Brief by Allen Best
Sports – November 2008 – Colorado Central Magazine
A delegation of 165 people from Colorado — including Gov. Bill Ritter and Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper — visited Vancouver, B.C., recently to talk about renewable energy and other topics, but especially the Olympics.
Vancouver and Whistler are hosting the 2010 Olympics, and it will be at Sochi, Russia, in 2014. Some in Denver, however, have been talking about a bid for 2018.
Brief by Allen Best
Sports – February 2007 – Colorado Central Magazine
Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong had been announced as a competitor at next summer’s Leadville Trail 100 mountain bike race. That was before the winner of this past year’s Tour de France, Floyd Landis, announced that he, too, would race at Leadville.
Essay by Ed Quillen
Sports – March 1999 – Colorado Central Magazine
SALT LAKE CITY wanted to put itself on the world map with the 2002 Winter Olympics. The games are still three years away, but the Utah capital has already succeeded in a big way — pick up a newspaper from just about anywhere, and the City of the Saints is on the front page.