DENVER — It promised ample snow and sunny weather on a normally bare,rocky peak easily accessible by “super highway,” thousands more hotel rooms than existed and a cross-country ski course that looked suited on paper but would contain gash through some people’s backyards. The airbrushed pitch worked, and but after Denver won a tender to host the 1976 Winter Olympics,its plan unraveled amid questions about the environmental impact, ballooning costs and logistics of hosting such a big event in a […]
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