Innsbruck is a tourist mecca and a skier and mountaineering paradise! Innsbruck means "Bridge Over the Inn." Evidence of human activity dates back to the stone age. A Roman settlement was also in the area.  Innsbruck has hosted two Winter Olympics - 1964 and 1976. I didn't know that Denver, Colorado was supposed to host the 1976 games after being awarded them in 1970. However, Denver voters rejected a bond referendum to finance the games in 1972. Innsbruck was awarded the games as they had the infrastructure to host after hosting in 1964 and hosting many World Cup and World Championship events. Sochi, Russia, in 2014 almost had a similar fate with cost overruns and worries about venues not being completed on time. Vancouver, who had hosted in 2010, was rumoured to having been asked to stand in if the International Olympic Committee determined Sochi wasn't going to be ready.  Russia insisted they were going to be ready and they were, although I think there was still so...