The US Olympic Committee has decided not to offer up any bids for the 2022 Winter Games. This decision means an end to the widely publicized push by Squaw Valley’s CEO Andy Wirth to bring the 2022 Olympic games to Tahoe.
For many Squaw locals the news could not be more warmly received. Residents feared years of construction, irreversible damage to the local environment, and massive infrastructure projects that could not be supported once the games came to a conclusion.
Unlike Andy Wirth’s failed push to win an Olympic bid, Squaw Valley co-founder Alex Cushing, succeeded in bringing the Olympic Games to Squaw. Cushing conned the International Olympic Committee into giving the 1960 winter games to Squaw Valley even though the resort had only one chair lift and two rope tows. The decision shocked the world. Learn more at How Squaw Valley Won the 1960 Winter Olympic Bid
Good, shit’s too crowded as it is.
Ditto!
I don’t like crowds either but that’s what makes our local economy thrive!
sooo glad… like it was ever going to happen anyway. gimme a break. alex pulled it it off when things were still manageable. no chance we’d get any modern olympics at this point.
thank you
fuck yeah!
Even the Olympic committee thinks the chimney is gay. Unofficial is the only one left.
You’re the gay one, son
Maybe they’ll try again for 2026? It sounds as the revenue sharing issue was solved, yet the organization is citing they didn’t have enough time to put together a proper bid by 2013, (to advance to the IOC selection in 2015). About like everything else in the US, a clusterfXXK. For you Squaw no-growthers, only a few events were ever likely to be scheduled at Squaw anyway. Without the games, KSL will continue to develop the valley, business as usual per their masterplans. For all you hardcore’s who don’t want growth, have fun again next year when the better part of the 30,000 passholders think similar and ammass. Powder days (any day of the week) will continue be a mess at KT, with lots of people never getting fresh tracks and the whole hill skied out in record time. Without growth (including new skiable acerage and lifts), the song remains the same! For the long term economic health of the region, the games should come, even if its 2026.
I work in the season ticket office and there has been a significant drop in the passes being bought because of the shotty snow year
YES!!! Thank you. Andy continues to look like a total tool bag, Fuck you Andy!!!
All you guys complain about Andy Wirth…. the dude may be a goof, but he’s in the business of making money. His company bought Squaw to try to make money. Yes, it has lost a lot of it’s character with the wussification of the resort… but that’s basically every place in the country. If you don’t like it, DON’T SKI THERE!
Last I checked there were a ton a places to ski in Tahoe.
The rest of the ski resorts suck tho.
“If you don’t like it, DON’T SKI THERE! ”
What a defeatist and un-American comment.
Why should I leave? Why is there so much sympathy for KSL? I don’t get it.
There may be alot, but squaw has always been the pinnacle of tahoe skiing. Heavenly and Northstar are built for gaper families, Kirkwood is a little backwards (which can be perfectly good), Sugar Bowl is sweet but isn’s squaw, and Alpine Meadows is owned by the same company as squaw and it suffers the same management problems. Not to mention Vail owns the first 3 resorts and runs them for the ca$h, not for the skiing. So it would be nice to have the classic, legendary, Hot Dog The Movie, Shane McConkey, 1960′s olympics version of squaw back.
you are a retard