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Topic: Figure skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics

	MSN Encarta - Winter Olympics
		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)

	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.
		Since the winter Olympics began in 1924, Norway, Sweden, Soviet Union/Russia and Finland have won 63 of the 66 gold medals awarded in men’s cross-country skiing.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=FET_E8 (5612 words)

	AMATEUR FIGURE SKATING
		Figure skating is one of the most popular participation sports in this country, especially among women and young girls (The United States Figure Skating Association, 1999).
		Skating judges in this country are volunteer unpaid officials of the United States Figure Skating Association (USFSA), and the USFSA is a member of a counterpart international organization the International Skating Union (ISU).
		Let's imagine a privately owned skating rink in a multipurpose building that had received a zoning variance based upon a stipulation that an ice rink would be included in the building and that skating instruction would be made available at reduced rates to economically disadvantaged children.
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	Iceskate.Net - Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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)

	ABC Sport - Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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)

	NPR : 2002 Winter Olympics, A Special Report
		Shorter, who won the gold in the 1972 Olympic marathon and silver in the 1976 games, talks about the drugs involved in doping, and says it has become much easier to detect their use.
		Olympic officials -- seeking to thwart performance-enhancing drugs -- must determine which of hundreds of dietary supplements should be banned from use during competition.
		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.
	www.npr.org /programs/specials/olympics2002 (2380 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)

	Sporting Life - Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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)

	Figure Skating Mystery: March 2005
		Volkov was happily married to figure skater Lyudmila Olehov, they spent most of their time together, as the most of the year was spent at training camps (Mila was skating in pair with her twin brother, Andrey, with whom Sergey was always friendly).
		We spoke about figure skating, about their life in Switzerland, about their preparation for the Winter Olympics of 1998 in Nagano (in which they could not participate as a result of a bureaucratic mix-up), and about life in general.
		They were skating for themselves and for the most devoted fans who once were sending them from all over the country letters with rubles for the construction of this skating rink.
	www.figureskatingmystery.com /2005_03_01_figureskatingmystery_archive.html (10179 words)

	Countdown to the Next Figure Skating Judging Scandal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jackson was a key witness in the pairs figure skating judging scandal at the 2002 Olympics.
		Previously, US Figure Skating had attempted to strip Jackson and Ron Pfenning, the referee of the 2002 Olympic pairs event, of their eligibility after they formed the now defunct World Skating Federation as a competing organization to the International Skating Union in 2003.
		Having to re-award medals at a skating event after the fact, because of a scoring error—especially the title and medal going to the overall winner—especially after a podium ceremony has already been conducted—is highly embarrassing to everyone involved, from the skaters to those conducting the event, and is extremely unfair to the skaters.
	www.figure-skating-judging-scandal.com (5754 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)

	Figure Skating Mystery
		And, as skating became a more and more profitable venture to undertake, more and more parents began to see buying a boy as the ultimate investment in their daughter's future -- no different than buying her the best pair of skates, or the prettiest dress in the marketplace.
		Figure Skating Championship, Surya is (even now, as a pro) also coached by her adoptive mother, Suzanne -- a Physical Education teacher with absolutely no skating experience.
		Even though the Olympics have proven to be Michelle's Achilles Heel (2nd in 1998 behind Tara Lipinski, 3rd in 2002 behind Sarah Hughes and Irina Slutskaya), she is still head and shoulders above all the other possibilities.
	www.figureskatingmystery.com (4292 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)

	Figure skater Don Jackson's biography
		Bronze medal in the Winter Olympics, Squaw Valley, California.
		This championship, founded by Dick Button, Olympic Champion, was the first "professional" event made available to post-amateurs and proved to be the inspiration for many more professional championships that both provide a vocation for post-amateur figure skaters and thrills and excitement for the growing audience of spectators.
		The World Figure Skating Hall of Fame honors those from around the world who have made individual contributions to the sport of figure skating throughout the past century.
	www.jacksonskates.com /html/dj_bio.html (1013 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)

	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)

	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 (1185 words)

	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.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1968_winter_olympics.shtml (120 words)

	1972 Olympics
		The biggest controversy in the 48–year history of the Winter Games erupted just three days before the opening ceremonies were scheduled to get underway in northern Japan.
		At Grenoble in 1968, Brundage had demanded that all trademarks be removed from competitors' skis, but settled for having the offensive skis taken away from medal winners before they could be photographed.
		Said Schranz after being banished: “This thing of amateur purity is something that dates back to the 19th century when amateur sportsmen were regarded as gentlemen and everyone else was an outcast.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0300768.html (345 words)

	The Winter Olympics
		The Games resumed in 1920 at Antwerp, Belgium, where figure skating returned and ice hockey was added as a medal event.
		Winter Sports: Gold rush in the hills; Sestriere's preparations for next year's Winter Olympics are well underway.Sarah Barrell checks up on progress in the Italian Alps and finds a world-class ski resort taking shape.(Features)
		You know you're at the Winter Olympics when...
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0115111.html (723 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		In 1998 the Winter Olympic Games returned to Japan after 26 years.
		Snowboarding and curling debuted as official disciplines and women’s ice hockey was introduced to the Olympic programme.
		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.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1998 (283 words)

	Winter Olympics
		Olympic VANCOUVER (CP) - The first phase of construction has began on some of the largest and most costly venues for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
		Olympic home Sports home Athens Winter Olympics Schedule News And Articles Forty-four players invited to Canadas 2006 national junior team development camp (OurSports Central) To some observers, the news that members of the U.S. freestyle ski team train year-round is not the most jarring information.
		Winter Olympics 2002 Schedule News And Info: World Cup talent pool has improved (Detroit News) The Grammy Awards are moving out of the Sunday-night home they've had for the past few years, remaining in February sweeps but getting out...
	winterolympics34.blogspot.com (4407 words)

	White House says Winter Olympics won't figure in decision on Iraq
		Johnson isn't suggesting another Munich, where in 1972 eight Arab terrorists attacked the summer Olympic quarters of the Israeli team.
		Those figures compare with 296 terrorist incidents reported worldwide during 1996 and a peak of 665 acts in 1987.
		"The Olympic movement is an affirmation of the peaceful purposes of nations," Payne said in an interview.
	www.canoe.ca /SlamNaganoNewsArchive/feb4_news.html (758 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Lake Placid 1980
		As the Winter Games reconvened for the second time in Lake Placid, N.Y., relations between East and West were in a deep freeze, after the December 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviets.
		Spectators saw two of the greatest moments in both American sports history and Olympic Winter Games history..
		But even with all the varied success, it was the Soviet Union that topped the medals table once again with 22.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w13lakeplacid.html (336 words)

	The Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Official Olympic mascots date back to the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich with Waldi the dachshund, a popular Bavarian dog, as the first mascot.
		Beginning in 776 B.C., the Olympic Games were held in the valley of Olympia in Greece every four years for almost 1200 years.
		The Olympic festival was the most important and ancient of all other Greek festivals.
	www.millennium.scps.k12.fl.us /WinterOlympics.html (318 words)

	SKATING - ICE - FIGURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A physiological and nutritional profile of young female figure skaters.
		Physiological profile and incidence of injuries among elite figure skaters.
		The relationship of strength and jump height in figure skaters.
	nutrition.ucdavis.edu /olympics/Sports/ice2.htm (167 words)

	1972 Olympics
		Olympic tragedy: 1972 Revisited: the shadow of terrorism still haunts the Olympics almost 30 years after Israeli athletes were massacred in Munich.
		British film director John SCHLESINGER at the 1972 Munich Olympics, with a cameraman.
		Inteview: Dave Marash discusses the terrorist attack at the Munich Olympics on September 5, 1972
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0300768.html (422 words)

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