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	Squaw Valley USA: History Olympics
		Upon hearing the news, International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage told Cushing, "the USOC obviously has taken leave of their senses." IOC member John J. Garland advised, "I think you are on a wild goose chase.
		The 1960 Winter Olympics were the first Games held in the Western United States and the first to be televised.
		The Olympic Village Inn was built to house more than 750 athletes; it allowed all athletes to be housed under one roof for the first and only time in modern Olympic history.
	www.squaw.com /winter/history_olympics.html (1207 words)

	1960 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1960 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VIII Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1960 in Squaw Valley, California, United States (located in the Lake Tahoe basin).
		The Olympic flame was lit in the cottage of Sondre Norheim in Morgedal, Norway, and was brought to Los Angeles by plane from Oslo.
		1960 was the first year for women's speed skating and the men's biathlon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1960_Winter_Olympics (406 words)

	1960 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad, were held in 1960 in Rome, Italy.
		Rome had been awarded the organisation of the 1908 Summer Olympics, but, after the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, had to decline and pass the honours to London.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1960_Summer_Olympics (528 words)

	1960 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Games of the XVII Olympiad were held in 1960 in Rome, Italy.
		Rome had been awarded the organisation of the 1908 Summer Olympics, but had to decline and pass the honours to London.
		They would not be allowed to return until 1992, after the abandonment of apartheid and during the transition to a fl-majority government.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /1960_Summer_Olympics (286 words)

	1960 Olympics
		On Thursday, February 18, 1960, under storm-threatening skies, the greatest winter athletes in the world gathered in Squaw Valley.
		At that time the 1960 Winter Games were the largest ever held, with 34 nations competing in 15 alpine and ski jumping events, 8 speed skiing contests, 3 figure skating competitions and 28 hockey matches.
		The saga of the VIII Olympic Winter Games is a lasting tribute to the daring and vision of Alexander C. Cushing, the founder and Chairman of the Board of Squaw Valley Ski Corporation.
	www.tahoesbest.com /Skiing/svuoly.htm (825 words)

	1960 Winter Olympics
		The Games of the VIII Olympiad were held in 1960 in Squaw Valley, California.
		An IBM computer was used to calculate the results.
		This Winter Olympics introduced Disney artist John Hench[?] torch design, which all further torches would be based on.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/19/1960_Winter_Olympic_Games.html (158 words)

	Olympic Games - 1960: Games go west - Eurosport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The 1960 Olympics were held in the unlikely location of Squaw Valley, California, a candidate city which five years prior didn't even exist.
		Alexander Cushing's announcement of Squaw Valley as a candidate for the VIII Winter Olympics in 1960 was met with disbelief, and even laughter.
		The Olympic Village Inn was built to house 750 athletes marking the first and only time that all Olympic participants were housed in the same building.
	www.eurosport.com /olympicgames/torino/2006/sport_sto823208.shtml (540 words)

	America 1960-1969: Sports History Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		What were called the modern Olympic Games, the phrase that referred to the revival of the Olympics in 1896, gave way to the contemporary games in 1960.
		The ideal, championed by International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Avery Brundage, of international amateur competition held in an arena unaffected by worldly influences was in its death throes.
		The 1960 Olympics, held in Rome for the summer competition and in Squaw Valley, California, for the winter games, was the first Olympics telecast live to American.....
	www.bookrags.com /history-america-1960s-sports/sub18.html (351 words)

	6. MODERN OLYMPICS - GENERAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Cook, T.A. The Olympic games, being a short history of the Olympic movement from 1896 up to the present day, together with an account of the games of Athens in 1906, and of the organization of the Olympic games of London in 1908.
		Cook, T. International sport: a short history of the Olympic movement from 1896 to the present day, containing the account of a visit to Athens in 1906, and of the Olympic games of 1908 in London, together with the code of rules...
		Olympic games handbook; containing official records of the seventh Olympiad, winners in previous Olympiads, the 1924 Olympic games, official Olympic athletic rules and the official world's records and...
	www-nutrition.ucdavis.edu /olympics/Olymp/gen.htm (2476 words)

	Torch is returning to Squaw Valley - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		OLYMPIC VALLEY, Calif. — The Olympic flame was set to return to Squaw Valley USA today for the first time in 42 years.
		It was in 1960 that Alexander Cushing brought the Olympics to an unheralded mountain resort in the United States, beating out Innsbruck, St. Moritz and Garmisch-Partenkirschen for the honor the same way he started his business — short on silver but long on brass.
		Along with the first television cameras, the 1960 Games also saw the construction of the Olympic Village Inn, which housed all 750 athletes from 34 countries under the same roof for the first time.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,60000171,00.html (807 words)

	U.S. skiers to end disappointing year - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		At the Olympics, he failed to finish the giant slalom and was 14th in the slalom.
		Lalive fell in the downhill, the combined and the Super G at the Olympics, making it nine straight races in the Olympics or world championships she has failed to finish.
		Rahlves, another U.S. skier who failed to live up to expectations in the Olympics, would have been the favorite here in the Super G — an event in which he is the reigning world champion.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,70001934,00.html (498 words)

	Timeline 1960-1961
		Professor Libby came to UCLA as the Professor of Chemistry, and on January 1, 1962 was appointed Director of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics.
		The Summer Olympics of 1960 were held in Rome.
		There were 150 events in 17 sports, and the USSR dominated the Olympics coming first in medals--43 gold, 29 silver, and 31 bronze.
	www.english.ucla.edu /ucla1960s/6061/timeline6061.htm (1272 words)

	Equestrian Olympics Events Sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Flagbearers of the 80s and 90s, equestrian and canoeing, were excluded.
		He is a three-time Olympian with a Bronze medal from each of the past three Olympics.
		Olympic Medalists Named Correspondents for the 2006 FEI World...Equestrianmag.com, FL - Aug 16, 2006...
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Sports/Events/Olympics/Equestrian (313 words)

	Olympics (TRINIDAD)
		Trinidad & Tobago made its Olympic debut in 1948 and, between 1948 and 2004, the Trinidad & Tobago Olympic Committee selected a cumulative total of 179 participants to represent the country at the 15 Olympics.
		The first Olympic boxers were sent to the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, California, USA.
		Six yachtsmen were selected to fill a combined total of 7 slots in four Olympics: 1960; 1964; 1972; and 1984.
	www.bestoftrinidad.com /olympics.html (623 words)

	Children's Corner: Spotlights the Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Begun in 1924 as a "snowy prelude" to the Summer Olympics, the Winter Olympics have, over the years, become a must-see event for those who love such sports as figure skating, skiing, ice hockey, bobsledding and, now, snowboarding.
		In the 1928 Olympics at St. Moritz, Switzerland, for example, cross-country skiers in the 50-kilometer race set out in the morning with the temperature at zero degrees Fahrenheit.
		And, of course, no history of the Winter Olympics would be complete without a look at the conflicts between athletes, including the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan just prior to the 1994 Winter Olympics by men with ties to another figure skater, Tonya Harding.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06038/651161.stm (688 words)

	TSN : OLYMPICS - Canada's Sports Leader
		Fifty-four years after Italy was forced to give up hosting the Olympic Games due to financial reasons, the International Olympic Committee awards the competition to Rome.
		For the first time in Olympic Games history, television rights are granted and millions of people are able to watch the events on 100 television networks around the world, including Canada.
		The Rome Olympics would be the last time South Africa would compete as a nation due to its racial policy of apartheid.
	www.tsn.ca /olympics/feature/?fid=9380 (367 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Olympic games OLYMPIC GAMES [Olympic games] premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests.
		San Diego, Calif. He won gold medals in springboard diving and platform diving in the 1984 Olympics and repeated in both categories in 1988 despite a head injury incurred during the competition.
		In the first modern Olympics of 1896, a commemorative event retraced his route.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?q=olympics (649 words)

	USATF - Hall of Fame
		Connolly represented the U.S. in three subsequent Olympics, finishing 8th in 1960 and 6th in 1964 before failing to qualify for the final in 1968.
		One of the greatest hammer throwers in track and field history, Harold Connolly was the 1956 Olympic champion who broke the world record seven times, helping to place the U.S. in the forefront of an event that historically had not been one of the nation's best.
		Besides 1956, he also was a member of the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympic teams, but it was in 1956 that Connolly grabbed world attention when he met Olga Fikatova, the Olympic women's discus champion from Czechoslovakia.
	www.usatf.org /HallOfFame/TF/showBio.asp?HOFIDs=33 (351 words)

	Wilma Rudolph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the 1960 Olympics, she ran 100 meters in eleven seconds.
		She ran in the Olympics in 1956 and in 1960.
		In 1960, she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in one Olympics.
	www.eduplace.com /kids/socsci/ca/books/bkc/biographies/bk_template.jsp?name=rudolphw&bk=bkc (142 words)

	1960 Olympics were boon to area (printable version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Over the next five years, preparations for the Olympics were made not only at Squaw Valley, the first winter games site in the western United States, but also throughout the surrounding area.
		On Feb. 22, 1960, the Reno Evening Gazette wrote that the “(c)oincidence of the long Washington’s Birthday holiday and the VIII Olympic Winter Games has brought to Reno the largest crowd of tourists over a sustained period in history.
		Although it may be true that Nevada tourism and gambling was not measurably enhanced by Olympic events in the Salt Lake City or Los Angeles areas, to suggest that an Olympic event in any community’s backyard does not bolster the area economy is dead wrong.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=97814 (590 words)

	1960 Winter Olympics - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Template:Olympics infobox The 1960 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VIII Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1960 in Squaw Valley, California, United States (located in the Lake Tahoe basin).
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		aasta taliolümpiamängud es:Juegos Olímpicos de Squaw Valley 1960 fr:Jeux Olympiques d'hiver de 1960 hr:VIII.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/VIII_Olympic_Winter_Games (410 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The 1960 Squaw Valley Games were preceded by a controversy when the organizing committee refused to build a bobsleigh run because only nine nations had indicated an intention to take part.
		This was the only time that bobsledding was not included in the Olympic programme.
		The Olympic Flame and the "Tower of the Nations".
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1960 (294 words)

	1960 Winter Olympic Cross-Country Ski Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Olympic ski trails were narrow, single lane parallel tracks.
		The park staff believes it may be permissible to display the Olympic rings logo at the trailhead to the current cross-country trail system at the campground area.
		International cross-country ski consultant John Frado viewed the former Olympic terrain in February 1999 and declared it highly suitable for world class cross-country ski trails.
	www.tahoecountry.com /oldtimetahoe/olympics.html (602 words)

	Skimag \| Olympic Torch Returns to Squaw Valley
		Olympic Valley, Calif. (AP by Tom Gardner)--In 1960, New York attorney Alexander Cushing brought the Olympics to an unheralded mountain resort in northern California, beating out more glamorous locales for the honor.
		The Olympic flame returns to Squaw Valley USA on Sunday for the first time in 42 years, providing a glimpse into an Olympics with modest beginnings as the torch makes its way to Salt Lake City.
		The 1960 games also saw the construction of the Olympic Village Inn, which housed all 750 athletes from 34 countries under the same roof for the first time.
	www.skimag.com /skimag/article/print/0,13435,325774,00.html (623 words)

	Rome, Italy, 1960 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The 1960 Olympics were the first to be fully covered by television.
		Taped footage of the Games was flown to New York City at the end of each day and broadcast on the CBS television network in the United States.
		An Olympic Stadium, home to the opening and closing ceremonies and the track-and-field competition, and a Sports Palace were built for the Games, and several ancient sites were restored and used as venues.
	members.tripod.com /ericyao/scm3113/tsld016.htm (107 words)

	UM Olympics-1960 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Spillane finished third in both the 100 and 200 meter freestyle in the U. Olympic trials, earning her a place on the relay teams.
		The Wolverine's 1960 captain, Tony Tashnick, missed his Olympic chance when teammate Dave Gillanders passed in the final 20 yards of the 200 meter butterfly.
		Hungary's Joe Gerlach, 4th place finisher in 10 meter diving and 8th in the 3 meter at Melbourne in 1956 and UM letterwinner in 1959 and 1960, missed the Rome games for lack of a country.
	www.umich.edu /~bhl/bhl/olymp2/ol1960.htm (960 words)

	The good old Games / Squaw Valley put itself on the map when it stole the 1960 Olympics and presented an enchantingly ...
		The 30-year-old bank teller from Truckee lashed her boots to the curved wooden slats with a length of twine and a leather strap and schussed into Squaw and handed the torch to her friend, skier Starr Walton Hurley.
		At Squaw Valley in 1960, all the events except cross-country skiing were held in the cozy amphitheater framed by 9,000-foot mountains.
		After opening his eponymous little amusement park in Anaheim in 1955, Walt Disney was brought in to handle the entertainment side of the Squaw Valley Olympics, from the Opening Ceremony to the nightly entertainment in the Olympic Village for the athletes.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/01/15/SP111693.DTL (1763 words)

	SkiCentral - Winter Olympics
		Selected to host the Slalom, Mogul and Aerial events during the 2002 Winter Olympics.
		Ski Jumping at the 2006 Winter Olympics will be held in the town of Pragelato, Italy from February 11 to February 21.
		Coverage of the 2006 winter olympics in Torino, Italy.
	www.skicentral.com /olympics.html (249 words)

	1960 Olympics — FactMonster.com
		Free of political entanglements, save the ruling that Nationalist China had to compete as Formosa, the 1960 Games attracted a record 5,348 athletes from 83 countries.
		The brash but engaging Clay, who would later change his name to Muhammad Ali and hold the world heavyweight title three times, won the Olympic light heavyweight crown, pummeling Polish opponent Zbigniew Pietryskowsky in the final.
		1960 Olympics - 1960 Olympics Squaw Valley The first Winter Olympics in the U.S. since 1932 was held at an obscure...
	www.factmonster.com /ipsa/A0114618.html (400 words)

	NBA.com: "Big O", West Move from Olympics to the NBA
		In 1960, two guards who would thrill NBA fans for the next 14 seasons and who would always be inextricably linked joined the league.
		To the untrained eye, Jerry West appeared to be just a skinny kid from West Virginia when he came to the NBA in 1960.
		But the 6-3 college forward learning to be a pro guard had a desire to be the best and skills that would allow him to get there.
	www.nba.com /history/season/19601961.html (438 words)

	Squaw and the 1960 Olympics: Info needed - Teton Gravity Research Forums
		So I am thinking of writing a paper about the Squaw winning the Olympics in 1960 and how hosting the olympics coincided with the transformation of the Tahoe area and also the entire state.
		Tahoe sking and the 1960 winter Olympics probably has more to do with Alex than the ski area.
		He was the one with the big political connections and the business savvy that ended up with the Olympics coming to Squaw/Tahoe.
	www.tetongravity.com /forums/showthread.php?p=1004921 (424 words)

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