Mike Lane (center) holds the USA/Olympic flag as a crowd gathers in the One Steamboat Plaza to watch the U.S. Nordic Combined Team take on the world at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. The team's silver medal was one of three earned by the U.S. Nordic Combined Team, all of whom have Steamboat ties.
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On the eve of the Olympics, Nordic Combined skier Johnny Spillane, a friend of our family since he was a little boy, signs a copy of Steamboat Magazine, featuring him and his teammates. Johnny went on to win a silver medal at the Games.
Fireworks light up the roof of the Routt County Courthouse at the end of the community's Olympic Send-Off.
We can't call it an Olympic torch, so Steamboat Springs has its own "Community Cauldron," lit during the Games to remind us that many of our friends and neighbors are representing their countries at the Games. Steamboat sent 17 athletes to the Winter 2010 Games.
