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Topic: Biathlon at the 1994 Winter Olympics

	MSN Encarta - Winter Olympics
		The Olympics organization is headed by a president, elected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) members for an initial period of eight years.
		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.
		Biathlon was introduced in 1960 (1992 for women) and is a sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572547/winter_olympics.html (1241 words)

	Biathlon: Skiing and shooting - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		Biathlon was originally based upon the need for Northern Europeans to hunt for food.
		Biathlon was later incorporated into military strategy and used in battles and war.
		She followed with a relay silver and an individual bronze at the 1994 Lillehammer Games and the concluded with a relay gold as well as one silver and one bronze in individual events at the 1998 Nagano Games.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,22,00.html (811 words)

	What is Biathlon Ontario? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Biathlon Ontario is a member division of Biathlon Canada and is responsible for all aspects of biathlon in the Province of Ontario.
		Biathlon Ontario is the sanctioning body for the conduct of biathlon competitions in the Province of Ontario, and is considered the Provincial Sporting Organization for such events as the Ontario Winter Games.
		Biathlon Canada is the Canadian National Sporting Organization for biathlon and is a member of the IBU, the International Biathlon Union, which is the International Sporting Organization for biathlon.
	www.biathlonontario.on.ca /whatbiathlonontario.htm (269 words)

	Olympics - EnchantedLearning.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		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)

	Sporting Life - Winter Olympics
		The first modern Olympic games were held in 1896 but it was not until 1924 that the first Winter Games were held.
		Winter Sports had long had their own World Championships with speed skating first holding theirs in 1893, and the first figure skating World Championships taking place in 1896 - the same year as the first Olympics.
		The US Olympic Association (USOC) and the Amateur Hockey Association both sent teams representing America and the ICO threatened to cancel the event unless the dispute was resolved.
	www.sportinglife.com /winterolympics/history (2087 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Innsbruck 1976
		Two Olympic flames burned brightly at Innsbruck; one each was lit for the Austrian city's host roles in 1964 and 1976.
		Sixty thousand spectators were present at the opening ceremony of the XII Winter Games and 200 million people watched it live on television.
		Denver originally was the odds-on favorite to be host to the 1976 Games, but concerns about the financial cost of the Games, the possible environmental effect and concerns over a negative effect on the state's winter tourism prompted the local population to reject hosting the Games through a referendum.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w12innsbruck.html (433 words)

	Australia - Winter Olympics
		Although the first official Winter Games were held at Chamonix in 1924, figure skating for men, women and pairs were held at the 1908 Summer Games, and Ice hockey was played at the 1920 Summer Games.
		Colin Coates improved his performance from the previous Olympics to be placed 11th in the 1000m, 10th in the 5000m, 8th in the 1500m and 6th in the 10000m speed skating.
		To alternated Summer and Winter Olympic Games the Olympics will no longer be held in the same year, there will be two years between the Summer and Winter Olympic Games.
	www.markeaton.net /olhistory.html (749 words)

	Myriam Bedard -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Canadian biathlete who was the first North American to medal in the Olympic biathlon, earning a bronze medal at the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France.
		She later won two gold medals in the biathlon at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway.
		Awarded to Lillehammer, the 1994 Olympics were noteworthy for their environmental conservation.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9125228 (378 words)

	1994 ? Lillehammer, Norway - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		The Lillehammer Games come just two years after the Albertville Games, with the IOC voting in 1986 to change the every-fourth-year format so that the Summer and Winter Olympics would be held in different years.
		At the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit a month before the Olympics, Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee by accomplices of Harding in a plot to attack the favored Kerrigan and knock her out of competition.
		The Norwegians are praised for their successful, well-organized Winter Olympics, as well as for an environmentally minded effort.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,2,00.html (415 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)

	1988 Winter Olympics
		The 1988 Winter Olympics were held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
		The Olympics were highly successful, financially, as they brought in million dollar profits.
		They were hailed as demonstrating the true Olympic spirit as playing for the simple thrill of competition.
	knowallabout.com /1/19/1988_winter_olympics.html (134 words)

	Winter Olympics
		Every time the Olympics is held the term "jingoistic" inevitably is associated with the games.
		The reason the Summer, rather than the Winter, Olympics hold more interest for sports collectors is obvious: who wants a trading card of Gerda Weissenstiener (1994 Luge gold medalist from Italy) or is going to go out and get a jersey with Gustva Weder (1994 gold medalist in the two man bobsled from Switzerland).
		When the winter games were first begun in 1908, Americans did fairly well and in some areas even dominated.
	www.psacard.com /articles/article269.chtml (817 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		The inaugural Winter Olympics were a resounding success in the picturesque spa town of Chamonix, France.
		The Bosnian city of Sarajevo was virtually unknown on the global stage when the Winter Olympics landed in the Balkans for the first time.
		The 1994 Games did not suffer from the quick turnaround as the Lillehammer Olympics are considered among the most successful Winter Games in history.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/history (1273 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1992 Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Games of the XVI Winter Olympiad were held in 1992 in Albertville, France.
		The last Winter Games to be staged in the same year as the Summer Games.
		Toni Nieminen, 16, became the youngest male winner of a Winter event.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1992_Winter_Olympics (225 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1994 Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In 1986 the IOC voted to change the schedule of the Olympic Games so that the summer and winter games would be arranged in alternating even-numbered years.
		For the first time, the Winter Olympics are not held in the same year as the Games of the Olympiad.
		The Olympic flame is brought into the stadium by a ski jumper.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1994_Winter_Olympics (280 words)

	MSN Encarta - Cold Gold: A Winter Olympics Quiz
		The Winter Olympics demand strength, precision, and an unusual ability to endure bone-chilling cold.
		This speed skater won gold medals at the 1988, 1992, and 1994 Winter Olympics.
		Which Olympic figure skater was known for her camel?
	ca.encarta.msn.com /quiz_60/Cold_Gold_A_Winter_Olympics_Quiz.html (222 words)

	1980 Winter Olympics
		The Games of the XIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, United States of America.
		Another candidate city was Vancouver-Garibaldi, Canada; they withdrew before the final vote.
		Hanni Wenzel won the women's giant slalom and slalom, making Liechtenstein the smallest country to produce an Olympic champion.
	www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/1/19/1980_winter_olympics.html (193 words)

	BlackCultureClothes.com.com - Winter Olympics
		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.
		The IOC awarded the 1976 Olympics to Denver, Colorado, but after two years of preparation and financial squabbling, the people of Colorado refused to fund the major event through public taxes.
		Calgary's Olympics in 1988 were well received by both athletes and spectators, however, there were some concerns regarding the facilities, and the choice of competition sites.
	www.blackcultureclothes.com /Winter_Olympics.html (1183 words)

	The Winter Olympics
		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.
		Winter Sports: Gold rush in the hills; Sestriere's preparations for next year's Winter Olympics are well underway.Sarah Barrell checks up on progress in the Italian Alps and finds a world-class ski resort taking shape.(Features)
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0115111.html (725 words)

	1994 Olympics
		The games were the most environmentally friendly Olympics in history as well.
		Oksana Baiul - Oksana Baiul Born: Nov. 16, 1977 Ukrainian figure skater 1993 world champion at age 15; edged Nancy...
		STARTING ON BAD NOTE: Some Norwegians want to see the Olympic hymn banned from the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer because they interpret it is a prayer to Zeus.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0300773.html (450 words)

	Discover Vancouver: Olympic Winter Games in 2010
		On July 2nd, 2003 Vancouver was chosen as the host city for the XXI Olympic Winter Games in the year 2010.
		It will be the first winter games held in a large metropolis city as most of the previous games have taken place in smaller resort towns.
		The other major difference with the Vancouver games is that the opening and closing ceremonies are scheduled to take place indoors at BC Place which is a domed stadium in the heart of downtown with a seating capacity of 60,000 people.
	www.discovervancouver.com /2010 (440 words)

	Winter Olympics Quiz
		What star ski jumper from the 1984 and 1988 Olympics was sentenced to 26 months in prison in 2004 for aggravated assault?
		After years of disappointment, Dan Jansen won the 1,000-meter speedskating gold in 1994.
		In 1994, Sweden defeated Canada in a shootout to win the gold medal in hockey.
	orig.citizen-times.com /cgi-bin/quiz.cgi?quiz=quiz-winterolympics (322 words)

	The Gateway \| Tuesday, 1 February, 2005 \| Volume XCIV Issue 30
		When Russell Bird watched Meriam Bedard win two gold medals in biathlon at the 1994 Winter Olympics, he knew it was something he wanted to do.
		“I aspire to maybe be like [national biathlon champion] Robin Clegg one day, but to follow his training regime of 900—1000 hours a year is unrealistic as a full-time student,” explained Bird who instead trains 400—500 hours a year shooting, skiing, running and roller-skiing.
		I don’t want to be 30 years old, go to the Olympics and then decide to stop and have nothing, because that’s essentially what I would do to myself if I went into biathlon full-time.
	www.gateway.ualberta.ca /view.php?aid=3844 (768 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Lake Placid 1980
		As the Winter Games reconvened for the second time in Lake Placid, N.Y., relations between East and West were in a deep freeze, after the December 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviets.
		Spectators saw two of the greatest moments in both American sports history and Olympic Winter Games history..
		But even with all the varied success, it was the Soviet Union that topped the medals table once again with 22.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w13lakeplacid.html (336 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Winter Olympics 2002 \| Front Page
		Great Britain's Winter Olympic gold medal heroines return home to a rousing welcome from fans and well-wishers.
		The 2002 Winter Olympics come to an end with controversy still raging.
		China's most successful Winter Olympian wins her second gold of the Games in the women's 500m short track final.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/default.stm (393 words)

	An Italian Miracle, the Winter Olympics
		Europe has another Olympics coming up on Feb. 10, when the 2006 Winter Games are set to open in the northern Italian city of Turin.
		Roads to Olympic venues in the Alps outside Turin have been upgraded, the city's historic center has been spiffed up, and local authorities are set to open a 9-kilometer-long subway line, the city's first, in late December.
		One reason is that Winter Games are considerably smaller than their summer counterparts, with competition in only seven sports, one-fourth as many as in the Summer Games.
	www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/dec2005/nf2005127_7791_db089.htm (1265 words)

	TORINO-TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		When athletes and spectators arrived in Torino and the surrounding area for the 2006 Paralympic Winter Games, they no doubt recognized the spectacular imagery and graphics that were broadcast to the world a few weeks ago during the Olympic Winter Games.
		In both biathlon and cross country skiing, the athletes are classified into three categories: sitting, standing or visually impaired.
		Having made its debut at the Lillehammer 1994 Games, sledge hockey is still a growing sport and eight countries have sent sledge hockey teams to Torino.
	www.torino-turin.org (1139 words)

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