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	Canada at the Winter Olympics
		Figure skating was included in the original program, but the competition never took place.
		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.
		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?Params=A1ARTFET_E8 (1087 words)

	Figure skating article - Figure skating skating World Championships Winter Olympics Equipment Disciplines - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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)

	MSN Encarta - Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Olympics organization is headed by a president, elected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) members for an initial period of eight years.
		Men’s speed skating was introduced at the inaugural Winter Olympics; the women had to wait until 1960 for their inclusion.
		Figure skating has been an ever-present event at the Games with the men’s and women’s figures, the pairs was introduced in 1908, and the ice dance in 1976.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572547/winter_olympics.html (1248 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)

	Figure Skating (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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)

	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)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Olympic Flame
		The Olympic Flame burned at the Winter Olympics in 1936 and 1948, but the first torch relay occurred at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo.
		1976 Winter Olympics: Christl Haas and Josef Feistmantl.
		1988 Winter Olympics: Robyn Perry, a 12-year-old schoolgirl and figure skater.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Olympic_Flame (1831 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)

	MSN Encarta - Ice Skating
		In pairs skating, Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov won two Olympic gold medals in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
		In the 1990s women’s skating was led by Americans Kristi Yamaguchi, Michelle Kwan, and Tara Lipinski, along with Oksana Baiul of Ukraine, all of whom won world championships.
		Figure skating experienced an ugly scandal in 1994 when a top American skater, Tonya Harding, was implicated in a physical attack on a rival, American Nancy Kerrigan.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561185_4/ice_skating.html (707 words)

	winter olympics magazine article learnenglish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This was not the first time that the issue of professionalism had caused controversy Winter Olympics alpine skiing.
		In 1952 Canada won the ice hockey tournament for the fifth (and last) time, bringing their cumulative Olympic record to 37 wins, 1 loss and 3 ties.
		In figure skating, Sonja Henie of Norway won the gold medal in women's figure skating three times and Katarina Witt of East Germany twice.
	www.learnenglish.org.uk /magazine/winter_olympics.html (1205 words)

	Sporting Life - Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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)

	Whitehorse 2007 - Jeux du Canada Winter Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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)

	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)

	Squaw Valley USA: History Olympics
		The 1960 Winter Olympics were the first Games held in the Western United States and the first to be televised.
		The Olympic Village Inn was built to house more than 750 athletes; it allowed all athletes to be housed under one roof for the first and only time in modern Olympic history.
		Figure skater Carol Heiss took the Olympic Oath on behalf of all participating athletes, marking the first time that a woman enjoyed the honor.
	www.squaw.com /winter/history_olympics.html (1207 words)

	ABC Sport - Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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)

	Figure Skating Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Pair skating is essentially free skating performed in unison by partners, with the addition of daring and often dangerous overhead lifts, throws and special spins.
		The newest Olympic figure skating event (introduced in 1976), Ice Dancing was first seen at a World Championship in 1952, but had been a popular recreational sport since the turn of the century.
		Unlike Pair skating with overhead lifts and jumps, Ice Dancing is as its name implies, based on different aspects of dance, with the emphasis on rhythm, interpretation of the music and precise steps.
	www.suzannecooper.com /latenite/skate.html (1466 words)

	Iceskate.Net - Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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)

	Olympic highlights - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		FALLING INTO OLYMPIC OBSCURITY: During the last half of the 19th century and early in the 20th, nordic combined was considered the premier event at winter ski carnivals.
		The victory at the 1952 Oslo Games was particularly sweet - it came in front of the home-country crowds and atoned for a poor national showing at the 1948 St. Moritz Games.
		AN OLYMPIC ORIGINAL: Although somewhat of an obscure sport by today's standards, nordic combined was one of the five sports contested at the inaugural Winter Olympics, the 1924 Chamonix Games.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,47,00.html (637 words)

	The Winter Olympics — Infoplease.com
		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.
		Apres ski: the IOC is awarding itself and its broadcast partners a gold medal after scoring record ratings for the Winter Olympics......
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0115111.html (736 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)

	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)

	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)

	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)

	1952 Winter Olympics Information
		The 1952 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VI Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1952 in Oslo, Norway.
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	www.bookrags.com /1952_Winter_Olympics (82 words)

	Winter Olympic Games
		The First Olympic Winter Games were inaugurated on January 25, 1924 in Chamonix, France, although at the time they were not yet called Olympic Winter Games.
		Since 1994, the Winter Games are no longer held in the same year as the Games of the Olympiad (or Summer Olympics).
		The most recent Winter Games were the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/w/wi/winter_olympic_games.shtml (298 words)

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