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The NASCAR Chevy Trucks Challenge was added to the January events taking place at the Walt Disney World Speedway. The Richard Petty Driving Experience, allowing Guests to get behind the wheel of an actual race car,d one month later.
With its long-standing golf classic, an internationally recognized marathon, and two auto races set as annual traditions, the Walt Disney World Resort firmly established itself in the sports world. It took a giant leap further with theng of Disney’s Wide World of Sports in 1997. The 200-acre facility, located south of the Disney-MGM Studios, contains a main event stadium, a multi-sports field house for basketball, volleyball, and gymnastics, a tennis arena, baseball diamonds, field hockey and soccer fields, outdoor tracks, weight rooms, racquetball courts, classrooms, and broadcast facilities. The facilities can accommodate college, high school, and youth team events, from amateur to individual professional athletes. Noted sports organizations who use the facilities for training and exhibition games are the Atlanta Braves baseball team, the Harlem Globetrotters, the U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championships, and the Amateur Athletics Union.
With the Florida convention market showing no signs of slowing, Disney built another resort catering to that business. Disney’s Coronado Springs Resortd August 1, 1997. The architecture is reminiscent of that found in Mexico and the American Southwest. In fact, the resort is actually named after explorer Francisco de Coronado. Coronado might have fit in to the Disney storyline of this hotel. According to legend, a Spanish explorer set out in 1569 to find the Lost Cities of Gold. He stumbled upon an ancient Mayan pyramid but found no gold. The maps to this pyramid were discovered centuries later, and a team of scientists and their families soon created a small community of pueblos and ranch houses as they continued studying the surrounding country and Spanish ruins.
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