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		Athletes and officials will be housed in 3 Olympic Villages: Torino, Bardonecchia and Sestriere and there will be seven main wintersports presented: Biathlon, Bobsleigh, Curling, Ice Hockey, Luge, Skating & Skiing.
		The main snowsports sites will be Sestriere (Alpine), Sauze d'Oulx (Freestyle) and Bardonecchia (Snowboarding) with Cross Country being held at Pragelat and Biathlon at Cesano San Sicario.
		The Alpine Skiing events will be held in Sestriere which is 100km from Turin.
	winterolympics.ifyouski.com /olympics/home (224 words)

	BBC SPORT Winter Olympics 2002 Other Skiing
		Freestyle skiing favourite Jacqui Cooper endures yet another injury as she is forced to pull out of the Winter Olympics.
		Andrea Henkel wins the first biathlon gold medal at the Winter Olympics with victory in the 15km event.
		Freestyle skier Alisa Camplin lays claim to Australia's second gold medal of the Winter Olympics in the women's aerials.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/hi/english/other_skiing/default.stm (1007 words)

	Exclusive: new screens of Salt Lake 2002!
		Developed in a UK by Attention To Detail, in Salt Lake 2002 gamers will get the chance to compete in six different events: men's ski jumping K120 individual, men's alpine skiing downhill, men's snowboard parallel giant slalom, men's two-man bobsleigh, ladies' alpine skiing slalom and women's freestyle skiing aerials - sounds painful.
		Salt Lake 2002 is the official tie-in video game of the 2002 Winter Olympics.
		017 2002 Check out these new screenshots of the downhill skiing event, which shouldn't be confused with the rumoured unlockable uphill gardening event.
	www.computerandvideogames.com /t/article/pc/exclusivenewshotsofsaltlake2002/news/id24163/index.html (163 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		Hard-luck American speed skater Dan Jansen proved that perseverance pays off, Italy’s Manuela Di Centa took home a whopping five medals in cross-country skiing and Canada enjoyed a respectable medal haul thanks in large part to the inclusion of freestyle skiing and short-track speed skating as official sports.
		Speed skating, bobsleigh, cross-country skiing and luge events were slashed from the program due to unseasonably warm weather.
		The 1994 Games did not suffer from the quick turnaround as the Lillehammer Olympics are considered among the most successful Winter Games in history.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/history (1189 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Salt Lake Winter Olympics 2002: PC & Video Games
		Based around six events from the winter games; Men's Snowboard Parallel Giant Slalom, Men's Alpine Skiing downhill, Ladies' Alpine Skiing Slalom, Women's freestyle Skiing Aerials, Men's Ski Jumping K120 Individual and Men's Two-man Bobsleighing there is plenty for you to get into.
		Relive the experience of the Winter Olympic 2002 Games in Salt Lake City with the fun-packed title Salt Lake Winter Olympics 2002 from Eidos.
		If you've ever dreamed of what it would be like to compete in a Winter Olympic games then this is without doubt the game for you.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005V12Q (765 words)

	BBC SPORT Winter Olympics 2002 Alpine Skiing GB name ski team
		The British Olympic Association has announced the athletes to compete in the alpine and freestyle skiing events at next month's Winter Games.
		The BOA named a seven-strong alpine squad and three freestyle skiers on Monday for Salt Lake 2002, which begins on 8 February.
		Fresh from success in the British Land National Ski Championships last week, the Baxter brothers, Alain and Noel, were two of the athletes included in the line-up.
	newsvote.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/low/english/alpine_skiing/newsid_1773000/1773735.stm (305 words)

	Trivia - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		It was first a demonstration-sport event at the 1988 Winter Games in Calgary, Canada.
		Moguls debuted as a medal sport at the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France.
		The aerial portion of freestyle skiing was added as a medal sport for the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,50000350,00.html (56 words)

	2002 Winter Olympics
		There are introductory Olympic winter sports programs, public skating on "The Fastest Ice On Earth," tours of the Olympic facilities, tubing, cross-country skiing, public bobsled rides, ski jumping and freestyle aerial shows, 2002 Games exhibit and the Joe Quinney Winter Sports Center/Alf Engen Ski Museum.
		The 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City were an astounding success.
		Salt Lake Olympic Committee's volunteer program had three phases with approximately 8,000 volunteers for pre-Game activities, 18,000 core volunteers for the Olympic Winter Games, and 6,000 volunteers for the Paralympic Winter Games.
	www.utah.com /olympics (256 words)

	2002 Winter Olympics
		There are introductory Olympic winter sports programs, public skating on "The Fastest Ice On Earth," tours of the Olympic facilities, tubing, cross-country skiing, public bobsled rides, ski jumping and freestyle aerial shows, 2002 Games exhibit and the Joe Quinney Winter Sports Center/Alf Engen Ski Museum.
		Salt Lake Olympic Committee's volunteer program had three phases with approximately 8,000 volunteers for pre-Game activities, 18,000 core volunteers for the Olympic Winter Games, and 6,000 volunteers for the Paralympic Winter Games.
		The 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City were an astounding success.
	www.utah.com /olympics (256 words)

	Winter Olympics 2002
		In the last Winter Olympics they added curling, snowboarding, women’s ice hockey, and freestyle skiing.
		The WBF is completely undaunted by the fact that International Olympic Committee rules say winter events have to be held on ice or snow.
		It will be interesting to see if her defense of “I was training for the Olympics when I went for the gold” holds up in court.
	www.maddogproductions.com /ds_olympics2002.htm (1045 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Albertville 1992
		Freestyle skiing, men's and women's short-track speedskating and a three-event women's biathlon were added to the Winter Games.
		France also joined the United States as the only nation to host an Olympic Winter Games three times.
		Perhaps it was fitting that France, the birthplace of Pierre de Coubertin,the founder of the modern Olympics, was home to the first post-Cold War Games.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w16albertville.html (394 words)

	Free skiing's freedom draws athletes - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		At the end of the 2002 Winter Games and the beginning of a new century, the freestyle, barely 10 years old as an Olympic medal event, is something like a middle-aged rebel trying to conform to the establishment's regulations while hanging onto its rule-breaker image.
		His complaint was that while the skiing (of moguls) has gotten faster and more precise, the tricks remain essentially the same as they did when he won in 1998.
		It is in free skiing that he developed his now hugely popular dinner roll, which shook up the Olympic competition and became an event all its own.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,70001585,00.html (730 words)

	Thomas Alsgaard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 2002 Winter Olympics, Alsgaard was part of the gold medal winning Men's 4 × 10 km cross country team.
		He won his first gold medal in an international championship in the 30 km race at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway.
		He won gold medals in the Men's Combined Pursuit and the 4 x 10km Relay at the 1998 Winter Olympics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Alsgaard (268 words)

	BBC SPORT Winter Olympics 2002 Other Skiing Muehlegg joy in cross-country
		Spain's Johann Muehlegg has won gold in the men's 30km freestyle cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympics.
		Links to more Other Skiing stories are at the foot of the page.
		Christian Hoffmann of Austria clinched the silver and compatriot a Mikhail Botvinov won the bronze.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/hi/english/other_skiing/newsid_1811000/1811789.stm (231 words)

	Gustavus Adolphus College Athletics News - Gustavus Nordic Skiing Team Visits Norway
		Soldier Hollow played host to the skiing competition during the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympic Games.
		The Gustavus Adolphus men's and women's Nordic skiing teams will open their 2006 seasons by hitting the course at Soldier Hollow, Utah for the USSA U.S. Cross Country National Championships on Saturday, Jan. 7 and Sunday, Jan. 8.
		The Gustavus Nordic ski team capped off an exciting weekend of action at the NorAm SuperTour stop at Telemark Resort in Cable, Wis. Senior Erich Ziegler opened the weekend with a 19th-place finish among collegiate skiers in Saturday's 10K Classic and followed that up with a first-place finish among collegiate skiers in Sunday's 15K Freestyle.
	www.gustavus.edu /oncampus/athletics/news.cfm?view=home&id=5 (611 words)

	Biathlon: Skiing and shooting - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		Biathletes use freestyle skiing technique, which is skating on skis, and then shoot a.22-caliber rifle alternating between the prone (lying down) and standing positions.
		After skiing approximately two to three kilometers, biathletes must steady their rifle and concentrate on shooting the targets.
		East Germany’s Frank-Peter Roetsch swept the men’s individual events at the 1988 Calgary Games, becoming the first to win the individual golds at the same Olympics.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,22,00.html (611 words)

	Biathlon: Skiing and shooting - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		Added to the 2002 Winter Games are two pursuit competitions — the men’s 12-kilometer and the women’s 10-kilometer events.
		She followed with a relay silver and an individual bronze at the 1994 Lillehammer Games and the concluded with a relay gold as well as one silver and one bronze in individual events at the 1998 Nagano Games.
		Germany’s Ursula Disl is the most decorated Olympic biathlete, starting with a relay silver at the 1992 Albertville Games.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,22,00.html (811 words)

	FACTBOX-Olympics-Cross-Country Skiing-Gold medallist Smigun - MSNBC Wire Services - Olympics - MSNBC.com
		Previous Olympic record: Seventh in the 30km Classical, Salt Lake City, 2002
		PRAGELATO, Italy - Factbox on Kristina Smigun of Estonia who won the women's cross-country skiing 10km event on Thursday and is the first double gold medallist of the Turin Winter Olympics.
		Her sister, Katrin, was the first Estonian woman to win a world skiing title in 2003.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/11305750/from/RL.4 (344 words)

	BBC SPORT Winter Olympics 2002 Other Skiing
		Freestyle skiing favourite Jacqui Cooper endures yet another injury as she is forced to pull out of the Winter Olympics.
		Italian Stefania Belmondo wins the first gold of the Winter Olympics with victory in the women's 15km freestyle cross-country.
		Andrea Henkel wins the first biathlon gold medal at the Winter Olympics with victory in the 15km event.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/hi/english/other_skiing/default.stm (1007 words)

	Free skiing's freedom draws athletes - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		At the end of the 2002 Winter Games and the beginning of a new century, the freestyle, barely 10 years old as an Olympic medal event, is something like a middle-aged rebel trying to conform to the establishment's regulations while hanging onto its rule-breaker image.
		His complaint was that while the skiing (of moguls) has gotten faster and more precise, the tricks remain essentially the same as they did when he won in 1998.
		U.S. Freestyle head coach Jeff Wintersteen said while he doesn't think the development and growth in extreme sports like free skiing has hurt the top level of freestyle, it could affect the growth at the lower levels of competition.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,70001585,00.html (730 words)

	kiat.net: SL02 Olympic Freestyle Skiing
		During the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, the mountain will accommodate 20,000 spectators for the freestyle and alpine slalom skiing events.
		Freestyle skiing, which combines skiing with acrobatics, is made up of two disciplines at the Olympics: moguls and aerials.
		In moguls, competitors are judged by their ability to descend a slope that is heavily covered with snow bumps (moguls).
	www.kiat.net /olympics/slc2002/freestyleskiing.html (453 words)

	Winter Olympics - 2002
		The legs are together, the knees are bent underneath the body and the skis are parallel.
		Mule kick -- Similar to a backscratcher, but the skis are to the side of the twisted body.
		Daffy -- The skier spreads his or her legs wide apart with one in front of the body and one behind.
	cfapp.rockymountainnews.com /winterOlympics02/index.cfm?view=sportevents&eventsport=sportFreeStyle&property=rmn (1058 words)

	2002 Winter Olympics
		There are introductory Olympic winter sports programs, public skating on "The Fastest Ice On Earth," tours of the Olympic facilities, tubing, cross-country skiing, public bobsled rides, ski jumping and freestyle aerial shows, 2002 Games exhibit and the Joe Quinney Winter Sports Center/Alf Engen Ski Museum.
		Salt Lake Olympic Committee's volunteer program had three phases with approximately 8,000 volunteers for pre-Game activities, 18,000 core volunteers for the Olympic Winter Games, and 6,000 volunteers for the Paralympic Winter Games.
		The 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City were an astounding success.
	www.utah.com /olympics (1058 words)

	2002 Winter Olympics
		There are introductory Olympic winter sports programs, public skating on "The Fastest Ice On Earth," tours of the Olympic facilities, tubing, cross-country skiing, public bobsled rides, ski jumping and freestyle aerial shows, 2002 Games exhibit and the Joe Quinney Winter Sports Center/Alf Engen Ski Museum.
		Salt Lake Olympic Committee's volunteer program had three phases with approximately 8,000 volunteers for pre-Game activities, 18,000 core volunteers for the Olympic Winter Games, and 6,000 volunteers for the Paralympic Winter Games.
		The 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City were an astounding success.
	www.utah.com /olympics (1058 words)

	2002 Winter Olympics
		There are introductory Olympic winter sports programs, public skating on "The Fastest Ice On Earth," tours of the Olympic facilities, tubing, cross-country skiing, public bobsled rides, ski jumping and freestyle aerial shows, 2002 Games exhibit and the Joe Quinney Winter Sports Center/Alf Engen Ski Museum.
		Salt Lake Olympic Committee's volunteer program had three phases with approximately 8,000 volunteers for pre-Game activities, 18,000 core volunteers for the Olympic Winter Games, and 6,000 volunteers for the Paralympic Winter Games.
		The XIX Olympic Games took place February 8th through February 24, 2002; afterwards, the VIII Paralympics Winter Games began March 7th, and concluded on March 16, 2002.
	www.utah.com /olympics (1058 words)

	BBC SPORT Winter Olympics 2002 Other Skiing Norway win by a whisker
		But he also insisted that the feeling of victory did not compare with that he experienced in 1998 when he won gold in the 15km freestyle pursuit individual event.
		Norway retained their Olympic 4x10km relay cross-country title after a dramatic battle in the final leg.
		However, Alsgaard pummeled the snow with his poles to overtake the Italian only metres from the finish line to collect his fourth Olympic title and also add to the silver he won in this year's combined pursuit.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/hi/english/other_skiing/newsid_1826000/1826170.stm (1058 words)

	PC: Salt Lake 2002
		PC- Winter Olympics Titles Announced - PC Sydney 2000 developer Attention To Detail has announced that it has started development on the official games for the 2002 Winter Olympics, to be held in Salt Lake City in just over a year's time.
		Developed in the UK by Attention To Detail, in Salt Lake 2002 gamers will get the chance to compete in six different events: men's ski jumping K120 individual, men's alpine skiing downhill, men's snowboard parallel giant slalom, men's two-man bobsleigh, ladies' alpine skiing slalom and women's freestyle skiing aerials - sounds painful.
		- PC Salt Lake 2002 is the official tie-in video game of the 2002 Winter Olympics.
	www.cheatstation.com /t/info/cheats/detailsid2981/codes.htm (1058 words)

	Olympics Fun Facts
		The Winter Olympic sports are alpine skiing, biathlon (cross-country skiing and target shooting), bobsled, cross-country skiing, curling, figure skating, freestyle skiing, ice hocky, luge, Nordic combined (ski jumping and cross-country skiing), skeleton, ski jumping, snowboarding, and speed skating.
		Olympics - The Olympic Games Summary Winter Olympics Through The Years Salt Lake City: 2002 Winter Olympics...
		has won six medals at the Olympic Winter Games.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0771580.html (1058 words)

	GameSpy.com - Gaming Profiles
		Salt Lake City, Utah -- the location of the 2002 Winter Olympic games, and the setting for this Olympic-licensed downhill sim from Eidos.
		Salt Lake 2002 is the only official game of the 2002 Winter Olympics.
		Barrel down the powder in six Olympic events, including Men's Alpine Skiing Downhill, Ladies' Alpine Skiing Slalom, Men's Snowboard Parallel Giant Slalom, Women's Freestyle Skiing Aerials, Men's Ski Jumping K120 Individual, and Men's Two-man Bobsleigh.
	archive.gamespy.com /games/3013.shtml (1058 words)

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