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	Encyclopedia: Winter Olympics
		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).
		Biathlon was first included in 1960, although the very similar military patrol was contested in 1924.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Winter-Olympics (10725 words)

	Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A winter sports week with speed skating, figure skating, ice hockey and nordicskiing was planned, but the 1916 Olympics were cancelled after the outbreak of World War I.
		The 1940 Winter Olympics hadoriginally been awarded to Japan, and were supposed to be held in Sapporo, but the IOC voted to take back the Games from Japanbecause of their involvement in the war in China.
		Winter pentathlon, a variant to the modern pentathlon, was included as a demonstration event in 1948.
	www.therfcc.org /winter-olympics-64138.html (4893 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		The winter Olympics were begun in 1924 and were held in the same year as the summer games until the 1994 winter games in Lillehammer, Norway, when the alternating cycles began.
		A total of eight sports were included in the winter Olympics in 1998: biathlon (cross-country skiing and rifle marksmanship), bobsled, curling (for the first time), ice hockey (which included women’s hockey for the first time), luge (toboggan), figure skating, speed skating, and skiing (which, for the first time, included snowboarding as a medal sport).
		The Olympic games are competitions of individual athletes, not of nations, and the IOC does not keep national scores; however, the media of all nations report national standings according to one of two scoring systems.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/sports/olympics.html (1093 words)

	wiki/1928 Winter Olympics Definition / wiki/1928 Winter Olympics Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The II Olympic Winter Games were held in 1928 in Sankt-Moritz, SwitzerlandThe Swiss Confederation or Switzerland is a landlocked federal state in Europe, with neighbours Germany, France, Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein.
		Olympic victory is generally considered to be the most prestigious achievement in sports.
		All preceding Winter Events of the Olympic Games were the winter sports part of the schedule of the Summer Games, and not as a separate Winter Games.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/1928_Winter_Olympics (3023 words)

	Winter Olympic Games biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The 1940 Winter Olympics had originally been awarded to Japan, and were supposed to be held in Sapporo, but the IOC voted to take back the Games from Japan because of their involvement in the war in China.
		The same was true for the 1944 Winter Olympics, scheduled to take place in Cortina d'Ampezzo.
		At the time the Olympics were awarded to Squaw Valley, near Lake Tahoe in California, it could hardly be called a town.
	winter-olympics.biography.ms (5263 words)

	1972 — Sapporo, Japan - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		Sapporo had been awarded the 1940 Winter Olympics; however, two years before the scheduled start, Japan was at war with China and was forced to withdraw.
		Once boasting Olympic ice hockey’s dynasty during the early era of the Winter Olympics, Canada pulls out of the hockey tournament in protest.
		The medal sweep serves as the first time in Winter Olympic history that all three medals in an event are won by athletes from a non-European country.
	www.deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,8,00.html (383 words)

	HickokSports.com - History - The Winter Olympics
		Because of the coverage given the Winter Olympics by the press in Europe and North America, Henie was the first woman to become a genuine international sports figure.
		Alpine skiing became a major Olympic sport at St. Moritz and Gretchen Fraser of the U. was the surprise winner of the first Gold Medal for the women's slalom event.
		Lack of snow in the days leading up to the 1952 Winter Olympics was an ironic problem in Norway, but a major storm arrived just in time to allow all events to go on as scheduled.
	www.hickoksports.com /history/winterol.shtml (3708 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.
		From 1928, the Olympic Winter Games were held every four years in the same calendar year as the Olympic Games.
		Squaw Valley was the debut of the Biathlon and the staging of Speed Skating events for female contestants, with Helga Haase (Germany) capturing the first gold medal in the sport, winning the 500-meter race.
	www.utah.com /olympics/history.htm (941 words)

	SLAM! SPORTS: 2001 IN REVIEW
		Yagi served as the coach of Japan's biathlon team in the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics and of a team of skiers at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.
		Yagi, elected JOC president in 1999, led Japanese Olympic delegates at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics and last year's summer Olympics in Sydney.
		Oct. 29 -- Girts Ostenieks, 33, an alternate driver on Latvia's Olympic bobsled team was killed during a practice run when he when he plowed headfirst into an empty sled that had drifted into his path.
	slam.canoe.ca /Slam2001/nd_sepoct.html (2751 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Sapporo 1972
		Organizers of the Sapporo Winter Olympics turned a tidy profit for the Games, largely as a result of their take of the record $8.47 million for the broadcast rights.
		In return for the Olympic flame to the East, the Japanese invested a fortune in facilities and structures in Sapporo, a city with over 1,500,000 inhabitants, capital of the Hokkaido island.
		NHL players were not allowed to play in the Olympics, however the Eastern-Bloc countries' professionals were allowed to play.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w11sapporo.html (359 words)

	International Games News January 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The accurate statement would be that in the winter games there have only been five positive tests in the thirty year span from 1968 to 1998, not the seventy-four year period from 1924 to 1998.
		Elliot, the Olympic 1500 meter champion in 1960, retired in 1961 and when he heard about the statement said that he did work in at the Commonwealth Games in Perth as a journalist, but never set foot in the village.
		The European Olympic Committees met in Rome in December with some 300 delegates and IOC President Jacques Rogge in attendance, and voted on an amended charter for the European Youth Olympic Festivals, and chose the 2007 European Youth Olympic Festival host cities.
	www.internationalgames.net /january2004.html (8179 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1972 Winter Olympics
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	Free Pint No.104 - Winter Olympics and Wireless Technology
		If you want to know the differences between the ancient Olympics and the modern ones, who Pierre de Coubertin was, the role of women in the Olympic Movement, or timelines for various events, this is the place to go.
		Regardless of language, most NOC Web sites include a brief history of the Olympics, the latest news on their countries' Olympic sports events, and names of athletes who will be participating in the Games.
		On a lighter note, there's NOCOG (Not the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games), also in Australia , which was upset that the torch for the Sydney Olympics bypassed Cook Shire, so ran its own alternative torch run.
	www.freepint.com /issues/240102.htm (6628 words)

	1976 Olympics
		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 Russian hockey team, which had won the gold medal in 1972 and then battled the NHL's Team Canada to a virtual standoff six months later, returned with most of the same players and won its fourth straight Olympic title.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0300769.html (335 words)

	CNNSI.com - 2002 Winter Olympics - Biathlon - Teela's rally matches best U.S. biathlon finish - Monday February ...
		Posted: Monday February 11, 2002 9:26 PM MIDWAY, Utah (AP) -- Jeremy Teela was so far behind at the halfway point of the 20-kilometer biathlon race Monday, he gave up all hope of a respectable showing.
		Two other U.S. men have finished 14th in a biathlon race: John Burritt in 1960 and Peter Karns in 1972.
		Teela admitted he was sluggish on his skis, and after he missed two targets in the first two shooting sessions, he was in 36th place.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/2002/biathlon/news/2002/02/11/biathlon_americans_ap (582 words)

	Winter Olympics News And Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Softball was kicked out of the Olympics by one vote, according to totals made public Friday, as the sport's and U.S. officials held out hope that the sport could be restored for the 2012 London Games.
		Jim Shea Snr, father of 2002 Olympic skeleton gold medalist Jim Shea, was named president of the US Bobsled and Skeleton Federation, replacing the resigning Robert Pokelwaldt.
		Softball's ouster from the Olympics last month came by one vote, according to totals made public Friday, and U.S. sports officials and softball leaders expressed hope that the sport could be restored for the 2012 London Games.
	www.winterolympicssports.info (429 words)

	1972 Olympics
		The biggest controversy in the 48–year history of the Winter Games erupted just three days before the opening ceremonies were scheduled to get underway in northern Japan.
		British film director John SCHLESINGER at the 1972 Munich Olympics, with a cameraman.
		(gold metalist in track and field at the 1972 Olympics, Rodney Milburn apparently fell into a vat of chemicals and died at the Georgia Pacific paper plant in Port Hudson, LA)(Brief Article)(Obituary) (Jet)
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0300768.html (440 words)

	1968 Olympics
		For the first time since they began attending the Winter Games in 1956, the Russians did not win the most medals—Norway did.
		This was also the first year that the IOC permitted East and West Germany to participate as separate countries.
		Aths: Olympics hero Wolde dies at age of 71 (AAP Sports News (Australia))
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0300767.html (399 words)

	Winter Olympics 2002: Salt Lake City
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	Belarus: Sports and Sportsmen
		Belarusian Olympic Academy (BOA), Olympic Studies International Directory (en)
		National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus (ru)
		Tennis & Table Tennis Olympic Training Center of the Republic of Belarus (en, ru)
	www.ac.by /country/sports.html (1428 words)

	Recreational and performing arts - Canadian Information By Subject
		Canada Olympic Park and Calgary Olympic Development Association
		Cold Gold - Canada's Winter Winners 1984 - 2002 (CBC Archives)
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	www.collectionscanada.ca /caninfo/ep079.htm (1318 words)

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