ALBANY, N.Y. \u2014 Will the next Winter Olympics be in New York? Gov. Kathy Hochul is trying to make it happen. <\/p>\n
Hochul told The New York Times there\u2019s \u201csincere political ambition\u201d and \u201csignificant\u201d meetings being held to bring the Winter Games to the Empire State, specifically New York City and Lake Placid. In February, News10NBC Chief Investigative Reporter Berkeley Brean spoke to state Assemblyman Robert Carroll, who\u2019s also advocating for New York to host.<\/p>\n
Carroll went to the last Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina to see firsthand how it\u2019s done.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the first time two cities are hosting a games. So I think it\u2019s a great opportunity to say \u2013 what does that feels like? What does that look like? Logistically how does that happen?\u201d Carroll said.<\/p>\n
David Leggio, who played for Team USA hockey in the 2018 Olympics, said he thinks it would be a great fit.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously all the infrastructure is there. I\u2019m sure they could figure out the housing and lodging and all that but I think it would be awesome,\u201d Leggio said.<\/p>\n
RELATED: State lawmaker pushes for Winter Olympics in New York, inspired by Italy\u2019s dual-city model (Feb. 9)<\/a><\/p>\n The last time New York hosted the Winter Olympics was in 1980. Those games are remembered for the \u201cMiracle on Ice,\u201d when the underdog U.S. men\u2019s hockey team defeated the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n To read the full New York Times article, click here.<\/a> <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0Lake Placid<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Winter Olympics<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0New York City<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. \u2014 Will the next Winter Olympics be in New York? Gov. Kathy Hochul is trying to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10494,9,24,55,54,56,23717],"class_list":["post-243227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-lake-placid","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-winter-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}