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Topic: Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics

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Wisconsin: Life's So Good. Now in its 32nd year, the Subaru American Birkebeiner is the nation’s largest and most prestigious cross-country ski marathon – approximately 51 kilometers from Cable to the town of Hayward – and draws thousands of cross-country skiers from all over the world. This state championsship competition challenges eligible Special Olympic athletes in cross-country skiing, alpine skiing, speed skating, snowboarding and snowshoeing. This spectacular palace is also lit every evening throughout the winter season and is such a popular tourist spot that travelers plan their trips around its construction. www.travelwisconsin.com /seasons/winter_events.htm   (552 words)

CNNSI.com - 2002 Winter Olympics - Cross-Country Skiing Quiz: Test your knowlege - Friday February 01, 2002 03:53 PM CNNSI.com - 2002 Winter Olympics - Cross-Country Skiing Quiz: Test your knowlege - Friday February 01, 2002 03:53 PM Sports Illustrated Writers Online How many cross-country skiing event are competed at the Olympics? When did cross-country skiing debut at the Olympics? sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/2002/news/crosscountry_quiz   (115 words)

MSN Encarta - Winter Olympics Nordic skiing is the term that covers cross-country skiing, ski jumping, and nordic combined (cross-country skiing and ski-jumping events combined). 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. 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. uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572547/winter_olympics.html   (1241 words)

Paralympic planners promise to build off success of Olympics And there is Anne-Mette Bredahl, a five-time Paralympic medalist in the biathlon and cross country who took home the biathlon gold in Lillehammer and the middle-distance cross country gold in Nagano. The Olympic flame may have been extinguished Sunday, but the promise of new dramatic stories of athletic triumph will reignite the caldron March 7 when the Salt Lake 2002 Paralympics begin. A key difference that could contribute to a successful Paralympic Games, according to Barney, is the advantage of having the Salt Lake Organizing Committee responsible for both the Winter Olympics and the Paralympics, the first time both Games are planned by the same organization. saltlake2002.paralympic.org /news/tribnews_02262002.html   (639 words)

Skiing News on ski.mountainzone.com He was a member of the 1968 US Olympic Cross-Country Ski Team, and a member of the A Team from 1967 to 1969. At the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Bill Beck finished 5th in the downhill, which was at that time the best Olympic downhill finish ever by an American male. Dick Barrymore, born in 1933 in California, was one of a small group of ski movie makers who traversed the country for many years showing and personally narrating, with wit and humor, their films at ski clubs, school auditoriums and movie houses. ski.mountainzone.com /2000/news/html/081500.html   (1367 words)

KIAT.NET - Olympic Winter Games Alpine Skiing Alpine skiing became part of the Olympic program at the 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Games with a men's and women's combined event, featuring a downhill and two slalom runs. From Norway, skiing spread throughout Scandinavia and Russia as a mode of winter transportation and eventually as a sport similar to cross-country skiing. In 2002, for the first time at an Olympic Winter Games, the entire combined event is being held on a single day at the same venue. www.kiat.net /olympics/sports/winter/alpineskiing.html   (652 words)

Saturday Evening Post: America's hottest cold-weather sport - skiing Mahre said at last year's Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia: "I'm already fixed for life.' His twin brother, Phil, dramatically aided his own financial position during the Winter Olympics by earning a first in the men's slalom a split second ahead of Steve, who brought a silver medal back to America. To begin with, the four main skiing divisions are: cross-country, downhill, jumping and slalom. The sport is skiing and the speaker is the Olympic superstar Steve Mahre, but the same might be said by any one of the millions of American skiers. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1189/is_v257/ai_3579796   (443 words)

Category:Skiing - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase Cross Country Skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics This category deals with the use of skis in various sports. This page was last modified 19:17, 13 Nov 2004 by Anonymous user(s) of Indopedia. www.indopedia.org /Category:Skiing.html   (121 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   (1093 words)

Olympic history - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage Bill Koch becomes the first — and so far, the only — American to medal in cross country skiing, using his trademark skating technique to place second in the men's 30-kilometer event. Colorado voters reject a $5 million bond issue to help finance the Games, and Denver immediately withdraws as host of the 1976 Winter Olympics. World War II forces the eventual cancellation of the 1940 Olympics altogether. deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,50000116,00.html   (161 words)

USSR at the Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia There the first Winter Olympic gold medal in the history of Soviet sport was won by Lyubov Kozyreva in women's Cross country skiing 10 km race event. At six 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. Since that time USSR was allowed to participate in Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USSR_at_the_Winter_Olympics   (208 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. brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1924_winter_olympics.html   (208 words)

olympics Soon soon early olympic stadium bobsledders ice skating 2002 winter olympics picabo street bobsledders speedskating olympics in salt lake city, skiers cross country skiing drobiazko soldier hollow saltlakecity torvill and dean olimpic high jump scott hamilton. Olympic games father old sonja henie brian orser alimpics althete hopefuls yelena berezhnaya salt lake city olympics 2002, anton sikharulidze olympic games closing ceremony ice skating mike eruzione 2002olympics moguls linda fratianne. Olympics+ soon over sikharulidze john stephen akhwari snowboarders linda fratianne 2002 winter olympics snowboarding, christine brennan olympics+ casey fitzrandolph christine brennan olympics+ bobsleighing biathlete luge. olympics0.blogspot.com   (208 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)

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. 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.ipedia.com /1924_winter_olympics.html   (174 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)

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   (2380 words)

Paolo Soleri . Arizona . 1956 . 1976 . 1981 . Paris Pos Athlete 1Thorleif Haug NOR 18.906 2Thoralf Strømstad NOR 18.219 3Johan Grøttumsbråten NOR 17.854 At the 1924 Winter Olympics, the nordic combined event consisted of 18 km cross country skiing and the ski jumping ski jump. Eiffel Tower The Eiffel Tower Arc de Triomphe - monument at the center of the Place de l Etoile Place de l Étoile, commemorating the victories of France and honoring those who died in battle. www.uk.fraquisanto.net /Paolo_Soleri   (2380 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. The first downhill skiing race was held in Kitzbühel, Austria, in 1905 and the sport made its Olympic debut at the Olympics in 1948. In 1976 the Winter Olympics were awarded to Denver, Colorado, but in an unprecedented move the voters of Denver decided against the use of public funds. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=FET_E8   (5612 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. In 1976 the Winter Olympics were awarded to Denver, Colorado, but in an unprecedented move the voters of Denver decided against the use of public funds. The first time that a winter sport was included in the Olympic games was during the 1900 summer Olympics. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=FET_E8   (5612 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   (5612 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)

CTV.ca Hughes first Cdn. to win in Winter, Summer Games Hayley Wickenheiser of Shaunavon, Sask., who won a gold medal with the Canadian women's hockey team on Thursday, also competed in softball at the Sydney Olympics while Sue Holloway of Halifax competed in cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Games and in kayaking in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. SALT LAKE CITY - Clara Hughes found herself in lofty company on Saturday when she became the first Canadian to win a medal in both the Winter and Summer Olympics, skating to a bronze in the women's 5,000-metre long track speed skating event. Hughes of Winnipeg, a double-bronze medallist in cycling at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics, finished in six minutes 53.53 seconds to earn the bronze in the 5,000. www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1024895712532_20304912   (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)

Cross country competition is as old as the Winter Games - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage Russia's Raisa Smetanina became the first winter athlete to win 10 medals and the only person to win medals in five different Winter Olympics (1976-92). The 50 kilometers was the first Olympic nordic skiing event, dating back to the inaugural 1924 Chamonix Games. Olympic cross country competition is as old as the Winter Games themselves. webserver.desnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,30000124,00.html   (2380 words)

Austrian Press & Information Service Other winter sports practiced in Austria are ski-bobbing, ski-jumping, the Nordic combination (ski-jumping and cross-country skiing), cross-country skiing, snowboarding, bob racing and tobogganing. Twice, in 1964 and in 1976, the Tyrolean capital, Innsbruck, was selected as the venue for the Winter Olympics, and the good reputation Austria enjoys throughout the sporting world is also evidenced by the fact that it has hosted a series of European and world championships. Matthias Zdarsky (1856-1940) wrote the first ski instruction manual in 1897, invented the first practical ski binding and, in 1905, organized the first slalom competition in skiing history on the slopes of the Muckenkogel, near Lilienfeld in Lower Austria. www.austria.org /sports.shtml   (1871 words)

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