed over, Salt Lake City gets the go-ahead to bid for Winter Olympics
By Eddie Pells and Brady McCombs, The Associated Press Salt Lake City — and not Denver — got the green light to bid for the Winter Olympics, most likely for 2030, in an attempt to bring the Games back to the city that hosted in 2002 and provided the backdrop for the U.S. winter team’s ascendance […]
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With Colorado’s chances of landing the Olympics fading, the state is proposing a radical change: co-hosting
With Winter Olympics host cities falling like snowflakes, Colorado’s bid to stage the 2030 Winter Olympics hinges on national and international Olympic organizers embracing a new hosting model that would split events between different states, including a scenario that has Colorado and Utah co-hosting the 2030 Winter Games. For Colorado to win support from the […]