Winter Olympics, Denver?

[Louis Radosevich]

In researching a move to Denver, I was surprised to hear that the City rejected a bid to host the 1976 Winter Olympics. I would imagine RE investors would have been outraged by this at the time, but would there really have been a sustained boost to property values, and if so to what geographic extent? Have opinions changed enough since then for Denver to host the games if the opportunity arose once again?