1976 Winter Olympics elections. Whistler would go on to be associated with neighbouring Vancouver's successful bid for the 2010 games. Salt Lake City offered to host the games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck to host the 1976 Winter Olympics, which had hosted the 1964 Winter Olympics games twelve years earlier, on 5 February 1973. Salt Lake City would then host the Winter Olympics in 2002. The mascot of the 1976 Winter Olympics was "Schneemann", German for "snowman", a snowman in a red Tyrolean hat. Designed by Walter Pötsch, Schneeman was purported to represent the 1976
Jilly Curry the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. Curry is married to Robin Wallace, who competed for Great Britain in freestyle skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada. Their son Lloyd competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Jilly Curry Jilly Wallace ( Curry, born 29 November 1964) is a British former freestyle skier, who won 29 FIS World Cup medals, which is more than any other British skier or snowboarder. She competed at the 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympics. Curry competed in freestyle skiing from 1984-1994. During her career, she won 29 FIS World Cup