The Summer Games for Special Olympics features over 700 Special Olympics athletes and partners from across the state competing in five sports (aquatics, gymnastics, powerlifting, soccer and track & field) at the 2011 State Summer Games Saturday, June 4th · 8:00am – 9:30pm. There will be 200 Special Olympic Coaches, 500 Game Volunteers, 1,000 family[continue reading...]

Colorado Springs’ own new Olympic star Rachael Flatt skated in the Ladies Figure Skating Short program on Tuesday and thrilled audiences with her enthusiasm and charm. Only 17 years old, Flatt has been skating for most of her young life and enjoys being a reigning national champion. She became a pairs champion with Andrew Speroff,[continue reading...]

In an incredible finish, Johnny Spillane takes the Silver Medal in the first Nordic Combined competition in Vancouver! After the ski jumping section, the Steamboat boys, Todd Lodwick and Johnny Spillane found themselves in 2nd and 4th position respectively. Todd Lodwick would start behind Janne Ryynaenen of Finland with a .34 second start delay and[continue reading...]

Imagine sliding out onto the starting bar of the 90m ski jump and just as you’re about to launch yourself down the incline.., you look down at the last second and realize that the front of one of your bindings is completely ripped out of the ski! Slide back off the bar and think for[continue reading...]

During the 2010 Winter Olympics to be held in Vancouver, B.C. twin sisters from Durango, Colorado will compete and represent the United States on the Olympic Biathlon team. The 27 year old sisters, Tracy and Lanny Barnes are already well known in the Biathlon community, and are believed to be the only Durango women to[continue reading...]

After seven years hampered by injuries and surgeries, Steamboat Springs homeboy Johnny Spillane took hold of his Olympic opportunity during the US Olympic Trials Nordic Combined competition in Steamboat Springs Colorado yesterday. Despite knee surgeries in August and October of this year, Spillane was able to put it all together and win the Nordic combined[continue reading...]

U.S freestyle and nordic combined athletes will get a one shot, winner-takes-all chance at making the 2010 U.S. Olympic Team as the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) and U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) host the 2010 U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Steamboat Springs Dec. 23-24. A total of five U.S. Olympic Team spots in moguls,[continue reading...]

Thanksgiving weekend in Aspen is BIG! Not only does it mark the opening of the 2009-2010 ski season, it’s also the Aspen Winternational. An Aspen tradition since 1968, Winternational brings the world’s best alpine ski racers to our mountain town for the first U.S. stop on the women’s Audi FIS Alpine World Cup tour. This[continue reading...]

Scholarship Day marks the opening for the 2009/2010 season at Steamboat Ski Resort today! Proceeds from the day’s special reduced lift ticket price benefit the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club Scholarship Fund. Scholarship Day has raised over $525,000 since the 1991/92 season. This fund provides financial support for deserving local children participating in Club programs.[continue reading...]