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Topic: Figure skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics

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	Figure skating article - Figure skating skating World Championships Winter Olympics Equipment Disciplines - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Figure skating is an ice skating sporting event where individuals, mixed couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other "moves" on the ice, often to music.
		Compulsory figures, in which skaters use their blades to draw circles, figure 8s, and similar shapes in ice, and are judged on the accuracy and clarity of the figures and the cleanness and exact placement of the various turns on the circles.
		Figure skating is a very popular part of the Winter Olympic Games, in which the elegance of both the competitors and their movements attract many spectators.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Figure_skating (2784 words)

	Figure skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the 1948 Winter Olympics, three figure skating events were contested.
		Barbara Ann Scott became the first Canadian to win the figure skating gold medal while Dick Button became the first American to win a figure skating title for the United States.
		Hutton also became the first figure skater to perform a double axel during an Olympic figure skating event.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Figure_skating_at_the_1948_Winter_Olympics (106 words)

	Canada at the Winter Olympics
		Figure skating and ice hockey were both included in the summer Olympics held in Antwerp in 1920, though they were staged ten weeks before the regular events.
		Olympic rules differ somewhat from NHL rules, particularly in the size of the rink, which is 4 metres wider and 700 centimetres longer.
		He returned in 1948 at St Moritz when he placed sixth in the 500 m and was still competing in the Olympics in 1952 when he finished twelfth in the 500 m at the age of 46.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=FET_E8 (5612 words)

	Figure Skating (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Olympic figure skaters wear boots that are custom-made for each foot and heavily reinforced with thick, stiff leather interiors and extra ankle bracing.
		Skate blades are ground concave; only the two outer "edges" of the bottom of the blade contact the ice.
		Figure skating began among the aristocracy in Holland in the 17th century in a search of elegance and beauty.
	www.olympics.org.uk /sports/winter/figureskating.asp (624 words)

	ABC Sport - Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Figure skating was included in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and, with ice hockey, at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.
		Despite the objections of International Olympic Committee president Pierre de Coubertin, an International Sports Week was held at Chamonix in 1924 and was retroactively named the first Winter Olympics.
		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/features/history.htm (3570 words)

	Iceskate.Net - Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Olympic eligible skaters are restricted to skating in events that are sanctioned by their federation and/or the International Skating Union.
		Shortly before the 1994 Olympics the ISU temporarily opened up reinstatement for professional skaters (which is why you saw Boitano, Browning, and others skating in Lillihammer), then closed it again in 1995.
		Figure skating was not listed on Olympic programs until the first Winter Olympic games in 1924.
	www.iceskate.net /olympics.html (356 words)

	Sporting Life - Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The first modern Olympic games were held in 1896 but it was not until 1924 that the first Winter Games were held.
		Winter Sports had long had their own World Championships with speed skating first holding theirs in 1893, and the first figure skating World Championships taking place in 1896 - the same year as the first Olympics.
		The feat was unique because at the time she held every speed skating record for the distances between 500m and 5,000m but was unable to enter that competition because of the ban on women.
	www.sportinglife.com /winterolympics/history (2087 words)

	Civilization.ca - Lace Up: Canada's Passion for Skating - About the Exhibition
		Skating soon captivated all classes of society, especially because skates were so easy to make from a file and a block of wood.
		Until the organization of skating clubs with rules and modes of conduct, every town boasted its own "Champion of Canada." The growth of local, provincial and national organizations was a crucial turning point in Canadian skating history.
		Throughout the 1890s, speed skating was the new national Association's dominant sport, and in 1932, Canadian speed skaters won five medals at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid.
	www.civilization.ca /cmc/patins/patins01e.html (1017 words)

	The Winter Olympics
		Winter Olympics is an important event is the lives of thousand of athletes.
		Figure skating is a well-known example of this.
		At the 2002 Winter Olympics, in Salt Lake City, Utah, a total 2,399 athletes from 77 nations competed in 78 events.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/sports/thewinterolympics2.htm (277 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 2006 Winter Olympics are in Turino, Italy.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /olympics (1311 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)

	Winter Olympics 2002
		The French judge in the middle of the figure skating controversy said she was under pressure from Canada, not her country's federation, before voting for the Russians in the pairs final, The New York Times reported.
		This time there were no tears or tirades as the French judge embroiled in the figure skating scandal calmly told investigators she voted for the Russian pairs team on merit and not as part of any scheme to fix the event.
		Blustery winter weather was the big winner Friday on the first day of competition at the Winter Olympics, causing the cancellation of ski jump qualifying, practice for the men's downhill and training sessions in several other events.
	www.suntimes.com /special_sections/winter_olympics/stories.html (7417 words)

	Duluth Figure Skating Club
		Figure skating traces back almost 3000 years when people used skates for transportation.
		The first skates were animal bones, ground flat on one side and strapped to the feet with leather thongs.
		Skating was born in Scandinavia in the eighth century or earlier and spread through northern Europe over the next few hundred years.
	www.duluthfsc.org /history.htm (741 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)

	2002 Winter Olympics
		The 2002 Winter Olympic Games were held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
		Prior to these Olympics, a number of I.O.C members were forced to resign after it was uncovered that they had accepted inappropriately valuable gifts in return for voting for Salt Lake City to hold the Games.
		In the first week the pairs figure skating competition resulted in the French judge's scores being thrown out and the Canadian team being awarded a second gold medal.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/2/20/2002_winter_olympics.shtml (431 words)

	Lessons from the Winter Olympics
		Eleven countries in the 2002 Winter Olympics were represented by a "team" of just one athlete.
		The pairs figure skating competition would prove that life, if nothing else, is very subjective.
		Figure skater Sarah Hughes, in fourth place after the women's short program, went into the final program with the smallest chance of winning a medal.
	www.topendsports.com /events/winter/lessons.htm (800 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)

	Whitehorse 2007 - Jeux du Canada Winter Games
		Skating on ice was, for hundreds of years, a rapid form of transportation across frozen lakes, rivers and canals.
		Figure skating has been on the program of the Canada Games since the first Canada Winter Games in 1967 in Québec City.
		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)

	Ivy League Sports - Ivies in Athens 2004
		Actually, Niles first competed in the 1920 Antwerp Summer Games,- the Winter Games had not yet been established, so figure skating and ice hockey were a part of the summer games.
		Tenley Albright's '53 skating career began when she was eight-years-old, but she was diagnosed with polio at 11, a condition from which she managed to recover within a couple of years.
		Despite their winter success, the Crimson are known as summer athletes as well, dating back to the first modern Olympiad (1896 Athens), when seven Harvard athletes went to the Games.
	www.iviesinathens.com /olympic/school.aspx?ID=5 (403 words)

	History of the Modern Summer and Winter Olympics from Fanbay.net
		The Summer and Winter Olympics of 1932 were both held in the United States, in Los Angeles, CA and Lake Placid, NY, respectively.
		The Olympic facilities were as impressive as the cutting edge facilities that brought the Summer Olympics to a new level in Munich (1972).
		The Winter Olympics of 2002 were overshadowed by the terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001.
	www.fanbay.net /olympics/modern_history.htm (2739 words)

	1924 Winter Olympics
		The I Olympic Winter Games were held in 1924 in Chamonix, France.
		This was, though only called thus in retrospect, the first celebration of the Olympic Winter Games.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/19/1924_Winter_Olympics.html (136 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The 1940 Winter Olympics were scheduled for Sapporo, Japan.
		Germany and Japan were barred from competing, but everyone else took part eagerly, and it was clear that the Winter Olympics had successfully survived the 12-year hiatus.
		Lighting the Olympic Flame by: For the Winter Games, the flame was lit for the first time in 1952 in Oslo.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1948 (309 words)

	Original Artwork: Tom McNeely: Winter Olympics - Couples Figure Skating
		The Olympic figure skater is indeed master of a unique athletic form, the ability to gracefully dance and execute precisely planned movements on ice to the rhythm of music.
		Today, figure skating is generally judged 60 percent on prescribed classical form and 40 percent on free skating style.
		At the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, France, figure skaters from all around the world took to the ice with their hopes and hearts exposed.
	www.artworkoriginals.com /EB5TCVKN.htm (472 words)

	BlackCultureClothes.com.com - Winter Olympics
		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.
		Calgary's Olympics in 1988 were well received by both athletes and spectators, however, there were some concerns regarding the facilities, and the choice of competition sites.
	www.blackcultureclothes.com /Winter_Olympics.html (1183 words)

	The Winter Olympics (Reference)
		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.
	www.teachervision.fen.com /page/8613.html (536 words)

	1948 — St. Moritz, Switzerland - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		The Winter Olympics survive both World War II and a 12-year hiatus.
		Alpine skiing returns to the Olympic program, with separate downhill and slalom events for both men and women joining the alpine combined event that debuted in 1936.
		Two U.S. hockey teams arrive in St. Moritz for the Olympics, with one sanctioned by the American Olympic Committee and another by the American Hockey Association.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,14,00.html (333 words)

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