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	Hilton Lake Placid Resort - Attractions & Businesses - Olympics Then & Now
		The small village of Lake Placid is world-famous as the host of the Winter Olympic Games in 1932 and 1980, but its place in the sporting world goes beyond that.
		In addition to improvement of the existing ski jumps and the expansion of cross-country ski trails, the Olympic stadium (speed-skating oval), arena and bobrun were constructed at a cost of over $650,000.
		An Olympic Village was constructed for the athletes.
	www.lphilton.com /attractions_olympics.html (696 words)

	Winter Olympics - MSN Encarta
		The Olympics organization is headed by a president, elected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) members for an initial period of eight years.
		Previously there had been winter events held, at random, at the Summer Games, most notably the figure skating and ice hockey competitions that were associated with the 1920 Summer Games at Antwerp, Belgium.
		Alpine skiing, for men and women, has been part of the Olympic programme since 1948: the events are the downhill, the slalom, the giant slalom (since 1952), the super giant slalom or super-G (since 1988), and the combined event (downhill and slalom), which has been staged intermittently since 1936.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572547/winter_olympics.html (1241 words)

	ipedia.com: Winter Olympic Games Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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.
		The men's ice hockey tournament was open to all players for the first time, making Canada and the United States favourites for the gold with their many NHL professionals.
	www.ipedia.com /winter_olympic_games.html (5171 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		The winter Olympics were begun in 1924 and were held in the same year as the summer games until the 1994 winter games in Lillehammer, Norway, when the alternating cycles began.
		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).
		The Olympic games are competitions of individual athletes, not of nations, and the IOC does not keep national scores; however, the media of all nations report national standings according to one of two scoring systems.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/sports/olympics.html (1093 words)

	KIAT.NET - Olympic Winter Games Ice Hockey
		The origins of ice hockey are unclear, but it's widely accepted that the British are responsible for bringing hockey to North America.
		From the 1980s, professional hockey players who had played in the National Hockey League (NHL) were declared eligible to compete in the Olympic ice hockey tournament.
		Women's ice hockey was approved as an Olympic sport in 1992, and debuted in Nagano in 1998.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/sports/winter/icehockey.html (726 words)

	NASA scientist looks at Olympic ice in a frozen light
		NASA scientist Peter Wasilewski's studies of ice using polarized light create beautiful colored pictures of the snow and ice, and enable people to see if the snow and ice is "right" for each type of sport.
		Since the ice is used for different venues at different times, it's important that it be the correct consistency for the sport, and that means careful analysis by the crew to either heat up or cool down the ice so that it matches what is needed to bring out the best performance by the Olympians.
		A thin section revealed petal shaped ice forms that were the result of a spiral growth pattern induced by the bubbling of methane gas that was produced by the decay of submerged vegetation present when the ice froze.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-02/nsfc-nsl022406.php (1033 words)

	Catch the excitement! Ice Fishing Fever Sweeps the Nation! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Ice Fishing in an Olympic venue differs greatly from fishing on one's local frozen pond but at its heart all of the elements (except for the beer, cribbage games and automatic jiggering machine) are still there.
		The ice, the auger, the pole, the fish, the mucklucks, the fish house and of course the fish are all the same as the singular pursuit on a frozen lake.
		You have to have lakes and you have to have ice.
	www.getfishy.com /ice_fishing.html (1001 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.
		The underdog 1960 U.S. Olympic hockey team in Squaw Valley, California, beat both Canada and the Soviet Union to clinch a tie for the gold medal.
		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)

	Ice hockey at the 1932 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the 1932 Winter Olympics, the ice hockey tournament was only contested by only four teams.
		Canada won the gold medal, the United States took the silver medal and Germany claimed one of its two all-time hockey medals by taking the bronze (West Germany also won the bronze medal in 1976).
		Events at the 1932 Winter Olympics (Lake Placid)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ice_hockey_at_the_1932_Winter_Olympics (164 words)

	Ice Hockey History - Rediff On The Net Free Personal Homepages
		Ice Hockey In The U.S. Although Canadian hockey teams traveled to the United States to play exhibition games in the late 1800s, the U.S. did not compete against teams from outside of North America until 1920.
		Most people are surprised to learn that women's ice hockey has a history that dates back to 1892, when the very first organized and recorded all-female ice hockey game was played in Ontario, Canada.
		On the East Coast, considered the hotbed of women's college hockey, more and more colleges and universities are looking to women's ice hockey as a solution to meeting Title IX requirements.
	members.rediff.com /mjagadish/icehis.htm (1709 words)

	Science Question of the Week --Olympic ice and snow -- February 17, 2006
		NASA scientist Peter Wasilewski's studies of ice using polarized light create beautiful colored pictures of the snow and ice, but they also enable people to see if the snow and ice is "right" for each type of sport.
		Below that would be what appears to be vertical and cylindrical ice crystals that extend to the next layer of ice, which is usually a surface painted white in an ice rink.
		He later developed a winter camp in Lake Placid, New York, former home to a winter Olympics of 1932 and 1980, to teach snow and ice science to science teachers.
	www.gsfc.nasa.gov /scienceques2005/20060217.htm (977 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)

	JWA - In Focus—Jewish Women In the Olympics
		She was the first woman to win a silver medal for the discus throw and later broke the Olympic and world records to win a gold at the 1932 Olympics.
		Ice skater Sasha Cohen (born in Westwood, Calif) is ready to stake her claim in the rink again this month in the Winter Olympics.
		Ice dancer Melissa Gregory (born in Highland Park, Ill) and her partner/husband Denis Petukhov are the second-ranked American ice-dancing team (just behind Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto).
	www.jwa.org /discover/inthepast/infocus/olympics (906 words)

	Winter Olympics 2002 \| Salt Lake City
		The first Winter Games were held in Chamonix, at the foot of Mt. Blanc, and the little town of 3,000 people welcomed the Games with enthusiasm - especially when a cold front hit on the day of the Opening Ceremony and dashed fears that the festival would be thawed out.
		It was the first Winter Games in a capital city instead of a small resort town, and in the eyes of one Norwegian chronicler, the urban setting and large crowds gave the Winter Olympics the kind of boost that Stockholm had given the then-struggling Summer Olympics in 1912.
		The first Winter Olympics in the western United States were the inspiration of a transplanted Easterner named Alex Cushing, who saw Squaw Valley for the first time in the late 1940s and decided he was going to move there and build a ski resort.
	web.knoxnews.com /web/kns/sports/olympics/thepast.shtml (2107 words)

	SportsKnowHow.com - History of Ice Hockey - Page 2 of 2
		Netting was first added to hockey goals in the early 1900s to stop the puck and show that the puck had actually passed between the goal posts.
		Today’s hockey players from the junior leagues to the NHL wear layers of protective padding from their shin guards to their helmets.
		The 1920 Olympics in Antwerp Belgium became the first to include and ice hockey competition.
	www.sportsknowhow.com /hockey/history/hockey-history-2.shtml (683 words)

	Canada Beats U.S. For Hockey Gold - Olympics
		Olympic officials, vowing to stay a step ahead of drugged athletes, threw two multi-medalist skiers out of the games Sunday and stripped them of a gold medal apiece for using a substance not yet on the banned list.
		All three athletes were tossed out of the Winter Olympics on the final day of competition.
		Lazutina, who tied an Olympic record Sunday with her 10th medal by winning the women's 30-kilometer classical race, was forced to give up that victory.
	www.wxii12.com /olympics/1249479/detail.html (641 words)

	Ice Hockey — FactMonster.com
		Women's ice hockey quickly gained popularity on the heels of the 1998 Olympics.Many colleges and universities offered women's ice hockey and finally, in 2000, it officially became a sanctioned championship NCAA sport.
		Ice Hockey - Ice Hockey The original Stanley Cup was only seven inches high.
		Ice Hockey - Ice Hockey Medal breakdown (2 events): Two medals— Finland (0-0-2); One medal— Czech...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0775519.html (318 words)

	Winter Olympics: Curling
		It came back in the 1932 Lake Placid Games as a demonstration sport, but then went on a 56-year Olympic hiatus, until it returned as a demonstration sport at the 1988 and 1992 Games.
		This bullseye, which is 12 ft in diameter, is known as the "house" and its center the "tee." The tee is located 126 ft from where the shooter starts.
		As the stone curls towards its intended target (perhaps the tee, or perhaps an opponent's stone that happens to be in the way) the other three team members sweep the ice with brooms, causing the stone to speed up or change directions.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/winter-olympics-curling.html (455 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		Hockey Night in Canada's Kelly Hrudey dissects the Canadian men's squad bound for Turin.
		Olympic ice hockey has hosted its share of dynasties and upsets.
		Olympic rules put a premium on a player's hockey sense — the ability to act quickly and positively with the puck and the discipline to know what to do without it.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/sports/icehockey (657 words)

	CNNSI.com - 2002 Winter Olympics - 1980 U.S. hockey team lights Olympic cauldron - Saturday February 09, 2002 12:39 AM
		The team of college kids who came together to break the Soviet Union's monopoly on Olympic hockey were reunited Friday night, this time as family men instead of world-class athletes, to be the final torchbearers for the Winter Games.
		Together and all wearing USA hockey jerseys, they touched the torch to the base of the 117-foot-tall cauldron.
		The family was the first to boast three generations of Olympic competitors before patriarch Jack Shea, a double gold medal-winner from the 1932 Lake Placid Games, was killed in a car crash late last month.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/2002/news/2002/02/08/hockey_team_ap (768 words)

	1932 LP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		(Winter), DuBois No. 1 block of 4 depicting a dark blue silhouette of ski jumper over spherical field of light blue with indicia “III Olympic / Winter Games / Lake Placid, USA / February 4-13 1932”.
		(Winter), Lot of 5 envelopes including a ski and ice hockey cachet, a dual-use entire with FDC on front and Opening Day on reverse side (both with appropriate franking).
		Olympics 1932, 10 precancels of the 2c stamp from Morley,NY; Mayville, NY; Harford, NY; Madrid, NY; Carthage, NY; Lyndale, NY; Lyons Falls, NY;Harrisville, NY; Groto, NY;Croghan, NT.
	www.sportstamps.org /1932_lp.htm (544 words)

	2002 Winter Olympics
		The 2002 Winter Olympic Games were held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
		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.
		Finally, the Canadian men's ice hockey team defeated the American team 5-2 to claim the gold medal and end a drought that lasted 50 years to the day.
	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.
		With 900,000 inhabitants, Turin (Torino) is located in the northwest Piedmont and usually welcomes nearly 3 million visitors a year to the city most famous for the Shroud of Turin.
		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)

	1980 Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Games of the XIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, United States of America.
		An unfancied amateur United States ice hockey team win the gold medal, defeating Finland in the final.
		Their extraordinary upset victory over the heavy favourite Soviet team in the semifinal becomes known as the "Miracle On Ice" in the US press.
	www.knowallabout.com /1/19/1980_winter_olympics.html (170 words)

	List of Winter Olympic Sports
		Bandy (like ice hockey with a ball), 1952 (will return to the Winter Olympic Games in 2010).
		Ice stock sport (a German variant to curling), 1936 and 1964.
		Winter pentathlon (a variant to the modern pentathlon), 1948.
	www.topendsports.com /events/winter/sports/index.htm (70 words)

	Massachusetts Hockey Hall of Fame
		He played as a regular at center ice as a freshman and as a first line center on the varsity for three years.
		In 1932 he captained the United States Olympic Team which captured the silver medal at Lake Placid, New York, losing the final game to Canada 2-1 in a heartbreaker.
		The first Olympic Games to include ice hockey for men took place in 1920 in Antwerp.
	www.masshockey.com /Hall (493 words)

	The History of the Winter Olympics
		This week was so successful the IOC decided to hold winter games every four years, and the 1924 events were eventually designated as the first Winter Olympic Games.
		The second Winter Olympics held in North America, and the first in the West took place in 1960 at Squaw Valley, California, near Lake Tahoe.
		The 2006 Winter Olympics will be the first Olympic Games to use the new scoring method for all figure skating events.
	www.preferredconsumer.com /sports/articles/winter_olympics.html (427 words)

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