Colorado Springs (Colorado), June 12 (askanews) – The US Olympic & Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs, an American city born under the sign of the gold rush and reborn under that of the five Olympic rings, is a museum of great emotional impact, as well as unique and extremely modern. In 1978, in fact, the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) moved from New York to Colorado Springs and since then the city has been the proud home of Team USA.
The museum, in its uniqueness, is also of great interest for visitors coming from Europe: a true training of values and emotions in view of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Games. In the collection all the Olympic torches starting from Berlin 1936 and the medals: from Athens 1896, the first edition of the modern Olympic Games held in Greece.
If you're looking for memorabilia, don't miss a very special booklet from when the 1936 U.S. Olympic team flew from New York to Hamburg, Germany: on board, 15-year-old Lewis Stein made the most of his time, getting autographs from Jesse Owens and XNUMX other Olympians.
Or the vest that Joan Lind (United States, silver) and Christine Scheiblich (East Germany, gold) secretly exchanged as a sign of mutual respect during the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games, amidst the tensions of the Cold War: this story, like others, has a touching ending, all to be discovered in Colorado Springs.
The museum is a recommended destination by Brand USA, Visit Colorado and Visit Colorado Springs.
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