The crowd watches as Olympic speed skater Eric Heiden lights the Olympic City USA Cauldron for Friday's Olympic celebration in downtown Colorado Springs. Heiden competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics, setting four Olympic records and one world record for speed skating. The most successful athlete from a single edition of the Olympic Winter Games. (Dougal Brownlie, The Gazette). (DOUGAL BROWNLIE, THE GAZETTE)
People crowded the sidewalks along Tejon Street during the Olympic Downtown Celebration on Friday February 9, 2018 in Colorado Springs. Olympic speed skater Eric Heiden lit the Olympic City USA Cauldron for Friday’s Olympic celebration. Heiden competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics, setting four Olympic records and one world record for speed skating. The most successful athlete from a single edition of the Olympic Winter Games.
The crowd watches as Olympic speed skater Eric Heiden lights the Olympic City USA Cauldron for Friday’s Olympic celebration in downtown Colorado Springs. Heiden competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics, setting four Olympic records and one world record for speed skating. The most successful athlete from a single edition of the Olympic Winter Games. (Dougal Brownlie, The Gazette). (DOUGAL BROWNLIE, THE GAZETTE)Ashley Hill, 8, back, and Josie Goering, 9, have a stare down with Sox the Fox who is the mascot of the SkySox baseball team as people crowded the sidewalks along Tejon Street during the Olympic Downtown Celebration on Friday February 9, 2018 in Colorado Springs. (Dougal Brownlie, The Gazette). (DOUGAL BROWNLIE, THE GAZETTE)Sydney Hill, 3, licks the nose of Sox the Fox who is the mascot of the SkySox baseball team in Colorado Springs as people crowd the sidewalks along Tejon Street during the Olympic Downtown Celebration on Friday February 9, 2018 in Colorado Springs. (Dougal Brownlie, The Gazette). (DOUGAL BROWNLIE, THE GAZETTE)Olympic speed skater Eric Heiden lights the Olympic City USA Cauldron for Friday’s Olympic celebration in downtown Colorado Springs as the crowd lines Tejon Street. Heiden competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics, setting four Olympic records and one world record for speed skating. The most successful athlete from a single edition of the Olympic Winter Games. (Dougal Brownlie, The Gazette). (DOUGAL BROWNLIE, THE GAZETTE)People warm their hands as military service members ask Olympic trivia questions around the fire along Tejon Street during the Olympic Downtown Celebration on Friday February 9, 2018 in Colorado Springs. (Dougal Brownlie, The Gazette). (DOUGAL BROWNLIE, THE GAZETTE)Greyson Holser, 5, yells in celebration as he “skies” with use of the ‘Ski Maxx, ski & ride inside’ device as people crowd the sidewalks along Tejon Street during the Olympic Downtown Celebration on Friday February 9, 2018 in Colorado Springs. (Dougal Brownlie, The Gazette). (DOUGAL BROWNLIE, THE GAZETTE)Darth Vader and his storm troopers make their way through the crowd leading up Olympic speed skater Eric Heiden who lit the Olympic City USA Cauldron for Friday’s Olympic celebration in downtown Colorado on Friday February 9, 2018. (Dougal Brownlie, The Gazette). (DOUGAL BROWNLIE, THE GAZETTE)Hyium Suarez, left, helps his identical two-year-old twin daughters Mila, center, and Siena some dance moves on Tejon Street during the Olympic Downtown Celebration on Friday February 9, 2018 in Colorado Springs. (Dougal Brownlie, The Gazette). (DOUGAL BROWNLIE, THE GAZETTE)
