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	Ice hockey - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in Canada and the United States, is a team sport played on ice.
		Ice hockey is played on a hockey rink by six players per side, each of whom is on ice skates.
		Ice hockey is one of the fastest growing women's sports in the world, with the number of participants increasing 400 percent in the last 10 years.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/i/c/e/Ice_hockey.html (3118 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)

	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)

	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)

	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)

	Welcome to the ice age - winter sports Parks & Recreation - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The traditional winter sports--cross-country skiing, curling, downhill skiing, figure skating, hunting and trapping, ice fishing, ice hockey, ski jumping, snowshoeing, speed skating, and tobogganing--used to be left to just a handful the hale and hearty.
		Some researchers report negative attitudes to winter; some even refer to conditions associated with the cold climate as a "seasonal affective disorder." Many people from the north used to flock south for the winter to avoid the cold conditions.
		The 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary, Canada, included freestyle skiing as a demonstration sport and it proved to be very popular with the spectators.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1145/is_n1_v29/ai_14946961 (941 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)

	Black Athlete Sports Network—The Soul of Sports
		I have covered the sport in Europe where hockey is just as big a sport in some countries as it is in Canada and parts of the United States, and encountered more than a few people who saw fit to expose their bias and racism.
		Whether it is hockey, skiing, or skating, these sports involve expensive equipment, time on the ice or slopes, and local sports clubs to teach even the basics.
		In the fifties, the Russians were proficient in hockey despite the lack of outdoor ice surfaces.
	www.blackathlete.net /Hockey/hockey021202.html (1110 words)

	Hockey — the stuff of hard fights and 'miracles' - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		Ice hockey was developed in Canada in the late 1800s and within several decades evolved into an international sport most popular in the cold-weather regions of North America and Europe.
		The face of the Olympic version of the sport changed in the 1990s as the National Hockey League allowed its players, undeniably the best in the world, to participate in the Games — first in 1994 on a limited basis and then with a full contingent of NHL stars in 1998.
		Women's ice hockey, which held its first World Championship in 1990, was added to the Games in 1998.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,15000006,00.html (741 words)

	Player Bio: Digit Murphy :: Women's Ice Hockey
		In 2001, members of the media awarded Murphy the New England Hockey Writer's Coach of the Year award and in 1997 Murphy's fellow coaches and the media honored her with both the ECAC/KOHO and the New England Hockey Writer's Coach of the Year awards.
		In 1998, she served as the women's hockey color analyst for Turner Broadcasting coverage of the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
		Among many professional accomplishments, Coach Murphy is most proud of the on-going grass roots growth of women's ice hockey and the development of female athletes and coaches.
	brownbears.cstv.com /sports/w-hockey/mtt/murphy_digit00.html (1013 words)

	Ice Hockey: Canada Is Team To Beat - Olympics 2006
		Canada's gold medal in 2002 sparked its resurgence as the dominant force in international ice hockey.
		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.10news.com /olympics2006/6207547/detail.html (1476 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)

	CNN Programs - People in the News
		Olympic gold medalist Fleming, herself a purveyor of grace and style on ice, attributes Kwan's learning skills to intuition.
		Days before the Olympic trials and the U.S. championships in the winter of 1994, skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed in the knee by associates of another skater, Tonya Harding.
		Without the Olympic gold medal, I think she will be seen as the second, third or fourth best in history.
	us.cnn.com /CNN/Programs/people/shows/kwan/profile.html (1705 words)

	Suburban Hockey Schools
		Ryan Pardoski first crossed paths with Rick Judson in 1988, when Pardoski was a junior forward playing for the University of Michigan of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association and Judson was a freshman forward on the University of Illinois-Chicago squad.
		Suburban Hockey Schools Program Director Lyle Phair was an assistant coach at UIC from 1990-93, and kept in touch with Pardoski and Judson through the years.
		Judson, a native of Lambertville, grew up playing hockey in Toledo from the time he was five-years old until coming to the Detroit area to play AAA hockey as a bantam and midget.
	www.suburbanhockey.com /suburbanhockeyschools/pardoski-judson.html (758 words)

	USA Hockey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Amputee Hockey is identical to typical amateur ice hockey, with the notable exception that the athletes are missing one or more of their upper or lower extremities.
		The AAHA is a member of the Disabled Hockey Section of USA hockey and is working to promote a fun and safe environment for the growth of hockey in the United States and to lead the international effort to make Standing (Amputee) Hockey a Winter Paralympic Sport.
		The US and Canadian National Amputee Hockey Teams are making the trip to Salt Lake City to make their case for the discipline of “Standing Ice Hockey” to become part of the Winter Paralympics along with Sledge Hockey, introduced as a medal sport in 1998.
	www.usahockey.com /aaha/main_site/main/press (5632 words)

	Winter Olympics: Curling
		Curling is one of four winter Olympic sports being contested indoors.
		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.
		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)

	Ice Hockey: Canada Is Team To Beat - Olympics 2006
		For the third time in Olympic history, the men's ice hockey tournament will feature the use of National Hockey League players.
		Overall, ice hockey in the Olympic Games dates back to 1920, when the tournament was part of the Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.
		The face of women's hockey in Canada remains forward Hayley Wickenheiser, who has been a member of the national team since 1995.
	www.wptz.com /olympics2006/6207547/detail.html (1476 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.
		As the host of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games, Turin has arranged most events to take place within the city limits, while all the Alpine sports will occur just outside the city at various winter resorts.
		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: 2007-10-20)
		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)

	Ice hockey at the 1988 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the 1988 Winter Olympics one Ice Hockey event was held, men's Ice Hockey.
		Games were played at the Olympic Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
		See also: List of Olympic medalists in ice hockey
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ice_hockey_at_the_1988_Winter_Olympics (221 words)

	Olympics: Nice coverage equals nicer ratings for NBC
		Americans are having their best Winter Olympics, and they're doing it on American soil.
		Throw in a figure skating controversy that casts a charming young couple as victims and judges as villains and big ratings are almost a guarantee.
		McKay's feature on brain-damaged Olympic gold medalist Bill Johnson was poignant, and his solid piece on Apolo Anton Ohno -- who was 5 when McKay hosted his last Olympics in 1988 -- demonstrated an interest in more than the athletes he already knew.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/02/15/Olympics/Nice_coverage_equals_.shtml (647 words)

	Winter Games Quizzes and Winter Games Trivia -- FunTrivia
		Every fours years gives young men and women a chance to play ice hockey for their country.
		Identify the Winter Olypmic sport after being given a brief description of it.
		* At the 1976 Olympics, two countries refused to send teams to protest the inclusion of "professional amateurs" of the Communist countries such as the Soviet Union.
	www.funtrivia.com /quizzes/sports/olympic_games/winter_games.html (544 words)

	Huskies Hockey Club
		She was one of the guys (not until she went to Providence College on a hockey scholarship in 1989 did she play exclusively against women).
		In 1998 she not only carried the flag for the US team in the 1998 Olympic Closing ceremonies in Nagano Japan, but she also successfully led her team to the first ever gold medal in women's hockey.
		After the Olympics, Cammi was hired by the LA Kings as a radio color commentator, making her the only woman broadcaster in the NHL and only the second in League history.
	www.huskieshockeyclub.com /alumni.html (523 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The inaugural Winter Olympics were a resounding success in the picturesque spa town of Chamonix, France.
		The 1936 Winter Games were held in the twin Bavarian towns of Garmisch and Partenkirchen just three years before the outbreak of the Second World War.
		On the ice, a new star was born, as figure skater Dorothy Hamill rocketed to fame in the U.S. by winning gold in the women’s competition.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/history (1273 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936
		For the first time the Olympic flame burned at the Winter Olympics too.
		Due to the exclusion of women's speed skating from the Olympics, she chose to instead compete in the combined downhill, which she won.
		In a shocking upset, Britain won the men's hockey competition, although it should be noted that the team was largely made up of Anglo-Canadians.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w04garmisch.html (362 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)

	NBCOlympics.com - Men's - Finland blanks Russia in semifinals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Finns are playing as a team, not as selfish stars, in an Olympics where they have eliminated all the big countries and many of hockey's big names.
		Russia, which has gotten a medal in all but one Olympic men's tournament since 1956, now must beat the Czechs to match the bronze they won in Salt Lake City.
		Finland and Sweden last played in the medal round in 1998, a 2-1 victory by Finland in the quarterfinals of the first Olympics with mostly NHL players.
	www.nbcolympics.com /icehockey_men/5132270/detail.html (980 words)

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