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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics was held at the Torino Palasport Olimpico and the Torino Esposizioni in Turin, Italy.
Ice hockey medalists at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway.
Ice hockey medalists at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ice-hockey-at-the-2002-Winter-Olympics   (4352 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Cross country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
A pursuit event similar to this was skied at the 2002 Winter Olympics, where the gold was shared between Thomas Alsgaard (now retired) and Frode Estil, but the distance was 20 km, not 30.
Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics is being held at the Torino Olympic Palasport Stadio Comunale Area and the Torino Esposizioni in Turin, Italy.
Skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games is scheduled to be held on February 16 and 17, with the womens competition on the 16th and the mens competition on the 17th.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cross-country-skiing-at-the-2006-Winter-Olympics   (4889 words)

  
  Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics was held at the Torino Palasport Olimpico and the Torino Esposizioni in Turin, Italy.
The men's competition, held from February 15 to February 26, was won by Sweden, and the women's competition, held from February 11 to February 20, was won by Canada.
In a celebration of the gold in Stockholm on 27 February, the Swedish team was seen in front of ads for sponsors of the Swedish Ice Hockey Federation, not the ones of the Swedish Olympic Committee.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ice_hockey_at_the_2006_Winter_Olympics   (254 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Freestyle skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics will be held at the Torino Olympic Palasport Stadio Comunale Area and the Torino Esposizioni in Turin, Italy.
The 1940 Winter Olympics had originally been awarded to Japan, and were supposed to be held in Sapporo, but Japan had to give the Games back in 1938, because of the Japanese invasion of China in the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945).
Winter pentathlon, a variant to the modern pentathlon, was included as a demonstration event in 1948.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Freestyle-skiing-at-the-2006-Winter-Olympics   (717 words)

  
 CNN.com - Ice Hockey - Jan 31, 2006
An Olympic ice hockey team comprises 20 players, of whom only six (including the goaltender) may be on the rink at one time.
Ice hockey made its Olympic debut at the Antwerp Summer Games in 1920, with seven players per team.
The first Olympic Winter Games were held four years later, when the current limit of six players was introduced.
premium.asia.cnn.com /2006/SPORT/01/31/sports.icehockey/index.html   (634 words)

  
 Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics roster... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Ice Hockey - Torino 2006 Winter Olympic Games
Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in Canada and the United States, is a team sport played on ice.
Ice hockey is also one of the fastest growing women's sports in the world.
In men's hockey, but not in women's, a player may use his hip or shoulder to hit another player if the player has the puck or is the last to have touched it, (body checking).
www.italyworldclub.com /piemonte/turin_2006/sport_ice_hockey.htm   (969 words)

  
 Winter Olympics: Ice Hockey
Ice hockey made its Olympic debut at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.
In 1998 the face of Olympic hockey underwent a major change when it was ruled that professionals would be allowed to compete.
Hockey games will be played at the new Palasport Olimpico and also at an ice rink set up in the existing Torino Esposizioni.
www.factmonster.com /spot/winter-olympics-ice-hockey.html   (517 words)

  
 2006 Winter Olympics Turin, Ice Hockey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Ice hockey is played on a hockey rink by six players per side, each of whom is on ice skates.
In men's hockey, but not in women's, a player may use his hip or shoulder to hit another player if the player has the puck or is the last to have touched it.
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.bonjourlafrance.net /2006_winter_olympics_turin/ice_hockey_2006_winter_olympics.htm   (3982 words)

  
 CommunityWalk - Torino Winter Olympics
The ice rink in Pinerolo is adjacent to the railway station and to the city's academic district.
The area is a destination for tourists both in the winter season as well as the summer season for its snow-covered slopes that are linked to the Via Lattea and for the many trekking routes that criss-cross the sides of the mountains.
This summer and winter resort, which was established in the seventies, is one of the most modern skiing resorts of the region.
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 BBC SPORT | Winter Olympics 2002 | Ice Hockey
Canada is slipping in the world ice hockey rankings, prompting calls for a rethink in the coaching of the country's young hopefuls.
Switzerland are close to elimination from the Winter Olympics as the Ukraine cause a shock in the men's ice hockey competition.
The Olympics is set for a North American showdown as Canada's women face the United States in the ice hockey final.
news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/hi/english/ice_hockey/default.stm   (659 words)

  
 Ivy League Ice Hockey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Ice hockey fans will be taking over Albany, N.Y., this weekend as the ECAC Hockey League Championship will take place at the Pepsi Arena on Friday and Saturday and Dartmouth, Harvard and Cornell are all in the chase.
The 2006 Ivy League champion, Princeton, and the newly minted 2006 ECAC champion, Harvard, were both included in the eight-team NCAA Women’s Ice Hockey Tournament beginning Friday, March 17, the NCAA announced Sunday.
Ice hockey players are more commonly known for their aggressiveness on the ice, but recently two former Yale standouts and current AHL players were honored for their contributions off it.
www.ivyleaguesports.com /sports/index.asp?intSID=8   (6395 words)

  
 Olympics - 2006 Winter Olympic Preview: Ice Hockey - sacbee.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Overall, ice hockey in the Olympic Games dates back to 1920, when the tournament was part of the Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.
USA Hockey appointed Philadelphia Flyers assistant general manager Paul Holmgren as the GM of the U.S. national team which will compete in the 2006 World Championship in May. Holmgren, a former head coach of the Flyers and Hartford Whalers, was also the assistant GM of the 2006 U.S. Olympic squad.
Turin bid farewell to its Olympics and handed over custody of the Winter Games to Vancouver in a spectacular, circus-like closing ceremony Sunday night, with a legion of clowns, acrobats and daredevils echoing both the misadventures and magnificence of the past two weeks.
www.sacbee.com /24hour/olympics/story/3082997p-11782675c.html   (2131 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)

  
 Ice Hockey
hockey has been a part of the Winter Olympics since the beginning.
In fact, it was part of the 1920 Summer Olympics.
Two teams face off on an ice rink, with the goal to get a hockey puck (a disc made of rubber) into a goal, using wooden sticks.
www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/sports/icehockey.htm   (119 words)

  
 Torino 2006 - In the Heart of the Torino 2006 XX Olympic Winter Games and IX Paralympic Winter Games »   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
It was a moment in which the involvement of the city and the mountain communities gave the final push, alongside the sports competitions, from the victories to the Olympic records.
Torino 2006 was an all German success, winning 29 medals and putting them at the top for medals.
Since June 1999 – the month in which the IOC decided to hold the 2006 Olympics in the city of the Mole – everything has changed.
www.torino2006.org /ENG/OlympicGames/home   (252 words)

  
 ABC Sport Online - Winter Olympics 2006 - Ice Hockey
Canada are favourites to retain their Olympic ice hockey title in Turin but if Wayne Gretzky's team falters, the Czechs, Swedes and Russians are just a stride behind.
Ice Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky accepted the blame for Canada's shock Olympic Games exit after his country's worst performance in the tournament for 26 years.
The Olympic ice hockey tournament underwent a seismic shakeup overnight when reigning champions Canada and silver medallists the United States were bundled out of tournament.
www.abc.net.au /winterolympics/2006/sports/icehockey.htm   (307 words)

  
 Gambling Scandal Overshadows Men's Olympic Ice Hockey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
As the men's 2006 Winter Olympics hockey tournament began Wednesday, much of the focus has been on former star Wayne Gretzky, the executive director of the Canadian Olympic ice hockey team.
The legendary Wayne Gretzky, considered by most to be the best ice hockey player of all time, told a throng of international reporters here that he did not want to be a distraction at these Olympics.
Gretzky knows that as the executive director of Canada's Olympic Ice Hockey team that he would be under the microscope even without questions regarding the gambling scandal.
www.voanews.com /english/archive/2006-02/2006-02-15-voa79.cfm   (496 words)

  
 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS
Hockey is the oldest known ball and stick game.
The name hockey probably derives from the French hocquet, or shepherd’s crook, and refers to the crooked stick which is used to hit a small ball.
The first Balbir Singh, who was followed by four more players of the same name who also played for victorious Indian teams, scored five goals in a 6-1 gold-medal victory over the Netherlands in Helsinki in 1952.
www.olympic.org /uk/sports/programme/index_uk.asp?SportCode=HO   (175 words)

  
 2006 Winter Olympics » Ice Hockey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Women’s ice hockey is a relatively new Olympic sport, but it has really caught on in the United States, where girls and young women have played on boys’ teams for quite some time.
The women’s Olympic hockey team should be in good shape since they bring to the games several experienced members.
Olympic veterans Jenny Potter, Katie King, Tricia Dunn-Luoma and Angela Ruggiero were selected Tuesday for the U.S. women’s hockey team that will compete at the Turin Games.
2006turinolympics.com /category/ice-hockey   (872 words)

  
 2006 Winter Olympics - Turin - Sports - New York Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The next Winter Olympics will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 2010.
Though it was not the ideal Winter Olympic host, Turin does happen to have an ideal cure for the inevitable morning-after letdown.
The attention was focused on Wayne Gretzky, Canada's beleaguered executive director, as the men's ice hockey tournament opened Wednesday.
www.nytimes.com /pages/sports/olympics2006/index.html   (563 words)

  
 Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics Information
The men's competition, held from February 15 to February 26, was won by Sweden, and the women's competition, held from February 11 to February 20, was won by Canada.
In a celebration of the gold in Stockholm on 27 February, the Swedish team was seen in front of ads for sponsors of the Swedish Ice Hockey Federation, not the ones of the Swedish Olympic Committee.
This could have led to Sweden's disqualification, but the Finnish opponents in the final game choose not to report the incident to the IOC [1].
www.bookrags.com /Ice_hockey_at_the_2006_Winter_Olympics   (260 words)

  
 Ice Hockey Tickets Ice Hockey Winter Games Tickets Ice Hockey Olympics Tickets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Buy Cheap Category C Ice Hockey tickets, which are in great supply online, or the best Category A Ice Hockey tickets to get close to the competition.
Great Ice Hockey tickets are some of the hardest tickets to obtain at the 2006 Winter Games, but you'll always find availability at Ticketcity.com.
TicketCity.com has become the desired place for all Ice Hockey Fans to acquire their Ice Hockey tickets to all Ice Hockey events at the 2006 Torino Winter Games.
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 Ice Hockey Tickets - 2006 Winter Olympics Torino, Italy
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 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)

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