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Topic: Cross-country skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics

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SLAM! NAGANO: Winter Olympic Records  Most Medals, Single Olympics, Women -- 5, Manuela Di Centa, Italy, nordic skiing, 1994 (2 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze) and Lyubov Egorova, Unified Team, nordic skiing, 1992 (3 gold, 2 silver).  Most Bronze Medals, Women -- 4, Yelena Valbe, Unified Team, nordic skiing, 1992.  Most Medals, Single Olympics, Men -- 5, Eric Heiden, United States, speedskating, 1980 (5 gold). www.canoe.ca /SlamNaganoHistory/records.html   (390 words)

Aspen/Snowmass Nordic Council Statistics covering Olympic medallists in the period up to the Norwegian victories in the Winter Olympics of 1992 and 1994-- put Norway in second place, trailing only the former Soviet Union. Cross country ski trips still remain the favourite and most typically Norwegian form of skiing. Modern skiing had its origins in the county of Telemark in the last century, but an ancient rock carving, at Ib~d~y in Nordland county, shows that Norwegians used skis as far back as 4009 years ago. www.aspennordic.com /cradle.html   (1749 words)

DJC.COM: Nike under fire for marketing of athletes, provided by Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce Nike was criticized for the Dream Team logo in the 1992 Barcelona games. Two runners from Kenya took up cross country skiing two years ago, trained in Finland and entered the 1998 Winter Olympics representing a country not known for its Nordic sports. The Kenyans' move into cross-country skiing came out of a series of meetings between Nike and Kenyan running officials. www.djc.com /news/business/10036130.html   (375 words)

Cross Country Skiing The Pursuit race was introduced in 1992 and revamped after the 1998 Nagano Games. Winter Olympics: 2006 Medal Standings by Sport (Snow) - Medal standing results for the 2006 Winter Olympics events Alpine Skiing, Biathlon, Cross-Country Skiing, Freestyle Skiing, Nordic Combined, Ski Jumping, and Snowboard. Starting with the 1988 Winter Games in Calgary, the classical and freestyle (i.e., skating) techniques were designated for specific events. www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0758103.html   (464 words)

MSN Encarta - Cold Gold: A Winter Olympics Quiz This speed skater won gold medals at the 1988, 1992, and 1994 Winter Olympics. The mascots of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, are The Winter Olympics demand strength, precision, and an unusual ability to endure bone-chilling cold. encarta.msn.com /quiz_60/Cold_Gold_A_Winter_Olympics_Quiz.html   (231 words)

1992 Olympics The first Olympics since the reunification of Germany in 1990 and the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 resulted in a record 2,174 athletes from 65 countries as the Winter Games were staged in the French Alps for the third time. The female stars of the UT cross-country contingent made the most medal news as Lyubov Egorova (3 gold and 2 silver) and Elena Valbe (1 gold and 4 bronze), each won five and 39–year-old Raisa Smetanina set a Winter Games record with her 10th career medal as a member of the victorious 20–kilometer relay team. Memorable Olympic Moments: Mark Spitz - Ambitious Mark Spitz claims seven golds and an Olympic record by Mike Morrison Mark Spitz swims for... www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0300774.html   (476 words)

Trivia - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage Moguls debuted as a medal sport at the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France. It was first a demonstration-sport event at the 1988 Winter Games in Calgary, Canada. The aerial portion of freestyle skiing was added as a medal sport for the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway. deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,50000350,00.html   (56 words)

Cross Country Skiing The Pursuit race was introduced in 1992 and revamped after the 1998 Nagano Games. Starting with the 1988 Winter Games in Calgary, the classical and freestyle (i.e., skating) techniques were designated for specific events. Winter Olympics: Cross-Country Skiing - Preview of the Olympic event cross-country skiing www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0758103.html   (452 words)

winter olympics magazine article learnenglish This was not the first time that the issue of professionalism had caused controversy Winter Olympics alpine skiing. Nordic skier Bjorn Daehlie (Norway) picked up three gold medals in the cross-country combined, 50km (freestyle) cross-country and the 4 x 10km relay, and a silver in the 30km (classical) cross-country ski event. In Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936, the IOC, overruling the International Ski Federation (FIS), declared that ski instructors could not take part in the Olympics because they were professionals. www.learnenglish.org.uk /magazine/winter_olympics.html   (452 words)

winter olympics magazine article learnenglish This was not the first time that the issue of professionalism had caused controversy Winter Olympics alpine skiing. Nordic skier Bjorn Daehlie (Norway) picked up three gold medals in the cross-country combined, 50km (freestyle) cross-country and the 4 x 10km relay, and a silver in the 30km (classical) cross-country ski event. His eventual eight medals in two Olympic games (1992 and 1994) would place him one medal behind the all time Winter Games medal winner, Sixten Jernberg of Sweden, who won nine medals between 1956 and 1964. www.learnenglish.org.uk /magazine/winter_olympics.html   (452 words)

Olympics - EnchantedLearning.com The events in the Winter Olympics include: ice hockey, figure skating, speed skating, snowboarding, luge, bobsleigh, skeleton (a type of sledding), curling, cross-country skiing, freestyle skiing, slalom, downhill (Alpine) skiing, ski jumping, Nordic combined (skiing plus ski jumping), and biathlon (skiing and shooting). The Olympic flag was first used in the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium. 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. www.enchantedlearning.com /olympics   (1129 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). 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. 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. uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572547/winter_olympics.html   (1241 words)

CNNSI.com - 2002 Winter Olympics - Cross Country Skiing - SI's Ivan Maisel: Belmondo caps career with silver - Monday February 25, 2002 01:38 AM No one expects her to still be skiing when the Winter Olympics come to Turin in 2006. The winner of nine Olympic medals had her 10th, a gold medal in the 30-kilometer race, stripped for blood doping, the same reason that she was disqualified from the women's 20-kilometer relay last Thursday. She won with some 80 people from her village of Ponte Bernardo in attendance, which is really impressive when you consider there are only 160 people living in the entire village. www.cnnsi.com /olympics/2002/cross_country_skiing/news/2002/02/24/maisel_belmondo   (711 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   (711 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)

Sports: Olympics: Winter Games: Skiing - Open Site Freestyle skiing was first introduced into the Olympics during the 1988 Calgary Games as a demonstration sports. There are six disciplines in Olympic skiing: Alpine, Cross Country, Freestyle, Nordic Combined, Ski Jumping, and Snow Boarding. The discipline was added to the Olympics program during the 1992 games in Albertville. open-site.org /Sports/Olympics/Winter_Games/Skiing   (1185 words)

Sports: Olympics: Winter Games: Skiing - Open Site Freestyle skiing was first introduced into the Olympics during the 1988 Calgary Games as a demonstration sports. There are six disciplines in Olympic skiing: Alpine, Cross Country, Freestyle, Nordic Combined, Ski Jumping, and Snow Boarding. The discipline was added to the Olympics program during the 1992 games in Albertville. open-site.org /Sports/Olympics/Winter_Games/Skiing   (1185 words)

Washingtonpost.com: 1992, Albertville, France His eventual eight medals in two Olympic games (1992 and 1994) would place him one medal behind the all time Winter Games medal winner, nine-time medalist Sixten Jernberg of Sweden. Nordic skier Bjorn Daehlie (Norway) picked up three gold medals in the cross-country combined, 50km (freestyle) cross-country and the 4 x 10km relay, and a silver in the 30km (classical) cross-country ski event. France also joined the United States as the only nation to host an Olympic Winter Games three times. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/history/years/1992.htm   (1185 words)

PJ Gold Rush Last of a series looking at just how hard it is to get to the Olympics; see previous posts on biathlon and cross country skiing, ski jumping and nordic combined, speed skating, short track, snowboarding, figure skating, freestyle skiing, curling and hockey, and bobsled, luge and skeleton. The glamour event of the Winter Olympics did not live up to expectations, and the emphasis on piling points might be partly to blame. Any discussion of last-place finishers at the Olympics, particularly at the Winter Olympics, would not be complete without at least mentioning Jamaica’s bobsled team, which drew worldwide attention at the Calgary Games in 1988. blogs.pajamasmedia.com /gold_rush   (2785 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. 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)

2006 Winter Olympics Biathlon, Events, News, Athletes, Teams, Pictures One of the most challenging of winter sports, the biathlon combines the physical demands of cross-country skiing with the mental acuity of precision marksmanship. 1960 saw its first official appearance as an Olympic event, at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics, with the first biathlon competition for women featured at the Albertville games in 1992. By the 18th century, border patrols in Northern Europe were competing in early biathlons, but it wasn't until the 20th century that the first Olympic biathlon was entered as a demonstration sport. www.chiff.com /olympics/olympics-biathlon.htm   (372 words)

Sporting News, The: Names to know in Nagano - 1998 Winter Olympics - includes television broadcast schedule Every fourth February, a sports fan's fancy, along with his television, turns from those annual winter favorites -- college basketball, NBA and NHL -- to combined-pursuit cross-country skiing, two-seater luge, 500-meter short-track speed skating and the 4-by-7.5-kilometer biathlon relay. Von Gruenigen has yet to make his mark at the Olympics, placing 15th in the slalom in 1994 and seventh in 1992. The 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, are hurtling this way like a German bobsled, household-bound in mere days, courtesy of CBS and TNT. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1208/is_n6_v222/ai_20233991   (372 words)

ninemsn Encarta - Winter Olympics Biathlon was introduced in 1960 (1992 for women) and is a sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. Men’s speed skating was introduced at the inaugural Winter Olympics; the women had to wait until 1960 for their inclusion. Winter Olympics, popular designation for the quadrennial Olympic Winter Games, the winter sports competitions forming a separate cycle of the Olympic Games. au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572547/Winter_Olympics.html   (372 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)

cross-country skiing --  Encyclopædia Britannica In the Winter Olympics the biathlon combines rifle shooting with cross-country skiing. Skiing in particular is a national pastime, though other winter games such as cross-country skiing and all forms of... "Information on the history of the American Olympic team playing this winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle marksmanship. www.britannica.com /eb/article?eu=28445&ref=news1203   (5612 words)

SMARTRISK View Article The 1986 Canadian Junior Women’s Biathlon champion was training for the first ever women’s biathlon event (shooting and cross-country skiing) at the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics. Still, Shauna is already training for the next winter Paralympics and has taken up yet another sport, on the encouragement of her partner, a top athlete and former Tour de France winner: hand-biking. Considering she had beaten Miriam Bedard, who later won gold at the 1994 Games, it’s likely Shauna would have made her mark. www.smartrisk.ca /ContentDirector.aspx?Prt=y&tp=2511   (617 words)

The Sports Network - Olympics In the 1992 Olympics she competed in cross-country skiing, but placed no higher than 26th in an individual event. Norway took five medals at the 1998 Nagano Games and this year they are strong again with Ole Einar Bjoerndalen competing in the men's division and Liv Grete Skjelbreid-Poiree on the women's team. The United States has never medaled in this sport at the Olympics and Canada doesn't have any athletes competing in the biathlon in the 2002 Games. www.sportsnetwork.com /?c=sportsnetwork&page=olymp/news/BON1912878.htm   (1134 words)

HickokSports.com - History - Biathlon The biathlon, which combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting, originated in Norway as a training exercise for soldiers. The first world championship for women was held in 1984 and the Winter Olympics introduced the women's biathlon in 1992. An early form of the biathlon, called "military ski patrol," was a demonstration sport at the first Winter Olympics in 1924, and it was a medal sport in 1928, 1936, and 1948. www.hickoksports.com /history/biathlon.shtml   (514 words)

1992 Olympics The female stars of the UT cross-country contingent made the most medal news as Lyubov Egorova (3 gold and 2 silver) and Elena Valbe (1 gold and 4 bronze), each won five and 39–year-old Raisa Smetanina set a Winter Games record with her 10th career medal as a member of the victorious 20–kilometer relay team. Norway won as many gold medals (9) as the Unified Team, thanks mainly to cross-country skiers Bjorn Dählie and Vegard Ulvang, who each carried off three golds and a silver. Norwegians also won gold in alpine skiing for the first time in 40 years as Finn Christian Jagge (slalom) and Kjetil Andre Aamodt (Super G) made like Stein Eriksen in 1952. www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0300774.html   (329 words)

Winter Olympic Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bobsleigh returned to the Olympics, while a new event was added to ski jumping and women's cross-country skiing. While bobsleighing was absent, biathlon was first contested at the Olympics, and women first took part in speed skating. The Games were also the first Olympics since September 11, 2001, which meant Olympic games since then required a higher level of security to avoid any terrorist attack. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winter_Olympics   (4275 words)

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