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	2002 Olympic Winter Games
		These are the 1988 winter Olympic Games held in Calgary, Canada and the 1996 summer Olympic Games held in Atlanta, Georgia.
		The Atlanta Summer Games was chosen because it was the last Olympic Games held in the United States.
		The Olympics appear to have helped sustain and diversify economic activity during this energy bust, but the impacts were not enough to significantly alter macroeconomic indicators.
	www.governor.state.ut.us /dea/publications/oly/IV.htm (3375 words)

	Winter Olympic Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 Japan had to give the Games back in 1938, because of the Japanese invasion of China in the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945).
		In 1952, the Winter Games came to Norway, considered to be the birthplace of modern skiing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winter_Olympics (5575 words)

	1988 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The games have left a lasting impression on the host city and gave it a new identity from a cowtown to a large commercial sector of the country.
		The 1988 Games were the last games where the Paralympics were not also held in the same city.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1988_Winter_Olympic_Games (645 words)

	1960 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The VIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1960 in Squaw Valley, California, USA.
		This Winter Olympics introduced Disney artist John Hench's Olympic torch design, which all further torches would be based on.
		The Olympic flame was lit in the cottage of Sondre Norheim in Morgedal, Norway, and was brought to Los Angeles by plane from Oslo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1960_Winter_Olympics (310 words)

	The Voice of Russia ( Olympic games 2002 )
		The 16th winter games in Alberville, France in 1992 was attended by 1804 athletes from 65 countries vying for 57 complex of medals.
		The games in Alberville were swelled by 15 new events and debuting were the women 3 by 7,5 kilometre biathlon relay, the 7,5 and 15 kilometre races, the women 30 kilometre ski pursuit race instead of the 20 kilometre distance.
		The games in Lillehammer were the first in which sportsmen and women from the former Soviet Union competed under their own flag and of course Russia had the largest contingent and as a result won more gold medals.
	www.vor.ru /Olymp/history_eng.html (6445 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Calgary 1988
		Olympic Alpine skiing added a men's and women's super-giant slalom, and re-introduced a men's and women's Alpine combined, after a 36-year hiatus.
		Jamaica made its Winter Olympic debut with a four-man bobsled team and, although it was not foreseen, Soviet athletes would be competing under the hammer and sickle for the last time.
		In the bobsled, the stories were not those of the eventual winners, the Soviets in the two-man and the Swiss in the four-man, but rather of the Jamaicans having a bobsled team at all and of Prince Albert of Monaco competing.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w15calgary.html (518 words)

	Slovene Winter Olympic Medals
		Slovenes have been among the competitors at the Winter Olympic Games from their very beginning in 1924 when there were two cross-country skiers from Slovenia on the four-man team that Yugoslavia sent to Chamonix.
		The greatest number of winter athletes from Slovenia (52) competed at the Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo in 1984, and there were many sport professionals from Slovenia among the organisers.
		Twenty-five Slovenes competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics, twenty-two in 1994, and thirty-four in 1998.
	www.uvi.si /eng/calendar/events/winter-olympic-games/winter-sports/medals (284 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 2004 Athens
		Greece was the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games over 2,000 years ago and Athens was the host of the first modern-day Olympic Games in 1896.
		Labour disruptions from hotel workers and paramedics would keep officials on their toes in the weeks before the Games, as would the rounding up of thousands of dogs that roamed the streets of Athens (Animal rights officials were assured no harm was done to the homeless pooches).
		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.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics (2135 words)

	Bobsleigh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bobsleigh is a winter sport in which teams make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked purpose-built iced tracks in a gravity-powered, steerable sled.
		Initially just a four-crew event for men, the two-crew sled was added in 1932 and women's bobsled made its Olympic debut at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.
		As of 2005 bobsleigh is split into men's and women's events, women compete in two-crew and the men in both two- and four-crew competition.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bobsleigh (609 words)

	Olympics - EnchantedLearning.com
		The Games of the XXVIII Olympiad are being held in Athens, Greece.
		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.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /olympics (1145 words)

	Winter Olympic Games - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Winter Olympic Games are the cold-weather counterpart to the Summer Olympic Games.
		The First Olympic Winter Games were inaugurated on January 25, 1924 in Chamonix, France, although at the time they were not yet called Olympic Winter Games.
		Since 1994, the Winter Games are no longer held in the same year as the Games of the Olympiad (or Summer Olympics).
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Olympic_Winter_Games (316 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.
		These games were plagued with a lack of snow, so in a panic, the Austrian army carved 20,000 blocks of ice from a mountaintop and rushed them to the luge and bobsled runs.
	www.saltlakecity.coolattractions.com /history.html (862 words)

	The Winter Olympic Games
		Because of Australian quarantine laws, the equestrian events were held in Stockholm, Sweden.
		1992 was the last year that both the summer games and the winter games were held in the same year.
		After 1992, the summer and winter games are staggered 2 years apart.
	www.janecky.com /olympics/wintergames (76 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		For the first time, the Winter Olympics were extended to 16 days, including three weekends.
		Seven months later she earned a silver medal in cycling to become the only athlete ever to win medals in the Winter and Summer Olympics in the same year.
		Official opening of the Games by: Her Excellency, the Right Honourable Jeanne Sauvé, Governor General of Canada, declares the XV Olympic Winter Games open.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1988 (272 words)

	Olympic Winter Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Olympic committee of Bosnia is scheduled to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 1984 Olympic Winter Games to day in Sarajevo.
		One group, the No Games 2010 Coalition in Vancouver, vowed to be the "watchdog" of the committee, making sure that not too much money would be spent on the games, and stating they would be on the watch for corruption.
		The No 2010 Games Coalition stated that their monitoring will make the games even better, but were saddened because, "the Games do not serve the best interests of all the people of British Columbia.
	www.internationalgames.net /olympicwtr.htm (476 words)

	Section 4 - Economic Impact of the Winter Olympic & Paralympic Games (Jan 2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		From 1924 to the Albertville Games in 1992, the summer and winter Olympics were held in the same Olympic year.
		For the purposes of this study we have assumed the impact of the Games publicity on an expanded Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre (VCEC) would raise the average annual delegate growth rate under the aggressive growth scenario from 4% in the absence of the Games to 7% with the Games.
		The incremental economic impact of the VCEC expansion, with and without the Games, is summarised with the Games impacts at the end of this paper.
	www.mcaws.gov.bc.ca /2010/4value.htm (1496 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Nagano 1998
		The country's raw enthusiasm for the games persisted despite a pummeling of snow, rain and more snow and finally even an earthquake which delayed several of the games alpine events.
		Perhaps the defining event of these games, the strange meteorology of the past two weeks bedeviled organizers and beleaguered athletes, forcing cancellations, reschedulings and general befuddlement all around.
		''We hope that the observance of the Olympic Truce during the Nagano Olympic Winter Games has served the purpose of searching for peaceful and diplomatic solutions to the conflicts we are facing today,'' he said.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w18nagano.html (967 words)

	SignOnSanDiego > News > Science -- UCLA drug-testing laboratory gears up for Winter Olympic Games
		Some 35 of the UCLA Olympic Analytical Laboratory's employees – a group as international as the athletes it tests – will travel to Salt Lake City to begin work Jan. 29 adjacent to the Olympic Village.
		And U.S. Olympic bobsledder John Kasper was suspended from the sport for two years after testing positive for the anabolic steroid methandienone in March.
		In the 2000 Summer Games, some EPO testing was done, but the results were not publicized because of concern over their accuracy.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/science/20011106-0002-oly-drugtesting.html (774 words)

	King of Calgary
		After 23 years of trying, Canada finally won a (Winter Olympics) bid," King fondly recalled of the day that spawned the highly successful 1988 Calgary Winter Olympic Games.
		King was alluding to the fact it was the Booster Club that helped kick-start the Olympic movement in 1978, when the organization appointed a committee headed by King and Bob Niven to study the possibility of obtaining the 1988 Olympic Games.
		Olympic speed skating gold medallist Catriona Le May Doan and Flames forward Jarome Iginla will also be honoured as Calgary's female and male athletes of the year.
	www.canoe.ca /Slam030213/oth_oly-sun.html (609 words)

	FS: 1988 Olympic "Winter Games" 5-Pin Set with Velvet Case
		Each pin measures 1" x 1", is gold and features the following Pins from the 1988 Winter Olympic Games from Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
		On the under portion of the lid's case it states in gold block lettering "XV OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES".
		The 1988 Olympic Winter Games 5-Pin Set with Velvet Custom Case is in MINT condition.
	talkaboutcollecting.com /group/rec.collecting.pins/messages/7620.html (189 words)

	OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT
		Simplified voting process for the Olympic programme The process of the choice of sports to be on the Olympic programme will be simplified in future following a decision taken today by the 119th IOC Session in Guatemala City, upon...
		The city of Sochi has been elected as the host city for the XXII Olympic Winter Games in 2014.
		6 July 2005 at the 117th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), held in Singapore (Singapore), the city of London (Great Britain) was elected as the host of the Games of the XXX Olympiad.
	www.olympic.org /uk/index_uk.asp (214 words)

	2010 Winter Olympic Games & Paralympics Vancouver, B.C., Canada Information & News
		The Organising Committee for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver is known as VANOC and is hard at work preparing all aspects of the forthcoming games, including pulling out all stops to try and ensure that Canadian athletes are given the support they need to try and come top of the medals board.
		The reason there were only 2 years between the Winter Olympics in Albertville and Lillehammer was that it was at this point that it was decided that, rather than hold the Summer and Winter Olympic Games in the same year, they would be held two years apart; each games still being held every four years.
		There will be two Olympic Villages, one at Whistler to house the athletes involved in Winter Olympic Events there and another at Vancouver itself for the rest of the competitiors and their organisers, coaches etc.
	www.olympicgames-news.com /vancouver.html (382 words)

	SKI NAKISKA in Kananaskis Country - Groomed to Perfection \|:::.. Mountain Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The 1988 Winter Olympic Games XV marked Canada's debut as the host of this prestigious international event.
		Heralded at the time as the most successful games ever, Canadians and, more specifically Albertans, were eager to show-off their winter paradise to the world.
		Close to 40 years later Mount Allan was chosen as the site for the Olympic Alpine events and in 1986 construction began on what is now known as Nakiska.
	www.skinakiska.com /mountain_info/1988.asp (224 words)

	1948 Winter Olympics : 1948 Winter Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The 1948 Winter Olympic Games were held in St.
		These Games were the first in twelve years, as none were held during World War II.
		Every morning he was down in the library, and go forth.
	www.termsdefined.net /19/1948-winter-olympic-games.html (112 words)

	The Winter Olympics
		Organizers of the 1916 Summer Games in Berlin planned to introduce a “Skiing Olympia,” featuring nordic events in the Black Forest, but the Games were cancelled after the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
		Despite the objections of Modern Olympics' founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin and the resistance of the Scandinavian countries, which had staged their own Nordic championships every four or five years from 1901-26 in Sweden, the International Olympic Committee sanctioned an “International Winter Sports Week” at Chamonix, France, in 1924.
		The event ended the four-year Olympic cycle of staging both Winter and Summer Games in the same year and began a new schedule that calls for the two Games to alternate every two years.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0115111.html (556 words)

	Canmore during the 1988 Winter Olympic Games - Canmore Banff - Brad Hawker
		Canmore during the 1988 Winter Olympic Games - Canmore Banff - Brad Hawker
		The world was first introduced to Canmore during the 1988 Winter Olympic Games when Europeans laid claim to most of the medals in the various Nordic ski events.
		A year after the Olympic athletes had left town, Destination Resorts purchased the land and mineral rights, and two years later it had been annexed into the town.
	www.bradhawker.com /canmore_banff_real_estate_news_DevelopmentLand.htm (683 words)

	Vancouver 2010 Winter olympic Games Bid
		In 1974 Whistler was again considered as a candidate for the 1980 Olympic Winter Games.
		Vancouver’s bid budget is $34 million, organizers say the Games (including the Paralympic Games) would draw 6,000 athletes and officials, 10,000 media representatives and 35,000 overnight visitors to Vancouver and Whistler.
		During the proposed Winter Games period, the weather at the outdoor competition venues has a strong record of excellent conditions to allow for peak performances by athletes and comfort and safety for spectators.
	www.gamesbids.com /english/bids/vancouver.shtml (1591 words)

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