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Colorado Springs, Colorado, will host the USA Weightlifting championship week in both 2025 and 2026, marking the national governing body’s first multi-year partnership with a destination. Colorado Springs hosted the event in 2023. After a detour to Pittsburgh in 2024, Colorado’s second biggest city will welcome the event back for the next two years. “We […]
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World Athletics and Asics are partnering to create The Business of Running Events, a new conference for running and trail event industry professionals hosted in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in July 2024. Specific topics include sales training for sponsorship acquisition, marketing with limited resources, how to leverage data as a competitive advantage, how to engage and […]
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The new soccer stadium in downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado, will have an artistic flair. As the future home of the USL’s Colorado Springs Switchbacks prepares to open, Weidner Field’s exterior will feature 10 multicolored 9-foor by 12-foot sports-oriented pieces of art by famed artist Leroy Nieman. The prints will be installed on the stadium’s outside […]
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The United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum, a new attraction in downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado, that saw its opening delayed from the coronavirus pandemic, has announced it will open to the public in July 30. Attendees will have to abide by policies designed to prevent the spread of the virus, including timed ticketed entrances, required […]
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Mike Moran, who led media relations for the U.S. Olympic Committee from the 1980 Olympic Games to the 2002 Games and later played a key role at the Colorado Springs Sports Corp, has died. He was 78. Moran spent a decade as the sports information director for the University of Colorado from 1968 to 1978 […]
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Organizers have announced a new mountain bike event, the Pikes Peak APEX Presented by RockShox, to be staged along the famed mountain in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in September 2020. The inaugural Pikes Peak APEX, September 24–27, will feature four days of riding on the slopes of Pikes Peak with a Gran Fondo‐style start and a […]
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Molly Sharples has been named to the Colorado Springs Sports Corporation staff as an event coordinator. Sharples is a 2019 graduate of Johnson & Wales University with a degree in sports, entertainment and event management. Since 2000, she has also worked with the 2018 Winter X Games in Aspen and the Colorado Rapids Street Team. […]
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USA Diving has announced that it will be move its headquarters from its longtime home in Indianapolis to Colorado Springs, Colorado. The move, expected to take place in the fourth quarter of 2019, is designed to relocate the national governing body closer to the hometown of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee and decrease the […]
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For the first time ever, the NCAA Division II men’s and women’s soccer championships are headed to the Rocky Mountains — the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, to be precise. The RMAC has officially been named the host of the 2021 men’s and women’s championships, and will hold the event at the new Switchbacks FC Stadium […]
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SportsTravel is proud to partner with the U.S. Olympic Committee to provide this update on Team USA events taking place this week.
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.@usatabletennis is bringing back a major event, as the US Open Team Table Tennis Championships will take place August 29–31, 2025, in @MyMyrtleBeach, South Carolina. The event will take place at John T. Rhodes Myrtle Beach Sports Center.
The official logos for the 2026 NCAA Men’s Final Four and 2026 NCAA Division II and Division III men’s basketball championships have been unveiled. Indianapolis and @IndSportsCorp will host all three championships during the same weekend in 2026.
The Golden Trail Series has announced its 2025 schedule of nine international events featuring some of the best trail runners in the world, including a stop in Olympic Valley, California, on June 22.
The @XGames have announced a three-year partnership with California Dreamin' Entertainment which will bring the action sports and music festival to Cal Expo in @VisitSacramento each summer from 2025–2027.
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