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	History of Winter Olympics @ Sport.y2u.co.uk
		The 10000 m speed skating was abandoned in the 5th pair, and the 50 km cross-country ended with a temperature of 25 °F (−4 °C), forcing a third of the field to abandon competition.
		This decision caused the Swiss and Austrian skiers to boycott the Olympics.
		The 1940 Winter Olympics had originally been awarded to Japan, and were supposed to be held in Sapporo, but Japan had to give the Games back in 1938, because of the Japanese invasion of China in the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945).
	y2u.co.uk /sub028_Sport/Oylimpics_Winter/Wo_02_Winter_Olympics_History.htm (4728 words)

	Winter Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This decision caused the Swiss and Austrian skiers to boycott the Olympics.
		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.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Winter_Olympic_Games (5703 words)

	1928 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The II Olympic Winter Games were held in 1928 in Sankt-Moritz, Switzerland.
		The 1928 Games were the first true Winter Olympics, held on its own, and not in conjunction with a Summer Olympics.
		All preceding Winter Events of the Olympic Games were the winter sports part of the schedule of the Summer Games, and not as a separate Winter Games.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1928_Winter_Olympics (159 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		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.
		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 Olympic games are competitions of individual athletes, not of nations, and the IOC does not keep national scores; however, the media of all nations report national standings according to one of two scoring systems.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/sports/olympics.html (1093 words)

	MSN Encarta - Sonja Henie
		She won the gold medal for figure skating at the 1928, 1932, and 1936 Winter Olympics.
		She pioneered the use of modern costumes and choreography in figure skating.
		She won the Norwegian championships in 1923 and in 1924 competed in the Winter Olympics.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761558029/Sonja_Henie.html (182 words)

	KIAT.NET - Olympic Winter Games Figure Skating
		As a mode of transportation for warfare and hunting in Northern Europe, skating was a swift way to cross frozen lakes, ponds, rivers and streams.
		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)

	BBC SPORT \| Winter Olympics 2002 \| Front Page \| How the Winter Games were born
		The answer is 1893, the sport was speed skating, and that event was the first step towards the birth of the Winter Olympics.
		By 1908 figure skating had been included in the Summer Olympics and from there it seemed a matter of time before winter sports got their own Games, which arrived in 1924.
		The 1928 Winter Olympics in St Moritz, Switzerland, attracted an 84 percent increase in participants.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/hi/english/front_page/newsid_1628000/1628703.stm (441 words)

	Winter_Olympic_Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		At the IOC Congress held the next year, it was decided that the organizers of the next Olympics (France) would also host a separate "International Winter Sports Week", under patronage of the IOC.
		The 1940 Winter Olympics had originally been awarded to Japan, and were supposed to be held in Sapporo, but Japan had to give the Games back in 1938, because of the Japanese invasion of China in the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945).
		The 1944 Winter Olympics, scheduled to take place in Cortina d'Ampezzo, were cancelled in Summer 1941.
	www.usedaudiparts.com /search.php?title=Winter_Olympic_Games (5514 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The 1928 Winter Games, hosted by St. Moritz, Switzerland, were the first to be held in a different nation than the Summer Games of the same year.
		Another Norwegian, Sonja Henie, caused a sensation by winning the women’s figure skating at the age of fifteen.
		The 10,000m speed skating was cancelled because of the condition of the ice (warm wind).
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1928 (313 words)

	Whitehorse 2007 - Jeux du Canada Winter Games
		In 1928, ateam gymnastic event was authorized for women, but not until 1952 did women compete in individual events.
		Skating on ice was, for hundreds of years, a rapid form of transportation across frozen lakes, rivers and canals.
		Short track speed skating was first introduced at the 1983 Canada Winter Games in Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, Québec and was first included in the official program at the XVI Olympic Winter Games in Albertville in 1992.
	www.2007canadagames.ca /en/sports (2371 words)

	SOAR Project 5th Grade
		The Olympics are a whole bunch of sports, which lots of different nations, and countries compete in, against each other.
		Figure skating is when 2 people do a dance together on ice.
		The Winter Olympics were interesting considering all of the things that happen and go on in the Winter Olympics.
	www.selah.k12.wa.us /SOAR/Projects2001/EmilyH.html (858 words)

	1928 — St. Moritz, Switzerland - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		While Olympic organizers had hoped that a single country would host both the winter and summer games every four year, that thought doesn’t last long.
		The second Winter Olympiad are held in a different country than its summer counterpart, which are contested in the Netherlands in the summer of 1928.
		A year after winning the world figure skating championship at the age of 14, Norway’s Sonja Henie claims the ladies’ gold medal.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,19,00.html (374 words)

	The 2002 Olympics
		The first winter Olympics were held in 1924 in Chamonix, France, and had 13 female and 245 male athletes representing 16 countries.
		Meagan fell in love with skating the first time her mom took her to a rink at the age of 7, and she has been skating seriously for the past year and a half.
		Figure skating: a term that came in use when early skaters spent hours learning how to trace basic forms on the ice, mostly variations of circles and figure eights.
	www.courier-journal.com /foryourinfo/020402/020402.html (1900 words)

	Olympic bronze medalist finds some fame at 91
		She talks about skating with Henie, tells a man how best to lace up his skates, and pulls the Olympic bronze medal out from underneath her coat.
		We had to skate around holes in the ice," she recalled.
		Brunner laughs, noting that she started skating when she was 7, while Henie started at age 2.
	www.canoe.ca /SlamNaganoFigureSkatingArchive/feb12_old.html (657 words)

	Australia - Winter Olympics
		Although the first official Winter Games were held at Chamonix in 1924, figure skating for men, women and pairs were held at the 1908 Summer Games, and Ice hockey was played at the 1920 Summer Games.
		Colin Coates improved his performance from the previous Olympics to be placed 11th in the 1000m, 10th in the 5000m, 8th in the 1500m and 6th in the 10000m speed skating.
		To alternated Summer and Winter Olympic Games the Olympics will no longer be held in the same year, there will be two years between the Summer and Winter Olympic Games.
	www.markeaton.net /olhistory.html (749 words)

	Olympics - EnchantedLearning.com
		The Greeks held the first Olympic games in the year 776 BC (over 2700 years ago), and had only one event, a sprint (a short run that was called the "stade").
		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.
		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).
	www.enchantedlearning.com /olympics (1129 words)

	St. Moritz, Switzerland, 1928 (from Olympic Games) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The second Winter Olympics, held at a ski resort, were marred by bad weather.
		Figure skating was included in the Olympics for the first time in the 1908...
		As a result of the United States boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow and the Soviet Union not attending the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, Calif., athletes from these countries were deprived of the opportunity to face one another in sports competition.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-214319?tocId=214319 (941 words)

	Cool Attractions - Olympic History
		As Salt Lake City prepares for the 19th Olympic Winter Games, constructing multi-million dollar venues, landing corporate sponsorships, and adjusting the city's infrastructure to accommodate the temporarily swollen population, all eyes are on the future.
		Norwegian figure skater Sonja Henie made her debut at the 1924 Games, at age 12, and in 1928, 32, and 36 took home the gold medals.
		The Olympics have always reflected the political goings-on in the world, and for this reason, the 1964 games in Innsbruck, Austria were particularly noteworthy.
	www.saltlakecity.coolattractions.com /history.html (862 words)

	Oslo : Famous People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In America, however, only an older generation of devotees of late-night television might be able to identify this former figure skater and movie actress who won gold medals for figure skating at the 1928, 1932, and 1936 Winter Olympics.
		Henie was born in Oslo, the daughter of a furrier.
		Having learned skating and dancing as a child, she became the youngest Olympic skating champion when she won her first gold medal at age 15.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=60&catID=0060020305 (932 words)

	Mini Hunt--Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Charles ___ (USA) became the first American to win a gold medal in Winter Olympic competition when he sped to victory in the 500m speedskating event, with a time of 44 seconds.
		For the first time in Winter Olympic history, the total number of athletes to attend a Winter Games topped 1,000 in the ___ Olympics.
		For better or worst, the ___ Games probably will be best remembered for the attack that U.S. figure skater Tonya Harding engineered on Nancy Kerrigan, her primary rival, before the U.S. nationals and just 50 days before she was to skate in Lillehamer.
	www.fairgrove.k12.mo.us /swadley/minihunts/olympics3.htm (467 words)

	Bobsled, skeleton have had long ride through history - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		But in terms of Olympic events, skeleton was included in only two previous Winter Games, those of 1928 and 1948, both in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
		According to the U.S. Olympic Committee, the organizers of the 1960 Games in Squaw Valley, Calif., refused to build a track and the sport was removed from the Olympic schedule.
		During the 1928 Winter Games, for the only time, a five-man sled was used.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,50000294,00.html (780 words)

	CNNSI.com - SI For Women - 100 Greatest Female Athletes - Wednesday December 01, 1999 04:28 PM
		With her dimples and soft smile, the petite, blonde Norwegian figure skater was the picture of sweetness and modesty.
		Whether on the ice or in the boardroom, the woman who elevated figure skating from winter recreation to spectator sport was a cutthroat competitor and a shrewd businesswoman who was out to win.
		Her personal popularity, in turn, popularized figure skating as a spectator sport in the U.S., which helped lead to the first female world champion from the U.S. (Tenley Albright) in 1953 and the first Olympic woman gold medalist in the sport (Albright) in 1956.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /siforwomen/top_100/4 (548 words)

	GBROLYMPICS.COM / LONDON-OLYMPICS.COM - Olympic Games Medallists
		The modern Olympics were first held in 1896.
		Nevertheless all those competitions reported, at one time or another, as Olympic medal events have been included here for the record, with those no longer regarded as official footnoted.
		The Winter Olympics were first held in 1924.
	www.gbrolympics.com /olympic (336 words)

	1928 Winter Olympics medal count (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		figure skating gold in 1928 at St. Moritz, in 1932...
		This is the full table of the medal count of the 1928 Winter Olympics.
		Olympic's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of the Olympics' Gold Medal Gaffes, Improbable Triumphs, and Other Oddities (Most...
	hallencyclopedia.com /1928_Winter_Olympics_medal_count (359 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Lake Placid 1932
		The traditional dominion of the Norwegian cross-country skiers was decidedly shaken in the third edition of the Winter Games which went outside of Europe for the first time.
		The speed skating events were unique in that they did not follow the traditional European format of paired races, but rather group starts, heats, and elimination, much like track events.
		Canada was declared the winner on the basis of a better goal average throughout the Olympics.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w03lakeplacid.html (359 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		The inaugural Winter Olympics were a resounding success in the picturesque spa town of Chamonix, France.
		The 1936 Winter Games were held in the twin Bavarian towns of Garmisch and Partenkirchen just three years before the outbreak of the Second World War.
		On the ice, a new star was born, as figure skater Dorothy Hamill rocketed to fame in the U.S. by winning gold in the women’s competition.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/history (1185 words)

	Winter olympics games. Team Canada Olympic Teams. Olympiad
		The next winter olympics will be in Vancouver in 2010.
		Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati was stripped of his gold medal in the winter Games held in Nagano, Japan in 1998 when he tested positive for marijuana.
		Canada was part of a big scandal in the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
	www.canadianolympicteams.ca /winterolympics.htm (400 words)

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