Tag: Milan Cortina
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U.S. Olympic figure skating team to visit Colorado Springs for public event at UCCS Ent Center for the Arts
Excitement from the 2026 Winter Olympic Games continues next week in Colorado Springs. Local fans have a chance to see the U.S. Olympic figure skating team in an “intimate fireside chat” hosted by 2018 bronze medalist Adam Rippon at the UCCS Ent Center for the Arts at 6:30 p.m. May 20. During the “Toast to…
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U.S. Paralympic skier Patrick Halgren exemplifies happiness, gratitude into second Paralympic Games
Patrick Halgren can’t get enough of the cheeseburgers at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Center. Free housing, a world-class training facility, and all the food at his disposal, Halgren’s life is “eerily good.” It’s a life the Paralympian never imagined when he was putting chains on tires at various ski resorts around the world, nor…
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Mark Kiszla: What Hotdog Hans could teach Olympians feeling strain of the Winter Games
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, ITALY • No offense to Olympic megastars Sidney Crosby or Snoop Dogg, but the celebrity I’d most like to crack open a frosty Peroni with at the Winter Games is Hotdog Hans. “We’re gonna have to get you and Hans together,” Aspen native and halfpipe skier Alex Ferreira tells me. That’s wicked sweet,…