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	ipedia.com: Winter Olympic Games Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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.
		Figure skating was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympics, appearing in the programme of the Summer Olympics in 1908 and 1920.
	www.ipedia.com /winter_olympic_games.html (5171 words)

	winter olympics magazine article learnenglish
		The Olympic Motto is 'Citius, Altius, Fortius', (or faster, higher, stronger), and when you hear the words "The Olympics", you may see mental pictures of tanned men and women athletes in brightly coloured sportswear, trying hard to live up to the motto, while keeping to the Olympic ideals of friendship, unity, fair play and peace.
		In the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, two Japanese ski jumpers, Masahiko Harada and Takanobu Okabe, won the gold and silver medals after both of them jumped 137 metres, the longest ski jumps ever seen at the games.
		Figure skating is a traditional favourite at the Winter Olympics.
	www.learnenglish.org.uk /magazine/winter_olympics02.html (744 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Winter Olympics 2002 \| Skating \| Figure skating in the dock
		Figure skating is not a sport to shy away from controversy, especially during an Olympic year.
		The Olympics strives to uphold its image as a paragon of sporting virtues, a persona hard to maintain when the validity of its success stories can be called into question.
		And a whole host of the events at the Winter Olympics are reliant upon similar types of scoring system, without generating anywhere near as much controversy.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/hi/english/skating/newsid_1818000/1818208.stm (473 words)

	Olympic highlights - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		With Olympic gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi retiring after her triumph at the 1992 Albertville Games, Harding seemed to have the inside track for garnering national and international prominence — were it not for Kerrigan.
		In Lillehammer, Harding's medal hopes were as short as the bothersome replacement lace on one of her skates during a performance; she finished eighth, returning later to the United States to plea-bargain her way to reduced charges in the assault incident.
		Concluding with the free skate, Kwan skated well enough to win the gold but also left the door open for the 15-year-old Lipinski, who responded with an energetic performance that earned her first place and dropped her elder teammate to second place.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,55000030,00.html (1182 words)

	The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports - Popular Topics: Archive 2002
		With the introduction of metal skates in the 1300s, skating was transformed from mainly a mode of transportation to an important form of winter recreation.
		Since figure skating blades are ground in a concave shape, the only parts which actually make contact with the ice are the two outer edges of the bottom of each of the blades.
		The starting order for each event in a figure skating competition is determined by a lottery or "draw." Either the referee or chair of the competition conducts the process in the presence of other judges (closed draw) or in an open setting where the athletes actually draw a number from a pouch (open draw).
	www.fitness.gov /figure_skating.htm (5572 words)

	KIAT.NET - Olympic Winter Games Figure Skating
		Warriors and hunters crafted makeshift skates of reindeer antlers or elk bones, and later iron and steel.
		Because competitions could be held indoors, figure skating was the first winter sport included in the Olympic Games when it was added to the Olympic program for the 1908 Summer Olympic Games in London.
		The past two Olympic figure skating competitions have been dominated by the Russians, who won six of the possible eight gold medals and 10 in total.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/sports/winter/figureskating.html (492 words)

	Art 002 Group 18: History of Sports From Around the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Figure skating is one of the most underrated and extremely unique sports in the world.
		Skating has become such a he part of the Olympics that it is difficult to fathom the fact that it was not always part of the games.
		For Olympic purposes, the section of figure skating competition is divided into 4 areas: men's, women's, pairs, and ice dancing.
	www.personal.psu.edu /tpf124/art002/sports/figureskating.html (1203 words)

	ABC Sport Online - Winter Olympics 2006 - History
		Figure skating was included in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and, with ice hockey, at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.
		The Winter Olympics returned to the United States for the first time in 22 years after calls for the Games to be cancelled following the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.
		The abiding memory of the second Japanese Winter Olympics after Sapporo in 1972 was the spectacular "human-cannonball" fall sustained by Austrian giant Hermann Maier in the men's downhill.
	www.abc.net.au /winterolympics/2006/history.htm (4179 words)

	Figure Skating - Winter Olympic Sports
		Figure skating was included in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, prior to the introduction of the Winter Olympics.
		Norwegian Sonja Henie was only 11 years old when she first skated in the Olympics in 1924.
		She would equal the feat of Gillis Grafström, winning the first of her three consecutive gold medals in figure skating at the 1928 Games at the age of 15.
	www.topendsports.com /events/winter/sports/figure-skating.htm (105 words)

	Figure Skating
		skating is one of the most glamorous and well-known of the Winter Olympics events.
		It is the oldest of the Winter Olympics events, appearing on the program in 1924 but also in the Summer Olympics in 1908 and 1920.
		A similar event, called ice dancing (introduced at the 1976 Winter Olympics, in Innsbruck Austria), is more artistic and does not usually involve the athletic jumps and stunts that individual and pairs events have.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/sports/figureskating.htm (155 words)

	Spotlight Sport - Figure Skating
		Figure skating was the first winter sport included in the Olympic Games when it appeared at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.
		The major types of competitive figure skating are individual men's and women's competitions, pairs skating, ice dancing, and precision skating.
		Young people interested in figure skating may practice many of the skills needed to increase balance and grace by using in-line skates or roller blades.
	www.edgate.com /wintergames/design/spotlight_sport/figskt.htm (627 words)

	History of the Winter Olympics
		The introduction of the Winter Olympics was delayed for some time by Sweden, which staged its own very successful Nordic Games.
		Originally, the tradition was to hold the Winter Games a few months earlier and in a different city than the summer Olympic Games.
		A couple of winter Olympic sports have figured in the Summer Games - Figure skating was included in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and, and both Figure Skating and ice hockey at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.
	www.topendsports.com /events/winter/history.htm (158 words)

	Outstanding Athletes of the 1924 Chamonix Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		He won the men's figure skating competition as he had done at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics.
		He won the 500-meter speed skating gold medal which was America's only gold in the Games.
		The first Olympic ski jump event was won by the Norwegian ahead of his compatriot Narve Bonna.
	www.sportz4u.com /isport/Olympics/fnlsite/hofame/Heroes/1924w.htm (71 words)

	Winter Olympics: Figure Skating
		Figure skating was in the spotlight in the 2002 Olympics when it was discovered that vote-swapping had pushed the Russian pair into first place above the near-flawless Canadian performance.
		The French judge was sent packing and in an Olympic first, the gold was awarded to both the Canadians and the Russians.
		figure skating judging and scoring have been overhauled.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/winter-olympics-figure-skating.html (528 words)

	winter olympics
		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 first Olympics after the war, the 1920 Games in Antwerp, again, featured figure skating, while ice hockey made its Olympic debut.
		Subsequently, St. Moritz, Switzerland was chosen by the IOC to host the 1940 Winter Olympics, but three months later the IOC withdrew St. Moritz from the Games, because of quarrels with the Swiss organisation team.
		During the opening ceremonies, Dr. Jacques Rogge, presiding over his first Olympics as IOC president, told the athletes of the host country that their nation was overcoming the "horrific tragedy" of that day and the IOC stands united with them in promoting the committee's ideals.
	hometown.aol.de /svizaczak/wo-47740.html (4518 words)

	2006 Winter Olympic Figure Skating, Events, News, Stars, Teams, Pictures
		Today, figure skating and ice dancing are two of the top draws at the Winter Olympic Games, with fans around the world avidly following their favorite stars...
		But he remains one of the greatest men's figure skaters of all time, and is a lock for gold in 2006 as he combines spectacular jumps with masterful artistry.
		In 2006, Weir took his third consecutive national figure skating title, automatically qualifying him for a berth at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
	www.chiff.com /olympics/olympics-figure-skating.htm (611 words)

	Winter Olympics History
		The move toward a winter version of the Olympics began in 1908 when figure skating made an appearance at the Summer Games in London.
		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 11-day event, which included nordic skiing, speed skating, figure skating, ice hockey and bobsledding, was a huge success and was retroactively called the first Olympic Winter Games.
	pershing.sandi.net /computer/webzine/team8/wohistory.htm (284 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936
		For the first time the Olympic flame burned at the Winter Olympics too.
		There were 106 thousand paying spectators and record participation for the first German Olympics which was the prologue to the more imposing Summer Games in Berlin.
		Due to the exclusion of women's speed skating from the Olympics, she chose to instead compete in the combined downhill, which she won.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w04garmisch.html (362 words)

	Spotlight Sport - Speed Skating
		Although archeologists in Scandinavia have relics that demonstrate primitive people glided over the ice using skates fashioned from animal bone and straps of leather, it was in the Netherlands that skating became a mode of transportation and national passion.
		The first known skating competition is thought to have been a 15-meter race and took place in England on February 4, 1763.
		Speed skating giant, Eric Heiden (Madison, Wisconsin) produced the greatest single feat in Winter Olympic history when he won all five events at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics.
	www.edgate.com /wintergames/design/spotlight_sport/spdsktng.htm (782 words)

	1924 Olympics — Infoplease.com
		The first Winter Olympic Games were actually called “The International Winter Sports Week” and went on for 11 days in the French Alps, 60 miles northeast of Grenoble.
		Environmental factors in the summer Olympics in historical perspective.
		The Marvelous Spectacles of Olympia and Marathon: The Roots of the Olympics and Marathon Racing.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0300756.html (386 words)

	olympics
		Olympic Poetry in Motion, Olympic Timelines, or the Salt Lake City Fact Sheets, for instance.
		An official Olympics figure skating webzine is the goal here, complete with varied articles and graphics.
		Olympics, and then program and design their own webzine to feature their work.
	www.msu.edu /~hobson/olympics.htm (1400 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES
		Sonja Henie made her Olympic debut at the first Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix in 1924.
		At the time, she was only 11 years old and she had to punctuate her free skating routine with frequent visits to the sidelines to ask her coach what she should do next.
		At the 1928 St. Moritz Olympics, Henie won the gold medal by earning the first place votes of six of the seven judges.
	www.olympic.org /uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=74701 (221 words)

	Pre-1924 - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		1900: Plans call for figure skating in the 1900 Summer Olympics, but the competition never takes place.
		1908: Figure skating makes its Olympic debut at the 1908 Summer Games in London, with four events contested at Princees, an every-fourth-year competition for the past decade.
		1922: "International Sports Week 1924" is planned and approved for Chamonix, France, despite the opposition of Olympics founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,21,00.html (138 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Winter Olympics 2002 \| Front Page
		Great Britain's Winter Olympic gold medal heroines return home to a rousing welcome from fans and well-wishers.
		The 2002 Winter Olympics come to an end with controversy still raging.
		China's most successful Winter Olympian wins her second gold of the Games in the women's 500m short track final.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/default.stm (393 words)

	TIME 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games
		Gaston Vidal of France, Under-Secretary of State for technical education, in action during the Curling event at the 1924 Winter Olympic Games.
		Olympic Figure Skating: A Sport on Thin Ice
		A bad call — and a quick recall — expose the darker side of Olympic skating
	www.time.com /time/olympics2002/moments (102 words)

	Figure skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Last place finisher Sonja Henie went on to win gold at the next three Olympic games.
		1924 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1994 • 1998 • 2002 • 2006
		See also: List of Olympic medalists in figure skating
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Figure_skating_at_the_1924_Winter_Olympics (158 words)

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