
	Where results make sense

Topic: 1964 Winter Olympics

Related Topics

1964 Winter Olympics medal count

1964 Winter Olympic Games

1976 Winter Olympic Games

1956 Winter Olympics

1928 Winter Olympics

1952 Winter Olympics

1968 Winter Olympics

Winter Olympic Games

Speed skating at the 1952 Winter Olympics

Olympic Games

1972 Winter Olympics

1964 Summer Olympics

Speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Winter Olympics

1948 Winter Olympics

	1964 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The IX Olympic Winter Games were held in 1964 Innsbruck, Austria.
		The IOC suggested that inexperience may have played a role in Ross's death, whereas Australian manager John Wagner suggested that overcrowding played a role, saying that he tried to slow down "on a spot which was not prepared for stopping or swinging" to avoid a crowd of contestants.
		His brother Malcolm Milne competed at the 1968 and 1972 Winter Olympics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1964_Winter_Olympics (323 words)

	Winter Olympic Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This decision caused the Swiss and Austrian skiers to boycott the Olympics.
		The 1940 Winter Olympics had originally been awarded to Japan, and were supposed to be held in Sapporo, but the IOC voted to take back the Games from Japan because of their involvement in the war in China.
		Winter pentathlon, a variant to the modern pentathlon, was included as a demonstration event in 1948.
	www.peacelink.de /keyword/Winter_Olympics.php (5141 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		The winter Olympics were begun in 1924 and were held in the same year as the summer games until the 1994 winter games in Lillehammer, Norway, when the alternating cycles began.
		A total of eight sports were included in the winter Olympics in 1998: biathlon (cross-country skiing and rifle marksmanship), bobsled, curling (for the first time), ice hockey (which included women’s hockey for the first time), luge (toboggan), figure skating, speed skating, and skiing (which, for the first time, included snowboarding as a medal sport).
		The Olympic games are competitions of individual athletes, not of nations, and the IOC does not keep national scores; however, the media of all nations report national standings according to one of two scoring systems.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/sports/olympics.html (1093 words)

	Olympic Oath
		The Olympic Oath is taken by an athlete and a judge at the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games.
		The Olympic Oath, written by Pierre de Coubertin was first taken by an athlete at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp.
		As the equestrian events in 1956 were held in Stockholm, there were two speakers of the Olympic Oath in that year.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ol/Olympic_Oath.html (297 words)

	Winter Olympics History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Winter Olympic Games in 1940 and 1944 were cancelled due to the fact the world was at war.
		The 1964 winter games held in Innsbruck, Austria were short of snow.
		In 1988, the winter olympics were held in Calgary and were staged on artificial snow.
	www.paralumun.com /olympicswinter.htm (102 words)

	Olympics - EnchantedLearning.com
		The Greeks held the first Olympic games in the year 776 BC (over 2700 years ago), and had only one event, a sprint (a short run that was called the "stade").
		For each Olympics, a new flame is started in the ancient Olympic stadium in Olympia, Elis, Greece, using a parabolic mirror to focus the rays of the Sun.
		The 2006 Winter Olympics are in Turino, Italy.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /olympics (1311 words)

	SPORT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Olympic flame was lit in the hearth of the home of Sondre Nordheim, the first famous skier, and relayed by 94 skiers to Oslo.
		The 1956 Winter Olympics, held in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, were most notable for the first appearance by a team from the USSR.
		The 1976 Winter Olympics were awarded to the U.S. city of Denver, but the people of the state of Colorado voted to prohibit public funds from being used to support the Games.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~ksargsya/sport/olymp/olzim.htm (2773 words)

	1964 — Innsbruck, Austria - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		Like several of its predecessors, the 1964 Games are threatened by a severe lack of snow in the Tyrolean Alps.
		Innsbruck’s mildest winter in 58 years results in warm rains and springlike temperatures both before and during the Winter Olympics.
		The 1964 Innsbruck Games are the first where athletes exceed the 1,000 mark.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,10,00.html (450 words)

	1964 Summer Olympics
		Tokyo had already been awarded with the organisation of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honour had been passed to Helsinki because of Japan's involvement in China.
		The 1940 Olympics were eventually cancelled because of the outbreak of World War II.
		Yoshinori Sakai[?], who lit the Olympic Flame, was born in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day the atomic bomb exploded there.
	www.fastload.org /19/1964_Summer_Olympics.html (251 words)

	Skeleton Racing \| Winter Olympics \| Sledding Event (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The 2002 Winter Olympics are the first time women have competed in the sport.
		Jimmy Shea won the gold medal for the USA - becoming the third generation in his family to compete in the Winter Olympics.
		His dad competed in cross-country skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics and his grandpa won two Olympic gold medals in speedskating events at the 1932 Games.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p1813.htm (436 words)

	Peggy Fleming - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1961, when Fleming was 11 years old, her coach William Kipp was killed in the crash of Sabena Flight 548 along with the rest of the United States team while en route to the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships.
		She would be forced to define her own style in figure skating, a style that would lead to five U.S. titles, three World titles and the Gold Medal in the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble, France.
		In 1998, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and survived due to early detection and successful surgery.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Peggy_Fleming (315 words)

	The Sports Network - Olympics
		participated in the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria and competed in Nordic skiing.
		Now he's headed to the Olympics in Salt Lake City, participating in a sport that has been relatively unheard of in the United States.
		It was at the 1980 Olympics that Jim Jr.
	www.sportsnetwork.com /?c=sportsnetwork&page=olymp/news/BON1877402.htm (958 words)

	Cool Attractions - Olympic History
		As Salt Lake City prepares for the 19th Olympic Winter Games, constructing multi-million dollar venues, landing corporate sponsorships, and adjusting the city's infrastructure to accommodate the temporarily swollen population, all eyes are on the future.
		The Olympics have always reflected the political goings-on in the world, and for this reason, the 1964 games in Innsbruck, Austria were particularly noteworthy.
		Calgary's Olympics in 1988 were well received by both athletes and spectators, however, there were some concerns regarding the facilities, and the choice of competition sites.
	www.saltlakecity.coolattractions.com /history.html (862 words)

	CalendarHome.com - 1964 - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		January 29 - 1964 Winter Olympics open in Innsbruckand concludes on February 9.
		Sanders 376 US 1 1964, the Supreme Court of the United States rules that congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population.
		November 3 - The Bolivian government of President Victor Paz Estenssoro is overthrown by a military rebellion led by General Alfredo Ovando CandÃa, commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /1964.htm (4286 words)

	Innsbruck, Austria, 1964 (from Olympic Games) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		An official poster of the 1964 Winter Olympics held in Innsbruck, Austria.
		Innsbruck became the first Olympic city to hold events throughout the surrounding area, enabling more than one million spectators to watch the contests.
		More results on "Innsbruck, Austria, 1964 (from Olympic Games)" when you join.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-214326 (931 words)

	The Sports Network - Olympics
		He recently won his fourth straight skeleton World Cup in Lake Placid and was regarded as one of the top performers in the sport in the early 1990's before retiring after the 1994 season.
		His last time on the Olympic track in Park City was one year ago when he finished third in a World Cup event.
		competed in the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria and competed in Nordic skiing.
	www.sportsnetwork.com /?c=sportsnetwork&page=olymp/news/BON1912942.htm (709 words)

	USSR at the Winter Olympics - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		At six Winter Olympics USSR was on the first place by total number of gold medals won, at two Winter Olympics it was second by this count.
		USSR officially joined the Olympic Movement in 1951, when The Olympic Committee of the USSR was formed (April 21 1951) and was recognized by the IOC on its 45th session (May 7 1951).
		There the first Winter Olympic gold medal in the history of Soviet sport was won by Lyubov Kozyreva in women's Cross country skiing 10 km race event.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/USSR_at_the_Winter_Olympics (199 words)

	H1910
		1964 Mar 13, In a notorious case, 38 residents of a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens failed to respond to the cries of Kitty Genovese, 28, as she was being stabbed to death.
		1964 Jun 23, Henry Cabot Lodge resigned as the U.S. envoy to Vietnam and was succeeded by Maxwell Taylor.
		1964 J. Cronin and V. Fitch of Princeton Univ. showed that at least one phenomenon in nature -- the decay of a particle called the K0L meson -- was not invariant under the CP (charge conjugation and parity) operation.
	www.eleggua.com /History/1964.html (5810 words)

	1980 Winter Olympics
		The Games of the XIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, United States of America.
		Another candidate city was Vancouver-Garibaldi, Canada; they withdrew before the final vote.
		Hanni Wenzel won the women's giant slalom and slalom, making Liechtenstein the smallest country to produce an Olympic champion.
	www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/1/19/1980_winter_olympics.html (193 words)

	A Battle with MS - The World and I Magazine
		Before the winter sun has crested the mountains and taken the frost off the ground, Jimmie Heuga rolls his shiny blue Cannondale bicycle out in front of his Colorado home.
		For Heuga, forty-four, a skiing legend who won a bronze medal in the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Olympics, cycling is not just a joy; it was a key to regaining his physical and mental health after multiple sclerosis (MS) robbed him of his coordination and confidence in the early 1970s.
		It was in 1967, the year he won the overall World Cup bronze medal for the slalom, that he noticed symptoms that led to his MS diagnosis.
	www.worldandi.com /public/1988/february/lf6.cfm (2266 words)

	2006 Winter Olympics
		The XXth Winter Olympic Games will be held in Turin, Italy from February 10 to 26.
		Turin was chosen as the host of the Olympics in 1999, defeating Sion (Switzerland).
		This was just after the IOC had adopted a new style of voting due to corruption scandals surrounding the votes for the 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/2/20/2006_winter_olympics.shtml (76 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		The inaugural Winter Olympics were a resounding success in the picturesque spa town of Chamonix, France.
		The 1936 Winter Games were held in the twin Bavarian towns of Garmisch and Partenkirchen just three years before the outbreak of the Second World War.
		All eyes were on Innsbruck in 1964 as 1,091 athletes competed in 34 events, covered by a record number of journalists.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/history (1240 words)

	Olympic history - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		With the Tyrolean Alps suffering through its mildest winter in 58 years, Austrian troops are dispatched to truck in 25,000 tons of snow and ice bricks.
		Soviet speedskater Lydia Skoblikova sweeps the women's events to become the first Winter Olympian to win four golds in a single Games.
		The Games are known as the Killymplics, as skier Jean-Claude Killy wins the three men's alpine events — but not with controversy in the slalom.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,50000057,00.html (128 words)

	1964 Olympics
		Japanese wrestling team preparing for 1964 olympics in Tokyo stadium.
		(was in Tokyo Olympics of 1964 and in Mexico City Olympics of 1968, sprinter dedicated her gold medal to expelled Tommie Smith and John Carlos)(Olympic Heroes Then and Now.)
		The Olympics 2004: The Olympic Interview - Bradley Wiggins; The one-track mind which brought home three medals; Not since Mary Rand in 1964 has a Briton risen to such heights at a Games.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0300766.html (500 words)

	TSN.ca - Print Story - Canada's Sports Leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The CBC reported Thursday that the International Ice Hockey Federation has ruled against reversing the 1964 decision that awarded the bronze medal for the world championship to the former Czechoslovakia instead of Canada.
		In 1964, the Olympic hockey tournament was also considered the world championship and the European championship for that year.
		But the CBC reported that minutes from an IIHF meeting held days after the 1964 Olympics finished states that the bronze medals for the Olympics and the world championship were presented to the Czechoslovakian captain, and that Canada was not owed any medals.
	www.tsn.ca /tools/print_story.asp?id=127513 (302 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Winter Olympics 2002 \| Front Page \| Enter the Russians
		When the Soviet Union decided at last to enter the Winter Olympics, they did so with spectacular results.
		She had been a double-gold medalist at Squaw Valley and now she won all four speed skating events, the first person to claim four gold medals at a single Winter Olympics.
		In 1968, the Winter Olympics moved to Grenoble in France and a native athlete stole the show.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/hi/english/front_page/newsid_1630000/1630070.stm (453 words)

	Wikinfo \| 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.
		NHL player were able to compete in men's ice hockey due to a three week suspension of the competition.
		Hermann Maier survived a fall in the downhill and went on to gold in the super-g and giant slalom.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1998_Winter_Olympics (272 words)

	CNNSI.com - 2002 Winter Olympics - Skeleton - Grandfather's death changes Shea's priorities - Tuesday ...
		That all changed when his 91-year-old grandfather, Jack Shea, who was America's oldest living Winter Olympics gold medalist, died last month from injuries in a car accident just a few blocks from his Lake Placid, N.Y., home.
		His grandfather had won two gold medals in speedskating at the 1932 Lake Placid Winter Olympics, and his father competed as a cross-country skier in three events at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.
		That made the Sheas the first family to produce three generations of Winter Olympians and put a permanent smile on his grandfather's face.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/2002/skeleton/news/2002/02/19/shea_ap (938 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)