
	Where results make sense

Topic: Figure skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Related Topics

1980 in music

Grammy Awards of 1980

1980 s

1980 Summer Olympics

Canadian federal election, 1980

1980 in sports

1980 in film

1980 Canadian election

1980 Quebec referendum

1980 Winter Olympics

1980 United States Grand Prix

1980 Dutch Grand Prix

In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	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)

	1980 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIII Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, United States of America.
		Although they did not get any medals, the People's Republic of China returned to the Olympics Games after the IOC agreed to designate the ROC "Chinese Taipei".
		1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1980_Winter_Olympics (398 words)

	Winter Olympics
		The reason the Summer, rather than the Winter, Olympics hold more interest for sports collectors is obvious: who wants a trading card of Gerda Weissenstiener (1994 Luge gold medalist from Italy) or is going to go out and get a jersey with Gustva Weder (1994 gold medalist in the two man bobsled from Switzerland).
		Even the great speed skating achievements of Bonnie Blair of Champaign, Il., who won a total of seven medals, Eric Heiden who was the individual American champ in 1980 and the heroic story of Dan Jansen don't have a lasting effect on the minds of fans and collectors once the games are completed.
		Figure skating will be the "female" favorite and also because CBS will spend countless hours promoting and covering it.
	www.psacard.com /articles/article269.chtml (817 words)

	What others are saying: Judges skating on thin ice - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		The perception of unfairness in figure skating is so widespread that the sport has become tainted.
		Salt Lake City is swirling with allegations and innuendos regarding vote-trading judges involved in pairs figure skating and ice dancing.
		Figure skating and ice dancing are the only judged sports that use ordinals (placements) to determine winners; the athlete who takes the majority of first placements wins.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,70000613,00.html (393 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)

	Welcome to U.S. Figure Skating
		With the 2002 OIympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City just a year away, SKATING starts its countdown toward the first Winter Games to be held in the U.S. since 1980.
		Most skating fans remember the triumphs of Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan as if they were yesterday, but indeed, the skating world is just 12 short months away from another magical time.
		SKATING wants to keep you up to date on the latest news from Salt Lake City, host of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games (Feb. 8-24), so check for periodic stories over the next 10 issues addressing the Olympics.
	www.usfigureskating.org /Magazine.asp?Issue=498 (335 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)

	Amazon.ca: Figure Skating Champions : Includes the 2002 Winter Olympics: Books: Steve Milton,Gerard Chataigneau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Figure skaters are jumping higher, skating faster and pushing artistic and technical boundaries like never before.
		Figure skating is one of the most popular events at the Olympic Games, with millions more watching on television around the world.
		He has covered international skating since 1980 and has attended six Winter Olympics and more than a dozen World figure skating championships.
	www.amazon.ca /Figure-Skating-Champions-Winter-Olympics/dp/1552976580 (346 words)

	1980 Olympics — FactMonster.com
		Over 1,100 athletes from 37 countries participated in the 1980 Winter Games, but the only ones most people will ever remember are 21–year-old American speed skater Eric Heiden, who won five individual gold medals, and the U.S. hockey team—a bunch of college kids (average age 22) who beat the unbeatable Russians.
		No one before or since Heiden has won five individual gold medals in a single Olympic Games (three of swimmer Mark Spitz's seven gold medals were for relay races).
		Winter Olympics: Speed Skating - Preview of the Olympic event speed skating
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0300770.html (494 words)

	CANOE -- SLAM! Sports - Figure Skating - Medals? It'll be a big zero
		The Canadian Olympic Committee has set a goal of 25 medals for Turin, as our nation launches into the "Own the Podium" era, inspired by playing host to the 2010 show.
		Certainly not with the skate he produced in the men's free skate final Saturday night.
		The thing you should know about the scandal is that all the whistle-blowers have all been removed from skating in the last four years, and the convicted are all still around.
	slam.canoe.ca /Slam/FigureSkating/2006/01/16/1396354-sun.html (645 words)

	Spotlight Sport - Speed Skating
		Although archeologists in Scandinavia have relics that demonstrate primitive people glided over the ice using skates fashioned from animal bone and straps of leather, it was in the Netherlands that skating became a mode of transportation and national passion.
		The first known skating competition is thought to have been a 15-meter race and took place in England on February 4, 1763.
		Speed skating giant, Eric Heiden (Madison, Wisconsin) produced the greatest single feat in Winter Olympic history when he won all five events at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics.
	www.edgate.com /wintergames/design/spotlight_sport/spdsktng.htm (782 words)

	1980 Winter Olympics Summary
		Before the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the United States Olympic hockey team was not expected to compete for a medal.
		Eric Heiden won all five speed skating races at all distances, a new record for individual gold medals won at a single Olympics.
		1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022
	www.bookrags.com /1980_Winter_Olympics (1204 words)

	NBCOlympics.com - Figure Skating - Ladies' skaters could redeem Games for Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		She was demoralized by injuries, problems with her skates and homesickness from training overseas.
		She's leading a trio of Japanese women figure skaters who could well be vying against each other for places on the podium when the Olympic competition begins later this week.
		As of Sunday, with the games halfway over, Torino was shaping up to be one of the worst Winter Games ever for Japan, which has won at least one medal in every Winter Olympics since 1980 in Lake Placid.
	www.nbcolympics.com /figureskating/5118973/detail.html (866 words)

	The Cincinnati Enquirer Winter Olympics 1998 Special
		At the last Olympics, held in Lillehammer in 1994, 67 countries were represented, and they vied for medals in more than 60 events.
		Two "winter sports" were actually added to the program of the 1920 Olympic Summer Games in Antwerp, Belgium -- ice hockey and figure skating.
		In 1922, the French Olympic Committee decided that the time had come for a Winter Olympics to be held, whether the Scandinavians agreed or not.
	www.enquirer.com /olympics/olymain/past/html/howitwor.htm (439 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)

	1980 - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		REBORN IN THE U.S.A. The Winter Olympics make their way back to the United States as well as to Lake Placid, which had hosted the Games 48 years previously.
		They take exception to the IOC Olympic involvement g the game-winning goal midway in the third and final period is team captain Mike Eruzione.
		The Soviet Union skating pair and married duo of Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev claim their second consecutive gold in pairs figure skating, earning unanimous top rankings from the nine judges for the second straight time as well.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,6,00.html (352 words)

	[No title]
		The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is the world body which administrates the Olympic Movement, with the head quarters based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
		The 1980 games in Lake Placid, N.Y., saw 37 countries compete in 39 medal events; at the 1998 games in Nagano some 72 nations competed in 68 events.
		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).
	www.lycos.com /info/olympics--winter-olympics.html (383 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.
		The most recent Winter Games were the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
		Two sets of gold medals awarded in pairs figure skating, to Canada's Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, and Russia's Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, because of judging scandal.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/w/wi/winter_olympic_games.shtml (298 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		American-Soviet relations were as chilly as ever at the start of the 1980s when the Winter Olympics returned to this small New York town nestled in the Adirondacks.
		These were the Winter Games that featured the "Miracle on Ice," when the United States won the gold medal in hockey, defeating the highly favoured Soviets, then cruising to the gold by defeating Finland in the final.
		Gaetan Boucher of St. Foy, Que., skated a strong race in the 1,000-metre event to finish second and win one of Canada’s two medals in Lake Placid.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/history/1980lakeplacid.shtml (1167 words)

	winter olympics
		Olympic Gold medalist, four-time World Champion, four-time United States Champion, producer, performer, broadcaster, and spokesperson for cancer research, Scott Hamilton is more than a survivor.
		When Rulon Gardner won the Olympic gold medal for wrestling in Sydney, his victory rocked the world. It was more than just a simple tale of success--it was the story of an underdog who rose to unimagined heights of accomplishment and glory.
		She is one of the world's top female athletes, pitcher for the U.S. Women's National Softball Team, and led her 2004 Olympic team to a gold medal with a 2-0 record for the Athens tournament. There is literally nothing Jennie can’t do on a softball field.
	www.speakers.com /hottopic.asp?id=2 (1755 words)

	Local links: How Washington athletes have fared at the Olympics
		Donald Fraser, Gretchen's husband, was the first University of Washington student to participate in the Winter Olympics.
		Washington state was represented by two entries in the figure skating pairs competition in the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.
		Former UW student Nick Thometz, a speed skater, participated in the 1984, 1988 and 1992 Winter Olympics.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /olympics/258123_wolylocallinksrail09.html (856 words)

	1980 Olympics — Infoplease.com
		Olympics less than gold in NY; WCBS-TV is first Olympics station not to win total-day sweeps race in top market since 1980.(television......
		Historical overview of the Paralympics, Special Olympics, and Deaflympics.
		City characteristics and coverage of China's bid to host the Olympics.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0300770.html (527 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)

	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 (727 words)

	U.S. Figure Skating Athlete Bio for Timothy Goebel
		He had four quad jumps planned for the free skate, which if he landed all the quads, he would have become the first man to land four quads in a single program in major competition (he did not accomplish the feat).
		Following a sixth-place finish at the Campbell's International Figure Skating Classic in Daytona Beach, Fla., Goebel announced that he was suffering from a right hip strain injury and would miss the 2002-03 Grand Prix Series...
		Goebel claimed the bronze medal at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City and became the first U.S. man to medal in the Olympics since Paul Wylie captured the silver in 1992...
	www.usfigureskating.org /AthleteBio.asp?id=2272 (1001 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)