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	1980 winter olympics - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		The XIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, United States of America.
		Although they didn't get any medals, the People's Republic of China returned to the Olympics Games after the IOC agreed to designate the ROC "Chinese Taipei".
		Their defeat of the Soviet team in the medal round became known as the "Miracle on Ice" in the US press.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/1980-Winter-Olympics (233 words)

	1980 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIII Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, United States of America.
		Although they did not get any medals, the People's Republic of China returned to the Olympics Games after the IOC agreed to designate the ROC "Chinese Taipei".
		1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1980_Winter_Olympics (398 words)

	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.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/2/0/0/2004_Summer_Olympics_330c.html (2001 words)

	1980 Winter Olympics medal count - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is the full table of the medal count of the 1980 Winter Olympics, which were held in Lake Placid, New York, USA.
		These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country.
		1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1980_Winter_Olympics_medal_count (197 words)

	1980 Winter Olympics Summary
		Before the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the United States Olympic hockey team was not expected to compete for a medal.
		Before 1980, the United States formed their Olympic hockey teams hastily and then expected them to compete in the tournament.
		Eric Heiden won all five speed skating races at all distances, a new record for individual gold medals won at a single Olympics.
	www.bookrags.com /1980_Winter_Olympics (1204 words)

	Americans had fruitful Games
		When the U.S. Olympic Committee announced in April 2001 that it expected American athletes to win 20 medals in Salt Lake City, it was denounced for having a severe case of over-optimism.
		For goodness sake, they almost won the medal count, something they hadn't done at the Winter Olympics since 1932, when the Games were in Lake Placid, N.Y. Only Germany, with 35 medals, won more than the United States.
		Most host countries substantially boost their medal count, partially because companies are more likely to sponsor a sport or an athlete when the competition takes place in their own country.
	www.post-gazette.com /olympics/20020225usawins0225p4.asp (1294 words)

	1988 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1988_Summer_Olympics (599 words)

	Winter Olympics 2002 \| Salt Lake City
		Before this year's Olympics, the U.S. record for medals won in a single Winter Olympics was 13.
		Russia's Irina Slutskaya with the silver, Sarah Hughes with the gold and Michelle Kwan with the bronze medal in the figure skating presentation.
		Perhaps it was only fitting, though, that an Olympics born of a bribery scandal found itself mired in another one only days into the games when a French judge was accused of misconduct in scoring the pairs skating final.
	web.knoxnews.com /web/kns/sports/olympics/index.shtml (1406 words)

	Final 2006 Winter Olympic Medal Count (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Here are the final medal counts for the top 5 countries.Germany came in first with 29 total medals while the United States came in second with 25 total medals.
		Although the United States came in second for total medals during the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, it was the most medals the United States ever got in which the Winter Olympics was held on foreign soil.
		The most medals the United States won was in 2002 at Salt Lake City, Utah, in which 34 total medals was won.
	www.du.edu /~xyang3/tablepage.htm (227 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1980 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Games of the XXII Olympiad were held in 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union.
		On March 21, 1980, following the 1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, American president Jimmy Carter announced a boycott of the Moscow Olympics.
		Women's field hockey is Olympic for the first time, but all major nations boycott the tournament.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1980_Summer_Olympics (332 words)

	Kostelic Wins Record Gold; Olympic Valley's Mancuso Ninth - Olympics 2006
		The 24-year-old Croatian became the first woman to win four Olympic Alpine gold medals when she fought off illness and beat her main rival to defend her championship in the combined event.
		Kostelic's five Olympic medals overall -- she also has one silver -- tied her for the most by a woman in Alpine skiing with Swiss great Vreni Schneider and Germany's Katja Seizinger.
		Kostelic is entered in three more medal races these games, though post victory she said she probably would opt out of Sunday's super-G. Kostelic's total time between the downhill and two slalom runs Friday night was 2:51.08, beating Austrian Marlies Schild by a half-second and leaving rival Anja Paerson of Sweden in third.
	www.ktvu.com /olympics2006/7192392/detail.html (632 words)

	c:\olympics.HTM
		According to the story, which is being given renewed currency by the controlled media as the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles draw nearer, Adolf Hitler intended for the 1936 games to prove to the world his "master-race theory" of Aryan superiority.
		The truth of what happened at the 1936 Olympic games was witnessed by 4.5 million spectators from all over the world, and it has been related numerous times since then -- but never by the controlled news media in the United States, which unvaryingly parrot the same, old lie whenever the occasion arises.
		Instead of merely counting medals, I assigned a value of 3 to each gold medal, 2 to each silver and 1 for each bronze.
	www.faem.com /natvan/olympics.htm (1179 words)

	Olympics Timeline: 1950s to the 1980s
		The Olympic torch is lit in the fireplace of skiing pioneer Sondre Norheim, and relayed by 94 skiers to the Games in Oslo.
		Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina wins six medals for the third time in a row; she remains the Olympic athlete with the most medals (18) and the most medals in individual events (14).
		In the overall medal count, the rankings are U.S.S.R. (132), East Germany (102), U.S.A. The IOC votes to disallow unofficial demonstration events at Olympics, starting with the 1996 Games.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/olympicstimeline2.html (2341 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		American-Soviet relations were as chilly as ever at the start of the 1980s when the Winter Olympics returned to this small New York town nestled in the Adirondacks.
		These were the Winter Games that featured the "Miracle on Ice," when the United States won the gold medal in hockey, defeating the highly favoured Soviets, then cruising to the gold by defeating Finland in the final.
		The Americans’ gold medal victory over Finland in the final round remains almost a footnote in hockey history, but it managed to further obscure the historic five-gold performance of U.S. speed skater Eric Heiden.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/history/1980lakeplacid.shtml (1167 words)

	1924 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The 1924 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VIII Olympiad, were held in 1924 in Paris, France.
		Ireland was given formal recognition as an independent nation in the Olympic Movement in Paris in 1924 and it was at these games that Ireland made its first appearance in an Olympic Games as an independent nation.
		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 I Olympic Winter Games.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1924_Summer_Olympics (428 words)

	Americans earn 14 medals at Games
		The worst judging scandal in Winter Olympics history was finally resolved Friday, with Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier declared co-gold medalists with the Russian winners.
		Klug's medal was the 14th earned by the Americans in the first week of competition, one more than its previous Winter Games best set eight years ago in Lillehammer, Norway, and equaled in 1998 in Nagano, Japan.
		Since luge was added to the Winter Olympics in 1964, the Germans have won nine of the 11 doubles gold medals.
	www.phillyburbs.com /olympics/2002/news/0216medals.htm (1208 words)

	Canada at the Olympics
		The Summer and Winter Olympic games were held during the same year up to and including 1992, after which the same-year format was dropped.
		They captured the GOLD medal in the 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932 (they are the only team ever to win 4 Gold medals in 4 successive Games - 1920 to 1932), 1948, 1952, and (exactly 50 years later), won the Gold medal by defeatiing the USA in the 2002 Winter Games.
		The Summer and Winter Paralympic games were held during the same year up to and including 1992, after which the same-year format was dropped.
	members.shaw.ca /kcic1/olympics.html (714 words)

	NBCOlympics.com - Torino Tracker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Olympics are about celebrating life, youth, excellence and the world as a community at peace for 16 days.
		With all the media attention and hype the Olympics gets in America, it's often hard for the athlete to set his or her own expectations and take pleasure in the accomplishment of being an Olympian.
		So, as the race was finishing and it was determined that Julia indeed had won the gold medal, he stripped down in front of everyone.
	www.nbcolympics.com /torinotracker/index.html (8762 words)

	1980 Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Games of the XIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, United States of America.
		An unfancied amateur United States ice hockey team win the gold medal, defeating Finland in the final.
		Their extraordinary upset victory over the heavy favourite Soviet team in the semifinal becomes known as the "Miracle On Ice" in the US press.
	www.knowallabout.com /1/19/1980_winter_olympics.html (170 words)

	ipedia.com: 1998 Winter Olympics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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.
		Alpine skier Hermann Maier (Austria) survived a fall in the downhill and went on to gold in the super-g and giant slalom.
	www.ipedia.com /1998_winter_olympics.html (274 words)

	Fall Ski Training: Improve recovery from a variety of workouts
		Introduced to the Olympics in 1964, the luge is a small one- or two-person sled where the riders lay flat on their backs with feet pointed forward as they speed down a long and winding icy track.
		Even though there won't be Olympic medals for them to pursue in the foreseeable future, American snowshoers still have national titles to chase down.
		I'll have to be content to watch the winter Olympics on television while holding out hope that some day snowshoe racing will be part of the event coverage.
	www.silentsports.net /why_the_winter_olympics_exclud.html (1542 words)

	1968 Summer Olympics Summary
		The 1968 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were held in Mexico City in 1968.
		Dick Fosbury won the gold medal in the high jump using the radical Fosbury flop technique, which quickly became the dominant technique in the event.
		In the 200 m medal award ceremony, two African-American athletes Tommie Smith (gold) and John Carlos (bronze) raised their fl-gloved fists as a symbol of Black Power.
	www.bookrags.com /1968_Summer_Olympics (1108 words)

	Channel4000.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.
		The 1980 U.S. hockey team responsible for the legendary "Miracle on Ice" lit the Olympic cauldron at the Salt Lake City Opening Ceremony Friday night while President Bush ensured "the world is united in Utah." More Details
	www.channel4000.com /olympics/index.html (168 words)

	Ice Hockey: Canada Is Team To Beat - Olympics 2006
		Canada's gold medal in 2002 sparked its resurgence as the dominant force in international ice hockey.
		Overall, ice hockey in the Olympic Games dates back to 1920, when the tournament was part of the Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.
		The last team to win successive Olympic titles was the Soviet Union/Unified Team, which won in 1984, 1988 (as Soviet Union) and 1992 (as Unified Team).
	www.wsbtv.com /olympics2006/6207547/detail.html (1493 words)

	The First Four Olympics (I.S.H.A.)
		The Winter Olympic Games, although provided for in the charter of the International Olympic Committee as founded in 1895, was an orphan child for several reasons.
		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.
	www.skiinghistory.org /OlympicStory.html (9057 words)

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