December 2, 2011

SandBox Comments: Summit County Citizens Voice "Colorado aims at bid for 2022 Winter Olympics"

"SUMMIT COUNTY — A train headed for a 2022 rendezvous with the Winter Olympics is picking up some steam in Colorado, but so far, Summit County hasn’t hopped aboard.

Local sources familiar with the long-running effort to bring the games to the Mile High State say there hasn’t been much interest among local government and business leaders, even as Vail Resorts and the Vail Valley Foundation are working behind the scenes with the Metro Denver Sports Commission to shape a possible bid.

“It’s been pretty quiet lately,” said Breckenridge Realtor Daniel Webster Johnson, who has been an informal contact in Summit County for a possible state bid for the games. Johnson said he last met with local officials about a half year ago, when the prevailing attitude was that “it will never happen....”
(Bob Berwyn)

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