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	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)

	World Almanac for Kids
		The skates worn for ice hockey differ from those used for figure skating and speed skating in that the blade is thinner and shorter, with a plain, pointed end, and the boot is lower and thicker.
		Ice hockey is probably a descendant of bandy, a sport that developed in England in the late 18th century but that is now played only in the Baltic countries, Sweden, and the countries of the former USSR.
		Ice hockey was added to the roster of the summer Olympic games in 1920 and became part of the winter games when they began four years later.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/sports/hockey.html (1903 words)

	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)

	Winter Olympic Games - Gurupedia
		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.
		Winter pentathlon, a variant to the modern pentathlon, was included as a demonstration event in 1948.
	www.gurupedia.com /o/ol/olympic_winter_games.htm (5034 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)

	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)

	History of Hockey - Stats Hockey
		Hockey became very popular in Montreal at that time and James Creighton who had a law degree decided to move on to Ottawa and eventually became the Law Clerk of the Senate.
		The equipment used in hockey was also evolving with skates that strapped to your boots in the first 50 years of the century to skates that were clamped or screwed into your boots in the later 50 years of that century.
		Hockey helmets were not worn on a regular basis until the early 1970's and were eventually mandated by the NHL for the 1979-80 season.
	statshockey.homestead.com /historyofhockey.html (1670 words)

	ABC Sport - Winter Olympics
		Figure skating was included in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and, with ice hockey, at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.
		Jayne Torvil and Christopher Deane, sublime 1984 ice dance champions, failed in their comeback in an event marred by a dispute over judging and had to be satisfied with bronze behind a funky routine put on by Russians Oksana Gritschuk and Evgeny Platov.
		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/2002/features/history.htm (3570 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.
		Since 1994, the Winter Games are no longer held in the same year as the Games of the Olympiad (or Summer Olympics).
		The most recent Winter Games were the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wi/Winter_Olympics.html (264 words)

	Ice hockey at the 1968 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the 1968 Winter Olympics held in Grenoble, France, one Ice Hockey event was held: men's Ice Hockey.
		This was the last IIHF tournament where three titles (Olympic, World and European) were contested.
		In their penultimate match of the tournament, the USSR team lost to the Czechoslovakian team, which gave a tie-breaking advantage to the latter as each team had a record of 5 wins, 1 loss (10 points) with one game remaining.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ice_hockey_at_the_1968_Winter_Olympics (296 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)

	Hockey St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		North American hockey is a fast and violent game, played on ice, which began in Canada in the mid-nineteenth century.
		It is thought that hockey derives its name from the French word for a shepherd's crook, in reference to the shape of the sticks with their curved playing end.
		In 1917 the NHA gave way to the National Hockey League, which was to become the dominant professional league in the world.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100589 (917 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The French city of Grenoble was a surprise choice to host the 1968 Games, but it's where the Winter Olympic movement truly came of age.
		Olympic flags were fired into the air by cannons.
		She capped off an Olympics to remember by attacking the Chamrousse course to claim gold in the giant slalom.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/history/1968grenoble.shtml (1085 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)

	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)

	History of the Modern Summer and Winter Olympics from Fanbay.net
		The Summer and Winter Olympics of 1932 were both held in the United States, in Los Angeles, CA and Lake Placid, NY, respectively.
		The Olympic facilities were as impressive as the cutting edge facilities that brought the Summer Olympics to a new level in Munich (1972).
		The Winter Olympics of 2002 were overshadowed by the terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001.
	www.fanbay.net /olympics/modern_history.htm (2739 words)

	1968 Olympics — Infoplease.com
		This was also the first year that the IOC permitted East and West Germany to participate as separate countries.
		The Barcelona Olympics and the perception of foreign nations: a panel study of Japanese university students.
		Environmental factors in the summer Olympics in historical perspective.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0300767.html (401 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)

	ESPN.com - Fleming dazzled the judges and the nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		When Peggy Fleming glided onto the ice in Grenoble's Stade de Glace on Feb. 19, 1968, the crowd greeted her with wild applause and ABC's cameras -- beaming signals live and in color -- embraced her graceful image in a way that would become familiar to viewers over the next few decades.
		Fleming, the U.S. champion from 1964 to 1968 and the world champion from 1966-68, was the clear favorite as the free-skating program began, and the 21 skaters who preceded her on to the ice didn't change that.
		Fleming turned pro shortly after the Olympics, and six months after winning the gold, she starred in an Emmy Award-winning TV special, and went on to make four more TV specials.
	sports.espn.go.com /oly/winter02/gen/feature?id=1307976 (447 words)

	1968 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1968 Grenoble, France and opened on February 6.
		The games have been credited with making the Winter Olympics more popular in the United States, not least of which because of ABC's extensive coverage of Fleming and Killy, who became overnight sensations among teenage girls.
		Grenoble 1968 is the first Olympiad to adopt a mascot, albeit unofficially.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1968_Winter_Olympics (373 words)

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		Zimin was a member of the Soviet Union ice hockey team at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.
		One of the greatest Soviet hockey players in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Zimin was a right-winger for the Soviet National team that won a gold medal at the World Championship in 1968, 1969, and 1971.
		Former Soviet goalie Vladislov Tretiak (whom many consider one of the greatest goalies in hockey history) said: "Those games brought down the wall between Canadian and Russian hockey, two decades before the other walls came down." The Series opened the door for Russian players, many of whom now play in the NHL.
	www.jewsinsports.org /olympics.asp?ID=495 (507 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)

	CNNSI.com - More Sports - Brooks to coach 2002 men's Olympic hockey team - Thursday November 02, 2000 01:51 PM
		PAUL (AP) -- Herb Brooks, who led the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team to its "Miracle on Ice," is returning to Team USA as head coach for the 2002 winter games in Salt Lake City, USA Hockey confirmed Wednesday morning.
		Assistant coach Cunniff, in his fifth season as head coach of the American Hockey League's Albany River Rats, is making his third appearance on the staff of a men's Olympic hockey team.
		New USA Hockey Coach Herb Brooks says there won't be another Miracle on Ice, but that the U.S. team should be very good.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /more/news/2000/11/01/us_hockey_coach_ap (640 words)

	1980 Winter Olympics
		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.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1980_winter_olympics.shtml (176 words)

	CNNSI.com - 2002 Winter Olympics - Ice Hockey - Team USA women roll again with 12-1 win over China - Friday February ...
		Cammi Granato had her first Olympic hat trick Thursday as the U.S. women's hockey team turned back a physical challenge and beat China 12-1 to clinch a berth in the medal round.
		One of the youngest and scrappiest players on what is arguably the most dominant team competing in these Olympics, Chu stepped down from her class president position at Choate Rosemary Hall last year in order to move Lake Placid, N.Y., to train and play year-round with the U.S. national team.
		Zhang stayed down on the ice, surrounded by her teammates, for 90 seconds before skating off rubbing her head, with a teammate holding each arm.
	www.cnn.com /cnnsi/olympics/2002/ice_hockey/news/2002/02/14/china_usa_ap (1023 words)

	The Winter Olympics (reference)
		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.
		The 11-day event, which included nordic skiing, speed skating, figure skating, ice hockey and bobsledding, was a huge success and was retroactively called the first Olympic Winter Games.
		The event ended the four-year Olympic cycle of staging both Winter and Summer Games in the same year and began a new schedule that calls for the two Games to alternate every two years.
	www.teachervision.fen.com /olympic-games/history/8613.html?detoured=1 (536 words)

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