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Tag Archives: Olympic Games

How Two Mustachioed Men Left A Legacy For The Pikes Peak Region

KRCC - Peak PastBy adminMarch 4, 2021Leave a comment

*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on March 4, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. William Jackson Palmer and Pierre de Coubertin would have gotten along like two hogs in the cool mud on a hot day. …

Lessons from one Olympic city to another

Colorado Springs GazetteBy adminMarch 13, 2020Leave a comment

*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on March 13, 2020. An image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. Los Angeles is a continental-sized economy that fits into a city’s footprint. Its economy is larger than Australia’s, so it’s not hard to see why…

A memorable close encounter of the Olympic kind

Colorado Springs Gazette, RunningBy adminAugust 12, 2019Leave a comment

*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on August 12, 2019. An image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. “I’m looking for the Garden of the Gods. Can you point me in the right direction?” She’d pushed her stroller-bound kid a bit off course,…

Military leadership for USOC

Colorado Springs GazetteBy adminMarch 11, 2018Leave a comment

*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on March 10, 2018. It can also be found online here. Want to fix the USOC? Draft a general. “Why is he sad?” my 6-year-old asked about the young man walking out of the U.S. Olympic Committee’s entrance, whose downward, despondent gaze was as identifiable…

Can’t separate the Olympics from global politics

Colorado Springs Gazette, StrategyBy adminFebruary 19, 2018Leave a comment

*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on February 19, 2018. It can also be found online here. I love the Olympics, in part because they seem to defy reality as a place where dreams really do come true. But geopolitics doesn’t stop while the Olympics are on – countries always use…

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