1976 Winter Olympics 1976 Winter Olympics The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games (, ), were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated February 4–15, 1976 in Innsbruck, Austria. It was the second time the Tyrolean city hosted the Games, which were awarded to Innsbruck after Denver, the original host city, withdrew in 1972. The cities of Denver, Colorado, United States; Sion, Switzerland; Tampere, Finland; and Vancouver (with the Garibaldi mountains), British Columbia, Canada, made bids for the Games. The chart below displays the vote count for the 69th IOC meeting at Amsterdam, Netherlands, on May 12 1970.
The Winter Sports School in Park City U.S. Ski Team is Winter Sports School alumni. Six Winter Sports School alumni competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics, in Torino, Italy, and two (Julia Mancuso ’00 and Ted Ligety ’02) won gold medals – the only two gold medals captured by the entire U.S. Ski Team during those games. Ligety also won the World Cup Giant Slalom title in 2008, 2010 and 2011. Seven Winter Sports School alumni competed in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C. Julia Mancuso '00 won silver medals in the women's downhill and women's super combined. Andrew Weibrecht '03 won the bronze medal in