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Squaw Valley Changes Name to Palisades Tahoe

Squaw Valley Changes Name to Palisades Tahoe

Squaw Valley, home of the 1960 Winter Olympics, is no more. Its new name is Palisades Tahoe, and it newly incorporates the adjoining ski/snowboard resort, which is no longer known as Alpine Meadows. The name change is the latest in a wave of rebranding of names which insult our Native American tribes, including renaming major sports teams.

Olympic Medalist Jimmie Heuga Dies of MS, Ski Racer was 66

Olympic Medalist Jimmie Heuga Dies of MS, Ski Racer was 66

Olympic medalist Jimmie Heuga, a star of the 1964 Olympic Winter Games and one of the U.S. Ski Team’s greatest ski racers, has passed away. His death on Monday, February 8, 2010 was 46 years to the day after he won a bronze medal behind Billy Kidd’s silver in the 1964 Olympic slalom. His passing saddens all of us who
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