Museum CEO Christopher Liedel met with the Colorado Springs Gazette for a quick Q&A session as the Museum draws closer to opening.

Edwin Moses won Olympic gold medals in the 440-meter hurdles at Montreal 1976 and Los Angeles 1984, but he and the rest of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team never got the chance to compete at Moscow 1980.

The Olympic and Paralympic Games have been extremely resilient through the years, cancelled only because of world wars in 1916, 1940 and 1944.

As part of the U.S. OIympic & Paralympic Museum's partnership with Young Champion Ambassadors, Colorado Springs high school students Atharva Vispute and Shreya Krishnan traveled to Ancient Olympia, Greece, for the lighting of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch.

The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum exterior includes nearly 9,000 aluminum diamond-shaped custom panels; no two panels are alike.

The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum, a growing food scene and the renovated Broadmoor resort are among the reasons Colorado Springs is considered one of the top places to visit in 2020.