When the Winter Olympics Came to Lake Tahoe
You might consider the 1960 Winter Olympics in Lake Tahoe a quaint affair compared to what's going on in Beijing right now, but these games had an outsize impact on televised sports, snow sports along the West Coast, and subsequent Olympic Games. Yet that these Games were even held in Tahoe is a bit of a miracle.
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'The World Was Shocked': How the Winter Olympics Came to Tahoe in 1960
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