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  1896 Summer Olympics
These were the first celebration of the Olympic Games since the recreation of the ancient Greek Olympics with the founding of the International Olympic Committee in 1894.
This is remarkable, as the Olympics did not, for a long time, allow professional athletes to compete, with the sole exception of fencing.
The weightlifting contests are also conducted in the Olympic stadium, with Launceston Elliot of Great Britain and Viggo Jensen of Denmark taking a first and a second place each in the single-hand and double-hand contests.
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  Encyclopedia: Winter Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A winter sports week with speed skating, figure skating, ice hockey and Nordic skiing was planned, but the 1916 Olympics were cancelled after the outbreak of World War I.
The 1940 Winter Olympics had originally been awarded to Japan, and were supposed to be held in Sapporo, but Japan had to give the Games back in 1938, because of the Japanese invasion of China in the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945).
See also: 1968 Winter Paralympics The X Olympic Winter Games were held in 1968 France and opened on Norway won the most medals, the first time a country other than the Soviet Union had done so since the Soviet Union first entered the Winter Games in 1956.
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 1984 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The XIV Olympic Winter Games were held in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
Skier Jure Franko won Yugoslavia's first Winter Olympic medal; a silver in the giant slalom.
GaƩtan 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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 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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 Encyclopedia: 1984-Winter-Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: )
At the 1984 Winter Olympics held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, one Ice Hockey event was held: mens Ice Hockey.
The 1996 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and informally known as the Centennial Olympics, were held in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, will be held in Beijing in the Peoples Republic of China from August 8, 2008 to August 24, 2008, with the opening ceremony to take place at 8 p.
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 1994 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 were not held in the same year as the Games of the Olympiad.
The Olympic flame was brought into the stadium by a ski jumper.
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 2006 Winter Olympics » Ice Hockey
The bronze medal round pits the USA (who was expected to be fighting it out with Canada for a medal of a different color) against Finland.
Women’s ice hockey is a relatively new Olympic sport, but it has really caught on in the United States, where girls and young women have played on boys’ teams for quite some time.
Olympic veterans Jenny Potter, Katie King, Tricia Dunn-Luoma and Angela Ruggiero were selected Tuesday for the U.S. women’s hockey team that will compete at the Turin Games.
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 Winter Olympics: A Tale of Two Countries
It was the most dismal Olympics on record from a Norwegian point of view with not a single gold medal and a meager 5 medals in all.
Many of Norway's winter sports heroes are developed in small, isolated towns where being outside and active forms a good starting point for the development of future skiers, ski jumpers and speed skaters.
A third downside of the Norwegian Olympic success may well be that it promotes the frightening trend that Norway is becoming a population of spectators, cheering on the chosen few.
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 CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 2004 Athens
As the first Summer Olympics since the attacks of Sept. 11,2001, the safety of the athletes, spectators and Greek population were of utmost priority.
One of his bronze medals came in the historic 200-metre freestyle, where the four fastest men in history competed for the gold.
After winning five medals at the 2003 world aquatic championships, Phelps was seen as the man to beat in Greece, even with such stars as Ian Thorpe of Australia and Pieter van den Hoogenband swimming alongside him.
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 1984 Winter Olympics -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The XIV Olympic Winter Games were held in 1984 in (Capital and largest city of Bosnia; scene of the assassination of Francis Ferdinand in 1914 which precipitated World War I) Sarajevo, (A mountainous republic in southeastern Europe) Yugoslavia.
The first Winter Games held in a (A socialist who advocates communism) Communist country.
Skier (additional info and facts about Jure Franko) Jure Franko won Yugoslavia's first Winter Olympic medal; a silver in the (additional info and facts about giant slalom) giant slalom.
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 1984 Winter Olympics: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about 1984 Winter Olympics
The Games of the XIV Winter Olympiad were held in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
The first Winter Games held in a Socialist country.
Skier Jure Franko[?] won Yugoslavia's first Winter Olympics medal; a silver in the giant slalom.
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 1984 winter olympics Information   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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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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 Timeline 1984
1984 Mar 16, William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, was kidnapped by gunmen; he died in captivity.
1984 Apr 17, Yvonne Fletcher, a British police officer, was killed from rifle shots fired from a window of the Libyan embassy in London during a demonstration against Moammar Khadafy.
1984 A commission of the Roman Catholic Church, appointed by Pope John Paul II in 1980, concluded that the Inquisition was in error in its 1632 condemnation of Galileo‘s support of the Copernican Theory of the solar system.
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 usnews.com - Winter Olympics 2002 - Sport-By-Sport Guide
Cohen, whose coach admits she is talented but quite a handful in practice, skated a bit too close to Kwan during warm-ups for the U.S. national finals.
But don't count out a familiar–and older–face, newly crowned national champion Todd Eldredge, who has a host of titles but no Olympic medal.
After two Olympics without a medal, perhaps three will be his lucky number.
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 ipedia.com: 1924 Winter Olympics Article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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.
www.ipedia.com /1924_winter_olympics.html   (174 words)

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