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  1928 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1928 in Sankt-Moritz, Switzerland.
The 1928 Games were the first true Winter Olympics held on its own as they were not in conjunction with a Summer Olympics.
All preceding Winter Events of the Olympic Games were the winter sports part of the schedule of the Summer Games, and not as a separate Winter Games.
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 1988 Summer Olympics - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
After boycotts of the Olympics in 1976, 1980 and 1984, the Seoul Games were again boycotted, led by North Korea and followed by Cuba; the basis of the boycott was South Korea's refusal to co-host the Olympics with North Korea, which rejected all compromise.
Anthony Nesty of Suriname wins his country's first Olympic medal by winning the 100 m butterfly, scoring an upset victory; he is also the first fl person to win a swimming title.
Tennis returns to the Olympics after a 64-year absence, and Steffi Graf adds to her four Grand Slam victories in the year by also winning the Olympic title.
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 1948 Winter Olympics - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1948 in St.
Winter pentathlon was held as a demonstration sport.
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 Cecilia Colledge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She was the 1937 World Champion, 1936 Olympic silver medalist, four time British Champion (1935-1938) and three time European Champion (1937-1939).
She was the youngest person to ever compete at the Olympics at age 11 and 3 months.
In February 1932, aged 11 years three months, she was placed eighth in the Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid.
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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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 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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 1924 Winter Olympics - Free net encyclopedia
Template:Olympics infobox The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1924 in Chamonix, France.
The very first gold medal awarded in the Olympic Winter games was won by Charles Jewtraw, in the opening event, the 500 meter speedskating.
In 1925, the IOC decided to organize Olympic Winter Games every four years, independent of the Olympic Games proper, and recognized the International Winter Sports Week as the first Olympic Winter games in retrospect.
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 1936 Winter Olympics - 1936 Winter Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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The winter Olympics came and went and what most remember about the much-touted Turin games is the bizarre Felliniesque opening ceremony.
Flames burned at the Oslo Winter Olympics in 1936 and 1948, but the first torch relay for the Winter Games wasn't held until 1952, and it was quite different from the Summer Games relay.
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 Timeline 1936   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
1936 Feb 14, Fanne Foxe, [Annabella Battistella], (Wilbur Mills companion during Congressman’s drunken romp in the fountain), was born in Argentina.
1936 Mar 18, Frederik Willem de Klerk, president of the Republic of South Africa, was born in Johannesburg.
1936 Mar 28, Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist (Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Death in the Andes), was born.
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 CBC.CA - Torino 2006
Adolf Hitler presided over the opening of the 1936 Winter Games, which were held in the twin Bavarian towns of Garmisch and Partenkirchen three years before the start of the Second World War.
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.
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 CSULB Online 49er: v9n71: Olympics no place for patriotic zealots
The Olympic's should be a showcase of the athleticism of the greatest athletes of all nations.
With medal counts and human interest stories about American athletes, NBC is trying to show that America is still the best.
The Olympics should not be America's attempt to display any sort of overt superiority, but to bring to light the fire of athleticism that resides in all athletes.
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 All About Hockey
At the 1920 Summer Olympics, ice hockey was introduced to the Olympics, and it has been part of the Winter Olympics ever since.
At the 1998 Winter Olympics, an agreement was made to stop the NHL for a few weeks to allow the professional players to compete in the Olympics.
Before the Olympics were opened up for professional athletes, the World Cup of Hockey and its predecessor the Canada Cup displayed the highest level of hockey, since only these tournaments were open to all the world's best players.
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 1936 Winter Olympics medal count - TheBestLinks.com - Austria, BBC, Canada, Finland, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
1936 Winter Olympics medal count, Austria, BBC, Canada, Finland, France...
This is the full table of the medal count of the 1936 Winter Olympics.
These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country.
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 1972 Summer Olympics Medal Count - 1972 Summer Olympics Medal Count News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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 The Nazi Olympics
The Olympics were a perfect arena for the Nazi propaganda machine, which was unsurpassed at staging elaborate public spectacles and rallies.
In August 1936 Olympic flags and swastikas bedecked the monuments and houses of a festive, crowded Berlin.
Two weeks before the Olympics began, German officials informed Gretel Bergmann, a Jewish athlete who had equaled the German women's record in the high jump, that she was denied a place on the team.
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 Ivy League Sports - Ivies in Athens 2004
The Olympics were used once again as a political vehicle as North Korea, Cuba, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua, all boycotted the Games.
The extra time off didn't hurt the USSR as it claimed the overall medal count with 132 medals, 55 of which were gold.
Official Olympic Posters appear with permission and are the property of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
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 2002 Winter Olympics
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.
A feature of this Olympics has been the emergence of the so-called "extreme" sports, such as snowboarding, moguls and aerials, which appeared in previous Olympics but have captured greater public attention this year.
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 The First Four Olympics (I.S.H.A.)
The Winter Olympics were on course, hosting a truly international quadrennial ski meet, attracting participants from the far corners of the ski world.
At an IOC executive session at the Olympics, the Swedish delegate, Col. Holmquist, declared that in his opinion, although there were ski organizations in the United States and Canada, neither “had the necessary competence to organize ski events.” Nevertheless, the IOC delegates as a whole welcomed the idea of an American Winter Games.
The 1936 Olympics at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany was a riveting affair.
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 Top Literature - Image:Flag of Hungary.svg
Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 400 metre freestyle
Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 400 metre individual medley
Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 200 metre individual medley
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 1936 Olympics
He directed that $25 million be spent on the finest facilities, the cleanest streets and the temporary withdrawal of all outward signs of the state-run anti-Jewish campaign.
Germany won only five combined gold medals in men's and women's track and field, but saved face for the “master race” in the overall medal count with an 89-56 margin over the United States.
1936 Olympics - The fourth Winter Olympic Games were held in the neighboring villages of Garmisch and Partenkirchen...
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 1960 Summer Olympics
Rome had been awarded the organisation of the 1908 Summer Olympics, but had to decline and pass the honours to London.
Danish sailer Paul Elvstrøm[?] wins his forth straight gold medal in the Finn class, the first athlete to achieve this feat in an individual event.
It was the second time an athlete died in competition at the Olympics, after the death of Portuguese marathon runner Francisco Lazaro[?] at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
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 BBC SPORT | Other Sport... | Winter Olympics | Turin set for 20th Winter Games
The 20th Winter Olympics are essentially split between the northern Italian city of the Turin and the Piedmonte mountain area which includes the ski resorts of Sestriere, Sauze d'Oulx and Bardonecchia.
In Turin, red Olympic flags line the official routes and advertising hoardings have a distinct winter sports theme but there is little else in the city to suggest the Games are being held here.
The opening ceremony is on Friday and then on Saturday the Winter Olympics proper begin with the men's 20km biathlon.
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 Hell's Kitchen: Gold, or the Golden Rule?
He continued to skate and would have been one of the favorites in those events in the 1936 Olympics as well, had he chosen to compete.
Germany in 1936 was a country that had come under the control of the Nazi Party of Adolf Hitler.
His career medal count was five gold, three silver and one bronze.
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Arakawa is the first Japanese woman to win Olympic gold, and she has lifted a burden for those who will come after her.
She went into the free skate with a chance to medal, if not win, and she faltered at all of them.
Norway won golds in 1928, 1932 and 1936, but all by Sonja Henie; two of East Germany's three golds in 1980, 1984 and 1988 were by Katarina Witt.
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 Wikinfo | 1994 Winter Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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.
Vreni Schneider won a complete set of medals in Alpine skiing and Manuela Di Centa medaled in all five cross-country events.
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 1936 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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The IV Olympic Winter Games were held in the villages of Garmisch and Partenkirchen in Bavaria, Germany.
Hitler, the German Nazi leader, wished to show the world that the 'Aryan' team the National Socialist state had assembled was better than everyone elses', and would win all events.
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 CNNSI.com - The Cold Wars - Prologue
The 1936 Winter Olympics, held in the Bavarian Alps at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, became a forum for Germany's National Socialists.
As they would do in Berlin that summer, the Nazis used the Olympics to demonstrate to the world that theirs was a superior way of life.
German émigrés living in the United States attempted to organize an Olympic boycott by all democratic nations.
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