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Topic: Figure skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics

	ipedia.com: Winter Olympic Games Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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)

	Wikipedia: 1968 Winter Olympics
		The 1968 Winter Olympics were held in Grenoble, France and opened on February 6.
		In women's figure skating, Peggy Fleming won the only United States gold medal.
		The year 1968 marked the first time the IOC first permitted East and West Germany to enter separately, and the first time the IOC ever ordered drug and gender testing of competitors.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/1/19/1968_winter_olympics.html (122 words)

	Winter Games Facts - TheGoal.com
		Although the first modern Olympic Games took place in the Summer of 1896 in Athens, Greece, it was not until 1924 that the first Winter Olympic Greece were held.
		But since women's speed skating was excluded from this Olympics, she decided to compete instead in the combined downhill, which she won.
		The most interesting person in the Winter Games in Lake Placid in 1932 was Eddie Egan from the U.S. He became the only person in Olympic history to win medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympics when he won a gold medal in the four-man bobsled.
	www.thegoal.com /events/mtgwinter2002/facts.html (571 words)

	Figure skating was Games' first winter sport - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		Viewers around the globe followed the scandal, investigation, and the Olympic figure skating competition that followed (in which both Kerrigan and Harding participated on behalf of the United States).
		Figure skating was the first winter sport included in the Olympic program when, in 1908, the men's, ladies' and pairs competitions were added to the London Summer Olympic slate.
		Europeans dominated the men's Olympic skating competition until 1948 in St. Moritz, when American Richard "Dick" Button won the gold medal and landed the first-ever double axel.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,15000005,00.html (906 words)

	1968 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1968 Grenoble, France and opened on February 6.
		The games have been credited with making the Winter Olympics more popular in the United States, not least of which because of ABC's extensive coverage of Fleming and Killy, who became overnight sensations among teenage girls.
		Grenoble 1968 is the first Olympiad to adopt a mascot, albeit unofficially.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1968_Winter_Olympics (423 words)

	Iceskate.Net-Olympics Figure Skating
		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.
		The 2002 Olympics were the last games to use the 6.0 ordinal scoring system for figure skating.
	www.iceskate.net /olympics.php (394 words)

	Current Biography Excerpts: Figure Skating
		Throughout the 1970s men's figure skating was dominated by such balletic performers as John Curry and Robin Cousins, the gold medalists at, respectively, the 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympics, whose grace and purity of line rivaled those of a premier danseur.
		Contending that figure skating is a sport rather than an art form, the deceptively fragile-looking Hamilton has created for himself surprisingly athletic free-skating routines in an energetic, "apple pies and Chevrolets" style, to use his words, that have won over audiences and judges alike.
		His gold medal in men's figure skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics was the first for an American since David Jenkins took that honor in 1960.
	www.hwwilson.com /currentbio/figuresk.html (982 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)

	Winter Olympics TV Coverage Less Than Golden - Elites TV - Your Elite News Source
		And while figure skating viewing requires less of a need for the immediacy of viewing other competitors in the event, one would be hard pressed as to when to plan on tuning in.
		Although more time is devoted to the figure skating events than most others, its coverage is peppered with teasers and unexpected commercial breaks in the action, making it sometimes painful to get through, even for its avid fans.
		Since television coverage of the Olympics is all about ratings, as is all television fare, NBC for years now has shot itself in the proverbial foot when whining that not enough of the American public is tuning in to Olympics coverage, no longer just applicable to the Winter Olympics, either.
	www.elitestv.com /pub/2006/Feb/EEN43fcf043b1df1.html (944 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)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		Olympic flags were fired into the air by cannons.
		Her elegant and athletic performance in front of a live TV audience proved to be the catalyst that paved the way for figure skating’s boom in popularity to this day.
		She capped off an Olympics to remember by attacking the Chamrousse course to claim gold in the giant slalom.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/history/1968grenoble.shtml (1085 words)

	TSN : OLYMPICS - Canada's Sports Leader
		Canada had now bid for and failed in five attempts to land the Winter Olympics (Montreal had bid for the 1932 and 1956 Games; Calgary had bid for the 1964 and 1968 Games; Banff in 1972).
		His gold medal was the first ever to be won by a Spanish athlete in the Winter Olympics.
		Exasperated with being told it could not use NHL players even when full-time hockey players were suiting up for the Communist countries, Canadian officials severed their ties with the International Ice Hockey Federation and did not send a team to the 1972 and 1976 Games.
	www.tsn.ca /olympics/feature.asp?fid=10275 (506 words)

	NPR : The Athletes and Coaches, 2002 Winter Olympics, A Special Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As the 2002 Winter Olympics get under way in Salt Lake City, athletes hoping to win a medal say they must do two things: be confident and convince themselves that the games are "just another competition." NPR's Tom Goldman reports for Morning Edition.
		The 1932 speed skating gold medalist was killed in a car crash, just three weeks before his grandson is to compete in the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
		Two Olympic hopefuls are going to court in separate cases to win spots on the U.S. Olympic team.
	www.npr.org /programs/specials/olympics2002/athletes (817 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Grenoble 1968
		This was confirmed in the opening ceremony with 18 thousand persons, the Olympic flame transported from Athens by air, a shower of thousands of scented paper roses from three helicopters with 5 circles drawn in the sky by the smoke of the parachutists, the Olympic flags shot into the air by cannons.
		However the Alpine skiers aroused a heated controversy, being accused of breaking the rules of amateur status because of the very obvious advertising brands on their equipment which the IOC had not wanted to appear either during interviews or in photos.
		Peggy Fleming easily won gold in the ladies' figure skating competition, while in one of the biggest surprises of the Games, Austrian Emmerich Danzer -- the 1966 and 1967 world champion -- did not even medal.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w10grenoble.html (397 words)

	2002 Winter Olympics
		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.
		Athletes in short-track speed skating and cross-country skiing were disqualified for various reasons as well, leading Russia and South Korea to file protests and threaten to withdraw from competition.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/2/20/2002_winter_olympics.shtml (431 words)

	2006 Olympics Trivia Games
		There are fifteen displines in all at the Winter Games, most of them traditional like Alpine Skiing, Biathlon, Bobsled, Cross-country Skiing, Curling, Ice Hockey and Figure Skating, and some of them relatively new to the games, like the hyperactive and very exciting Snowboard and Freestyle Skiing competitions.
		As the host of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games, Turin has arranged most events to take place within the city limits, while all the Alpine sports will occur just outside the city at various winter resorts.
		The Olympic torch for the 2006 Winter Games in Turin was lit November 27, 2005 at the Temple of Hera in Ancient Olympia.
	www.chiff.com /a/winter-olympics-trivia.htm (483 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		The inaugural Winter Olympics were a resounding success in the picturesque spa town of Chamonix, France.
		Speed skating, bobsleigh, cross-country skiing and luge events were slashed from the program due to unseasonably warm weather.
		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 (1273 words)

	The Winter Olympics — FactMonster.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.
		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.factmonster.com /ipka/A0115111.html (619 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)

	Skating — FactMonster.com
		She was the first U.S. national champion in 1914, won the first Olympic skating medal (bronze) for the U.S. in 1920, and won the U.S. pairs competition nine times with partner Nathaniel Niles.
		She won the only gold medal for the U.S. four years later at the 1968 Olympics at Grenoble, France.
		Her victory in the 2005 U.S. Figure Skating Championships was her eighth consecutive and ninth overall.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0768405.html (354 words)

	1968 Olympics — Infoplease.com
		Three of the five silver medals won by the U.S. came in one event—the women's 500–meter speed skating race, where Jenny Fish, Dianne Holum and Mary Myers tied for second place with a time of 46.3 seconds.
		The Barcelona Olympics and the perception of foreign nations: a panel study of Japanese university students.
		Environmental factors in the summer Olympics in historical perspective.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0300767.html (404 words)

	ShaqWear.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.shaqwear.com /Winter_Olympics.html (1158 words)

	CANOE -- SLAM! Sports - Olympics - 2010 Vancouver: Mascot hunt underway in Vancouver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Olympic mascot will grace countless advertisements, publications, websites, knick-knacks and stuffed toys and will generate much debate among those who love it and those who hate it.
		The first mascot was Schuss, a smiling squiggle riding a pair of skis, which represented the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.
		Then there are the mascots that are hard to classify, such as the marshmallow-shaped duo Neve and Glitz who represented this year's Winter Games in Turin and the Picasso-esque pair with Fred Flintstone feet who represented the Athens Summer Games in 2004.
	slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Olympics/2010Vancouver/2006/09/28/1916810-cp.html (399 words)

	Olympic Figure Skating
		At Skate Canada, Oda had the distinction of posting the highest technical score (71.74) in the free skate, thanks to seven triples, including a triple Axel-triple toe-double loop combo, strong spins and David Wilson's innovative choreography.
		At Skate Canada, Oda said he had not really given the Olympics much thought but, instead, was focusing on being as prepared as possible for each competition.
		In Salt Lake City, winter sport was not only elevated to Wasatch heights by a 16-year-old figure skating marvel from Long Island, it was reinvented day by day, the idea of an ice-and-snow athlete thoroughly redefined.
	olympics-figureskating.ebloggy.com (3370 words)

	Figure skating, Michelle Kwan, & the Olympics \| csmonitor.com
		As the Dutch excel at speed skating, the Finns at jumping, and the Norwegians at cross-country skiing, America has ruled women's figure skating - and that's part of the appeal.
		Peggy Fleming's gold in the 1968 Games - the first broadcast in color - is seen by many as the first step toward America's love affair with women's figure skating.
		Skating revues such as Champions on Ice routinely play before sold-out stadiums, with 70 percent of the tickets going to women.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/0219/p01s01-ussc.html (821 words)

	U.S. Figure Skating Athlete Bio for Sasha Cohen
		She finished third in the free skate, but because of her placement in both qualifying and the short program, she would up fourth overall...
		Was a successful gymnast before taking up figure skating, but says she wasn't focused enough for the dangerous elements; at age 7 she did a backspring series without noticing a four-inch beam in her path and luckily sprung over it...
		Minutes before taking the ice for her free skate at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games she realized she didn't have her tights and borrowed those of Japan's Fumie Suguri, who had just gotten off the ice...
	www.usfsa.org /AthleteBio.asp?id=2265 (1282 words)

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