My hubbie's a huge sports/Olympics fan and a coach, so we had to make a detour on our Colorado trip to come here. And since I spent 9 months living in Colo. Springs, I obliged because I wanted to revisit this beautiful place. The training center isn't huge and spectacular, but if you're into that sort of thing, you'll like it. The tours are free, frequent and about 1 hour long. We had the most fun buying souvenirs in the gift shop for Beijing!! I even found a baby onesie on super-markdown from the Torino games (where we had our honeymoon)! Anyway, the tour was okay. I and others got bored in places. Our guide was a young athlete who frankly wasn't very engaging. We only got to see a handful of actual athletes training. But overall, it was a fun experience.

We had a very hard time finding this place! You would think the city of Colorado Springs would be proud of this wonderful place. We went to the Air Force Academy first and saw the sign for the Olympic Training Center going north on I 25. Coming back south, there wasn't a sign at the exit. Turned around and went back north. After getting off the interstate there wasn't another sign directing you to the site. Had to stop and ask directions. Once we got there we enjoyed the tour and seeing Olympic athletes training. As this is an Olympic year, it was even more inspiring to see.

We were able to see where the athletes train plus museum style info on history of the games. It was cool to see the countdown clock to the next Olympic games. Lots of fun photo ops around the property with statues and a gift store (of course). Check out the Olympic flame (always burning...)

I've been to the Olympic Training Center a couple of times with my kids. Each time is a new adventure and a wonderful experience for us all. Sometimes you get to meet the athletes other times you get to watch them train. They are very accomadating. I recommend to everyone.