Bids for the 1976 Winter Olympics

In early 1972, the venues for the skiing events were changed to established areas west of the continental divide, approved by the IOC in February.[4][5] The original sites submitted in the 1970 bid satisfied a requirement of proximity to the Olympic Village (at the University of Denver).However, rising costs and logistics soon came to plague the city, which included an idea of having bobsled events be held in Lake Placid, New York.[10] Denver officially withdrew on 15 November,[11] and the IOC then offered the Olympics to Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, but they declined, owing to a change of government following elections.[13] At a meeting of the IOC executive committee in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 4 February 1973, the 1976 Winter Olympics were transferred from Denver to Innsbruck,[14] which had recently hosted in 1964.
Missing location of the bidding cities
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