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Topic: Cross-country skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics

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Washingtonpost.com: Nordic Skiing Kazuyoshi Funaki put up perfect style marks in the 120-meter ski jump Saturday to win the first gold for Japan in ski jumping since 1972. The undisputed king of cross-country skiing, Norway's Bjorn Daehlie (pictured), won the 50-kilometer event Sunday for his eighth career Olympic gold medal, the most by any athlete in the Winter Games. Even with Emperor Akihito cheering them on, the Japanese could not overcome a disappointing performance on the ski-jump hill and saw their reign as Nordic team champion end after two consecutive Winter Games. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/sport/nordic.htm   (524 words)

Washingtonpost.com: Nordic Skiing Kazuyoshi Funaki put up perfect style marks in the 120-meter ski jump Saturday to win the first gold for Japan in ski jumping since 1972. The undisputed king of cross-country skiing, Norway's Bjorn Daehlie (pictured), won the 50-kilometer event Sunday for his eighth career Olympic gold medal, the most by any athlete in the Winter Games. Even with Emperor Akihito cheering them on, the Japanese could not overcome a disappointing performance on the ski-jump hill and saw their reign as Nordic team champion end after two consecutive Winter Games. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/sport/nordic.htm   (524 words)

1924 Winter Olympics Cross country skiing at the 1924 Winter Olympics Originally called Semaine des Sports d'Hiver ("International Winter Sports Week") and held in association with the 1924 Summer Olympics, the sports competitions held in Chamonix between 25 January and 5 February 1924 were later designated by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the '''Ist Olympic Winter Games. However, no such designation was made in 1924, nor by the IOC at any time, and many Olympic historians now consider them to be full medal events. www.encyclopedia-1.com /1/19/1924_winter_olympics.html   (524 words)

Canada at the Winter Olympics Since the winter Olympics began in 1924, Norway, Sweden, Soviet Union/Russia and Finland have won 63 of the 66 gold medals awarded in men’s cross-country skiing. Short-track skating was a demonstration sport in 1992 at Albertville and made its official Olympic debut in 1994 at Lillehammer in 1994. In 1908, figure skating events were held at the London summer games and in 1911 an International Olympic Committee (IOC) member proposed that the Swedes include winter sports in the Stockholm games. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=FET_E8   (5612 words)

ipedia.com: 1924 Winter Olympics Article Cross country skiing at the 1924 Winter Olympics Originally called Semaine des Sports d'Hiver ("International Winter Sports Week") and held in association with the 1924 Summer Olympics, the sports competitions held in Chamonix between 25 January and 5 February 1924 were later designated by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the '''Ist Olympic Winter Games. Originally called Semaine des Sports d'Hiver and held in association with the 1924 Summer Olympics, the sports competitions held in Chamonix between 25 January and 5 February 1924 were later designate... www.ipedia.com /1924_winter_olympics.html   (174 words)

CBC.CA - Torino 2006 Speed skating, bobsleigh, cross-country skiing and luge events were slashed from the program due to unseasonably warm weather. The 1994 Games did not suffer from the quick turnaround as the Lillehammer Olympics are considered among the most successful Winter Games in history. The inaugural Winter Olympics were a resounding success in the picturesque spa town of Chamonix, France. www.cbc.ca /olympics/history   (1185 words)

1976 Olympics Also, Bill Koch became the first U.S. skier to ever win an Olympic cross-country medal when he placed second in the 30–kilometer race. The Russian hockey team, which had won the gold medal in 1972 and then battled the NHL's Team Canada to a virtual standoff six months later, returned with most of the same players and won its fourth straight Olympic title. Denver immediately withdrew as host and the IOC called on Innsbruck, site of the 1964 Games. www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0300769.html   (1185 words)

World Almanac for Kids A total of eight sports were included in the winter Olympics in 1998: biathlon (cross-country skiing and rifle marksmanship), bobsled, curling (for the first time), ice hockey (which included women’s hockey for the first time), luge (toboggan), figure skating, speed skating, and skiing (which, for the first time, included snowboarding as a medal sport). The winter Olympics were begun in 1924 and were held in the same year as the summer games until the 1994 winter games in Lillehammer, Norway, when the alternating cycles began. OLYMPIC GAMES, international athletic competition comprising two separate 4-year cycles, the summer Olympics and the winter Olympics. www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/sports/olympics.html   (1185 words)

NPR : 2002 Winter Olympics, A Special Report At recent Olympic trials for the biathlon -- an event that combines cross-country skiing and shooting -- several U.S. hopefuls were soldiers, training for the Olympics at a time of war. Shorter, who won the gold in the 1972 Olympic marathon and silver in the 1976 games, talks about the drugs involved in doping, and says it has become much easier to detect their use. The Olympics in Salt Lake City will feature a contrast between the guardians of the Olympic tradition and the brash interlopers of relatively new sport of snowboarding. www.npr.org /programs/specials/olympics2002   (1185 words)

NPR : 2002 Winter Olympics, A Special Report At recent Olympic trials for the biathlon-- an event that combines cross-country skiing and shooting -- several U.S. hopefuls were soldiers, training for the Olympics at a time of war. Shorter, who won the gold in the 1972 Olympic marathon and silver in the 1976 games, talks about the drugs involved in doping, and says it has become much easier to detect their use. The Olympics in Salt Lake City will feature a contrast between the guardians of the Olympic tradition and the brash interlopers of relatively new sport of snowboarding. www.npr.org /programs/specials/olympics2002   (2380 words)

NPR : 2002 Winter Olympics, A Special Report At recent Olympic trials for the biathlon-- an event that combines cross-country skiing and shooting -- several U.S. hopefuls were soldiers, training for the Olympics at a time of war. The Olympics in Salt Lake City will feature a contrast between the guardians of the Olympic tradition and the brash interlopers of relatively new sport of snowboarding. Some fans of the card game bridge want it to be included in the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy. www.npr.org /programs/specials/olympics2002   (2380 words)

NPR : 2002 Winter Olympics, A Special Report At recent Olympic trials for the biathlon-- an event that combines cross-country skiing and shooting -- several U.S. hopefuls were soldiers, training for the Olympics at a time of war. Shorter, who won the gold in the 1972 Olympic marathon and silver in the 1976 games, talks about the drugs involved in doping, and says it has become much easier to detect their use. The 1932 speed skating gold medalist was killed in a car crash, just three weeks before his grandson is to compete in the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. www.npr.org /programs/specials/olympics2002   (2380 words)

NPR : 2002 Winter Olympics, A Special Report At recent Olympic trials for the biathlon-- an event that combines cross-country skiing and shooting -- several U.S. hopefuls were soldiers, training for the Olympics at a time of war. The Olympics in Salt Lake City will feature a contrast between the guardians of the Olympic tradition and the brash interlopers of relatively new sport of snowboarding. Some fans of the card game bridge want it to be included in the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy. www.npr.org /programs/specials/olympics2002   (2380 words)

NPR : 2002 Winter Olympics, A Special Report At recent Olympic trials for the biathlon -- an event that combines cross-country skiing and shooting -- several U.S. hopefuls were soldiers, training for the Olympics at a time of war. Shorter, who won the gold in the 1972 Olympic marathon and silver in the 1976 games, talks about the drugs involved in doping, and says it has become much easier to detect their use. The 1932 speed skating gold medalist was killed in a car crash, just three weeks before his grandson is to compete in the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. www.npr.org /programs/specials/olympics2002   (2380 words)

NPR : 2002 Winter Olympics, A Special Report At recent Olympic trials for the biathlon -- an event that combines cross-country skiing and shooting -- several U.S. hopefuls were soldiers, training for the Olympics at a time of war. Shorter, who won the gold in the 1972 Olympic marathon and silver in the 1976 games, talks about the drugs involved in doping, and says it has become much easier to detect their use. The 1932 speed skating gold medalist was killed in a car crash, just three weeks before his grandson is to compete in the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. www.npr.org /programs/specials/olympics2002   (2380 words)

NPR : 2002 Winter Olympics, A Special Report At recent Olympic trials for the biathlon -- an event that combines cross-country skiing and shooting -- several U.S. hopefuls were soldiers, training for the Olympics at a time of war. Shorter, who won the gold in the 1972 Olympic marathon and silver in the 1976 games, talks about the drugs involved in doping, and says it has become much easier to detect their use. The 1932 speed skating gold medalist was killed in a car crash, just three weeks before his grandson is to compete in the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. www.npr.org /programs/specials/olympics2002   (2380 words)

1998 Olympic Nordic Skiing and Ski Jumping When the Winter Olympics open from February 7-22 in Nagano, it will be a grand spectacle, great racing, and a dream come true for the organizers who have worked hard to prepare a hearty welcome. The USA Women's team is led by Alaska's Nina Kemppel, who will be skiing in her third Olympics, along with likely Olympic Team candidates Vermonter Kerrin Petty — who lives most of the year in Sweden, and perhaps Laura Wilson. Olympic champion and chief of the FIS Cross-Country Committee, Odd Martinsen. classic.mountainzone.com /olympics/nagano/nordic.html   (2380 words)

Winter Olympic Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia At the first Winter Games to be televised, the programme was extended with two events in cross-country skiing. The 1972 Winter Games were the first to be held outside North America or Europe. The Winter Olympic Games, Winter Olympics for short but more correctly The Olympic Winter Games, are the cold-weather counterpart to the Summer Olympic Games. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winter_Olympics   (2380 words)

NPR : 2002 Winter Olympics, A Special Report At recent Olympic trials for the biathlon-- an event that combines cross-country skiing and shooting -- several U.S. hopefuls were soldiers, training for the Olympics at a time of war. Shorter, who won the gold in the 1972 Olympic marathon and silver in the 1976 games, talks about the drugs involved in doping, and says it has become much easier to detect their use. Some fans of the card game bridge want it to be included in the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy. www.npr.org /programs/specials/olympics2002   (2380 words)

1980 — Lake Placid, N.Y. - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage Sweden’s Thomas Wassberg edges Finland’s Juha Mieto by.01 of a second to win the men’s 15-kilometer cross country event, serving as the closest finish ever in Olympic skiing history. While a subsequent rule change would result in times being rounded to the 10th of a second, it is little consolation to Mieto, who had missed a bronze medal in 1972 by.06 of a second. deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,6,00.html   (652 words)

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