Denver 2018 olympics

Consider how it played out:. The proposed ski jumps for the Winter Olympics in Denver would be held on this hill in Evergreen. This litany of issues made it clear that the DOOC had oversold their position.

They had two core problems, each elucidated in rare moments of candor by politicians. Dick Lamm always had a bit of firebrand to him, and he still does today. The former Colorado governor now serves, at age 82, as the co-director of the Institute for Public Policy Studies at the University of Denver. As the costs kept rising, he quickly began to publicly disavow it and campaign against it.

He was joined by fellow state representative Bob Jackson. Employees were cut from 21 to 10, and money for promotional trips and ticket sales was slashed. But that number was flat-out wrong. It broke down as follows:. The cost to purchase The trickling out of these numbers started to ignite the opposition.

That forced a ballot initiative about further funding the Games. They were one of a few groups, combining environmental and economic concerns. The grassroots effort was split evenly between the two concerns, according to Lamm. More than anything, it was about responsible growth. Eisenhower were brought to rally support. Jesse Owens glad-handed. The DOOC tried to portray the image that the protesters were in the minority.

We hope that you do not accept these expressions as representative of the convictions of the more than 2. But that was a facade. Polling found that voters, by a margin, did not think that the DOOC had been candid about costs.

Momentum had shifted. Colorado voters rejected funding of the Winter Olympics. A victory party was scheduled at the DOOC headquarters. The vote went as planned. Voters approved the constitutional amendment prohibiting further state funds for the Games by a margin of , to , The grassroots campaign was a resounding success, and the biggest beneficiary was Lamm. Lamm was elected in , and served three terms. He ran for Senate in , but lost, before running for the Reform Party nomination in , where he lost to Ross Perot in the primary.

While there was some backlash to the vote—there was a quick effort from the Colorado Committee to Save the Winter Games to get an injunction, but it went nowhere—the Games quickly disappeared from Denver.

Athletes hold up their national flags during the closing ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games at the Pyeongchang Stadium on Feb. Artists perform during the closing ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games at the Pyeongchang Stadium on February 25, Sim Jae-guk, the mayor of Pyeongchang, South Korea, is at right. Fireworks light the sky over the Olympic flame during the closing ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games at the Pyeongchang Stadium on Feb.

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