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Photos: Ski Town U.S.A. Olympic send-off at Steamboat Resort

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Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club and Steamboat Resort hosted the Olympian send-off Jan. 31 in Steamboat Square.
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Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club and Steamboat Resort held the Ski Town U.S.A. Olympian send-off on Saturday. Steamboat Springs has produced 106 Olympians since 1932.

Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club athlete Ethan Maines participates in the Olympian send-off on Saturday at Steamboat Square.
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Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club athlete Finley Fontaine at the Olympian send-off on Saturday in Steamboat Square.
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The Strawberry Park Elementary School Choir sings before the Olympian send-off hosted by Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club and Steamboat Resort on Jan. 31, 2026 in Steamboat Square.
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Ray Heid, a 1960 Team USA Olympic ski jumper in Squaw Valley, at the Olympian send-off event hosted by Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club and Steamboat Resort in Steamboat Square on Saturday.
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Olympic halfpipe skier Riley Jacobs pictured at the Olympian send-off hosted by the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club and Steamboat Resort hosted on Saturday in Steamboat Square.
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Kerry Lynch, left, a nordic combined athlete who competed in the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid and the 1984 Olympics in Sarajevo, along with Nelson Carmichael, who competed in the 1992 Albertville, France Olympics as a moguls skier, and Thedo Remmelink, who competed as a snowboard cross athlete in the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan, attend Steamboat’s Olympian send-off on Saturday in Steamboat Springs.
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Caroline Lalive, an Alpine skier who competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics and 2002 Winter Olympics for Team USA, applauds at the Olympian send-off hosted by Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club and Steamboat Resort on Jan. 31, 2026 in Steamboat Square.
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From left to right: Alex Deibold, a 2014 Olympian in snowboard cross at the Sochi Olympics in Russia, Ben Berend, a 2018 Olympian in Pyeongchang who competed in the Nordic Combined event, and Mick Dierdorff, who competed in Pyeongchang and at the 2022 Beijing Olympics in the snowboard cross event.
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The Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club and Steamboat Resort hosted the Olympian send-off on Saturday in Steamboat Square.
Nick Slater/Steamboat Pilot
The Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club and Steamboat Resort hosted the Olympian send-off Jan. 31, 2026 in Steamboat Square.
Nick Slater/Steamboat Pilot

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