Around the corner at the village’s aging sports complex, he vowed to “be the congressman who brings the Olympics back to Lake Placid.”
There's this, uh, financial crisis, and we just don't have the money to finance the facilities, pay for the security, build the hotels or pay off the bribes required to hold the Olympics here.
And that's assuming the IOC would ever consider the region again. 1980 was great. Time to move on.
