Vingt-deux ans avant que les Canadiens ne s\u2019entichent des Jeux olympiques \u00e0 Vancouver, Ralph Klein \u00e9tait le pilier des premiers Jeux d\u2019hiver organis\u00e9s au pays.<\/p>\n
\u00c0 la suite de son \u00e9lection \u00e0 la mairie de Calgary le 15 octobre 1980, Ralph Klein a jou\u00e9 un r\u00f4le d\u00e9terminant dans la candidature de la ville pour l\u2019organisation des Jeux olympiques d\u2019hiver de 1988. Il a ensuite si\u00e9g\u00e9 au comit\u00e9 ex\u00e9cutif du comit\u00e9 d\u2019organisation des Jeux de 1988 \u00e0 Calgary.<\/p>\n
Si on se souvient des Jeux de Calgary pour leur esprit communautaire, c\u2019est en grande partie gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 M.\u00a0Klein. S\u2019inspirant de Ga\u00e9tan Boucher qui avait re\u00e7u une de ses m\u00e9dailles d\u2019or des Jeux de 1984 sur une place en plein c\u0153ur de Sarajevo, M.\u00a0Klein s\u2019est dit que les spectateurs qui ne pouvaient pas assister aux comp\u00e9titions devraient avoir la chance d\u2019\u00eatre t\u00e9moin des c\u00e9r\u00e9monies de remise des m\u00e9dailles. C\u2019est \u00e0 Calgary qu\u2019est n\u00e9e l\u2019id\u00e9e de l\u2019esplanade olympique o\u00f9 se d\u00e9roulent chaque soir les c\u00e9r\u00e9monies de remise des m\u00e9dailles et qui est maintenant monnaie courante.<\/p>\n
Tout d\u2019abord \u00e0 titre de maire et ensuite comme 12e<\/sup> premier ministre de l\u2019Alberta pendant 14\u00a0ans, de 1992 \u00e0 2006, M.\u00a0Klein a vu Calgary devenir le centre n\u00e9vralgique des sports d\u2019hiver au Canada. L\u2019h\u00e9ritage olympique y est bien vivant gr\u00e2ce aux installations comme l\u2019anneau olympique et le Parc olympique Canada qui ont contribu\u00e9 \u00e0 la r\u00e9colte record de l\u2019\u00e9quipe canadienne aux Jeux de 2010 \u00e0 Vancouver et \u00e0 la r\u00e9putation de notre pays comme l\u2019une des nations dominantes dans les sports d\u2019hiver.<\/p>\n Ralph Klein est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 le 29 mars 2013 \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 70 ans.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vingt-deux ans avant que les Canadiens ne s\u2019entichent des Jeux olympiques \u00e0 Vancouver, Ralph Klein \u00e9tait le pilier des premiers…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":150289,"template":"","tags":[],"hof-categories":[],"year-inducted":[],"gender":[42123],"season":[],"sport":[],"game":[],"team":[],"event":[],"province":[],"class_list":["post-93995","athletes","type-athletes","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","gender-masculin"],"acf":[],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/10\/coc_men_feature_placeholder_1340x754-1-1.png","category_names":[],"tag_names":[],"sport_names":[],"game_names":[],"season_names":[],"team_names":[],"province_names":[],"social_facebook":"","social_twitter":"","social_linkedin":"","social_gplus":"","social_instagram":"","social_website":"","total_medal_count_gold":"","total_medal_count_silver":"","total_medal_count_bronze":"","athlete_headshot":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/klein_1988_e_1340px.jpg?quality=100","athlete_height":"","athlete_weight":"","athlete_hometown":"","athlete_birthplace":"","coc_gracenote_id":"","athlete_dob":"January 1, 1970","athlete_age":56,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/93995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/athletes"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/93995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93995"},{"taxonomy":"hof-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hof-categories?post=93995"},{"taxonomy":"year-inducted","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year-inducted?post=93995"},{"taxonomy":"gender","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gender?post=93995"},{"taxonomy":"season","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/season?post=93995"},{"taxonomy":"sport","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sport?post=93995"},{"taxonomy":"game","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/game?post=93995"},{"taxonomy":"team","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team?post=93995"},{"taxonomy":"event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event?post=93995"},{"taxonomy":"province","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/province?post=93995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}