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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.
		Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the hosts of the previous games, stepped in to organize the Games again, but the Games were cancelled in their entirety in November of 1939 because Germany had invaded Poland two months before.
		Winter pentathlon, a variant to the modern pentathlon, was included as a demonstration event in 1948.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Olympic_Winter_Games (4523 words)

	Olympic Games
		A special edition for winter sports, the Winter Olympic Games, started in 1924; since 1994 these are no longer held in the same year as the Games of the Olympiad.
		Another possible source of the Games is the legend of Oenomaus, who challenged his daughter's suitors to a chariot race and killed the losers.
		The ancient Olympic Games were abandoned in AD 394 by the Roman emperor Theodosius I, who considered the Games to be a savage celebration.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ol/Olympic_games.html (921 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 (264 words)

	1932 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1932 Winter Olympics, officially known as the III Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1932 in Lake Placid, New York, United States.
		The 1932 Winter Olympic Games were going to be in Big Pines, CA (near Wrightwood, CA and Mountain High, CA) due to Alf Engen's world record, on then, the world's largest ski jump, but due to poor snow conditions the games moved to Lake Placid.
		The Games also included events in three demonstration sports.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1932_Winter_Olympics (194 words)

	2006 Olympics Trivia Games
		There are fifteen displines in all at the Winter Games, most of them traditional like Alpine Skiing, Biathlon, Bobsled, Cross-country Skiing, Curling, Ice Hockey and Figure Skating, and some of them relatively new to the games, like the hyperactive and very exciting Snowboard and Freestyle Skiing competitions.
		The Olympic torch for the 2006 Winter Games in Turin was lit November 27, 2005 at the Temple of Hera in Ancient Olympia.
		Stefano Baldini, the Italian winner of the Athens Games marathon, began the Italian leg of the relay in Rome on December 8.
	www.chiff.com /a/winter-olympics-trivia.htm (483 words)

	1932 - Olimpic Winter Games in Lake Placid
		These games were also the first in which Norway didn't lead in the medal table.
		The 1932 speed-skating events were held as peak races 9 a method known as North American Rules) instead of usual Olympic system of two races at a time skating against the clock.
		She won three gold medals in the Olympic Winter Games of 1928, 1932 and 1936.
	lakeplacidcsd.net /lpcsweb/highschool/historyweb/gp3/gp34.html (455 words)

	In 1980, decades of effort were finally rewarded (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The 10th Winter Games went to Grenoble, France, leaving Lake Placid temporarily disappointed but far from discouraged.
		And though the Games had changed since then — 14 events in 1932 with 252 athletes; 38 would be included in 1980 with 1,072 competitors — Lake Placid had kept up, hosting collegiate and international competitions numerous times over the years.
		1932: Population of Lake Placid (1930 census), 2,923.
	www.pressrepublican.com /Archive/2005/02_2005/021420051.htm (986 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Winter Olympics 2002 \| Skating \| Winter Olympic hero dies
		Winter Olympics speed skating legend Jack Shea has died from injuries in a car accident near his home in the United States.
		Shea, a member of the first family with three generations of Olympians, was the Winter Games' oldest living gold medallist at the age of 91.
		Jack Shea was 22-years-old when he achieved success at the 1932 Winter Games.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/low/english/skating/newsid_1776000/1776146.stm (346 words)

	Utah's quest for Winter Games began in 1929 - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		Finally landing the 2002 Winter Games was the result of a lengthy, educational, persistent and costly effort.
		With public support for the Winter Games boosted by the referendum results and construction of Olympic facilities promised, Utah was the front runner to land the 1998 Games.
		Instead, government officials and bid boosters drafted a new game plan, reorganized the committee in charge of bid oversight, redefined some roles and renegotiated the state's agreement with the USOC to delay construction of some winter sports facilities.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,30000165,00.html (1353 words)

	UJC - The Forgotten Olympians
		At the 1900 Summer Games in Paris, Prinstein qualified for the long jump finals, but was persuaded by his Christian teammates not to take part in the competition on a Sunday, the Christian Sabbath.
		Alain Calmat, a world-class figure skater, won a silver medal at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, but he made his mark in Jewish athletic history four years later at the Games in Grenoble, France, when he was selected to carry the torch and light the Olympic flame during the opening ceremonies.
		A medal winner in the World Games for the Deaf, he was a closet Jew, living in the Soviet Union at a time when few ambitious Jews would admit their ethnic background.
	www.ujc.org /content_display.html?ArticleID=121764 (1255 words)

	Gold-medal skates? Not so fast - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — The skates given to skeleton gold medalist Jimmy Shea at the conclusion of the Winter Olympics may not be the ones his late grandfather used to win two gold medals at the 1932 Winter Games.
		In 1932, Jack Shea swapped the skates for a pair of skis that belonged to Japanese skier Yamada Katsumi.
		The Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum claims to have the gold-medal skates worn by Jack Shea.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,70001731,00.html (476 words)

	Lake Placid becomes sports capital of the world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It was a policy of the International Olympic Committee back then to place both summer and winter games in the same country, so Lake Placid officials knew they had at least an outside shot.
		The seeds for the region hosting the games were probably sown a quarter-century earlier when Melvil Dewey, owner of the Lake Placid Club, decided in the fall of 1903 to keep the club open during the winter months.
		The Feb. 19, 1932, the Lake Placid News gave a games-ending summary of the financial condition of the games.
	www.pressrepublican.com /Archive/1999/10_1999/101019994.htm (997 words)

	ESPN.com - Fiske was an American and Bristish hero
		At the 1932 Winter Games in Lake Placid, N.Y., hometown hero Billy Fiske was one of the first to arrive -- he carried the flag for the U.S. team in the opening ceremonies -- and he was also among the last to leave.
		Because of bad weather that plagued the Games, the bobsled wouldn't be contested until after the closing ceremonies.
		The 1932 four-man bobsled team was one of the most interesting in Olympic history.
	sports.espn.go.com /oly/winter02/gen/feature?id=1307970 (500 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Lake Placid 1932
		The Olympic Games came to the United States for the first time in 1932.
		The traditional dominion of the Norwegian cross-country skiers was decidedly shaken in the third edition of the Winter Games which went outside of Europe for the first time.
		The Games at Lake Placid included the debut of the two-man bobsled event, and three demonstration sports: women's speedskating, dog-sled racing and curling (for the second time).
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w03lakeplacid.html (359 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Calgary 1988
		Jamaica made its Winter Olympic debut with a four-man bobsled team and, although it was not foreseen, Soviet athletes would be competing under the hammer and sickle for the last time.
		At the Games, there were stories of both painful tragedy and heart-warming joy.
		In the bobsled, the stories were not those of the eventual winners, the Soviets in the two-man and the Swiss in the four-man, but rather of the Jamaicans having a bobsled team at all and of Prince Albert of Monaco competing.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w15calgary.html (518 words)

	Winter Olympics becoming an event of its own
		An exercise and sports science professor and official lecturer for the International Olympic Committee, Lucas was present for part of the Winter Games in Lake Placid in 1980 and in Calgary in 1988.
		That plateau was reached at the 1932 Winter Games in Lake Placid.
		Part of the reason some viewers have shown a lack of interest in the Winter Games is that Americans typically do much better in the Summer Olympics.
	www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/1994/02/02-11-94tdc/02-11-94dsports-3.asp (733 words)

	Active.com - Ten stories to watch at the Salt Lake Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In Nagano, during the 1998 Winter Games, the addition of snowboarding was expected to add a generous dose of Generation X to the proceedings.
		In anticipation of the 2002 Winter Games, here's a rundown of events, athletes and issues most likely to carry the next 17 days.
		Jack Shea was an Olympic speedskater who won two gold medals at the 1932 Winter Games in Lake Placid.
	www.active.com /story.cfm?story_id=8521 (482 words)

	Goodwill Games
		The Goodwill Games and their partners at ORDA are organizing the Games.
		The Goodwill Games, founded by Time Warner Vice Chairman R.E. Turner in 1986 as a platform to promote international goodwill through world-class competition, have grown to become the premier international, invitational, multi-sport event where athletes come together to put their greatness to the test.
		The four previous Goodwill Games have alternated between the United States and Russia; however, future Games will be staged in countries around the world in both winter and summer formats.
	www.goodwillgames.com /html/2000_newsArt7.html (1025 words)

	1932 Olympics
		Four years later, Jaffee won the 10,000 and the 5,000–meter races and local hero Jack Shea won at 500 and 1,500 meters as the U.S. swept all four speed skating events—which were run as actual races (not timed heats) for the first time in Olympic history.
		Resistance, persistence, providence: the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games in perspective.
		Going for the (Taxpayers') Gold: The Olympic Games have produced a gold rush of federal subsidies -- and some of the nation's wealthiest......
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0300758.html (406 words)

	Historic Slide Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		LAKE PLACID, N.Y. – The 1932 and 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum was awarded a grant this spring by the Essex County Historical Society and the Charles H. Douglas Charitable Trust to fund the creation of “The Olympic Winter Games of 1932, through Photographers’ Eyes.” It is the newest permanent exhibit at the museum.
		The exhibit is actually a digitized presentation of original Olympic photographs displayed in the lobby of the Lake Placid Club during the 1932 Olympic Winter Games.
		The 1932 and 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum is located on the bottom level of the Olympic Center.
	www.swissacres.com /historic_slide_show.htm (247 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The third Winter Olympics, in 1932, were held in Lake Placid, New York State, a town of fewer than 4,000 people.
		Faced with major obstacles raising money in the midst of a depression, the president of the organizing committee, Dr. Godfrey Dewey, donated land owned by his family to be used for construction of a bobsleigh run.
		Lighting the Olympic Flame by: For the Winter Games, the flame was lit for the first time in 1952 in Oslo.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1932 (297 words)

	U.S. Foresees A High Medal Count, Turin Could See America's Best Showing Yet In The 'Other Olympics' - CBS News
		In short, America is making few inroads into the sports that form the historic center of the Games, particularly the Nordic events such as cross-country, ski jumping, Nordic combined (a combination of the two), and biathlon.
		Of late, Germany has been on top, winning three of the four winter Olympics since the fall of the Berlin Wall — and it is a favorite to repeat this year.
		After more than doubling from 39 to 84 events during the past two decades, the winter Games appear to be nearing a steady state, making it easier to compare medal tables from different years.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/02/10/sportsline/main1303767.shtml (955 words)

	Lake Placid
		Although Lake Placid continued to position itself as a major winter sports center, hosting major international sports competitions that included the World Nordic Championships in 1950, and multiple World Bobsled Championships, it was the World University Games (FISU) in 1972 that made a statement to the world.
		This was the first time that the FISU Games were held in the U.S. It was the biggest international multi-sport winter event outside of an Olympics, featuring 500 athletes, from 23 countries, in 27 events.
		It was an individual, Godfrey Dewey, who can be credited with securing the 1932 Olympics, but this time, it was a nucleus of extraordinary and somewhat stubborn individuals who were responsible for bringing the Games back to this little village.
	www.lakeplacid.com /shared/media/press_release_articles.cfm?id=180 (759 words)

	Sierra Sun - Sierra Scene
		This month the world is celebrating the XX Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy, a time when Tahoe-Truckee residents often reminisce back to February 1960 when Squaw Valley hosted this quadrennial, international sports competition.
		Winter sports, ice skating parties and evening dances were promoted as fun and healthy entertainment.
		Later, in 1947, the California Chamber of Commerce surveyed the various winter sports facilities established in the Sierra at that time to determine where the Olympic Games could be feasibly be held.
	www.sierrasun.com /article/20060216/LIFE/102160001 (1153 words)

	ESPN Classic - Shea, 91, among three generations of Olympians
		LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- Jack Shea, the patriarch of the first family with three generations of Olympians and the winner of two gold medals at the 1932 Winter Games, died early Tuesday from injuries in a car accident.
		When the Winter Games came to Lake Placid for the first time in 1932, the 22-year-old Shea skated past the Scandinavian stars to win gold in the 500-meter event in 43.4 seconds.
		He made it a personal quest to help persuade the International Olympic Committee to stage the Winter Games in his hometown again in 1980.
	espn.go.com /classic/obit/s/2002/0122/1315383.html (918 words)

	Skate Canada: About Skate Canada: Hall of Fame: Honoured Members
		A three-time member of the Canadian Olympic team, her 4th-place finish at the 1932 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid is among the highest by a Canadian in the ladies event.
		His silver-medal victory in the men's category at the 1932 World Championships was the first by a Canadian.
		A three-time Olympian, Wilson's bronze medal performance at the 1932 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid marked the first Olympic figure skating medal won by a Canadian, and the first by a North American male.
	www.skatecanada.ca /en/about_skate_canada/hall_of_fame/honoured_members/1990.cfm (553 words)

	United States Olympic Committee - SPEEDSKATING: U.S. Speedskating Mourns the Loss of Legend
		The speedskating world is saddened to learn of the passing of Jack Shea, a two-time gold medalist at the 1932 Olympic Winter Games.
		Shea also was given the honor of reading the Olympic oath during the opening ceremonies of the 1932 Olympic Winter Games held in his native Lake Placid.
		Shea's son Jim Shea, Sr., competed in the Nordic combined and cross-country skiing at the 1964 Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria.
	www.usoc.org /73_4111.htm (512 words)

	The First Four Olympics (I.S.H.A.)
		The Winter Olympic Games, although provided for in the charter of the International Olympic Committee as founded in 1895, was an orphan child for several reasons.
		One most notable piece of news from the 1928 Games was that the Japanese, entering for the first time, managed to get three of their four entries across the finish line of the 50-km course.
		The fact that in 1932 an Olympics came to America is an unlikely story with a bit of strangeness about it—not least of all regarding the mainspring of the idea.
	www.skiinghistory.org /OlympicStory.html (9057 words)

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