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	Winter Olympics - ninemsn Encarta
		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.
		Bobsleighing or tobogganing was instituted in 1924 (the four-man version); the two-man version was introduced in 1932.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572547/Winter_Olympics.html (1241 words)

	ipedia.com: Winter Olympic Games Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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 the IOC voted to take back the Games from Japan because 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.ipedia.com /winter_olympic_games.html (5171 words)

	Bobsleigh - Torino 2006 Winter Olympic Games
		Bobsleigh is a winter sport in which teams make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked purpose-built iced tracks in a gravity-powered, steerable sled.
		Bobsleigh at the 2006 Winter Olympics will be held in the town of Cesana Pariol (a suburb of Cesana Torinese), Italy from February 13 to February 24.
		As of 2005, bobsleigh is split into men's and women's events, women compete in two-crew and the men in both two- and four-crew competition.
	www.italyworldclub.com /piemonte/turin_2006/sport_bobsleigh.htm (448 words)

	KIAT.NET - Olympic Winter Games Bobsleigh
		In October 1999, women's bobsleigh was added to the Olympic Winter program and women will compete at Salt Lake City in 2002 in the two-woman event.
		The sport's governing body, the Federation Internationale de Bobsleigh et Tobagganing (FIBT), was founded in 1923.This competition has been part of the official program since the 1st Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix Mont Blanc in 1924.
		The 1948 Olympic champion was Nino Bibbia of Italy.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/sports/winter/bobsleigh.html (617 words)

	Olympic Winter Games Posters since 1924 - Athens Info Guide
		The 1956 Winter Olympics, held in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, were most notable for the first appearance by a team from the USSR.
		The 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck were threatened by a lack of snow.
		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.
	www.athensinfoguide.com /olympicposterswinter.htm (1909 words)

	Bobsleigh
		Bobsleigh tracks are at least 1500 meters long and must have up to 15 curves.
		bobsleigh event made its debut in the first Winter Olympics, in 1924.
		The bobsleigh crew is made up of a pilot and brakeman.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/sports/bobsleigh.htm (141 words)

	winter olympics
		Fewer nations participate in the Winter Olympics than the Summer Olympics; the most obvious reason for this is sheer geography, as most of the countries near the equator have no access to winter sport training facilities.
		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.
		In a 2003 IOC vote, the 2010 Winter Olympics were awarded to Vancouver, thus allowing Canada to host its second Winter Olympics as well as being the first for the province of British Columbia.
	hometown.aol.de /svizaczak/wo-47740.html (4518 words)

	1924 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1924 in Chamonix, France.
		The very first gold medal awarded in the Olympic Winter games was won by Charles Jewtraw, in the opening event, the 500 meter speedskating.
		In February 2006 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ruled that curling was a full part of the olympic program, and have included the medals awarded in the official count.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1924_Winter_Olympics (623 words)

	Winter Olympics - Bobsleigh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A four-man event was included in the very first Winter Olympics in 1924.
		Bobsleighs have runners, a main hull, a frame, and a front and rear axle.
		To be a bobsleigher you need a helmet, a bobsled, suit, and a number on the car.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/bobsleigh.htm (327 words)

	Mormon Olympics
		In an effort to rekindle the spirit of the ancient Olympics of Greece, which had been abolished as a pagan cult by Christian Byzantine Emperor Theodosius I in 393 A.D., the modern Olympic Games were initiated in 1896.
		The first Olympics in this modern era were held in Athens, Greece, as a result of the persuasive recommendation of Demetrius Vikelas, a Greek representative of the Pan-Hellenic Gymnastic Club who had come to Paris as a participant in the planning for the new Olympics.
		In the beginning the Winter Games were held in the same year as the Summer Games, but later it was decided that the Winter Games should take place in the second year of the Olympiad.
	www.mormonolympians.org /mormon_olympians/history_modern_olympics.html (688 words)

	Athletes.com - Athletes Topic Of The Week - Are You Excited About The Winter Olympics? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Like their summer counterpart, the Winter Games is a chance for the very best of the best to compete in their chosen sport and to find out who really is the best in the world.
		The Winter Olympics began in 1924 in France with approximately 200 athletes from 16 nations competing.
		The Olympic constant coverage is unparalleled by any other sport and one can always be entertained by some sport they may have never seen before or one that they hardly have ever gotten to see for the last, oh three years and fifty weeks.
	www.athletes.com /fun/a_totw12.htm (2852 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)

	CNN.com - Bobsleigh - Feb 1, 2006
		In Olympic competition, bobsleigh events are held for two-man, four-man and two-woman teams along 1,300-meter or 1,600-meter tracks.
		A bobsleigh course will twist and turn through a series of curves and circles, requiring the driver to choose the best line to take to ensure the quickest time.
		The only time bobsleigh has not been held at the Olympics was in 1960 in Squaw Valley, California.
	www.cnn.com /2006/SPORT/01/31/sports.bobsleigh (524 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.zoomschool.com /olympics (1311 words)

	Spotlight Sport - Bobsledding
		A part of the Winter Olympic games since their inception in 1924, bobsledding is a sport of exhilarating but dangerous speed.
		The Federation Internationale de Bobsleigh et Tobagganning (FIBT) was founded in 1923 to establish rules so that the sport could be included in the first Winter Olympics at Chamonix, France, in 1924.
		Bobsleigh and bobsledding are both correct names for the large sled made up of two sections linked together.
	www.edgate.com /wintergames/design/spotlight_sport/bbsled.htm (741 words)

	Canadian Women at the 2002 olympics in Salt lake City, Utah
		Women's bobsleigh makes its first appearance as an Olympic medal sport next winter at Salt Lake City and when it gets under the media microscope, it promises to rival figure skating as a glamour event for women.This is not a sport of whirling, skinny pixies in frills, such as Tara Lipinski.
		Because female bobsleigh is a strength sport, the athletes tend to be mature, confident, zaftig women.
		Women's two-man bobsleigh -- the sport resists the political correctness of terms such as two-person or brakeperson -- is a new event at the Olympics, though men's bobsleigh was one of the originals, dating back to 1924 at Chamonix, France.
	www.caaws.ca /olympics/2002/bobsleigh/dec_16.htm (1428 words)

	2006 Winter Olympics, Bobsled - Bobsleigh Events, News, Athletes, Teams, Pictures
		Bobsleighing (or bobsledding as it is known in the U.S.) began in Switzerland as a gentleman's pursuit among the rich at 19th century ski resorts - the most famous of them at St. Moritz where the first bobsled club was formed in 1897.
		Development of official rules and experimentation with different tracks eventually led to the sport being recognized at the 1924 Olympics at Chamonix.
		At the Winter Olympics, a driver and brakeman make up the two-member bobsled team with two pushers joining in for the four-member team.
	www.chiff.com /olympics/olympics-bobsled.htm (470 words)

	Bobsleigh History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Although bobsleigh was one of the original sports at the first Winter Olympics in 1924, it wasn't until the late 1950's that Canadian bobsledders began competing internationally.
		At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, Lori came within a fraction of a second of a bronze medal in the four-man to post the team's best result (4th) at the Games since Emery's victory more than 28 years earlier.
		The opening of the Canada Olympic Park track in Calgary in 1986 was an important milestone in the development of both national and international programs in women's bobsleigh.
	www.bobsleigh.ca /english/08bobsleigh/history.html (1309 words)

	winter olympics magazine article learnenglish
		This was not the first time that the issue of professionalism had caused controversy Winter Olympics alpine skiing.
		In Calgary in 1988, a bobsleigh team from a tropical country captured the hearts and imaginations of spectators around the world.
		In 1984 Jayne Torville and Christopher Dean (Britain) redefined the ice dancing event with their sparkling gold medal performance to the music of Ravel's "Bolero." They were given the maximum score for artistic impression by all nine of the event's judges.
	www.learnenglish.org.uk /magazine/winter_olympics.html (1205 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Winter Olympics 2002 \| Bobsleigh
		Prince Albert of Monaco's hopes in his fifth consecutive Winter Olympics are dashed by a dramatic crash in the four-man bobsleigh.
		American bobsledder Pavle Jovanovic is ruled out of the Olympics after his appeal against a drugs ban results in a stiffer penalty.
		Bobsleigh chief Bob Storey hits back at suggestions from the IOC that they rigged a drug hearing.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/hi/english/bobsleigh/default.stm (416 words)

	2006 Winter Olympics Preview -- Outsports.com
		When Torino, Italy, was chosen to host the 2006 Winter Olympics seven years ago, I was a freshman student-athlete at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, a place itself buzzing with construction and Olympic excitement.
		In 2002, it was a thrill to be living in an Olympic host city and to watch the events held on courses where I'd raced and trained and knew which sections of each hill hurt the most.
		The Winter Games seem blessed with international parity, but if there is a hint of domination it comes from Germany, which has led the medal count in the past two Winter Games, and I suspect will do the same in Torino.
	outsports.com /olympics/2006torino/winterolympicspreview.htm (4920 words)

	Olympics Timeline: Ancient Greece - 1940s
		The Olympic flag is introduced, as is the Olympic oath.
		America's bobsleigh team, led by Billy Fiske, wins the gold; the team includes Eddie Eagan, who was a boxing champion in the 1920 Games.
		The American Olympic Committee sends a hockey team, as does the American Hockey Association; the IOC bars either from being considered for a medal.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/olympicstimeline.html (1358 words)

	Vancouver 2010 - Bobsleigh
		The four-man bobsleigh was on the program of the first Olympic Winter Games in 1924, in Chamonix,.
		Today’s bobsleigh is built to be fast and aerodynamic, with a rounded fibreglass nose and four highly polished steel runners.
		There are three Olympic bobsleigh events: the two- and four-person bobsleigh for men, and the two-person bobsleigh for women.
	www.vancouver2010.com /en/WinterGames/WinterGamesSports/BO (344 words)

	Olympic Bobsledding \| 2002 \| Winter Olympics \| Salt Lake City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This is the first Winter Olympics where women have competed in the bobsledding race.
		He's competing in his first Olympics and is one of the best all around athletes in the world.
		She won three Olympic medals in luge and three world titles before switching to bobsled in 2000.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p1764.htm (280 words)

	Bobsled, skeleton have had long ride through history - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		But in terms of Olympic events, skeleton was included in only two previous Winter Games, those of 1928 and 1948, both in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
		The world's first bobsled club was founded in St. Moritz in 1897, and the FIBT says that spurred the growth of the sport in winter resorts throughout Europe.
		According to the U.S. Olympic Committee, the organizers of the 1960 Games in Squaw Valley, Calif., refused to build a track and the sport was removed from the Olympic schedule.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,50000294,00.html (772 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		The inaugural Winter Olympics were a resounding success in the picturesque spa town of Chamonix, France.
		The 1936 Winter Games were held in the twin Bavarian towns of Garmisch and Partenkirchen just three years before the outbreak of the Second World War.
		The Bosnian city of Sarajevo was virtually unknown on the global stage when the Winter Olympics landed in the Balkans for the first time.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/history (1273 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Chamonix 1924
		The Chamonix 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.
		It was not until 1926 during the 25th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lisbon, Portugal that the Chamonix Sports Week was retroactively given the name of Olympic Winter Games.
		The first Winter Games, or "White Olympics" as it was called then, consisted of 14 events in five sports (Nordic skiing, figure skating, speedskating, hockey and bobsledding).
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w01chamonix.html (370 words)

	Lincoln City Libraries - Reference - In the News: 2006 Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The 1924 Winter Olympics featured 258 athletes (11 women, 247 men), from 16 nations, competing in 16 sports.
		At the most recent Winter Games (2002) in Salt Lake City, 77 countries were represented by 2,399 athletes (886 women, 1,513 men), who competed in 78 separate events.
		The following are a sampling of videos featuring footage from past Olympics, plus the soundtrack CD including music used during the Olympics television coverage of the past 20 years.
	www.lcl.lib.ne.us /depts/ref/inthenews/winterolympics2006.htm (945 words)

	KIDCYBER TOPICS
		The idea of a separate Winter Olympics was first proposed in 1921.
		Until 1986 the Winter Games were held in the same year as the Summer Olympics.
		Athletes from any country are able to compete in the Olympics but they must first be selected by the Olympic Committee in their own country.
	www.kidcyber.com.au /topics/wintolympintro.htm (251 words)

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