Editing 1960 Winter Olympics (section)

== Host city selection ==
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[[Palisades Tahoe|Squaw Valley]], now called Palisades Tahoe, was a struggling ski resort with minimal facilities, which made its selection to host the 1960 Winter Olympics a surprise.{{sfn|Findling|Pelle|2004|p=338}}  Wayne Poulsen and [[Alexander Cushing]] were inspired to bid for the Olympics by a newspaper article mentioning that [[Reno, Nevada]], and [[Anchorage, Alaska]], had expressed interest in the Games.<ref name="squawusa">{{cite web |title=The VIII Winter Olympic Games |url=http://www.squaw.com/winter/history_olympics.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716125604/http://www.squaw.com/winter/history_olympics.html |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |access-date=July 29, 2011 |publisher=Squaw Valley Ski Corporation |df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name=squawioc>{{cite web|title=Squaw Valley 1960|publisher=International Olympic Committee|url=http://www.olympic.org/squaw-valley-1960-winter-olympics|access-date=July 29, 2011}}</ref> Poulsen, president of the Squaw Valley Development Company, petitioned California Governor [[Goodwin Knight]] to support a bid to host the Olympic Games. Knight's administration agreed and recommended that the [[California Legislature]] appropriate $1 million to the effort.{{sfn|Squaw Valley Organizing Committee|1960|p=19}}

Based on the financial support received from the State of California, the [[United States Olympic Committee]] (USOC) approved the bid on January 7, 1955. Cushing and the USOC received a resolution passed by the [[United States Congress]] and signed by President [[Dwight Eisenhower]], calling on the [[International Olympic Committee]] (IOC) to consider Squaw Valley's bid for the 1960 Games.{{sfn|Squaw Valley Organizing Committee|1960|p=19}} Preliminary reports were drafted and submitted to the IOC, which was considering bids from [[Innsbruck]], Austria, [[St. Moritz]], Switzerland and [[Chamonix]], France.{{sfn|Findling|Pelle|2004|p=338}} 

Squaw Valley was provisionally awarded the right to host the Games, but IOC president [[Avery Brundage]] warned the Organizing Committee that unless more funds were secured by April 1956, the bid would be awarded to Innsbruck.{{sfn|Squaw Valley Organizing Committee|1960|pp=19–20}} Another $4 million was committed by the [[California State Legislature|state legislature]], which met Brundage's requirements, and on April 4, 1956, the right to host the 1960 Winter Olympics was officially awarded to Squaw Valley.{{sfn|Squaw Valley Organizing Committee|1960|p=20}}<ref name=getgm>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hjAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=600EAAAAIBAJ&pg=1028%2C1472479 |work=Pittsburgh Press |agency=United Press |title=Squaw Valley gets 1960 Winter Games |date=April 4, 1956 |page=48}}</ref> Competitors and officials from European nations were angered by the selection; they felt that the alpine ski courses were not up to specifications and that its base [[elevation]] of {{convert|6200|ft|round=5}} above [[sea level]] would prove too stressful on the athletes.<ref name=sroverview>{{cite web|title=1960 Squaw Valley Winter Games|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1960/|access-date=August 2, 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110716122213/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1960/| archive-date= July 16, 2011 | url-status= dead}}</ref>
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|+ 1960 Winter Olympics bidding results<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.aldaver.com/votes.html |title=IOC Vote History |access-date=October 6, 2011 |archive-date=May 25, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080525070757/http://www.aldaver.com/votes.html |url-status=usurped }}</ref>
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! rowspan=2 | City
! rowspan=2 | Country
! colspan=2 style="background:silver;"| Round
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! style="background:silver;"| 1
! style="background:silver;"| 2
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||[[Palisades Tahoe|Squaw Valley]] || {{flag|United States|1912}} || style="text-align:center;"|'''30''' || style="text-align:center;"|'''32'''
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||[[Innsbruck]] || {{flag|Austria}} || style="text-align:center;"|24 || style="text-align:center;"|30
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||[[Garmisch-Partenkirchen]] || {{flag|West Germany}} || style="text-align:center;"|5 || style="text-align:center;"|—
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||[[St. Moritz]] || {{flag|Switzerland}} || style="text-align:center;"|3 || style="text-align:center;"|—
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