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  Olympic Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 honour the games were held.
The Oslo flag: Was presented to the IOC at the 1952 Winter Olympics by the city of Oslo, Norway, and is passed on to the next organising city of the Winter Olympics.
The practice of awarding medals to the top three competitors was introduced in 1904; at the 1896 Olympics only the first two received a medal, silver and bronze, while various prizes were awarded in 1900.
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 1988 Winter Olympics - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The 1988 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XV Olympic Winter Games, were held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
For the first time the Winter Olympics were extended to 16 days, the speed skating events were held indoors on a covered rink, the alpine events took place on artificial snow, and warm Chinook winds not only threatened to cancel events, but sent a ski jumper flying into a camera tower.
Well after the Olympics ended, CODA has continued to use its resources to develop resources for Olympic athletes in the city, which includes supporting Canada's first high school designed for Olympic calibre athletes, in a partnership with the Calgary Board of Education.
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 2004 Summer Olympics - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
It was the first Olympics since NBC had merged with Vivendi Universal Entertainment; the merger, along with the acquisitions of the Bravo and Telemundo networks, made it possible for the network to broadcast over 1200 hours of coverage during the games, triple what was broadcast in the U.S. four years earlier.
The main Olympic Stadium, the designated facility for the opening and closing ceremonies, was completed only two months before the games opened, with the sliding over of a futuristic glass roof designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
The Mayor of Athens, Dora Bakoyianni, passed the Olympic Flag to the Mayor of Beijing, Wang Qishan.
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 1968 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1968 Grenoble, France and opened on February 6.
Norway won the most medals, the first time a country other than the USSR had done so since the USSR first entered the Winter Games in 1956.
The games have been credited with making the Winter Olympics more popular in the United States, not least of which because of ABC's extensive coverage of Fleming and Killy, who became overnight sensations among teenage girls.
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 Help.com - winter olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Fewer nations participate in the Winter Olympics than the Summer Olympics; the most obvious reason for this is sheer geography, as most of the countries near the equator have no access to winter sport training facilities.
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.
Jacques Rogge, presiding over his first Olympics as IOC president, told the athletes of the host country that their nation was overcoming the "horrific tragedy" of that day and the IOC stands united with them in promoting the committee's ideals.
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 Winter Olympics medal count - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
These counts do not include the totals from winter sports (figure skating and ice hockey) that were contested at Summer Olympic Games in 1908 and 1920.
The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next, and then the number of bronze medals.
Medal counts are not combined for related NOCs except in the case of a simple change of IOC code (e.g.
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 1932 Winter Olympics medal count - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is the full table of the medal count of the 1932 Winter Olympics, which were held in Lake Placid, New York, United States.
1896, 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004
1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006
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 1998 Winter Olympics
The Games of the XVIII Winter Olympiad were held in 1998 in Nagano, Japan.
Bjørn Dæhlie[?], won three gold medals in Nordic skiing to become the first winter athlete to earn eight career gold medals and twelve total medals.
Tara Lipinski, 15, won the women's figure skating title to become the youngest champion in an individual event in the history of the Winter Olympics.
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 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.
III Olympic Winter Games Lake Placid 1932, 1932 (digitized version)
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 1984 Winter Olympics
The Games of the XIV Winter Olympiad were held in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
Skier Jure Franko[?] won Yugoslavia's first Winter Olympics medal; a silver in the giant slalom.
Gaétan Boucher[?] and Karin Enke[?] each won two gold medals in speed skating, while East German women win all but 3 of the 12 medals in the sport.
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 2002 Winter Olympics Biography,info
The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIX Olympic Winter Games, were held in 2002 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
Olympic venues were scattered around Salt Lake City, as well as in the mountains at Park City, Ogden, Provo and West Valley City.
Prior to these Olympic Winter Games, a number of IOC 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.
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 1932 Summer Olympics medal count - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This is the full table of the medal count of the 1932 Summer Olympics.
1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006
1932 Summer Olympics medal count, References and 1932 Summer Olympics.
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 Winter Games Facts - TheGoal.com
Although the first modern Olympic Games took place in the Summer of 1896 in Athens, Greece, it was not until 1924 that the first Winter Olympic Greece were held.
But since women's speed skating was excluded from this Olympics, she decided to compete instead in the combined downhill, which she won.
The most interesting person in the Winter Games in Lake Placid in 1932 was Eddie Egan from the U.S. He became the only person in Olympic history to win medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympics when he won a gold medal in the four-man bobsled.
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 Germany's Hackl seeks fourth straight luge gold
Starting order at the Olympics is based on the combined results of the last three World Cup races, and racers like to be as close to the top of the starting order as possible because ice deteriorates after each run.
For the first time in Winter Olympic history, women will compete in bobsled, and Racine, of Waterford, Mich., was one of the gold-medal favorites in spite of the controversy she had created.
A week before the Olympic trials in December, Racine was struggling behind rising German stars Susi Erdmann and Sandra Prokoff, and replaced her longtime partner, Jen Davidson, with former pentathlete Gea Johnson.
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 USATODAY.com - Ambitious USA ready to 'surprise the world'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
USA TODAY medal projections for the 2006 Winter Olympics show that goal is within reach.
Historically, only traditional winter sports countries such as Norway, which won 26 medals when it hosted the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer and 25 medals in '98 in Nagano, have been able to maintain medal momentum after a home Games.
U.S. winter athletes greatly have improved their global standing since winning 13 medals in the 1994 Games and again in '98.
www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/torino/2006-02-09-medal-projection_x.htm   (1424 words)

  
 CBC.CA - Torino 2006
Swiss four-man bobsleigh champions Pierre Musy at the helm, Arnold Gartmann, Charles Bouvier and Joseph Beerli, at the 1936 Winter Olympics.
At first it was uncertain whether Germany would agree to host the Winter Olympics, which Hitler dismissed as "an invention of Jews and freemasons" and vowed that a Nazi government would never stage them.
Standard rules were reinstated in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and the Norwegian athlete clinched three gold medals, in the 500, the 5,000 and the 10,000.
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 US foresees a high medal count | csmonitor.com
But its greatest goal, perhaps, is to beat history: In the past, countries that held the Olympics have seen their medal tally drop 41 percent in the next Games.
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.
By contrast, the US won only 12 medals in 1932, but they were 29 percent of the total - the best US result in history.
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 An Olympic Case For Diversity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The U.S. won 34 medals, a total second only to Germany's and the highest medal count for the country since the 1932 Winter Games at Lake Placid.
An assistant track coach at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, she was trying for an Olympic berth in the long jump at the 2000 U.S. Olympic Trials when her husband saw a flyer there for an Olympic bobsledding-team tryout, and she signed up.
These Winter Olympics prove that, as in real life, diversity is a winning strategy.
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 U.S. athletes hope for a gold rush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Salt Lake Winter Games, which open Friday, indeed could be a gold mine for the home nation, playing host this month to its first Winter Olympics since 1980.
A medal count in the mid-20s is reasonable, though, 30 is not out of the question.
Eric Bergoust, the 1998 Olympic aerials champion, is coming off a strong World Cup season, pacing hopes of perhaps four medals for the freestyle team.
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 Wikinfo | 1994 Winter Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In 1986 the IOC voted to change the schedule of the Olympic Games so that the summer and winter games would be arranged in alternating even-numbered years.
For the first time, the Winter Olympics are not held in the same year as the Games of the Olympiad.
The Olympic flame is brought into the stadium by a ski jumper.
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 CNN/SI - The Cold Wars - Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the first two Winter Olympics, Scandinavians dominated Nordic skiing and speed skating.
In Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1932, they once again ruled the Nordic events, but Americans and Canadians triumphed on the icy track.
Eagan, who won a light heavyweight boxing gold medal in 1920, is the only man ever to win events at both the Summer and Winter Olympics.
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 U.S. Foresees A High Medal Count, Turin Could See America's Best Showing Yet In The 'Other Olympics' - CBS News
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.
Significantly, though, of the 74 medals won in 2002 by Germany, Norway, and Russia — finishing first, second, and fifth, respectively — only two were in sports added since 1992.
By contrast, the U.S. won only 12 medals in 1932, but they were 29 percent of the total — the best U.S. result in history.
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 Time for Kids | News | An Olympic Gold Rush for America
The U.S. medal count is up to 26, double the previous record.
Jack Shea won two gold medals in speed skating at the 1932 Winter Games and died tragically in a car crash last month.
Medals will be handed out after the free skate today, which is worth two-thirds of the final score.
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 Washington Post: 1994 Winter Olympics
The United States won 13 medals, including six gold, in 1994, tying the nation's best gold-medal efforts of 1932 and 1980.
Even as happy endings go, Dan Jansen's 1994 Olympic experience was just about perfect: a sweet kid from the heartland who did everything the right and honorable way, absorbed numbing setbacks stretching back years and still triumphed at long last, finally winning gold in his final event.
Bonnie Blair confirmed her place as the nation's finest female Olympian ever with a no-frills march to glory in her last Olympic appearance, the 1,000 meters, winning the fifth gold and sixth Olympic medal of a 10-year career.
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 The Saratogian - Before the 'miracle'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In 1932, the first time Lake Placid hosted the Winter Olympics, it was a truly remote Adirondack community.
The 1932 ice rink where Henie won gold still stands adjacent to the 1980 arena where the U.S. men's hockey team captured world attention with its 'Miracle on Ice' victory over the Soviets.
The U.S. won the medal count at the 1932 Winter Olympics with six gold, four silver and one bronze.
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 Winter Olympics Games XX 2006 - Links, News, History
Below is a graph and data tables showing the U.S. results in all winter olympics.
In the history of the Winter Olympics, Norway is the best country.
· Sasha Cohen earns a silver medal after recovering from two early falls to finish strong, but her slips under pressure are now her signature move (story).
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 NewsNet5.com - Olympics
Canada won its first Olympic men's hockey gold in 50 years with a 5-2 victory over the United States Sunday just hours before Salt Lake City said goodbye to the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.
With 83 gold, 87 silver, and 69 bronze, Norway has won more Olympic medals than any other country in the 18 times the Winter Olympics has been held.
When the Olympic games begin, look here for up-to-the-minute updates to the Olympic Medal Count.
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 NBC 4 - Olympics - Medal Results: Feb. 12-14
NBC 4 - Olympics - Medal Results: Feb. 12-14
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