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	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		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.
		Rosi Mittermaier won two of the three Alpine skiing events and almost became the first woman to sweep all three events.
		The cauldron of 1964 was lit by Christl Haas (Alpine skiing) and the 1976 flame was ignited by Josef Feistmantl (luge).
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1976 (344 words)

	Winter Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The 1940 Winter Olympics originally been awarded to Japan and were to be held in Sapporo but the voted to take back the Games from because of their involvement in the war China.
		The Olympic Winter Games returned to Lake Placid which had earlier hosted the 1932 The People's Republic of China made its debut at the Winter Because of this the Republic of China (Taiwan) was forced by the IOC compete under the name of Chinese Taipei.
		Figure skating was the first winter sport to included in the Olympics appearing in the of the Summer Olympics in 1908 and The single events for men and women the pairs contest have been on the since 1908 ice dancing was first included in 1976.
	www.freeglossary.com /Winter_Olympics (4953 words)

	KIAT.NET - Olympic Winter Games Alpine Skiing
		From Norway, skiing spread throughout Scandinavia and Russia as a mode of winter transportation and eventually as a sport similar to cross-country skiing.
		The first alpine skiing competition, a primitive downhill, was held in the 1850s in Oslo.
		Alpine skiing became part of the Olympic program at the 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Games with a men's and women's combined event, featuring a downhill and two slalom runs.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/sports/winter/alpineskiing.html (652 words)

	Winter Olympics Memorable Moments: Franz Klammer
		If there's one moment, however, that defines Klammer's career, it is his spectacular, gold-medal-winning run at the 1976 Olympics in his own backyard at Innsbruck.
		He was (and still is) immensely popular in his native Austria, as evidenced by the 60,000-plus screaming fans that lined the course that day to cheer on their hero.
		Switzerland's Bernhard Russi, the defending Olympic downhill champion and the third skier of the day, skied flawlessly, grabbing the early lead with a time of 1:46.06.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/winter-olympics-klammer.html (346 words)

	GBROLYMPICS.COM / LONDON-OLYMPICS.COM - Olympic Games Medallists
		The modern Olympics were first held in 1896.
		Nevertheless all those competitions reported, at one time or another, as Olympic medal events have been included here for the record, with those no longer regarded as official footnoted.
		The Winter Olympics were first held in 1924.
	www.london-olympics.com /olympic (336 words)

	NBCOlympics.com - Alpine Skiing - Aamodt first to repeat as super-G champ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Maier, who was Olympic champion in super-G and giant slalom in 1998 but missed the 2002 Games after a serious motorcycle accident, said it was only in the lower part of the course that he had speeded up.
		He already was the all-time Olympic Alpine medal winner, and he became the first skier -- man or woman -- to successfully defend the super-G, which was first included in the Winter Games at Calgary in 1988.
		The race was restarted under sunny skies after an initial attempt in the morning was abandoned because the first racers down had trouble skiing through snow and fog.
	www.nbcolympics.com /alpine/5115743/detail.html?qs=;rss=oly;psp=alpine (761 words)

	The First Four Olympics (I.S.H.A.)
		As it happened, the foremost ski countries, the Scandinavian nations of Finland, Sweden and Norway, had their own ideas about the way in which international ski events ought to be contested, that is, in an atmosphere of purity and amateurism free from commercial taint.
		Alpine was a brand new sport in the U.S. Two of the U.S. team members would later come to national fame not only for having been on the first U.S. alpine team but for lifelong involvement with the sport.
		A second American woman, Clarita Heath, had learned to ski only a year before the Olympics on a ski vacation with her mother at Kitzbühel, and was such a natural she became good enough to enter regional races in the Tyrol.
	www.skiinghistory.org /OlympicStory.html (9057 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)

	Alpine skiing - Torino 2006 Winter Olympic Games
		Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics will be held in the town of Sestriere, Italy from February 13 to February 24.
		Various alpine skiing competitions have developed in the history of skiing, and elite competitive skiers participate in the annual World Cup series, as well as the Winter Olympic Games.
		Alpine or downhill skiing has become a highly technical sport, also for non-professional skiers, and techniques have evolved greatly.
	www.italyworldclub.com /piemonte/turin_2006/sport_alpine_skiing.htm (367 words)

	Alpine Skiing
		Strobl's victory was the sixth in the men's Olympic downhill for Austria, which had previously gained the title with Sailer (1956), Egon Zimmerman (1964), Franz Klammer (1976), Leonhard Stock (1980) and Patrick Ortlieb (1992).
		Aamodt became the winningest alpine racer in Olympic history by holding off Miller in the combined, which for the first time in Olympic history was staged as a three-run event on one day.
		Aamodt pushed his Olympic medal total to seven by surprising Eberharter in the super-G. Aamodt was standing at the bottom of the hill as Eberharter posted faster fractions at every intermediate timing station.
	www.utaholympicpark.com /uop/about_olympics_revisited_alpine.asp (1148 words)

	winter olympics magazine article learnenglish
		At Grenoble in 1968, Brundage had demanded that all trademarks be removed from competitors' skis, but settled for having the offensive skis taken away from medal winners before they could be photographed.
		This was not the first time that the issue of professionalism had caused controversy Winter Olympics alpine skiing.
		In 1976 the Soviet ice hockey team won its fourth consecutive gold medal in Olympic Winter competition.
	www.learnenglish.org.uk /magazine/winter_olympics.html (1205 words)

	Cross-Country Skiing: Norway, Italy Likely To Dominate - Olympics 2006 - TheBostonChannel.com \| WCVB
		Like all skiing disciplines, cross country has its origins in Norway, where there is evidence that skis were used primitively more than 5,000 years ago and where in the 1800s the first ski competitions were held.
		U.S. The United States has won only one Olympic medal in cross country skiing -- William Koch's bronze in the 30km mass start at the 1976 Innsbruck Games -- but the United States Olympic Committee believes that its team is the strongest it has been in years.
		Canadian Becky Scott is one of the best cross country skiers in the world and has won her country's only Olympic medal ever in the sport, a gold in women's pursuit at the 2002 Games.
	www.thebostonchannel.com /olympics2006/6207732/detail.html (546 words)

	Australian Olympic Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Olympic flame was lit for the first time at the 1952 Olympic Winter Games.
		His winning margins in the 5000m and the 10,000m were the largest in Olympic history.
		In alpine skiing, the combined event was dropped and replaced by the giant slalom.
	www.olympics.com.au /games.cfm?GamesID=74 (439 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)

	2006 Olympics Trivia Games
		There are fifteen displines in all at the Winter Games, most of them traditional like Alpine Skiing, Biathlon, Bobsled, Cross-country Skiing, Curling, Ice Hockey and Figure Skating, and some of them relatively new to the games, like the hyperactive and very exciting Snowboard and Freestyle Skiing competitions.
		With 900,000 inhabitants, Turin (Torino) is located in the northwest Piedmont and usually welcomes nearly 3 million visitors a year to the city most famous for the Shroud of Turin.
		The Olympic torch for the 2006 Winter Games in Turin was lit November 27, 2005 at the Temple of Hera in Ancient Olympia.
	www.chiff.com /a/winter-olympics-trivia.htm (483 words)

	Australian Olympic Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		According to Klammer, the best moment of his Olympic triumph “was when Bernhard came running up to me and gave me a big hug.
		Two cauldrons were lit as a symbol of Winter Games being held twice in Innsbruck.
		The cauldron of 1964 was lit by Christl Haas (Alpine skiing) and the 1976 flame was ignited by Josef Feistmantl (luge).
	www.olympics.com.au /games.cfm?GamesID=455 (466 words)

	2002 Winter Olympics - Winter Olympics History
		Salt Lake City is named host city of the Olympic Winter Games of 2002 at the 104th IOC Session in Budapest, Hungary in the first ballot vote.
		The first Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix, France were held in conjunction with the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris.
		From 1928, the Olympic Winter Games were held every four years in the same calendar year as the Olympic Games.
	www.utah.com /olympics/history.htm (941 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Winter Olympics 2002 \| Alpine Skiing
		Olympic skiing bronze medallist Alain Baxter fails a drugs test at Salt Lake City - but he insists he is innocent.
		BBC Sport's skiing expert Martin Bell explains how alpine skier Janica Kostelic's record success was due to confidence.
		Picabo Street announces her retirement from competitive skiing having finished 16th in the women's Olympic downhill.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/hi/english/alpine_skiing/default.stm (576 words)

	Ski Jumping - Winter Olympics - Sports - The New York Times
		Decades before extreme sports like freestyle skiing and skeleton were even invented, ski jumping was the most perilous sport in the Winter Games.
		The winning team, which in the 2002 Olympics was Germany, has the highest total score.
		In his fourth Olympics, Ahonen, a shy stick figure at 6-foot-1 and 143 pounds, hopes to win his first individual medal.
	topics.nytimes.com /top/news/sports/olympics2006/skijumping (360 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936
		The IV Olympic Winter Games saw the introduction of alpine skiing (6th sport).
		The sole alpine event was combined alpine and downhill event for men and women, won by Germans Franz Pfnur and Christl Cranz.
		Due to the exclusion of women's speed skating from the Olympics, she chose to instead compete in the combined downhill, which she won.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w04garmisch.html (362 words)

	Skiing too fast, former Olympic champ says - Alpine skiing - MSNBC.com
		Tomba was the first skier to win medals at three Winter Olympics, and Italy has struggled to produce a genuine winter sports star since he retired in 1998.
		Tomba said that new local ski stars “are coming,” mentioning Giorgio Rocca, winner of the World Cup season’s first slalom race Sunday.
		As usual, Austrians will be among the favorites in skiing at the Turin Games.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/10385209 (423 words)

	1976 Olympics — Infoplease.com
		The IOC originally gave the 1976 Winter Games to Denver, but in 1972 Colorado voters rejected a $5 million bond issue to finance the undertaking.
		For the second straight Winter Carnival the USSR and East Germany finished 1–2 in overall medals.
		The Barcelona Olympics and the perception of foreign nations: a panel study of Japanese university students.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0300769.html (388 words)

	About the Program
		The members of the Middlebury College ski team compete in four disciplines: men’s and women’s alpine and men’s and women’s nordic.
		Using nearby ski areas for variety, the alpine team does the majority of its training at the Middlebury College Snow Bowl, and the nordic team trains at the Carroll and Jane Rikert Ski Touring Center at the Bread Loaf campus.
		The third-oldest ski area in Vermont, the Middlebury College Snow Bowl has hosted college winter sports competition for nearly 70 years, and more recently has become, with the Rikert Touring Center, the permanent host of the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association championships each winter, during the Middlebury Winter Carnival.
	www.middlebury.edu /athletics/sports/coed/skiing/about (1009 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES
		We advise you to fill in as many fields as possible for the best multi-criteria search results.
		For example, to find out the list of all gold medallists in alpine skiing - downhill, select skiing for the sport, then alpine skiing for the discipline, then downhill for the event.
		The Olympic medal winner database is compiled using data taken from official publications containing Olympic results produced by the Organising Committees at the end of each edition of the Games.
	www.olympic.org /uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp (118 words)

	2002 Winter Olympics - Paralympics
		The Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter Games of 2002 (SLOC) was the first Organizing Committee to completely integrate the organization of both the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
		The first Paralympic Winter Games were held in Ornskoldsvik, Sweden in 1976.
		Two non-competition venues were located in Salt Lake on the University of Utah campus: Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, and the Paralympic Winter Village for athlete and official housing.
	www.utah.com /olympics/paralympics.htm (448 words)

	CANOE - 2006 GAMES TURIN ITALY - News
		Starting tomorrow, Williams will be in his familiar prime-time anchor position, regaling viewers with the news of the day, Olympic anecdotes past and present, lively interviews and, of course, those constant reminders about the time.
		Turin is Williams' sixth Winter Olympics, No. 12 overall.
		For the record, he won't speculate on his future involvement with the Olympics or look upon Turin as some sort of swan song, saying only there's another Games to cover in 2008 in Beijing.
	slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Olympics/2006Turin/News/2006/02/10/1435643-sun.html (965 words)

	WINTER OLYMPIC STATISTICS
		Alpine skiing downhill women) and for each sport and olympic (e.g.
		The ranking is performed neither according to gold medal nor medal total but according to points (3 points for a gold, 2 for a silver and 1 for a bronze).
		It includes all Olympic results from Chamonix 1924 to Salt Lake City 2002.
	www.darmoni.net /johiver.htm (91 words)

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