Thursday February 18, 2010
Great results for the U.S. Women’s Downhill team, after the Eagle Valley’s Lindsey Vonn won the gold medal at Whistler on Wednesday; Julia Mancuso took the silver!
Glenwood Springs’s Alice McKenniss could not hold the line on the downhill course and was disqualified, but at age 20 and her first Olympics,say her coaches; she will be back.
That’s a similar opinion of ice skater and Aspen native Jeremy Abbot who finished 15th in a field of 30 for the short program. Competitions begin today in free skating.
There are seven athletes from the Roaring Fork Valley competing in the Winter Olympics.
Bill Tomcich, the head of local reservations firm Stay Aspen Snowmass.com, was our guest in studio this week on KSNO radio.
Tomcich said the decision by Frontier airlines to take out of its inventory the Lynx operation by this Fall will not mean the loss of service to Aspen, which the carrier says is a valuable and profitable market.
President Barack Obama visits Denver today for two fundraisers.
Arriving at 330 this afternoon, Obama speaks at the Filmore Auditorium in support of Senator Michael Bennet, challenged this season by House Speak Andrew Romanoff, as the Democratic Party in Colorado struggles to regain strength following a rising tide of support for Republican candidates and the quitting of the governor’s post by Bill Ritter.
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