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Richard Lamm, three-term governor of Colorado, dies at 85

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July 31, 2021 at 1:50 p.m. EDT
Rormer Colorado Gov. Dick Lamm in 2015. (David Zalubowski/AP)

Richard Lamm, a former Colorado governor who successfully fought to stop the 1976 Winter Olympics from being held in Colorado even though they had been awarded to the state, died July 29 at a Denver hospital. He was 85.

He had complications from a pulmonary embolism, his wife, Dottie Lamm, said in a statement.