U.S. National Figure Skating Championships – Figure Skaters Takeover San Jose
Prestigious titles as well as placement on the United States’ international team are on the line next week during the U.S. National Figure Skating Championships at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California. Competition begins this Sunday, January 22 and continues through the following Sunday, January 29. Junior championships highlight the early days of competition […]
Continue Reading...Salt Lake City 10th Anniversary – Has It Really Been Ten Years?!
2002 Salt Lake Winter Games Ladies Figure Skating gold medalist Sarah Hughes will perform at an ice event culminating a series of celebrations during the tenth anniversary of the last Olympic Games in the United States. The ice show, scheduled for Saturday, February 18 at the EnergySolutions Arena is part of an all-day slate of […]
Continue Reading...Sponsors a Big Part of ISHOF Success
The RTWGC’s International Sports Hall of Fame Dinner Gala was a memorable evening for the seven inductees and more than 400 attendees at the Atlantis Resort Spa Casino on January 6. The event was made even more successful by the generous sponsors and contributors who provided everything from the event site, to food and beverage […]
Continue Reading...Reno Tahoe Winter Games Coalition International Sports Hall of Fame Dinner Gala
The “Magnificent 7” were enshrined for their accomplishments on and off the field. Reno-Tahoe has a proud history of producing world-class athletes including dozens of Olympians and Paralympians. Many of those athletes call Reno-Tahoe home and carry on our sporting legacy by helping develop the next generation of talent. The RTWGC is committedtohonoring these premier […]
Continue Reading...The Ski Swaps Are Coming!
Tweet Winter is right around the corner and there’s no better time to get geared up for the new snow season then during a good ol’ ski swap. A pair of longstanding annual ski swaps could be just the right place to load up on new and used equipment to make this your best year […]
Continue Reading...RTWGC Debuts New Website
Tweet Earlier this week, a complete new look came to our organization’s website: Reno Tahoe Winter Games Coalition. Capturing the iconic image of Lake Tahoe that was donated to us for its use by local photographer Chris Talbot, the new pages have been created with our site visitors in mind…providing navigation tools that give them […]
Continue Reading...Spotlight on Olympian Franz Weber
Tweet Franz Weber likes to ski fast. Real fast. He is a six time consecutive World Speed Skiing Champion and former world speed record holder. How fast did he ski? Franz flew down the slopes at a mind boggling 140 miles per hour. He dominated the sport of speed skiing in the early eighties winning […]
Continue Reading...International Olympic Games Update
Tweet 2018 Winter Olympic Games After years of campaigning and two, very close, second place finishes to Vancouver in 2010 and Sochi in 2014, Pyeongchang , South Korea was selected at the July 6, 2011 IOC meeting in Durban, South Africa to host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games over Munich, Germany and Annecy, France. The […]
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