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Why the Olympics Went to a Dead Ski Resort

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In 1955, a New York lawyer named Alexander Cushing convinced the International Olympic Committee to hold the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, California — a remote valley near Lake Tahoe with one chairlift, no town, and no mayor. He beat Innsbruck, Austria by two votes. The valley had to be built from scratch at a cost of $80 million. Walt Disney staged the opening ceremony. CBS televised the Games for $50,000 and accidentally invented instant replay. An amateur U.S. hockey team pulled off the original Miracle on Ice, twenty years before Lake Placid. Then the cameras left, the 8,500-seat Blyth Arena became a parking lot, a cable car accident killed four people and was never explained, and the resort that hosted the Olympics spent decades changing hands and searching for a second act. In 2021, the Washoe Tribe's decades-long request was honored, and Squaw Valley was renamed Palisades Tahoe. This is the story of the man who sold the world on a place that didn't exist yet — and what happened after he built it. Sources: "How Squaw Valley Won the 1960 Winter Olympic Bid" — Unofficial Networks (Parts 1 & 2), sourcing Saturday Evening Post coverage, IOC session records, and the Poulsen letter to USOC executive director J. Lyman Bingham "The Bid — An Olympic Upset" — The SNOW Sports Museum, Reno-Tahoe "Squaw Valley 1960: How It All Began" — Olympics.com (International Olympic Committee official history) "30 Years Later: The Squaw Valley Cable Car Tragedy" — Moonshine Ink, Robert Frohlich "Walt Disney and the 1960 Winter Olympics" — MousePlanet, Jim Korkis (primary sources, interviews, Disney Company records) Wikipedia: "1960 Winter Olympics," citing the Squaw Valley Organizing Committee official report (1960) and Findling & Pelle, Historical Dictionary of the Modern Olympic Movement (2004)

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