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	McAuliffe, Christa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
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	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Calgary 1988
		It was left to Bonnie Blair to raise the spirit of not only the U.S. speed skating team, but Americans in general.
		Skating before her in the 500m was Christa Rothenburger of the usually unbeatable East German team.
		Rothenburger set a world record, but Blair came out and topped it with a world record of her own.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w15calgary.html (518 words)

	Additional Reading (from Christa Corrigan McAuliffe) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Biographies are Robert T. Hohler, I Touch the Future—: The Story of Christa McAuliffe (1986); and Grace George Corrigan, A Journal for Christa (1993), written by McAuliffe's mother.
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		Sharon Christa McAuliffe was born on Sept. 2, 1948, in Boston, Mass.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-93606?tocId=93606 (787 words)

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		Not to be outdone, Bonnie proceeded to skate the 500 meters faster than any woman had before, capturing the gold medal in a world record time of 39.1.
		As the United States Olympic Committee's Woman Speedskater of the Year from 1985 to 1992, Bonnie also captured the world record for overall points in the World Sprint Speed Skating Championships in 1989 by defeating defending champion and former Olympic opponent Christa Rothenburger of East Germany.
		She eclipsed that mark at a World Cup event in Davos in January 1992, shortly thereafter, in Calgary in April 1992, and finally again in Calgary in January, 1994.
	inter-speak.com /blair-bonnie (548 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES
		Bonnie Blair began competing as a speedskater when she was four years old.
		At the 1988 Calgary Olympics, she watched as Christa Rothenburger broke the world record at 500m.
		Then Blair went out and bettered Rothenburger's time by two hundredths of a second to win her first gold medal.
	www.olympic.org /uk/athletes/profiles/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=70040 (150 words)

	Bonnie Blair
		Bonnie began her race in the 500 meter event of the 1988 Calgary Olympics immediately after her rival Christa Rothenburger of East Germany set a world record.
		Not to be outdone, Bonnie proceeded to skate the 500 meters faster than any woman had before or has since, capturing the gold medal in a world record time of 39.1.
		By capturing her sixth career Olympic medal, Bonnie emerged as U.S. history’s most decorated Winter athlete, as well as the record holder for the most gold medals (5) won by an American woman in any sport.
	www.lecturenow.com /People/BonnieBlair.htm (566 words)

	washingtonpost.com
		Jamaica made its Winter Olympic debut with a four-man bobsled team and, although it was not foreseen, Soviet athletes would be competing under the hammer and sickle for the last time.
		Speedskater Bonnie Blair of the United States had her work cut out for her after East German favorite Christa Rothenburger-Luding broke her own world record time in the 500m event.
		Blair rose to the challenge, breaking the world record that Rothenburger-Luding had just set moments before by two one-hundredths of a second, and thus winning the gold.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/olympics/longterm/2002/history/1988.htm (287 words)

	Stories that Symbolize the Olympic Spirit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		That convinced him to change sports, and his 1984 gold medal shows that he made the right choice...
		At the 1988 Calgary Winter Games, German Christa Rothenburger won the silver medal in 500m long track speed skating (just 2 hundredths of a second behind American Bonnie Blair) and gold in the 1000m race.
		A few months later, she competed in the Summer Games in Barcelona and won a silver medal in sprint cycling, becoming the only athlete ever to win medals in Winter and Summer Games the same year
	www.housing.wisc.edu /student_orgs/crc/events/9900/olympics/info/stories.html (337 words)

	Bonnie Blair speaks for International Speakers Bureau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		By capturing her sixth career Olympic medal, Bonnie emerged as U.S. history's most decorated Winter athlete, as well as the record holder for the most gold medals (5) won by an American in any sport.
		As the United States Olympic Committee's Woman Speedskater of the Year from 1985 to 1992, Bonnie also captured the world record for overall points in the World Sprint Speed-Skating Championships in 1989 by defeating defending champion and former Olympic opponent, Christa Rothenburger of East Germnay.
		She eclipsed that mark at a World Cup event in Davos in January 1992, shortly thereafter, in Calgary in April 1992, and finally again in Galgary in January 1994.
	www.internationalspeakers.com /speakers/ISBB-5532D4?print=yes (656 words)

	Christa Luding-Rothenburger -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		née Rothenburger, also known as Christa Rothenburger-Luding East German speed skater and cyclist who earned the distinction of being the first and only person to win Summer and Winter Olympic medals in the same year (1988).
		At the Winter Games in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, she won the gold medal in the 1,000-metre speed-skating event; she then earned the silver medal in the 1,000-metre sprint cycling…
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	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9002734 (758 words)

	Winter Olympics 1998 \| Back In Time
		Fellow American Bill Johnson captured the gold in the men's downhill, giving the United States one of its best showings in Olympic Alpine skiing.
		ï Christa Rothenburger (East Germany) set an Olympic record in her gold medal performance in the women's 500m speedskating competition.
		Second place finisher, Karin Enke, also from East Germany, captured the gold in both the 1,000m and 1,500m race.
	www.enquirer.com /olympics/olymain/past/html/1984.html (304 words)

	ESPN Classic - Blair is special ... but she doesn't know it
		In 1987, Blair was the World Cup champion in the 500 and set a world record for the event, which was broken by Christa Rothenburger of East Germany.
		But two pairs later, Blair not only won her first Olympic gold, she regained her world record.
		She got off to the best start of her life, 10.55 seconds for the first 100, and blazed around the 500-meter oval in 39.10 seconds, defeating defending champion Rothenburger by an eye blink.
	espn.go.com /classic/biography/s/Blair_Bonnie.html (1333 words)

	1988 Seoul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Although the drug disqualification of sprinter Ben Johnson was the biggest story of the 1988 Olympics, the Seoul Games were highlighted by numerous exceptional performances.
		Christa Luding-Rothenburger, who was also a speed skater, earned a silver medal in cycling to become the only person in history to win Winter and Summer medals in the same year.
		Steffi Graf concluded her Grand Slam tennis season by winning Olympic gold.
	www.athens2004.com /en/TheOlympicGamesTimeline/timeline?oid=9a8a470429149f00VgnVCMServer28130b0aRCRD (216 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		Medals won by speed skater Christa Rothenburger of East Germany: 2
		Medals won by Rothenburger at the 1988 Summer Games: 1, in cycling, making her the only athlete to win medals at the Summer and Winter Olympics in the same year
		Debbi Thomas of the United States won bronze in women's figure skating, becoming the first fl athlete to win a Winter Olympic medal.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/history/1988calgary.shtml (1161 words)

	Skater Bonnie Blair still maintaining her speed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		She started to compete internationally in 1982 at the age of 18.
		Blair made her mark at the 1988 Calgary Olympics where she shattered the 500-meter record set just minutes before by Christa Rothenburger of East Germany.
		With a time of 39.1 seconds, she captured a gold medal.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/features/96/08/13/8-13hou-blair.0-0.html (737 words)

	Independent, The (London): Testosterone gives Witty a shot at history
		The 25- year-old from West Allis, Wisconsin, is now free to challenge for a special place in the Olympic record books.
		Only three Olympians have won medals at a summer Games and a winter Games (the American Eddie Eagen, a boxer-cum-bobsledder; the Norwegian Jacob Tullin Thams, a ski-jumper-turned-yachtsman; and Christa Rothenburger- Luding of East Germany, a speed-skater and cyclist).
		Witty hopes to become the fourth, having collected two speed- skating medals in Nagano two years ago - silver at 1,000m and bronze at 1500m.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20000903/ai_n14334143 (983 words)

	ESPN.com - 'It's like she was born on ice'
		In Bonnie Blair's mind, the most important race of her Olympic career came in Calgary in 1988.
		She set a world record and beat East German favorite Christa Rothenburger in the 500 meters that year, and from that moment on, Blair knew she could race with anyone in the world.
		Bonnie Blair won two gold medals at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Norway.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1307966&type=SpecialFeature (556 words)

	Long Track Speed Skating Ranking List
		Alma Ata 27-12-1979 40,47 1.23,96 40,99 1.23,58 165.500 6 CHRISTA ROTHENBURGER
		Alma Ata 28- 3-1981 40,28 1.20,95 40,18 1.22,68 162.275 7 CHRISTA ROTHENBURGER
		Karuizawa 23- 2-1986 39,94 1.18,84 40,00 1.21,40 160.060 Christa Luding-Rothenburger
	home.zonnet.nl /renekleef/recWLDfsprint.html (308 words)

	CNNSI.com - Historic Medal Tracker - Christa Rothenburger - East Germany
		CNNSI.com - Historic Medal Tracker - Christa Rothenburger - East Germany
		HISTORIC MEDAL TRACKER - CHRISTA ROTHENBURGER - EAST GERMANY
		A conference-by-conference look at this season's NCAA tournament bubble picture.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/2002/historic_medal_tracker/contestants/34070 (54 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- The Margin of Victory Was Only One Skate Length, But for a Diminutive, Freckle-Faced ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		She had felt nervous earlier in the day and, scared of getting an upset stomach, limited herself to a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich for lunch.
		But as she glided up to the starting line for the 500-meter sprint at Calgary's Olympic Oval, American Speed Skater Bonnie Blair felt confident, even though minutes earlier her rival, the powerful East German skater Christa Rothenburger, had set a new world record of 39.12 sec.
		Blair glanced at the stands, where a score of rooting family members were clustered around heartening banners (GO, BONNIE, GO).
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,966946,00.html (189 words)

	ESPN.com Soccernet Lsistings0420
		Focus on Oksana Baiul, Scott Hamilton, Eddie Edgan, Kathy Turner, Sergei Grinkov et Gordeeva.
		Winter Superstars A look at Lydia Skoplokova in women's speed skating, Franz Klammer in downhill racing, Christa Rothenburger who won a silver medal in the cycling in the summer Olympics and Ludmilla Beloussova et Oleg Protopopov who invented the death spiral.
		Episode 4, 4 See powerful men and women from all over the globe challenging the forces of nature and their mental and physical limits as well.
	www.soccernet.com /listings/2002/0420 (496 words)

	Women's History - Pioneers
		Twice she won gold medals in races decided by a slim 0.02 second.
		In the 1988 Calgary Olympics, for example, Blair's turn to skate in the 500-meter race came just after her chief rival, East Germany's Christa Rothenburger, had set a world record.
		Instead of succumbing to the pressure to produce, Blair set another world record of 39.1 seconds - a mark that held up until March 1994.
	tampabayonline.net /women/wstpionr.htm (9980 words)

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