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	Winter Olympics - ninemsn 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.
		Bobsleighing or tobogganing was instituted in 1924 (the four-man version); the two-man version was introduced in 1932.
		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.
	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)

	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
		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.
		The opening ceremonies for the Olympics were the last ones to be held outdoors for a Winter Olympics until the 2014 Winter Olympics because the ones for the 2010 Winter Olympics will be held indoors.
	hometown.aol.de /svizaczak/wo-47740.html (4518 words)

	Canadian Women at the 2002 olympics in Salt lake City, Utah
		The construction of the artificial track at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary for the 1988 Winter Games was an important step in piquing interest in women's bobsleigh both at home and abroad.
		The first Canadian women bobsleigh athletes earned the respect of their male counterparts by getting together to move the 220-kilogram sleds while soaking up as much knowledge about the sport as possible.
		The biggest moment in women's bobsleigh history to date came on Oct. 2, 1999 when the International Olympic Committee confirmed women's bobsleigh would be an official medal sport at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.
	www.caaws.ca /olympics/2002/features/bobsleigh.htm (1393 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)

	2010 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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 (1776 words)

	Athletes.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.athletes.com /fun/a_totw12.htm (2852 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.enchantedlearning.com /olympics (1311 words)

	Travel West Salt Lake City Utah
		Soldier Hollow will be the busiest venue during the Olympic Winter Games as the scene for 16 events, including 6 for biathlon, 10 for cross-country skiing and 2 for the skiing portions of Nordic combined.
		Bobsleigh and Luge activities will occur at the Olympic Bobsled and Luge Track located at the Utah Winter Sports Park, 24 miles east of Salt Lake City and four miles north of Park City.
		The Olympic Ice Hockey Arena in West Valley City, also known as the 'E' Center, is the home of the Utah Grizzlies, a professional hockey team playing in the International Hockey League.
	www.travelwest.net /cities/saltlake/olympics.htm (890 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)

	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)

	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)

	Federation Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobaganning - History
		The opening of the first artificially refrigerated bobsleigh and luge track in 1969, at Königssee/Berchtesgaden in Germany, offered athletes the first opportunity to plan and carry out practice and competition regardless of weather conditions.
		The new "bobsleigh skeleton" was specifically designed for use on bobsleigh runs.
		Many bobsleigh nations now realized the advantage of the argument always propagated by the skeleton officials—to train young, aspiring athletes via skeleton for their future career in bobsleigh.
	www.bobsleigh.com /sport/history_skeleton.htm (784 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)

	Winter Olympics 2006: Warm Weather Countries
		Perhaps the most famous instance of a warm weather nation at the Winter Games was the Jamaican Bobsled Team, which first competed in the 1988 Calgary Games and made several subsequent Olympic appearances.
		In 1992 at the Albertville Olympics, a Moroccan skier actually got lapped on the giant slalom course, falling several times before finishing the course and embarrassing Morocco with his ineptitude.
		This year in Torino, a Belgium-born Moroccan is hoping to erase those painful memories for her country by becoming the first African woman to ski in the Winter Olympics.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/winter-olympics-warm-weather.html (622 words)

	Winter Olympics 2006: Daily Highlights
		The Olympic flag is carried in by an all-woman crew, including Sophia Loren, Susan Sarandon, Isabel Allende, and Wangari Maathai.
		The Italian bronze was the 100th Winter Olympics medal won by that country.
		This is the first U.S. women's Olympic medal since Picabo Stret won the Super G and silvered in the downhill in the 1998 Nagano Games.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/winter-olympics-torinohighlights.html (1147 words)

	2014 Winter Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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 (1378 words)

	Wikinfo \| 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.
	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)

	Bodybuilding.com - Athletes Topic Of The Week - Are You Excited About The Winter Olympics?
		From February 10-26 this year, the Winter Olympic Games will be held in Turin, Italy.
		Like the Summer Games, the Winter Games are the pinnacle of their own sports.
		Olympic Games medal tallies tend to be consistent over time.
	www.bodybuilding.com /fun/a_totw12.htm (2881 words)

	1992 Albertville French Winter Olympics Coins
		The 1992 Albertville Olympic Games were the 16th Winter Olympics, and the last Winter Games to be staged in the same year as the Summer Games.
		Most countries hosting Olympics issue special commemorative coins to celebrate the event, and these also help to fund the cost of hosting the games.
		We only see the French coins for the Albertville Winter Olympics very occasionally, so if you are interested in them, please contact us to order sooner rather than later.
	www.24carat.co.uk /1992franceolympicgamesalbertville.html (550 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 (873 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1924 Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Albertville 1992
		After not winning an alpine skiing medal since 1952, the Norwegians claimed four, led by Kjetil-Andre Aamodt, who won a gold in the super G and a bronze in the giant slalom.
		Particularly difficult to swallow was his fourth-place finish in the 500m, as he was the world-record holder.
		Once again Bonnie Blair carried the spirits of the U.S. speed skating team, defending her Olympic gold in the 500m and taking a gold in the 1,000m.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w16albertville.html (394 words)

	jambob.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		They warmed the hearts of many worldwide in their first attempt at Olympic glory and was even immortalized in the popular Walt Disney movie "Cool Runnings".
		Since then the team has been a mainstay in the Winter Olympics and now have their eyes focused on bringing back a medal to Jamaica.
		In the first games (1988) the team was seen as a novelty as they had many technically difficulties, injuries and crashes.
	www.jambob.com /html/history.html (644 words)

	Lincoln City Libraries - Reference - In the News: 2006 Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Even during times of warfare, truces were called during the duration of the games, and all athletes and their families were provided safe passage through disputed territories.
		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)

	BSC News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This award is presented annually to a corporation that has demonstrated an understanding of a national team's needs and a willingness to develop a number of corporate initiatives that support the training, competition, and promotional activities of a national team program.
		Since 1992, Visa Canada has been the proud title sponsor of Canada's national bobsleigh teams, and the title sponsor of all major bobsleigh events at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary.
		In Olympic years, bobsleigh is featured in their national marketing programs.
	www.bobsleigh.ca /english/02news/story_bsc_032304.html (569 words)

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