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	iceskate.com is the official site with all the information about ice skating. Visit the coolest site in the world.
		Ice skates are boots with blades attached to the bottom, used in ice skating to propel oneself across ice surfaces.
		Compulsory figures, in which skaters use their blades to draw circles, figure 8s, and similar shapes in ice, and are judged on the accuracy and clarity of the figures and the cleanness and exact placement of the various turns on the circles.
		Ice dancing competitions usually consist of three phases: one or more "compulsory dances"; an "original dance" to a ballroom rhythm that is designated annually; and a "free dance" to music of the skaters' own choice.
	www.iceskate.com (4179 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)

	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)

	CBSNews.com
		Originally skating and ice hockey events took place as part of the Summer Games of 1908 and 1920, however the International Olympic Committee decided to hold a separate set of Games for popular cold weather sports.
		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.
	www.cbsnews.com /htdocs/sports/olympics/olympics_2002_games/timeline.html (1181 words)

	A to Z Encyclopaedia of Ice Hockey - Ol
		A level of recreational hockey defined by The Hockey Talk as - an Oldtimer is a hockey player 35 or older who plays an exciting brand of hockey that prohibits slapshots.
		Later in that year the IIHF gave the Olympic ice hockey tournament World Championship status and Canada became the first World Champions in ice hockey.
		The European Championships were a combined tournament with the Olympics/World Championships in 1928, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968.
	www.azhockey.com /Ol.htm (844 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)

	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)

	1800-Olympics.com -- Winter Olympics: Ice Hockey
		Founded in 1908, the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) is a federation of member national hockey associations; governing the sport of ice hockey and in-line hockey for both men and women.
		The A to Z is a free access ice hockey resource, developed by The Ice Hockey Annual and Graphyle Consultants, for hockey fans world-wide.
		Biathlon, Bobsleigh, Curling, Ice Hockey, Luge, Skating, Skiing.
	1800-olympics.com /WinterOlympics/WinterSports/Ice-Hockey.htm (309 words)

	Winter Olympics - ninemsn 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.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572547/Winter_Olympics.html (1241 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)

	2006 WINTER OLYMPICS : Encyclopedia Entry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, were celebrated in Turin, Italy from February 10, 2006, through February 26, 2006.
		The Olympic mascots of Torino 2006 were Neve ("snow" in Italian), a female snowball, and Gliz, a male ice cube.
		Olympic events were mainly held in Turin, but other events (namely skiing, snowboarding, and the track sports) were held in mountainous outlying villages for obvious reasons.
	bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/2006_Winter_Olympics (1524 words)

	Learn more about 2002 Winter Olympics in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.onlineencyclopedia.org /2/20/2002_winter_olympics.html (513 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)

	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)

	American Hockey Coaches Association
		Mark Fusco was a member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic hockey team that competed in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, and played in 80 games over two NHL seasons with the Hartford Whalers.
		Scott Fusco played in the 1984 and 1988 Winter Olympics, and is the only two-time ECAC Player of the Year Award winner.
		Then, in August, College Hockey America became the fourth NCAA Division I women’s ice hockey conference.
	www.ahcahockey.com /news/0203/1014news.html (1136 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)

	GBROLYMPICS.COM / LONDON-OLYMPICS.COM - Olympic Games Medallists
		The modern Olympics were first held in 1896.
		Nevertheless all those competitions reported, at one time or another, as Olympic medal events have been included here for the record, with those no longer regarded as official footnoted.
		The Winter Olympics were first held in 1924.
	www.london-olympics.com /olympic (336 words)

	ThePittsburghChannel.com - Olympics 2006 - Ice Hockey: Canada Is Team To Beat
		Overall, ice hockey in the Olympic Games dates back to 1920, when the tournament was part of the Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.
		The last team to win successive Olympic titles was the Soviet Union/Unified Team, which won in 1984, 1988 (as Soviet Union) and 1992 (as Unified Team).
		Sweden has emerged as a solid women's hockey team in recent years, winning bronze in both the 2002 Olympic Winter Games and the '05 IIHF World Championships.
	www.thepittsburghchannel.com /olympics2006/6207547/detail.html (1478 words)

	Mormon Olympics
		In an effort to rekindle the spirit of the ancient Olympics of Greece, which had been abolished as a pagan cult by Christian Byzantine Emperor Theodosius I in 393 A.D., the modern Olympic Games were initiated in 1896.
		The first Olympics in this modern era were held in Athens, Greece, as a result of the persuasive recommendation of Demetrius Vikelas, a Greek representative of the Pan-Hellenic Gymnastic Club who had come to Paris as a participant in the planning for the new Olympics.
		One interesting fact to note about these first Winter Games was that in all the matches played by the Canadian ice hockey team, only three points were scored against them; by contrast, they scored a total of 110 goals.
	www.mormonolympians.org /mormon_olympians/history_modern_olympics.html (713 words)

	The Winter Olympics - 2006
		Four years ago I lamented the "X-ification" of the Winter Olympics When the US scored their first gold medal in the Women's snowboarding halfpipe.
		If you recall, the Salt Lake City Olympics was the Olympics of Jamie Salé and David Pelletier, aka Skategate.
		Ice Hockey - should be pretty self explanatory, if not click here.
	www.simpleprop.com /wadE/olympics2006.html (734 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)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		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.
		The outbreak of war in 1939 shut down Olympic competition until 1948, when the Winter Games were resurrected in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/history/1936garmischpartenkirchen.shtml (1266 words)

	Olympics
		The hosting of the 1964 Summer Olympics (Tokyo) and the 1972 Winter Olympics (Sapporo) were, respectively, the first summer and winter games ever held in Asia.
		However, the Tokyo Olympic Games were canceled because of World War II; the London Olympic Games to be held in 1944 were also suspended for the same reason, being realized at last in 1948.
		Total expenditures in preparation for the event were said to be the highest in Olympic history.
	www.sg.emb-japan.go.jp /JapanAccess/olympics.htm (1554 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1992 Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Games of the XVI Winter Olympiad were held in 1992 in Albertville, France.
		The last Winter Games to be staged in the same year as the Summer Games.
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1992_Winter_Olympics (225 words)

	Winter Olympics Trivia: Did You Know?
		Nordic combined is one of three current Olympic Winter Games events in which the United States has never won a medal.
		Ice hockey made its Olympic debut at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.
		American Shani Davis narrowly failed in his historic attempt to compete on both the long track and short track speed skating teams at the same Olympics but as the world record holder in the men's 1500 meters he will still be a favorite to medal in the long track events at Turin.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/winter-olympics-trivia.html (542 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The 1940 Winter Olympics were scheduled for Sapporo, Japan.
		Germany and Japan were barred from competing, but everyone else took part eagerly, and it was clear that the Winter Olympics had successfully survived the 12-year hiatus.
		Lighting the Olympic Flame by: For the Winter Games, the flame was lit for the first time in 1952 in Oslo.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1948 (358 words)

	A to Z QuickSeek Areas Starting with Ic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics rosters (men)
		Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics rosters (women)
		Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics statistics (women)
	www.quickseek.com /atoz/ic.html (57 words)

	Olympics Default page - ON-ICE magazine- a minor hockey magazine
		The Olympic rules do not require a center dot to be installed at center ice to locate the face off.
		The ice makers need to mark center ice, where the face-off is to be held and in other rinks in Salt Lake City they use a yellow dot of paint.
		Bill McCreary goes to his second consecutive Olympics The National Hockey League has announced to the IIHF the names of the seven on-ice officials (three referees and four linesmen) who will be going to Olympic Winter Games (men’s tournament) in Salt Lake City.
	www.on-icemagazine.com /national_teams/Olympics_default.htm (1415 words)

	The Zamboni® Story
		Frank and his brother, Lawrence Zamboni, had an ice manufacturing plant in Hynes in the 1930's but with the advent of refrigerators, they decided to build an ice skating rink to replace the potential loss in their ice business.
		Frank's idea was to create a flatter and smoother ice sheet by circulating the salt brine in large flat tanks covering the entire area of the ice floor.
		The refrigeration compressors functioned at the ice plant and ammonia refrigerant was piped beneath California Avenue to a large brine tank on the rink side.
	www.zamboni.com /story/ParamountIceland.html (1122 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Sapporo 1972
		Organizers of the Sapporo Winter Olympics turned a tidy profit for the Games, largely as a result of their take of the record $8.47 million for the broadcast rights.
		In return for the Olympic flame to the East, the Japanese invested a fortune in facilities and structures in Sapporo, a city with over 1,500,000 inhabitants, capital of the Hokkaido island.
		Canada pulled out of the ice hockey competition over a dispute over the amateur status of many of the hockey players.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w11sapporo.html (359 words)

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