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Old 09-13-2018, 10:20 AM   #262
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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame View Post
It would be foolhardy to think that the success of Banff/Lake Louise/Jasper isn't at least partly due to the winter sports culture Calgary fomented with the '88 Olympics.
Colorado has never hosted an Olympics and yet Vail/Aspen/Breck are all thriving.

I don't believe there's much evidence to support that the Olympics puts an area "on the map". It's the wrong reason to want to host it IMO.
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