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	Winter Olympic Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1940 Winter Olympics had originally been awarded to Japan, and were supposed to be held in Sapporo, but Japan had to give the Games back in 1938, because of the Japanese invasion of China in the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945).
		In 1952, the Winter Games came to Norway, considered to be the birthplace of modern skiing.
		Winter pentathlon, a variant to the modern pentathlon, was included as a demonstration event in 1948.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winter_Olympics (5575 words)

	Olympic Games - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Olympics were of fundamental religious importance, contests alternating with sacrifices and ceremonies honouring both Zeus (whose colossal statue stood at Olympia), and Pelops, divine hero and mythical king of Olympia famous for his legendary chariot race, in whose honor the games were held.
		A fringed Olympic Flag is presented to the mayor of the host city of the next Olympic Games.
		Olympic Information Center by the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles – Includes a primer on the Olympic Games, and many historical documents on the Olympic Games are presented in digital form.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /olympic_games.htm (4427 words)

	Winter Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Winter Olympic Games, or Winter Olympics are the cold-weather counterpart to the Summer Olympic Games.
		A winter sports week with speed skating, figure skating, ice hockey and nordic skiing was planned, but the 1916 Olympics were cancelled after the outbreak of World War I.
		The 1940 Winter Olympics had originally been awarded to Japan, and were supposed to be held in Sapporo, but the IOC voted to take back the Games from Japan because of their involvement in the war in China.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/winter_olympic_games (5178 words)

	1960 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The VIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1960 in Squaw Valley, California, USA.
		This Winter Olympics introduced Disney artist John Hench's Olympic torch design, which all further torches would be based on.
		The Olympic flame was lit in the cottage of Sondre Norheim in Morgedal, Norway, and was brought to Los Angeles by plane from Oslo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1960_Winter_Olympics (310 words)

	MSN Encarta - Olympic Games
		The torch relay, in which the Olympic Flame symbolizes the transmission of Olympic ideals from ancient Greece to the modern world, was introduced as part of the opening ceremony at the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin, Germany.
		The 1908 Games were held in London, England, and the rivalry between the British and American teams was intense, culminating when British officials carried Italian marathon runner Dorando Pietri across the finish line after he collapsed near the end of the race.
		The 1948 Games, however, were held despite the fact that many IOC members felt that the horrors of World War II had made a mockery of Coubertin’s dream of universal peace.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562380_2/Olympic_Games.html (1797 words)

	Winter Olympic Games -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Winter (The modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country) Olympic Games, Winter Olympics for short but more correctly The Olympic Winter Games, are the cold-weather counterpart to the (Click link for more info and facts about Summer Olympic Games) Summer Olympic Games.
		In 1952, the Winter Games came to (A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula; achieved independence from Sweden in 1905) Norway, considered to be the birthplace of modern skiing.
		The Games in (A commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaido) Sapporo, (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Japan, were surrounded by several professionalism issues.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/winter_olympic_games.htm (8433 words)

	Winter Olympic Games
		The Winter Olympic Games are the cold-weather counterpart to the Summer Olympic Games.
		The First Olympic Winter Games were inaugurated on January 25, 1924 in Chamonix, France, although at the time they were not yet called Olympic Winter Games.
		Since 1994, the Winter Games are no longer held in the same year as the Games of the Olympiad (or Summer Olympics).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wi/Winter_Olympics.html (284 words)

	Knowledge King - 2002 Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The 2002 Winter Olympic Games were held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
		Prior to these Olympics, a number of I.O.C members were forced to resign after it was uncovered that they had accepted inappropriately valuable gifts in return for voting for Salt Lake City to hold the Games.
		New IOC president Jacques Rogge and new CEO of the Salt Lake City games Mitt Romney then had to stage the Games and contend with the public opinion backlash due to the scandal.
	www.knowledgeking.net /encyclopedia/2/20/2002_winter_olympics.html (424 words)

	Olympic Winter Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Olympic committee of Bosnia is scheduled to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 1984 Olympic Winter Games to day in Sarajevo.
		One group, the No Games 2010 Coalition in Vancouver, vowed to be the "watchdog" of the committee, making sure that not too much money would be spent on the games, and stating they would be on the watch for corruption.
		The No 2010 Games Coalition stated that their monitoring will make the games even better, but were saddened because, "the Games do not serve the best interests of all the people of British Columbia.
	www.internationalgames.net /olympicwtr.htm (476 words)

	Skeleton - Torino 2006 Winter Olympic Games
		Skeleton, sometimes also called tobogganing, is an individual winter sport where competitors drive the sled in a prone, head-first position down an ice track on a sled or 'sleigh', and differs from luge, where the rider drives the sled from a supine, feet-first orientation.
		Skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics will be held in the town of Cesana Torinese, in an area called Pariol, a little outside the town in the direction of San Sicario, Italy on February 16 and 17.
		When the Winter Olympic Games were held there in 1928 and 1948, the event was included in the program.
	www.italyworldclub.com /piemonte/turin_2006/sport_skeleton.htm (336 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games St Moritz 1928
		With the first Olympic Winter Games an enormous success, it was no surprise that the St. Moritz Games attracted an 84 percent increase in the number of participants including a 100% increase of female athletes.
		The Games started poorly due to extremely mild temperatures caused by the "fohn", the warm wind that sweeps the Swiss mountains from the south.
		The 1928 Winter Games in St. Moritz marked the first time Germany was allowed to participate in any Olympic competition after World War I; the Soviet Union was still notably absent.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w02stmoritz.html (305 words)

	Cool Attractions - Olympic History
		As Salt Lake City prepares for the 19th Olympic Winter Games, constructing multi-million dollar venues, landing corporate sponsorships, and adjusting the city's infrastructure to accommodate the temporarily swollen population, all eyes are on the future.
		The Olympics have always reflected the political goings-on in the world, and for this reason, the 1964 games in Innsbruck, Austria were particularly noteworthy.
		These games were plagued with a lack of snow, so in a panic, the Austrian army carved 20,000 blocks of ice from a mountaintop and rushed them to the luge and bobsled runs.
	www.saltlakecity.coolattractions.com /history.html (862 words)

	Biathlon - Torino 2006 Winter Olympic Games
		Biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting, not to be confused with summer biathlon, which combines cross country running with riflery.
		Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics will be held in the town of Cesana San Sicario (in the commune of Cesana Torinese), Italy.
		It appeared as demontrations with the name of "military patrol" at the Olympic Winter Games in 1924, 1928, 1936 and 1948, but did not gain Olympic recognition then, as the small number of competing countries disagreed on the rules.
	www.italyworldclub.com /piemonte/turin_2006/sport_biathlon.htm (853 words)

	Olympics - EnchantedLearning.com
		The Games of the XXVIII Olympiad are being held in Athens, Greece.
		The Greeks held the first Olympic games in the year 776 BC (over 2700 years ago), and had only one event, a sprint (a short run that was called the "stade").
		For each Olympics, a new flame is started in the ancient Olympic stadium in Olympia, Elis, Greece, using a parabolic mirror to focus the rays of the Sun.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /olympics (1145 words)

	History of the Olympic Winter Games (from Olympic Games) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Although some skating events were included in the 1908 and 1920 Games, it was not until 1924 that the Winter Games were accepted as a celebration comparable to the Summer Games and given the official blessing of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
		Before the 1970s the Games were officially limited to amateurs, but since that time many events have been opened to professional athletes.
		As a result of the United States boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow and the Soviet Union not attending the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, Calif., athletes from these countries were deprived of the opportunity to face one another in sports competition.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-215476 (859 words)

	The Olympic Tradition and Stanko Bloudek
		Stanko Bloudek was born in Idrija in 1890, and in his youth he competed in various fields of sport and was at the same time one of their first exponents.
		As a national figure skating champion, he was a member of the Yugoslav Olympic team at the second Winter Olympic Games held in St.
		He also contributed to the Olympic movement as an official, although he preferred working "in the field." He participated at the founding meeting of the Yugoslav Olympic Committee in January 1919 in Zagreb, became a committee member, and was in the first Yugoslav Olympic expedition to Antwerp in 1920.
	www.uvi.si /eng/calendar/events/winter-olympic-games/winter-sports/bloudek (634 words)

	The Winter Olympics
		Organizers of the 1916 Summer Games in Berlin planned to introduce a “Skiing Olympia,” featuring nordic events in the Black Forest, but the Games were cancelled after the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
		Despite the objections of Modern Olympics' founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin and the resistance of the Scandinavian countries, which had staged their own Nordic championships every four or five years from 1901-26 in Sweden, the International Olympic Committee sanctioned an “International Winter Sports Week” at Chamonix, France, in 1924.
		The event ended the four-year Olympic cycle of staging both Winter and Summer Games in the same year and began a new schedule that calls for the two Games to alternate every two years.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0115111.html (556 words)

	Learn more about Winter Olympic Games in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Learn more about Winter Olympic Games in the online encyclopedia.
		They feature outdoor winter sports held on ice or snow, such as skiing and ice skating.
		Two sets of gold medals awarded in pairs figure skating, to Canada's Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, and Russia's Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, because of judging scandal.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /w/wi/winter_olympic_games.html (374 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Lake Placid 1980
		As the Winter Games reconvened for the second time in Lake Placid, N.Y., relations between East and West were in a deep freeze, after the December 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviets.
		The joy of their win spread throughout America, and made for one of the most lively and memorable Games.
		Coming into the Games he was the four-time world sprint champion and three-time world overall champion.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w13lakeplacid.html (336 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		On 19 June 1999 in Seoul, Korea, the 109th IOC Session elected Turin, Italy as the Host City for the XX Olympic Winter Games in 2006 from a total of six Candidate Cities.
		The 60th Session of the United Nations General Assembly has passed the Olympic Truce Resolution, put forward by the nation of Italy on behalf of the IOC, and entitled “Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the...
		The Organising Committees of the Olympic Games (OCOGs) organise the Olympic Games in collaboration with their National Olympic Committee and the host city.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/torino/index_uk.asp (316 words)

	The Winter Olympic Games
		1992 was the last year that both the summer games and the winter games were held in the same year.
		After 1992, the summer and winter games are staggered 2 years apart.
		Disclaimer: This web site is not affiliated with or funded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) or the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of any country.
	www.janecky.com /olympics/wintergames (76 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1964 Winter Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		The IX Olympic Winter Games were held in 1964 Austria.
		(¹ East Germany and West Germany competed as a single team; team appeared in the 1956, 1960, and 1964 Winter Olympics)
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1964-Winter-Olympic-Games (111 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The city of Vancouver was elected Host City of the XXI Olympic Winter Games in 2010 at the 115th IOC Session in Prague on 2 July 2003.
		While addressing the 2014 Applicant Cities, John Furlong, the CEO of the Organising Committee for the XXI Olympic Winter Games – Vancouver 2010 (VANOC) and the former President and COO of the Vancouver 2010 bid corporation, gave...
		The city of Vancouver has been elected the Host City of the XXI Olympic Winter Games in 2010 in the second round of votes.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/vancouver/index_uk.asp (208 words)

	1924 Olympics
		The first Winter Olympic Games were actually called “The International Winter Sports Week” and went on for 11 days in the French Alps, 60 miles northeast of Grenoble.
		In its first four hockey games, Canada beat Switzerland 33–0, Czechoslovakia 30–0, Sweden 22–0 and Great Britain 19–2, before winning the tournament with a 6–1 victory over the U.S. in the final.
		Winter Olympics first were held in 1924; where to write to Tonya Harding.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0300756.html (346 words)

	TIME 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games
		Gaston Vidal of France, Under-Secretary of State for technical education, in action during the Curling event at the 1924 Winter Olympic Games.
		Olympic Figure Skating: A Sport on Thin Ice
		A bad call — and a quick recall — expose the darker side of Olympic skating
	www.time.com /time/olympics2002/moments/index.html (102 words)

	Encyclopedia: 2002 Winter Olympic Games/Biathlon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		Without any misses with the shooting, Bjørndalen wins his second gold of the Games.
		Bjørndalen wins his third gold of the Games to equal Aleksandr Tikhonov as the most successful biathlete at the Olympics.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/2002-Winter-Olympic-Games/Biathlon (257 words)

	SLAM! NAGANO: Winter Olympic Records
		Most Medals, Single Olympics, Men -- 5, Eric Heiden, United States, speedskating, 1980 (5 gold).
		Most Medals, Single Olympics, Women -- 5, Manuela Di Centa, Italy, nordic skiing, 1994 (2 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze) and Lyubov Egorova, Unified Team, nordic skiing, 1992 (3 gold, 2 silver).
		Largest Margin of victory, Men -- 13 minutes, 27 seconds, Per Erik Hedlund, Sweden, 50 Km Cross-Country, 1928.
	www.canoe.ca /SlamNaganoHistory/records.html (390 words)

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