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  1948 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia
The V Olympic Winter Games were held in St.
Dick Button became the first American to win a figure skating title for the United States, and also became the first figure skater to perform a double axel during an Olympic figure skating event.
Winter pentathlon was held as a demonstration sport.
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 1948 Summer Olympics Medal Count [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This is the full table of the medal count of the 1948 Summer OlympicsThe Games of the XIV Olympiad were held in 1948 in London, United Kingdom.
Olympic victory is generally considered to be the most prestigious achievement in sports.
Medals are awarded in each event, with gold for first place, silver for second and bronze for third, a tradition which started in 1904....
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 Encyclopedia: 2002 Winter Olympics medal count
This is the full table of the medal count of the 2002 Winter Olympics.
The XIX Olympic Winter Games were held in 2002 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
Categories: 2002 Winter Olympics The Summer Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event held every four years, organised by the International Olympic Committee.
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 1948 Winter Olympics [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He was a five-time world champion from 1948 to 1952 and won the Gold Medal at the 1948 and 1952 Winter Olympics.
Figure skatingAt the 1948 Winter Olympics, Barbara Ann Scott became the first Canadian to win the figure skating gold medal while Dick Button became the first American to win a figure skating title for the United States.
1948 Winter Olympics medal countThis is the full table of the medal count of the 1948 Winter Olympics.
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 2004 Summer Olympics medal count - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is the full table of the medal count of the 2004 Summer Olympics.
These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country (in this context a country is an entity represented by a National Olympic Committee).
Medals table with the EU viewed as a singular entity
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 2002 Winter Olympics
Prior to these Olympic Winter Games, 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.
Skeleton returned as a medal sport in the 2002 Games for the first time since 1948.
The Canadian women's team also defeated their American counterparts 3-2 after losing to them at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano and at all 8 exhibition games prior to the Salt Lake Games.
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 1998 Winter Olympics
The XVIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1998 in Nagano, Japan.
XC skier Bjørn Dæhlie of Norway won three gold medals in Nordic skiing to become the first winter Olympian 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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 Station Information - 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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 wiki/1928 Winter Olympics Definition / wiki/1928 Winter Olympics Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The II Olympic Winter Games were held in 1928 in Sankt-Moritz, SwitzerlandThe Swiss Confederation or Switzerland is a landlocked federal state in Europe, with neighbours Germany, France, Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein.
She had earlier placed eighth in a field of eight at the 1924 Winter Olympics, at the age of eleven.
Winter Olympic GamesThe Winter Olympic Games, Winter Olympics for short but more correctly The Olympic Winter Games, are the cold-weather counterpart to the Summer Olympic Games.
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 1924 Winter Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Originally called Semaine des Sports d'Hiver ("International Winter Sports Week") and held in association with the 1924 Summer Olympics, the sports competitions held in Chamonix between 25 January and 5 February 1924 were later designated by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the '''Ist Olympic Winter Games.
Medals were awarded in 16 events, and 9 sports.
However, no such designation was made in 1924, nor by the IOC at any time, and many Olympic historians now consider them to be full medal events.
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 1956 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia
The VII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1956 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
They immediately showed their strength by winning more medals than any other nation.
This combined team appeared in the 1956, 1960, and 1964 Winter Olympics).
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 1992 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia
The XVI Olympic Winter Games were held in 1992 in Albertville, France.
These were the last Winter Games to be staged in the same year as the Summer Games.
They were also the first Games where the Winter Paralympics and the Winter Olympics were held at the same site.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/1992_Winter_Olympics   (263 words)

  
 1932 Winter Olympics medal count article - 1932 Winter Olympics medal count 1932 Winter Olympics IAAF 1932 Winter ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This is the full table of the medal count of the 1932 Winter Olympics.
These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country.
The number of silvers is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze.
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 1980 Winter Olympics: Definition and links.
The Games of the XIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, United States of America.
Aleksandr Tikhonov[?] earned his fourth straight gold medal.
Their extraordinary upset victory over the heavy favourite Soviet team in the semifinal becomes known as "The Miracle On Ice[?]" in the US press.
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 Travel Guide - Online Reservation - Warsaw Accommodation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
For the first time in history 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.
The Canadian Olympic Committee has pledged to change this at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Ever mindful of the financial disaster of the 1976 Summer Olympics, Calgary was financially successful, erasing the spectre of a second Canadian games at a loss.
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 1948 Winter Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Winter Games originally scheduled for Sapporo, Japan (1940) and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy (1944) were cancelled because of World War II.
The move toward a winter version of the Olympics began in 1908 when figure...
Kenneth Duncan was a long-serving general secretary of the British Olympic Association who began his career at the 1936 Berlin games.
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 1948 Winter Olympics medal count - TheBestLinks.com - Austria, Belgium, BBC, Canada, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
1948 Winter Olympics medal count - TheBestLinks.com - Austria, Belgium, BBC, Canada,...
1948 Winter Olympics medal count, Austria, Belgium, BBC, Canada, Czechoslovakia...
This is the full table of the medal count of the 1948 Winter Olympics.
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 Winter Olympics 2002
Blustery winter weather was the big winner Friday on the first day of competition at the Winter Olympics, causing the cancellation of ski jump qualifying, practice for the men's downhill and training sessions in several other events.
When the 2002 Winter Olympics kick off Friday in Salt Lake City, sports enthusiasts won't be the only ones tuning in to their NBC affiliates.
During the 17-day period when the Olympic flame burns atop Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium, Salt Lake City will be “one of the safest places on the globe,” in the assessment of U.S. domestic security director Tom Ridge.
www.suntimes.com /special_sections/winter_olympics/stories.html   (7417 words)

  
 Travel Guide - Online Reservation - Warsaw Accommodation
During the opening ceremonies, Rogge, presiding over his first olympics as IOC president, told the athletes of the host country that their nation was overcoming the horrific tragedy and stand with them in their ideals.
Olympic flame at Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremonies.
Bradbury was again well off the pace, but lightning struck again and all four other competitors crashed out in the final, leaving a jubilant Bradbury to take the most unlikely of gold medals, the first for Australia – or any other country of the Southern Hemisphere – in the Olympic Winter Games.
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 1998 Winter Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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.
Hermann Maier[?] survived a fall in the downhill and went on to gold in the super-g and giant slalom.
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 1952 Olympics
The U.S. finished second to Norway in the overall medal count and was runner-up to Canada in hockey.
The gold medal was the Canadians' seventh in eight Olympics and, as it turned out, their last for fifty years.
Ted Corbitt, a 72-year-old ultramarathoner who competed in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, striding past the George Washington Bridge during a recent race in Fort Lee's Historical Park.
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 Skeleton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Olympic skeleton events will consist of two runs timed electronically to.01 seconds.
The athlete may leave the sled in order to push or move it, but he must pass the finish line on the sled for the run to count.
Olympic Winter Games Britain's Alex Coomber made sure she put her name
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 kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games St Moritz 1948
Both Germany and Japan, as aggressor countries, were barred from competing by the IOC as punishment for their actions during the war.
Once the competition began, it was the Canadians who returned to their familiar dominance in winning the gold, with Czechoslovakia coming in second, and Switzerland in third.
For the fourth time out of five Olympics, Norway was atop the medals table with 10, tied with Sweden and Switzerland.
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 1994 Winter Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Games of the XVII Winter Olympiad were held in 1994 in Lillehammer, Norway.
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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 Olympiads Page
The last Winter Olympics Games were held in Salt Lake City, USA.
The Last Summer Olympics Games were held in Sydney, Australia.
In 1940 the Olympics were canceled, because of World War II.
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 1948 Olympics - The best resource on the net!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Summer Olympics were scheduled for Tokyo in 1940, but by mid-1938, Japan...
1948 Olympics - The Summer Olympics were scheduled for Tokyo in 1940, but by mid-1938, Japan...
The Summer Olympics were scheduled for Tokyo in 1940, but by mid-1938, Japan was at war with China and withdrew as host.
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 The Sports Network - Olympics
Curling: (July 29) Slated to compete in the 2006 Olympic Winter Games, Cassie Johnson (Bemidji, Minn.), Jamie Johnson (Bemidji, Minn.), Maureen Brunt (Portage, Wis.), Courtney George (Duluth, Minn.) and John Shuster (Chisholm, Minn.) will be guest instructors at the Summer Junior Curling Camp Aug. 11-14 in Wisconsin.
She raced in her first Olympics at 17, went on to set a U.S. record, winning eight Junior World Championships medals and captured two medals at the 2005 World Championships.
Swimming: (July 27) American swimmers won two silver medals on day four of the 2005 FINA World Championships, bringing their overall medal count to 13-five gold, five silver and three bronze.
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 Image Finland flag large.png - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metre Backstroke
Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metre Breaststroke
Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metre Freestyle
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 Image Austria flag large.png - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 200 metre Butterfly
Cross Country Skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Medal Table
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 USIA - Portrait of the USA, Ch. 11
In the 1996 Olympics, it was a measure of baseball's appeal outside the United States that the contest for the gold medal came down to Japan and Cuba (Cuba won).
Since it was winter and very cold outside, a game that could be played indoors was desirable.
Naismith thought back to his boyhood in Canada, where he and his friends had played "duck on a rock," which involved trying to knock a large rock off a boulder by throwing smaller rocks at it.
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