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Olympic medalist, X Games champ Bleiler talks climate change at CU

By | 10.12.10 | 10:49 am

BOULDER — Champion snowboarder and Aspen native Gretchen Bleiler told students at CU Monday that she has been “chasing snow” for a decade and that the chase is getting more difficult every year.

“I’m definitely not a scientist.…

Colorado 2022 Olympics, because elevation matters

By | 04.09.10 | 11:30 am

A game a lot of the jaded journalists covering the Olympic Winter Games like to engage in is coining the most derogatory nickname describing the shortcomings of the host city or venue. In Italy in 2006, for example, the purpose-built (by Fiat) and frankly quite hideous ski town of Sestriere became “Sewerstriere” or “Disastriere.”

Colorado resort owner Intrawest could lose Whistler ski area during Olympics

By | 01.20.10 | 4:55 pm

Perhaps the biggest event of next month’s Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, won’t be the downhill, or the women’s figure skating finals, or even a USA-Canada gold medal hockey game.

According to Canadian media reports, the biggest event…