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	Encyclopedia: 1956 Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The VII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1956 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
		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.
		MenÃ¢ÂÂs speed skating was introduced at the inaugural Winter Olympics; the women had to wait until 1960 for their inclusion.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1956-Winter-Olympics (2029 words)

	Carol Heiss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was U.S. and World Champion every year, and at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California, Heiss captured the gold medal, being ranked first by all nine judges.
		Figure skaters at the 1956 Winter Olympics
		Figure skaters at the 1960 Winter Olympics
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carol_Heiss (468 words)

	TSN.ca - Olympics - Canada's Sports Leader
		In 1956, most of Europe was suffering through one of the snowiest winters in recent memory.
		The 1956 Olympics also saw the debut of the Soviet Union at the Winter Games, and they made their presence immediately felt by claiming seven of the 24 gold medals up for grabs.
		In the Olympic competition she skated well enough to earn the first-place votes of 10 of the 11 judges to win gold in the women's event.
	www.tsn.ca /olympics/feature.asp?fid=10271 (663 words)

	SPORT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The 1976 Winter Olympics were awarded to the U.S. city of Denver, but the people of the state of Colorado voted to prohibit public funds from being used to support the Games.
		The highlight of the figure skating competitions was the free dance performance of Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean.
		Tara Lipinski won the women’s figure skating title to become, at 15, the youngest champion in an individual event in the history of the Winter Olympics.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~ksargsya/sport/olymp/olzim.htm (2773 words)

	1994 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lillehammer won the right to host the event in September 1988 in Seoul before the opening ceremony of the 1988 Summer Olympics, the Lillehammer Games were held in 1994, the only time the winter games have been staged two years after the preceding games.
		For the first time, the Winter Olympics were not held in the same year as the Games of the Olympiad.
		The Olympic flame was brought into the stadium by a ski jumper.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1994_Winter_Olympics (375 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)

	math lessons - Carol Heiss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1956, at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany, Carol Heiss won the first of her five consecutive World Figure Skating Championships.
		That year she also earned a Silver Medal at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy where her US teammate Tenley Albright took the Gold.
		At the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California, Heiss captured the Gold Medal.
	www.mathdaily.com /lessons/Carol_Heiss (155 words)

	Figure skating at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the 1908 Summer Olympics, four figure skating events were contested, and winter sports were introduced for the very first time.
		Sweden's Ulrich Salchow, who had won several World Figure Skating Championships, easily won the gold medal after his main rival, Russia's Nikolai Panin, withdrew in protest over what he considered unfair judging.
		Twelve years later, silver medalist Phyllis Johnson would capture a bronze medal with a new partner at the 1920 Olympics.
	wikipedia.org /wiki/Figure_skating_at_the_1908_Summer_Olympics (155 words)

	Buy Winter Games 2006 Torino, Italy Event Tickets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Because of the coverage given the Winter Olympics by the press in Europe and North America, Henie was the first woman to become a genuine international sports figure.
		As at Cortina in 1956, the army trucked in snow from elsewhere in the Alps.
		Dorothy Hamill won the figure skating gold, Leah Poulos added a silver medal in the 1,000-meter speed skating event, and her future husband, Peter Mueller, was the men's 1,000-meter champion.
	www.ticketfinder.com /winter-games-tickets.html (3949 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)

	Washingtonpost.com: All You Need to Know About Figure Skating
		Olympic slots for competing countries were determined by their finishes in the 1997 world championships.
		In the free skate, there are no required elements, and falling or omitting elements counts against the skater only as far as it reduces the overall difficulty of the program, or if it disrupts the program's overall flow.
		The women's figure skating finals broke all television records for an nonprofessional sporting event, and viewers were rewarded with one of the most exciting — and controversial — skating competitions in history.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/sport/figskate/articles/figskate.htm (3346 words)

	1956 — Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		The 1956 Cortina d’Ampezzo Games are the first Winter Olympics to be covered by live television.
		The 1956 Games mark the last time figure skating competition is conducted outdoors.
		American figure skater Hayes Jenkins wins the gold medal in the men’s singles competition, while his younger brother David takes home the bronze.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,12,00.html (404 words)

	Olympic souvenir - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		Figure skating pairs: gold, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, Russia; silver was later changed to gold, Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, Canada; bronze, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, China.
		Canada's figure skating association announces an appeal of Monday's pairs competition that gave the Russians the gold and the Canadians the silver.
		Olympic visitors say that despite the pre-Games media hype to the contrary, it is not difficult for them to have an alcoholic drink in Utah.
	webserver.desnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,70001668,00.html (5016 words)

	Canadians and the Olympics [continued] - Canadian Olympians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At the Winter Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Canada took only two gold medals: Barbara Ann Scott leapt to victory in figure skating, and the RCAF Flyers men's hockey team regained the men's ice hockey championship.
		When the Soviet Union joined the Olympic movement in 1952, accelerating the application of science to performance, Canada fell further behind, garnering just three medals in Helsinki and six medals in Melbourne (and Stockholm, where the equestrian events were held), four years later.
		The ultimate humiliation came at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina, Italy, when the Soviet Union, with a retooled team of bandy players, and the United States, both defeated Canada (represented by the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen) in men's ice hockey.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /olympians/024004-152-e.html (757 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)

	Olympic highlights - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		From the nine Winter Olympics from 1956 to 1988, the USSR collected seven golds, a silver and a bronze - with both lesser medals coming as the United States won top honors on home soil at the 1960 Squaw Valley Games and the 1980 Lake Placid Games.
		When Communist bloc countries joined the Olympic movement in the post-World War II era, many of their players were on government payroll as military employees — hence, the USSR's "Red Army" hockey team — while other free-world nations made do with bona fide amateurs.
		However, the National Hockey League noticed the international appeal of the NBA's foray into Olympic basketball with the original "Dream Team" at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics and opted to allow NHL players to participate in the Winter Olympics, beginning with some of the lesser-profile players at the 1994 Lillehammer Games.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,36,00.html (1298 words)

	Tipper Gore in Nagano, Japan:Column 1
		Olympic Gold Medalist Mary Lou Retton captured our hearts during the 1984 Games in Los Angeles when she landed a perfect "10" vault to win the All-Around Gold Medal in gymnastics.
		By the age of 20, she had won every major figure skating championship possible, including a gold medal in the 1956 Winter Olympics in Italy.
		Skating in his hometown of San Jose, California, he staged an upset victory to become the oldest (26) gold medalist in 70 years, and the first Mexican American.
	clinton2.nara.gov /WH/EOP/VP_Wife/trips/column1.html (677 words)

	Winter Olympic Games : Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.termsdefined.net /wi/winter-olympics.html (455 words)

	Stockholm, Sweden, 1912 (from Olympic Games) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		It lies along the Baltic Sea and surrounds Stockholm, the national capital and seat of the län's governor, yet is administratively separate from that city.
		There is a shorter coastline along the Skagerrak and Kattegat straits on the southwest, and a narrow strait, known as The Sound, separates Sweden from Denmark in the...
		Figure skating was included in the Olympics for the first time in the 1908...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-59606 (959 words)

	1956 winter olympics - Ultimate Guide To olympics
		The staff at Ultimate Guide To olympics has gone through the web and has gathered a list of links that offer the most information on 1956 winter olympics.
		In 1956, the USSR made its first appearance in the Winter Games and not only outmedaled the 32...
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	www.upslinkk.com /1956-winter-olympics (502 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1932 Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Italian city of Turin (Torino) will host the next Winter Olympics in 2006, and after that the games will be held in Vancouver, Canada in 2010.
		The same was true for the 1944 Winter Olympics, scheduled to take place in Cortina d'Ampezzo.
		After not being able to host the Games in 1944 due to the war, Cortina d'Ampezzo was able to organize the 1956 Winter Olympics.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1932-Winter-Olympics (210 words)

	Salt Lake City Winter Olympics 2002 \| csmonitor.com
		As the Olympics come to the finish line, post your questions to the Monitor's Mark Sappenfield, reporting from Salt Lake City.
		Hackl, who was trying to become the first Winter Olympian to win the same event four straight times, got silver, making him the first winter athlete to medal in five consecutive Olympics.
		Later Monday, the men's 20-kilometer biathlon and pairs figure skating were to be decided.
	www.csmonitor.com /specials/oly2002/0211apnotebook2.html (1222 words)

	HickokSports.com - Biography - Tenley Albright
		Albright began taking skating lessons when she was nine years old.
		In 1952, at the age of sixteen, she won the first of five consecutive U. women's singles titles, and followed that with a silver medal at the Winter Olympics in Oslo.
		Skating beautifully despite the pain, Albright became the first American woman to win the figure skating gold medal, getting first-place votes from ten of the eleven judges.
	www.hickoksports.com /biograph/albright.shtml (372 words)

	Dorothy Hamill - Women in Sports Women's Sports
		Hamill, Dorothy Stuart (1956-), American figure skater, winner of the ladies' figure skating gold medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.
		In 1969 she won the national novice title at the United States Figure Skating Championships, and the following year she won the national junior silver medal at the same competition.
		Fassi guided her to a silver medal in the 1973 U.S. Figure Skating Championships and then to three consecutive victories in the same competition from 1974 to 1976.
	www.makeithappen.com /wis/bios/hamilld.html (313 words)

	1956 Winter Olympics - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/1956_Winter_Olympics (126 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Winter Olympics 2002 \| Skating \| Canadian skaters get gold
		The International Olympic Committee and the International Skating Union announced their decision at a news conference in Salt Lake City on Friday.
		Mike Chambers, president of the Canadian Olympic Association, said: "I think the Russians should be happy with their gold medal and take the accolades in their home country.
		Sale and Pelletier will receive their gold medals on 21 February, at the end of the ladies free figure skating.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/hi/english/skating/newsid_1823000/1823099.stm (499 words)

	1960 Olympics
		The first Winter Olympics in the U.S. since 1932 was held at an obscure California ski resort near Lake Tahoe that had no bobsled run and in the days leading up to the opening ceremony, no snow.
		In fact, Grishin's victory in the 1,500 was his second straight tie at that distance—sharing gold medals with teammate Yuri Mikhailov in 1956 and Norway's Roald Aas in '60.
		At 35, three-time Olympic cross-country skier Veikko Hakulinen of Finland was the only athlete at Squaw Valley to claim three medals (for a career total of seven).
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0300765.html (476 words)

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