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Topic: Alpine Skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Skiing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ski routes are referred to as 'runs,' 'trails,' or 'slopes.' Off-piste riding, also known as "back-country skiing", includes unmarked areas within the ski resort's boundaries, frequently amongst trees ("glade skiing"), or usually in pursuit of fresh fallen snow, known as powder.
		Skiing or snowboarding beyond the ski resort's boundaries remains a misdemeanor in some western states, due to the danger of avalanches on the un-patrolled areas; or the cost of search-and-rescue for lost or overdue skiers.
		Ski troops played a key role in retaining Finnish independence from Russia during the Winter War, and from Germany during the Lapland War, although the use of ski troops was recorded by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus in the 13th century.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Skiing (1578 words)

	Winter Olympics - MSN Encarta
		Alpine skiing, for men and women, has been part of the Olympic programme since 1948: the events are the downhill, the slalom, the giant slalom (since 1952), the super giant slalom or super-G (since 1988), and the combined event (downhill and slalom), which has been staged intermittently since 1936.
		Nordic skiing is the term that covers cross-country skiing, ski jumping, and nordic combined (cross-country skiing and ski-jumping events combined).
		Freestyle skiing (introduced in 1992), comprises ballet, aerial, and mogul events of which aerials and moguls (or snow bumps) are Olympic disciplines for both men and women.
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	Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With the death of General Zia in a plane crash in 1988, Benazir Bhutto, daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was elected as the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan.
		The climate varies as much as the scenery, with cold winters and hot summers in the north and a mild climate in the south, moderated by the influence of the ocean.
		The forests range from coniferous alpine and subalpine trees such as spruce, pine, and deodar cedar in the northern mountains to deciduous trees such as the mulberry-type Shisham in the Sulaiman range in the south.
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	Winter Olympics: Alpine Skiing
		Before it was a sport, skiing was an important means of transportation.
		The exact origin of skiing is unclear, but there is evidence that Scandinavians were using skis to travel and hunt over snow-covered terrain as far back as 4,000 years ago.
		Alpine skiing made its Olympic debut at the 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Games with a men's and women's combined event, featuring a downhill and two slalom runs.
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	Garfield Winter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In ski jumping, Wojciech Fortuna from Poland won his country first gold medal, while the host nation performed a clean sweep of the other ski jumping event, also winning its first Olympic winter gold.
		Winter Olympics On a historical note, the 1972 Games were the last Olympic Winter Games where a skier would win the gold medal using all-wooden skis.
		Winter Wedding As a consequence, the Soviet Union was expelled from the League of Nations on December 14th.
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	PowerinMuscles.com - The nutrition resource for coaches, athletes and trainers in all sports. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He was a U.S. Olympic Team Assistant Coach in 1976 and was the Head Coach of the 1979 World Cup team.
		Between 1988 and 2002 he served as director of coaches education for the U.S. Ski Team.
		He is coauthor of the book High-Performance Skiing and editor of The American Ski Coach, the official journal of the U.S. Ski Coaches Association.
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	Winter Olympics Memorable Moments
		The legends and foibles of the Winter Olympics
		The Winter Games were held in Italy once before.
		What the was first year that female athletes could compete in events other than figure skating at a Winter Olympics?
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	Marathon & Beyond -- The web site for marathoners and ultrarunners.
		I skied a bunch of times when I was a kid, but dropped the sport because I didn't want to break a leg, and I couldn't afford it.
		During its six-year run, the race was held on several courses in and around Newport, with portions in Middleton and a bit of Portsmouth, before moving to a point-to-point, Warwick-to-Providence route in 1992.
		Peter Pfitzinger, 1984 and 1988 Olympic marathoner, wrote in a recent Running Times column: "One thing I would have done differently in my career would be not training through injuries.
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