Tag: michael phelps
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Colorado Springs Olympic museum will celebrate start of Paris Games with free Downtown Summer Fest Saturday
Watching the Summer Olympics in Paris will be bittersweet for Samantha Schultz. The Colorado Springs Olympian competed in the women’s pentathlon during the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, which were postponed to 2021 due to the pandemic. She didn’t win a medal, but it was still a special season of life. “Sometimes it doesn’t seem…
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David Ramsey: Farewell to sport, and a big thank you, before move to new Gazette column
On a bright Sunday morning in 2003, my friend Mark Nelson listened to all the reasons I could not accept an offer to write sports columns for The Gazette. Reasons to say no: My children were split on leaving the city of their birth. We didn’t want to depart the 1872 farmhouse we had restored…