Nevada and California Leaders Unveil Joint Effort to Explore Bid for Olympic Winter Games in the Lake Tahoe Region
Reno Tahoe Winter Games Coalition and California Winter Games Committee Join Forces with the Creation of Lake Tahoe Winter Games Exploratory Committee [Olympic Valley, Calif.] April 5, 2012 – Fifty-two years after the Olympic flame was first ignited in the Tahoe region, California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom and Nevada Lieutenant Governor Brian Krolicki announced the formation […]
Continue Reading...Tahoe Making Bid For Winter Olympics Despite Slim Snowpack
Lake Tahoe is making a pitch for the Olympics in a decade, and officials say the slim 2012 snowpack won’t have an effect on their efforts (reported by CBS 13 in Sacramento, CA) To watch the news report click here.
Continue Reading...Salt Lake City 10th Anniversary – Has It Really Been Ten Years?!
2002 Salt Lake Winter Games Ladies Figure Skating gold medalist Sarah Hughes will perform at an ice event culminating a series of celebrations during the tenth anniversary of the last Olympic Games in the United States. The ice show, scheduled for Saturday, February 18 at the EnergySolutions Arena is part of an all-day slate of […]
Continue Reading...RTWGC Debuts New Website
Tweet Earlier this week, a complete new look came to our organization’s website: Reno Tahoe Winter Games Coalition. Capturing the iconic image of Lake Tahoe that was donated to us for its use by local photographer Chris Talbot, the new pages have been created with our site visitors in mind…providing navigation tools that give them […]
Continue Reading...Spotlight on Olympian Franz Weber
Tweet Franz Weber likes to ski fast. Real fast. He is a six time consecutive World Speed Skiing Champion and former world speed record holder. How fast did he ski? Franz flew down the slopes at a mind boggling 140 miles per hour. He dominated the sport of speed skiing in the early eighties winning […]
Continue Reading...International Olympic Games Update
Tweet 2018 Winter Olympic Games After years of campaigning and two, very close, second place finishes to Vancouver in 2010 and Sochi in 2014, Pyeongchang , South Korea was selected at the July 6, 2011 IOC meeting in Durban, South Africa to host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games over Munich, Germany and Annecy, France. The […]
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