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	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)

	Winter Olympics - Printer-friendly - 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.
		Men’s speed skating was introduced at the inaugural Winter Olympics; the women had to wait until 1960 for their inclusion.
		Bobsleighing or tobogganing was instituted in 1924 (the four-man version); the two-man version was introduced in 1932.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761572547___4/Winter_Olympics.html (874 words)

	Soviet Union at the Winter Olympics
		At seven Winter Olympics USSR was on the first place by total number of gold medals won, at two Winter Olympics it was second by this count.
		The Olympic Committee of the USSR was formed on April 21, 1951 and was recognized by the IOC on its 45th session (May 7, 1951).
		USSR Olympic Team Flag Bearers were Soviet sportsmen, who bore the State Flag of the USSR at the Opening and Closing ceremonies of the Summer and Winter Olympics.
	libraryoflibrary.com /E_n_c_p_d_USSR_at_the_Winter_Olympics.html (557 words)

	Winter Olympics - Search View - MSN Encarta
		The Olympics organization is headed by a president, elected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) members for an initial period of eight years.
		Previously there had been winter events held, at random, at the Summer Games, most notably the figure skating and ice hockey competitions that were associated with the 1920 Summer Games at Antwerp, Belgium.
		From the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, the winter and summer games began to be alternated in even-numbered years.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761572547__1/Winter_Olympics.html (1456 words)

	ipedia.com: Winter Olympic Games Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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)

	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.
		This decision caused the Swiss and Austrian skiers to boycott the Olympics.
		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.
	hometown.aol.de /svizaczak/wo-47740.html (4518 words)

	1800-Olympics.com -- Winter Olympics: Bobsleigh
		Bobsleigh consists of three events in the Olympic program -- the four-man bob (men), two-man bob (men) and two-woman bob (women).
		Bobsleigh Canada is the national amateur sport association responsible for all activities pertaining to bobsleigh in Canada.
		As well as winning 9 World Championships and two Olympic golds, Italy's Eugenio Monti proved to be an exemplary sportsman by lending the British pair, Tony Nash and Robin Dixon, an axle bolt in 1964, which helped them win the gold in Innsbruck.
	1800-olympics.com /WinterOlympics/WinterSports/Bobsleigh.htm (501 words)

	2010 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Canadian Olympic Committee, as the NOC of the host country, has pledged to obtain the most gold medals of any country at the 2010 Winter Olympics, due to its failures to obtain a gold at both the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
		Per Olympic tradition, current Vancouver mayor Sam Sullivan received the Olympic flag during the Closing Ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, which was also attended by the premier of British Columbia, Gordon Campbell, himself a Vancouver native, and Governor General Michaëlle Jean.
		As of 2004, the cost of the 2010 Winter Olympics is estimated to be in the range of C$1.4 billion.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/2010_Winter_Olympics (1784 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)

	Bodybuilding.com - Athletes Topic Of The Week - Are You Excited About The Winter Olympics?
		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.bodybuilding.com /fun/a_totw12.htm (2881 words)

	TTOC-TT.com - HISTORY of BOBSLEIGH
		In 1897, the world's first bobsleigh club was founded in St. Moritz, Switzerland, spurring the growth of the sport in winter resorts throughout Europe.
		In 1952, a critical rule change limiting the total weight of crew and sled ended the era of the super heavyweight bobsledder and sealed the future of the sport as an athletic contest of the highest caliber.
		Bobsleigh teams include a brakeman and a pilot in the two-man event, while two crewmen/pushers are added for the four-man race.
	www.ttoc.org /2002/historybs.html (899 words)

	ABC Sport Online - Winter Olympics 2006 - History
		Despite the objections of International Olympic Committee president Pierre de Coubertin, an International Sports Week was held at Chamonix in 1924 and was retroactively named the first Winter Olympics.
		The Winter Olympics returned to the United States for the first time in 22 years after calls for the Games to be cancelled following the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.
		The abiding memory of the second Japanese Winter Olympics after Sapporo in 1972 was the spectacular "human-cannonball" fall sustained by Austrian giant Hermann Maier in the men's downhill.
	www.abc.net.au /winterolympics/2006/history.htm (4179 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 1952 Canada won the ice hockey tournament for the fifth (and last) time, bringing their cumulative Olympic record to 37 wins, 1 loss and 3 ties.
		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)

	Athletes.com - Athletes Topic Of The Week - Are You Excited About The Winter Olympics?
		According to Bobsleigh Canada a 0.1s lead at the top equals a 0.3s lead at the bottom.
		During the 2002 Winter Olympics at Salt Lake City Italy won 4 gold, 4 silver and 5 bronze medals for a total of 13 medals.
		Olympic lifts and other explosive movements would be very beneficial to this start that is so crucial.
	www.athletes.com /fun/a_totw12.htm (2852 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Oslo 1952
		Oslo was the only edition of the Winter Games to be held in a capital city and the first hosted by Norway, a tribute to the great love of a people for winter sports.
		Women athletes were allowed to compete for the first time in an Olympic Nordic event (a 10km cross-country race), and Alpine skiing saw two important changes: the addition of separate men's and women's giant slalom, and the dropping of both Alpine combined events.
		The Olympic Winter Games are finally hosted by a Scandinavian country, which until then had dominated the previous five Winter Games.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w06oslo.html (362 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)

	2014 Winter Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXII Olympic Winter Games, will be celebrated in 2014, and are an international winter sports athletic event that has yet to be organized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
		At the time of the 2006 Winter Olympics, Salzburg was considered by the specialists or observers, such as GamesBids or Around the Rings as the favourite, with PyeongChang and Sochi being the other two strongest contenders.
		The bid has launched a full-scale campaign in an effort to secure a Winter Olympics, which eluded them by a mere three votes in the 2010 Olympic race, in which the Games were awarded to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/2014_Winter_Olympics (1368 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)

	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)

	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)

	ipedia.com: 1998 Winter Olympics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Games of the XVIII Winter Olympiad were held in 1998 in Nagano, Japan.
		Tara Lipinski, 15, won the women's figure skating title to become the youngest champion in an individual event in the history of the Winter Olympics.
		Alpine skier Hermann Maier (Austria) survived a fall in the downhill and went on to gold in the super-g and giant slalom.
	www.ipedia.com /1998_winter_olympics.html (274 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1988 Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1988_Winter_Olympics (199 words)

	The Winter Olympics — Infoplease.com
		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.
		Apres ski: the IOC is awarding itself and its broadcast partners a gold medal after scoring record ratings for the Winter Olympics......
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0115111.html (727 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS
		The name hockey probably derives from the French hocquet, or shepherd’s crook, and refers to the crooked stick which is used to hit a small ball.
		The game became more organised late in the 19th century and became an Olympic sport in 1908.
		Until the 1970s, the game at international level was mainly played on natural grass, but has become an even more exciting and Skilful India dominated the sport for three decades, winning all six Olympic gold medals and 30 consecutive games from 1928 to 1956.
	www.olympic.org /uk/sports/programme/index_uk.asp?SportCode=HO (166 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1924 Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The I Olympic Winter Games were held in 1924 in Chamonix, France.
		This was, though only called thus in retrospect, the first celebration of the Olympic Winter Games.
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1924_Winter_Olympics (194 words)

	Local links: How Washington athletes have fared at the Olympics
		Washington state was represented by two entries in the figure skating pairs competition in the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.
		Former UW student Nick Thometz, a speed skater, participated in the 1984, 1988 and 1992 Winter Olympics.
		Jill Bakken, a bobsleigh gold medalist in 2002 at Salt Lake City (and the first American bobsleigh medalist of any kind since 1956), was born in Portland, attended Lake Washington High School in Kirkland (she graduated in 1995) and played soccer for Oregon State.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /olympics/258123_wolylocallinksrail09.html (879 words)

	1800-Olympics.com -- Winter Olympics: Luge
		There are three events in the Olympics: singles Men, singles Women and the doubles.
		In the singles, the times of the four runs are added together to determine the winner.
		Biathlon, Bobsleigh, Curling, Ice Hockey, Luge, Skating, Skiing.
	1800-olympics.com /WinterOlympics/WinterSports/Luge.htm (293 words)

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