A Timeline of MN’s Winter Olympics History

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1920

Globe War I is around, and the Olympics resume at Antwerp. This time determine skating and ice hockey are included. In the hockey tourney, St. Paul’s Tony Conroy (best row, next from remaining) scores 10 ambitions towards Switzerland. It’s an Olympic record that however stands.

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1924

Olympic snowboarding doesn’t contain any Alpine events still, so Glenwood Park and its mammoth ski leap host the U.S. Ski Team trials. The trials go so well that park board superintendent Theodore Wirth predicts Minneapolis will secure the Winter season Olympic Games in ’28 or ’32. (He’s wrong.)

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1932

Together with Lake Tahoe, CA Bear Mountain, NY Lake Placid, NY and Denver, CO, Duluth applies to host the Wintertime Olympics. “Well, why not?” asks The Duluth Herald. Alas, Lake Placid is selected unanimously.

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1960

In what is regarded as the very first Miracle on Ice^™, Eveleth’s John Mayasich and Warroad’s Bill and Roger Christian are so younger they do not recognize they aren’t meant to defeat the older, far more completed squads from Canada and the USSR and close up profitable the gold. Herb Brooks is between the final players lower from the squad—a moment that would haunt him until his have Miracle on Ice.

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1976

Main up to the Games, Lutsen’s Cindy Nelson (her dad and mom have the ski vacation resort) will become the first fantastic American downhill ski racer by profitable four Earth Cup races. She wins bronze in Innsbruck and goes on to ski in two additional Olympics.

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1980

Herb Brooks receives a bunch of Minnesota boys to participate in wonderful with their East Coastline counterparts in Lake Placid extensive plenty of for Al Michaels to famously respond to his possess rhetorical dilemma in the affirmative: “DO YOU Imagine IN MIRACLES?” Yeah, absolutely sure, you betcha.

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1988

Amy Peterson qualifies for the inaugural quick observe speed skating staff at the age of 16. Shorter keep track of is only an exhibition activity in Calgary, so Peterson won’t get her prospect to really medal right up until 1992.

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1992

Following getting a pair a long time off to turn out to be a radiology technician, Patrice Jankowski resumes her biathlon occupation, skis robust, shoots cleanly, and wins a position in the first women’s biathlon level of competition in Albertville, France.

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1998

Only two Minnesotan girls, Alana Blahoski and Jenny Schmidgall, are on Workforce Usa when they grow to be the very first group to earn gold at the inaugural women’s hockey match in Nagano, Japan. Common Mills places the workforce on a Wheaties box.

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2006

White Bear Lake’s Tony Benshoof qualifies for the men’s luge opposition in Turin, Italy. But he misses out on a historic bronze medal when a Latvian luger beats him out by .153 seconds on the past run. (Appear for Benshoof as he coaches China’s luge workforce this Olympics.)

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2010

Buying and selling his hockey skates for figure skates as a child lastly pays off when Moorhead’s Mark Ladwig qualifies for the Vancouver Olympics in tandem with Amanda Evora. The pair fall short to medal, but their successful reverse lasso carry is the best-scoring trick in the comp.

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2010

Right after remaining released to the sport on Buck Hill, Burnsville’s Lindsey Vonn turns into a skiing legend. A crash in the course of a follow run in Austria almost stops her from competing, but she makes a heroic operate and earns the initially downhill gold for an American lady.

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2018

The sparklehorse from Stillwater, Jessie Diggins, skis an epic anchor leg, coming from at the rear of to conquer two Nordic powers, Norway and Sweden. Diggins and teammate Kikkan Randall turn into the initially Americans to get gold in cross-region skiing.

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2021

Chisholm’s John Shuster and his rink are yet again compelled to occur from powering at the U.S. Olympic Curling Trials in Omaha, and they do, providing them the chance to defend their gold from Pyeongchang.