CALGARY, Alberta (AP) -- The founding fathers of the 1988 Winter Olympics had financial foresight. While many recent Olympic host cities build temporary sports venues or convert permanent ones to ...

This story was originally published June 22. So Calgary is talking about hosting another Olympics in Calgary. Those games helped create our city back in the day. They were a symbol of something new, ...

Bob Niven, President of Calgary’s successful bid to host the 1988 Winter Olympic Games, has died at the age of 80 ©WinSport Calgary's WinSport confirmed that he had died of corticobasal degeneration, ...

The ski jumps built for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary have been closed following the collapse of the city's bid for the 2026 Games ©Wikipedia WinSport, the not-for-profit company that runs the ...

Calgary council to vote on establishing committee to oversee Olympic BidCo The committee will act like any standing policy committee, overseeing all developments of BidCo including public engagement, ...

A helmet from the Jamaican bobsled team at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary wasn’t the hot commodity it was expected to be at a Boston auction. The asking price of US$3,500 for the yellow headgear ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Figure skater Brian ...

On Feb. 13, 1988, the eyes of the world turned to Calgary as the XV Winter Olympic Games opened. The Opening Ceremonies had 60,000 spectators crammed into McMahon Stadium; two billion people watched ...

13 February 1988: Britain’s best - and only - ski jumper at the Calgary Winter Olympics declares ‘I can jump as well as anyone’ Eddie Edwards arrived an hour late at the Winter Olympic press centre.

Twitter, it barely need be said, gives us all the same memory problems that Drew Barrymore's character had in the movie 50 First Dates. This happened in Canada, too, but not so much in coastal ...

It may only seem like a weathered, cracked piece of clay and shale to some, but for Marlene Lamontagne, it was a way to make her beloved parents part of their city’s history. The fate of 20,000 ...