Governors break ground on US Olympic museum in Colorado

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A groundbreaking ceremony was held Friday for an Olympic museum that will include a Hall of Fame and make mention of every athlete who has competed for the U.S. team.

Attending the ceremony were Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and former Ohio Gov. Dick Celeste.

The U.S. Olympic Museum will cost $75 million and is set to open in 2019, blocks from the U.S. Olympic Committee headquarters and a short drive from the Olympic Training Center.

This will be the first full-fledged Olympic museum in the United States. Lake Placid has a small museum that commemorates the two Winter Games held in New York. There are more than 20 Olympic museums around the world, but previous attempts to establish one in the U.S. floundered over the decades.

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