Olympians and McDonald’s Help Kickoff “World Fit” Walking Program at Schools
Olympians Torrey Palmer and Tamara McKinney will help Sparks Middle School and Glenn Duncan Elementary School in Reno launch the “World Fit” walking program on Monday, April 16th. The pair will be at Sparks Middle School at 2:00 pm and then at Glenn Duncan Elementary at 3:30 pm. “World Fit” is a program developed by […]
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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