Author: David Ramsey
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Coronavirus temporarily closes Colorado Springs church
The Road @ Chapel Hills closed its doors and switched to online church services after a minister tested positive for the coronavirus, said founding Pastor Steve Holt. The minister, whom Holt declined to name, was told the results of his coronavirus test July 27. Church leaders spoke with medical professionals, Holt said, and chose to…
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Will Tokyo host Olympics next summer in spite of COVID-19? | David Ramsey
The Tokyo Olympics might happen next summer, but with a unique atmosphere. According to reports in Kyodo News, the Tokyo organizing committee is considering selling tickets to only Japanese spectators with no international spectators allowed. COVID-19 postponed the games until the summer of 2021. The attraction of the plan: 1) heightened safety If the games…
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Will Olympic athletes accept risk of coronavirus? | David Ramsey
An elite athlete must believe she/he can defeat every other athlete on Earth to win an Olympic gold medal. And, in 2020, that athlete must believe that while she/he goes about all this winning the opponent known as COVID-19 will fail to rear its vicious head. The Olympics are scheduled next summer in Tokyo after…
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How the iconic ‘Miracle on Ice’ scoreboard arrived in Colorado Springs at U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum | David Ramsey
The moment lingers. The United States Olympic hockey team had somehow beaten the unbeatable Soviet Union and broadcaster Al Michaels was asking, in a glorious shout, “Do you believe in miracles?” and across America women and men were struggling to answer yes. United States 4, Soviet Union 3. An improbable score from the 1980 Winter…
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Peggy Fleming remembers Olympic dress crafted in Colorado Springs | David Ramsey
Peggy Fleming was looking at a chartreuse dress as she traveled back to the moment she ruled the skating world. “It’s so simple,” she said as she examined the dress she wore when she skated to gold at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France. “It’s a big part of my life,” she said of…
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COVID-19 a roadblock to the Great American Road Trip | David Ramsey
“Once a journey is designed . . . a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless.…
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Complicated Corral Bluffs beckons as future open space | David Ramsey
A quick look at Corral Bluffs, a scenic vista outside of Colorado Springs Someday, Corral Bluffs will serve as a rugged and gorgeous playland for residents of El Paso County. We will wander through ravines and grasslands. We will see deer and bobcats and maybe even a porcupine scurrying away. Someday, Corral Bluffs will join…
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Aliens live, kind of, at Colorado’s UFO Watchtower | David Ramsey
HOOPER – You will not meet aliens when you visit the UFO Watchtower. You almost certainly will meet Americans who believe in aliens. Those alien-believing Americans will show you video and tell stories and gently (I hope) seek to persuade you aliens are genuine and walk among us from time to time. You will not…
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Wear a mask, says Colorado Springs man who battled COVID-19 | David Ramsey
Hakan Karan walked through COVID-19’s shadow of death for two weeks in late March and early April. He spent seven days on a ventilator and an additional five days in the intensive-care unit at UCHealth Memorial Hospital North. Wild hallucinations dominated his days and nights. His fever spiked at 105 degrees. His trial left him…
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Some readers disagree with me and other fun surprises from the email bag | David Ramsey
Here’s a sampling from my email bag. Keep the messages coming. My address is david.ramsey@gazettedev.gazette.com In Tuesday’s paper, I celebrated the decision by Washington’s NFL franchise to drop its insulting and racist team moniker. In the column, I quoted American great Billy Mills, who won the 10,000 meter run at the 1964 Olympics. Mills, a…