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	Olympics History - Olympics 2004 News Story - WISC Madison
		The Olympics were abolished in 393 A.D. in the midst of the fall of Ancient Greece.
		In an Olympics where Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Turkey were not invited because of their roles in the war, the Olympics featured over 2,600 athletes from 29 nations.
		The Olympics were suspended for 34 hours and a memorial service was held in the main stadium for the fallen athletes.
	www.channel3000.com /olympics2004/3367180/detail.html (2041 words)

	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)

	CBSNews.com
		Held in conjunction with Olympic Games in Paris, the Chamonix Winter Games were originally known as an "International Winter Sports Week," due to objections by Scandinavian countries that felt a Winter Olympics would detract from their Nordic Games.
		With the first Olympic Winter Games an enormous success, it was no surprise that the St. Moritz Games attracted an 84 percent increase in the number of participants.
		The star of these Olympics was Norwegian Sonja Henie, who as a 15-year-old, won the first of her three Olympic gold medals.
	www.cbsnews.com /htdocs/sports/olympics/olympics_2002_games/timeline.html (1181 words)

	2002 Winter Olympics
		The 2002 Winter Olympic Games were held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
		Prior to these Olympics, a number of I.O.C members were forced to resign after it was uncovered that they had accepted inappropriately valuable gifts in return for voting for Salt Lake City to hold the Games.
		A feature of this Olympics has been the emergence of the so-called "extreme" sports, such as snowboarding, moguls and aerials, which appeared in previous Olympics but have captured greater public attention this year.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/2/20/2002_winter_olympics.shtml (431 words)

	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.
	sportsci.org /news/news9803/olympics.html (1579 words)

	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.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/18/1896_summer_olympics.shtml (886 words)

	Winter Olympics: The Coolest Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The first winter Olympic-level games were held in 1924, but the IOC (International Olympic Committee) did not decide to host a Winter Olympics until their 1925 meeting.
		The figure skater who took the world by storm at the 2002 Winter Olympics and is a favorite to win gold in the 2006 Olympics talks about her childhood and her long training to become a champion.
		Olympic style games for athletes with a disability were organized for the first time in Rome in 1960 and are now called Paralympics.
	www.kidspoint.org /columns2.asp?column_id=1292&column_type=homework (1264 words)

	1976 Summer Olympics - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Olympic Stadium, a daring design of French architect Roger Taillibert, remains a lasting monument to the huge deficit, as it never had an effective retractable roof, and the tower was only completed after the Olympics.
		It has subsequently hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, and was selected to host the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
		Montreal 1976 pointed the way to the future in Olympic security, which was further increased for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/1976_Summer_Olympics (1212 words)

	Winter Olympics: A Tale of Two Countries
		The flood of medals was quickly reduced to a relative trickle in 1956.
		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.
		This approach hurts medal counts but may be good for the collective national health in decades to come.
	www.sportsci.org /news/news9803/olympics.html (1579 words)

	"The Waterbury Connecticut Republican American Newspaper" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In the last four Winter Games, 44 percent of U.S. medals were won in sports not on the program until 1992 or later and in skeleton, which returned to the Games in 2002 after a 54-year absence.
		Of the 71 medals the U.S. won in the last four Winter Games, 31 came in events that were not in the Olympics before 1992 and in skeleton.
		Five of the record 10 gold medals in 2002 came in skeleton and in events that were not in the Winter Olympic before 1998 (snowboarding's halfpipe and women's bobsled).
	www.rep-am.com /story.php?id=2591 (469 words)

	Biathlon: Will The U.S. Finally Earn A Medal? - Olympics 2006
		At least one athlete from either Germany or Norway was involved in every biathlon medal ceremony at the Salt Lake City Games in 2002, and there is no reason to think that can't also be the case in Torino.
		She has more than half of Germany's 14 Olympic medals won in the women's division of biathlon.
		And while Jay Hakkinen's 13th place finish in the pursuit competition at Salt Lake City ranks as the team's best ever placement, the United States Olympic Committee is confident that its athletes have improved enough in the past four years to challenge for a medal in Torino.
	www.thebostonchannel.com /olympics2006/6207737/detail.html (609 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports > Olympics
		I have two, one from an actual Olympics and the other from a living room in Northern California, but both exude the passion that separates this sporting endeavor from all others.
		We were a half-mile from the finish line and the medal podium and all the TV cameras.
		But the essence of the Olympics, the true meaning of the event - it was standing in two feet of snow under a birch tree.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/olympics/20020208-9999-frozen.html (1152 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.
	www.members.shaw.ca /kcic1/olympics.html (714 words)

	2000 Summer Olympics
		The ceremonies concluded with the lighting of the Olympic Flame.
		The first medals of the Games were awarded in the women's air rifle shooting event, which was won by Nancy Johnson of the United States.
		China wins the gold medal in the men's team all-around gymnastics competition, after being the runner-up in the previous two Olympics.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/2/20/2000_summer_olympics.shtml (670 words)

	ipedia.com: 1980 Winter Olympics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		See also: 1980 Winter Paralympics The Games of the XIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, United States of America.
		The Games of the XIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, United States of America.
		Their string of upset victories, and especially the defeat of the Soviet team in the medal round, became known as the "Miracle On Ice" in the US press.
	www.ipedia.com /1980_winter_olympics.html (255 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.
		The Olympic Charter requires such committees to "resist all pressures of any kind whatsoever, whether of a political, religious or economic nature," but theory and practice diverge; the Americans stay home, and many other countries follow suit.
		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 (2337 words)

	USATODAY.com - USA can no longer rest easy at Olympics
		Russia improved to 22 medals from 13 in the 2002 Olympics.
		At the next Winter Olympics, scheduled for Vancouver in 2010, the Canadians also will have the advantage of home snow and ice, an edge that helped the USA nearly triple its previous record Winter Olympic medal haul (13 in the 1994 and '98 Games) in Salt Lake City.
		Canadians already were musing over whether she might be able to help their men's hockey team, which because of an early exit was the only 2006 Olympic disappointment for the winter sports-crazed nation of just more than 32.5 million people, about a ninth of the U.S. population.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/torino/2006-02-26-usa-competition_x.htm (984 words)

	1992 Albertville: Kerrin Lee-Gartner - Cold Gold: Canada's Winter Winners 1984 - 2002 - CBC Archives
		In this CBC profile, Lee-Gartner prepares for the 1992 Albertville Olympics with her husband and former coach Max Gartner.
		At the Calgary Olympics she finished 15th in the downhill, 17th in the giant slalom, 23rd in the super-G and eighth in the combined event.
		In 1994, she was seeded third in the downhill circuit but failed to put together spectacular runs.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-41-1374-8395/sports/olympics_winter_1984_2002/clip2 (777 words)

	Figure Skating: New Scoring System Makes Olympic Debut - Olympics 2006
		Figure skating has been an Olympic sport since the inception of the Winter Games, but this year's program may be the most interesting to follow in light of what happened in 2002.
		A ruling by the International Olympic Committee forced Russian pairs skaters Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze to share the gold medal with the Canadian pairs team of Jamie Sale and David Pelletier after a judging controversy.
		She petitioned the U.S. Olympic Committee for one of the three ladies' spots and will now head to Torino along with 2006 national champion Sasha Cohen and 16-year-old Kimmie Meissner.
	www.local6.com /olympics2006/6599077/detail.html (1619 words)

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		Mancuso's medal was the second for the Americans in Alpine skiing, both gold.
		Anja Paerson, winner of three medals in the Turin Games and the giant slalom favorite, was second to Mancuso after the first run but skied poorly in the second to wind up sixth.
		Mancuso, from Olympic Valley, Calif., won bronze medals in the giant slalom and super-G at last year's world championships and has three top-three finishes on the World Cup circuit this year.
	www.firstcoastnews.com /sports/winterolympics/news-article.aspx?storyid=52538 (661 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: '94 Olympics Achievements Still Burn Bright
		Olympic chieftain Juan Antonio Samaranch said that the Lillehammer Games, which closed with fireworks, were the best ever.
		He had one chance left for glory at Lillehammer and seized it with a scintillating gold medal run for his first Olympic medal in his last Olympic appearance — a gold, of course.
		Her five gold medals and six medals overall are the most of any woman ever.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/history/1994/articles/94-lookback.htm (1721 words)

	Dallas Morning News \| News for Dallas, Texas \| SportsDay: Olympic Sports
		In the last four Winter Games, 44 percent of U.S. medals were won in sports not on the program until 1992 or later and in skeleton, which returned to the Games in 2002 after a 54-year absence.
		Five of the record 10 gold medals in 2002 came in skeleton and in events that were not in the Winter Olympic before 1998 (snowboarding's halfpipe and women's bobsled).
		In consecutive Winter Olympics, a nation's shift from a Games at home to foreign ice and snow historically has meant a 41 percent decrease in medals, according to USOC research.
	www.dallasnews.com /sharedcontent/dws/spt/olympics/stories/020506dnspoolylede.5839992.html (1413 words)

	TWINSTUFF.COM--Olympic Twins
		Both twins won gold medals in relays at the 2001 World Championships (one in the shorter relay, one in the 4x400 relay), and Gabi competed in the 2000 Olympics, also in the relays.
		Repeated that medal count with four more medals in Athens with a gold in the 50M Free (24.58), a silver in the 100M Free (54.12), a bronze in the 100M Butterfly (57.99) and a bronze in the 4x100 Free Relay (3:37.59).
		His medals were later stripped because of a professional baseball contract he had signed in 1909, but the IOC lifted the ban in 1982 and returned his medals to his family.
	www.twinstuff.com /twinolympics.htm (3381 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.thepittsburghchannel.com /olympics2006/6207547/detail.html (1476 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)

	1980 Summer Olympics
		Soviet gymnast Aleksandr Dityatin wins a medal in each of the eight gymnastics events, including three titles.
		Women's field hockey is Olympic for the first time, but all major nations boycott the tournament.
		The team of Zimbabwe is invited just a week before the start of the Games, but it wins the nation's first gold medal.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1980_summer_olympics.shtml (273 words)

	NPR : The Medals Count
		Maybe second-best Winter Olympics ever isn't the stuff of headlines, but it's a stretch to dismiss such a showing as disappointing.
		What is notable about the U.S. medal count is how concentrated it is in two events: snowboarding and speedskating.
		Gold medal snowboarder Shaun White is also a professional skateboarder; several of the top American speedskaters got their start as inline skaters.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5230652&ft=1&f=5197693 (472 words)

	Ice Hockey: Canada Is Team To Beat - Olympics 2006 News Story - WBAL Baltimore
		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.wbaltv.com /olympics2006/6207547/detail.html (1481 words)

	Freestyle Skiing: Bloom In Line For Medal - Olympics 2006
		Freestyle skiing, one of the newest medal events at the Olympic Winter Games, will take place in the village of Sauze d'Oulx, which is located 53 miles west of Torino.
		At Salt Lake, he won a bronze medal in the event, placing behind gold medal winner Ales Valenta of Czech Republic and silver medalist Joe Pack of the U.S. Grichin's countryman Dmitry Dashinski will also vie for a medal this year.
		Pack will try to improve upon his silver medal finish at Salt Lake, as he leads the U.S. aerial squad and returning for a fourth Olympics will be Eric Bergoust, who won gold at the Nagano Games.
	www.thebostonchannel.com /olympics2006/6284665/detail.html (1028 words)

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