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	Top 10 Winter Olympics Showdowns - MSN Encarta
		In the first Winter Olympic Games, American Charles Jewtraw was the only speed-skating medalist not from Norway or Finland.
		The British ice hockey team defeated the heavily favored Canadian squad for the gold medal in 1936--the only time in the first seven Winter Olympics that Canada did not emerge as champion.
		With Cold War tensions heating up over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the unheralded U.S. hockey team upset the heavily favored Soviet squad in the semifinals, in a game that came to be known as the Miracle on Ice.
	encarta.msn.com /list_winterolympicshowdowns/Top_10_Winter_Olympics_Showdowns.html (678 words)

	Olympic highlights - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		When Communist bloc countries joined the Olympic movement in the post-World War II era, many of their players were on government payroll as military employees — hence, the USSR's "Red Army" hockey team — while other free-world nations made do with bona fide amateurs.
		However, the National Hockey League noticed the international appeal of the NBA's foray into Olympic basketball with the original "Dream Team" at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics and opted to allow NHL players to participate in the Winter Olympics, beginning with some of the lesser-profile players at the 1994 Lillehammer Games.
		Ice hockey actually debuted at the 1920 Antwerp Summer Games, but at the inaugural Winter Olympics, Canada ripped through the competition by winning all five of its games.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,36,00.html (1298 words)

	2002 Winter Olympics
		The 2002 Olympic Winter Games were held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
		Prior to these Olympic Winter Games, 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.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/2/20/2002_winter_olympics.html (455 words)

	Ice hockey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ice hockey known simply as " hockey " in areas where it is more than field hockey is a team sport played on ice.
		In eastern Canada there is a different which is that ice hockey originated around in Windsor Nova Scotia where students at King's College School adapted the exciting field game Hurley to the ice of their favorite ponds and created a new winter game Hurley.
		The Canadian Hockey League or CHL is a major Canadian (under 21) league and is the parent of the Ontario Hockey League the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and the Western Hockey League.
	www.freeglossary.com /Ice_hockey (3680 words)

	Light the Fire Within \| The Olympic Movement
		During Olympic years, warring city-states were encouraged to lay down their weapons, and to compete in peace on the playing field instead of on the battlefield.
		The Olympic Winter Games are similar to the Summer Games in that they require speed, power and grace, in addition to conditioning and discipline.
		The Olympic Torch was added as a part of the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin, and has come to be an important symbol of the Olympics.
	governor.utah.gov /olympiced/curriculum/olymove.html (1249 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)

	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)

	German Info: Germany at the Olympics
		Among the stories for which the 1936 Winter Games have gone down in Olympics history was the performance of 16-year-old Norwegian Laila Schou Nilsen, who at the time held every speed-skating record for distances between 500 and 5,000 meters.
		Due to the exclusion of women's speedskating from the Olympics, she instead chose to compete in the combined downhill, which she won, although no medals were awarded at the time for success in individual races.
		Rudi Ball, a leading member of the Germany's 1932 Olympic hockey squad and a Jew in voluntary exile in France, was invited by the German government to return home to compete under the banner of his native country.
	www.germany.info /relaunch/info/publications/infocus/olympics2002/wg1936.html (592 words)

	CBSNews.com
		Held in conjunction with Olympic Games in Paris, the Chamonix Winter Games were originally known as an "International Winter Sports Week," due to objections by Scandinavian countries that felt a Winter Olympics would detract from their Nordic Games.
		With the first Olympic Winter Games an enormous success, it was no surprise that the St. Moritz Games attracted an 84 percent increase in the number of participants.
		The star of these Olympics was Norwegian Sonja Henie, who as a 15-year-old, won the first of her three Olympic gold medals.
	www.cbsnews.com /htdocs/sports/olympics/olympics_2002_games/timeline.html (1181 words)

	ABC Sport Online - Winter Olympics 2006 - History
		Figure skating was included in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and, with ice hockey, at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.
		The Winter Olympics returned to the United States for the first time in 22 years after calls for the Games to be cancelled following the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.
		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/2006/history.htm (4179 words)

	Northeastern Hockey - Matthews Arena
		The world's oldest ice hockey arena and one of the nation's exemplary athletic facilities is Matthews Arena, a repolished gem named for George J. Matthews, Class of '56, and his wife, the late Hope M. Matthews.
		A state-of-the-art ice surface expansion to standard-sized 90-by-200-foot dimensions added 2,000 square feet of skating area to the Arena, which for decades was one of the nation's smallest rinks.
		The old ice house that gave birth to the Boston Bruins, the Boston Olympics and the New England Whalers also was the cradle of high school and college hockey in Greater Boston.
	www.gonu.com /mhockey/archives/matthews/index.html (935 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)

	BBC SPORT \| Winter Olympics 2002 \| Ice Hockey \| British skate to victory
		Going into the 1936 Olympic ice hockey tournament Canada were overwhelming favourites, having won the first four tournaments.
		Great Britain were the Olympic ice hockey champions for the only time in their history.
		He was ill during the Olympics but got out of his sick bed to score the first goal in the 2-1 win against Canada.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/hi/english/ice_hockey/newsid_1647000/1647885.stm (712 words)

	Olympics
		Until 1994, the Winter and Summer Olympics were held in the same year, but in 1986 the International Olympic Committee, which organises the Olympics, decided to separate them, so as to spread costs for all involved parties.
		As with the Ancient Olympics, once the flame has been lit, it is kept burning throughout the celebration of the Olympics, and is extinguished at end of the closing ceremony of the Games.
		Olympic medals are awarded to those individuals or teams placing first, second, and third in each event.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /olympics/Olympics.htm (1089 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		Adolf Hitler presided over the opening of the 1936 Winter Games, which were held in the twin Bavarian towns of Garmisch and Partenkirchen three years before the start of the Second World War.
		Swiss four-man bobsleigh champions Pierre Musy at the helm, Arnold Gartmann, Charles Bouvier and Joseph Beerli, at the 1936 Winter Olympics.
		At first it was uncertain whether Germany would agree to host the Winter Olympics, which Hitler dismissed as "an invention of Jews and freemasons" and vowed that a Nazi government would never stage them.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/history/1936garmischpartenkirchen.shtml (1266 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Everything You Need to Know About Ice Hockey
		The United States won back-to-back silver medals at the 1952 and 1956 Winter Olympics, and at the 1960 Games in Squaw Valley, Calif., the Americans beat Canada and the Soviet Union on their way to the gold medal.
		The Americans won a silver medal at the 1972 Olympics, and eight years later the United States battled its way to a gold medal at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid.
		Women's hockey, which has been played as far back as 1916, joined its male counterpart on the international scene in 1990 with the advent of the first IIHF Women's World Championship.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/sport/hockey/articles/hockey.htm (1571 words)

	Catch the excitement! Ice Fishing Fever Sweeps the Nation! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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)

	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)

	Olympics Timeline: Ancient Greece - 1940s
		The Olympic flag is introduced, as is the Olympic oath.
		Figure-skating events are held for the second time, and ice hockey for the first.
		The American Olympic Committee sends a hockey team, as does the American Hockey Association; the IOC bars either from being considered for a medal.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/olympicstimeline.html (1375 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)

	Washingtonpost.com: 1936, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
		The British ice hockey team scored a major upset by beating Canada for the gold.
		Hockey player Rudi Ball was a German Jew who had fled his homeland to escape Nazi persecution.
		But because an Olympic Games was being held in their country for the first time, the Nazis swallowed their racist ideology for the moment, and invited him back to play for the German national team.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/history/years/1936.htm (283 words)

	2002 Winter Olympics - Winter Olympics History
		Salt Lake City is named host city of the Olympic Winter Games of 2002 at the 104th IOC Session in Budapest, Hungary in the first ballot vote.
		The first Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix, France were held in conjunction with the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris.
		From 1928, the Olympic Winter Games were held every four years in the same calendar year as the Olympic Games.
	www.utah.com /olympics/history.htm (941 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Winter Olympics 2002 \| Ice Hockey \| Looking ahead to 2006
		In February 1936, at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in Germany, the Great Britain team captained by Carl Erhardt held the USA to a goalless draw after three periods of overtime to claim the Olympic gold medal.
		In the decades since that shock Olympic victory the fortunes of the national team have waxed and waned.
		But while the national team may be spectators rather than participants in events on the ice in Utah, they have their sights firmly set on the next Winter Games in 2006.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/low/english/ice_hockey/newsid_1753000/1753774.stm (559 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)

	Town of Winchester
		The next winter he was traded to Minneapolis, but the middle of the season found him back with Cincinnati Reds as shortstop, where he remained 6 years.
		He also went to Berlin for the Winter Olympics there in 1936 and scored the winning goal in the first game that the U.S. team played on its way to winning the bronze medal in ice hockey that year.
		The manager of the Olympic ice hockey team in 1936 was Walter Brown, manager of the Boston Garden (and future owner of the Boston Celtics).
	www.winchester.us /ArchivalCenter/Sports.html (1699 words)

	NHL
		The growth of collegiate hockey in the United States, however, led to a greater proportion of NHL players born in the United States.
		The Amateur Hockey Association of the United States (AHAUS), in conjunction with the U.S. Olympic Committee, chooses players for the Olympics; the AHAUS also chooses the national team for world championships, held annually.
		The decline of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association in international competition has been blamed on the fact that many of its men were turning professional while teenagers.
	members.tripod.com /Red_Warrior/Ice_Hockey/nhl.htm (825 words)

	Squaw Valley USA: History Olympics
		Upon hearing the news, International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage told Cushing, "the USOC obviously has taken leave of their senses." IOC member John J. Garland advised, "I think you are on a wild goose chase.
		The 1960 Winter Olympics were the first Games held in the Western United States and the first to be televised.
		The Olympic Village Inn was built to house more than 750 athletes; it allowed all athletes to be housed under one roof for the first and only time in modern Olympic history.
	www.squaw.com /winter/history_olympics.html (1207 words)

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