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	ipedia.com: Winter Olympic Games Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		A winter sports week with speed skating, figure skating, ice hockey and nordic skiing was planned, but the 1916 Olympics were cancelled after the outbreak of World War I.
		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.ipedia.com /winter_olympic_games.html (5171 words)

	The First Winter Olympics
		The Norwegians, in particular, wanted to make sure that the Olympics were contested in a spirit of amateurism and purity of sport, far from the money-driven spectacle that today's Olympics have become and partly what the "Summer" Olympics already were by that time.
		The International Olympic Committee, seeing the success of the event in terms of spectator population, voted to have an International Winter Sports Week in Berlin in 1916.
		The very next year, the FIS voted to recognize the 1924 International Winter Sports Week as an "official" Olympics.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/sports/winter_olympics_first2.htm (346 words)

	Winter Olympic Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Poster advertising the International Winter Sports Week, later dubbed the 1924 Winter Olympics.
		Demonstration sports, in which contests were held but for which no medals were awarded, have also taken place.
		Ice stock sport, or eisstockschießen, a German variant to curling was demonstrated in 1936 and 1964.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winter_Olympic_Games (4300 words)

	ESPN International Winter Sports 2002 for PlayStation 2 Review - PlayStation 2 ESPN International Winter Sports 2002 ...
		Konami's latest take on the genre, ESPN International Winter Sports 2002, has plenty of events, but it makes use of the same gameplay style introduced almost two decades ago and is little more than a trip back in time for all but the most green of video game players.
		ESPN International Winter Sports 2002 can be quite fun in the multiplayer modes, but playing against the computer can be an exercise in frustration.
		It's initially difficult to judge the graphics in International Winter Sports 2002 because players must stare at specific portions of the screen while playing the game and are rarely able to actually watch what the athlete is doing.
	www.gamespot.com /ps2/sports/espninternationalws2002/review.html (1122 words)

	Sports - Olympics - New York Times
		Sports writer Lee Jenkins explains the tricks to watch for in the Snowboarding Half-Pipe competition in Turin.
		Sports writer Bill Pennington describes her journey to Turin.
		The hardest move in the sport is a dizzying triple rotation.
	www.nytimes.com /pages/sports/olympics/multimedia/index.html (246 words)

	The International Winter Sports Week: A Look at the First Winter Olympic Games, 1924 - Associated Content
		For the 1916 Olympics a winter sports week was again planned and agreed to, a week that would include such sports as speed skating, figure skating and ice hockey.
		Events at the International Winter Sports Week were: 4-man bobsled, biathlon, curling, figure skating, hockey, cross-country skiing, ski jumping, Nordic combined skiing and speed skating.
		The International Winter Sports Week in 1924 proved to be immensely popular.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/19257/the_international_winter_sports_week.html (749 words)

	IGN: ESPN International Winter Sports 2002 Review
		Winter Sports 2002 serves up a variety of events -- but it really is a master of none.
		ESPN International Winter Sports 2002 is a multi-platform title, and the differences between the Xbox version and the GameCube and PlayStation 2 versions are subtle.
		Winter Sports 2002 features a medley of gameplay modes, but unfortunately not all of them are fun.
	xbox.ign.com /articles/356/356042p2.html (943 words)

	History of the Winter Olympics
		Despite the objections of International Olympic Committee president Pierre de Coubertin, an 'International Winter Sports Week' was held at Chamonix in 1924.
		Originally, the tradition was to hold the Winter Games a few months earlier and in a different city than the summer Olympic Games.
		A couple of winter Olympic sports have figured in the Summer Games - Figure skating was included in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and, and both Figure Skating and ice hockey at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.
	www.topendsports.com /events/winter/history.htm (158 words)

	A Short History of the Winter Olympics
		Although the 1908 figure skating proved itself popular, the development of the Winter Olympics was held back by the olympic organizers when they turned down a proposal from Count Eugenio Brunetta d’Usseaux, an Italian, to stage a week of winter sports during the 1912 Summer Olympics, which ironically were held in Stockholm.
		A week in the Black Forest devoted entirely to winter sports and publicized as a “Skiing Olympia” to feature figure skating, speed skating, ice hockey, and Nordic skiing, was cancelled along with the rest of the Olympics due to the First World War.
		This decision had of course as much to do with the rising popularity of winter sports at the time as it did to the fact that winter sports, by their very nature, require specific environmental conditions.
	www.winterolympichistory.com (1006 words)

	Coventry Wins Gold in Canada - NCAA Sports.com
		MONTREAL, Canada -- Kirsty Coventry capped off her week in Montreal with her fourth medal as the former Tiger and native of Zimbabwe won a silver medal in the 400-meter individual medley on Sunday evening, July 31, at the XI FINA World Championships.
		Coventry's week included a gold-medal sweep of the backstrokes and silver medals in both the 200- and 400-meter IMs.
		Jana Kolukanova swam in the first championship final of her career at a major international meet, finishing eighth in the 50-meter freestyle with a time of 25.56.
	www.ncaasports.com /swimming/womens/story/8680855 (289 words)

	Winter Olympics - CBS SportsLine.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Those involved in the Nordic sports, which include ski jumping and Nordic combined, are wondering if they might become the subject of a probe similar to the all-night spectacle the Austrians experienced late Saturday and early Sunday.
		All this after 12 cross-country skiers were suspended five days during the first week of the games for elevated levels of hemoglobin, the part of the red blood cell that can increase endurance.
		Biathlon and cross-country are two of the Winter Olympics' purest endurance sports -- with skiers often collapsing across the finish line -- perhaps lending to the temptation to use illegal performance-enhancing substances.
	cbs.sportsline.com /olympics/winter/story/9251506 (633 words)

	St. Louis Public Library - Torino 2006
		The Winter Olympics is one of the most watched events in America, yet the sports it showcases -- most of which are rooted in European tradition -- are among the least understood.
		Winter Olympics Made Simple is designed to make the games more entertaining by bridging the gap between fascination and understanding.
		The first Winter Games, known as "International Winter Sports Week" was held in Chamoix, France in 1924.
	www.slpl.org /slpl/interests/article240109618.asp (1052 words)

	1924 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1924 in Chamonix, France.
		In 1921, on the convention of the IOC in Lausanne, there was a call for equality for wintersports, and after much discussion it is decided to organise an "international week of winter sport" in 1924 in Chamonix.
		In February 2006 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ruled that curling was a full part of the olympic program, and have included the medals awarded in the official count.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1924_Winter_Olympics (626 words)

	Profile of Sports, "American Teenagers", eJournal USA: Society & Values, July 2005
		Organized and informal sports provide teens with an opportunity to expend some of that energy and, more importantly, to learn the value of fair play, to achieve goals, and to just have fun.
		Sports have played a huge role in teaching me discipline, actually waking up at 5:45 in the morning to go train and to go to practice seven days a week.
		My sport in college is probably going to be basketball, but I've made up my mind that I want to play at the highest level of college competition I can.
	usinfo.state.gov /journals/itsv/0705/ijse/sports.htm (893 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: 1924, Chamonix, France
		The International Olympic Committee did not sanction a Winter Olympics until 1925.
		A gathering of 16 national teams at the International Winter Sports Week in 1924 in Chamonix, France, however, would be inevitably recognized as the first official Winter Games.
		The only sports Norway did not win a medal were in ice hockey, where Canada took the gold, and bobsledding, which saw a Swiss team finish first in the four-man team event.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/history/years/1924.htm (267 words)

	Germany Info: Culture & Life: Life: Sports
		Sports are a favorite leisure-time activity in Germany.
		Every week during the regular season, hundreds of thousands of people attend the professional games while thousands more watch or actively take part in matches between local amateur clubs.
		Sports are to a large extent regionally based and run by private organizations.
	www.germany.info /relaunch/culture/life/sports.html (410 words)

	Embassy of France in the US- Winter Olympic Games
		For this event, Youth and Sports Minister Marie-George Buffet came to the U.S. from February 7 to 11 where she represented the French authorities.
		She also took part in the inauguration of the Club France along with members of the French sports delegation and met with various sports celebrities.
		The Winter Olympics were then popularly known as the International Winter Sports Week.
	info-france-usa.org /atoz/jeuxhiv/index.asp (435 words)

	Winter Olympic Games - Gurupedia
		When the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was established in 1894, one of the sports proposed for the programme was
		Three years later, Italian count Eugenio Brunetta d'Usseaux proposed to the IOC to stage a week with winter sports as part of the
		A winter sports week with speed skating, figure skating, ice hockey and nordic skiing was planned, but the 1916 Olympics were cancelled after the outbreak of
	www.gurupedia.com /o/ol/olympic_winter_games.htm (5026 words)

	Winter Olympics History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The move toward a winter version of the Olympics began in 1908 when figure skating made an appearance at the Summer Games in London.
		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 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.
	pershing.sandi.net /computer/webzine/team8/wohistory.htm (284 words)

	IGN: ESPN International Winter Sports 2002 Review
		Overall, Winter Sports 2002 comes in a tight package and will appeal to hardcore fans of this multi-style gameplay setup, but lacks the Olympic license and enough fresh ideas to give it mass appeal.
		ESPN International Winter Sports 2002 is a multi-platform title, and the differences between, say, the GameCube version and the PlayStation 2 version are subtle.
		Winter Sports 2002 features a medley of gameplay modes, but unfortunately not all of them are fun.
	ps2.ign.com /articles/324/324452p1.html (1566 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Chamonix 1924
		The Chamonix 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.
		It was not until 1926 during the 25th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lisbon, Portugal that the Chamonix Sports Week was retroactively given the name of Olympic Winter Games.
		The first Winter Games, or "White Olympics" as it was called then, consisted of 14 events in five sports (Nordic skiing, figure skating, speedskating, hockey and bobsledding).
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w01chamonix.html (370 words)

	Oregon Sports Authority: Olympic Torch Relay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		On June 23, 1894, French educator Baron Pierre de Coubertin, speaking at the Sorbonne in Paris to a gathering of international sports leaders, proposed that the ancient games be revived on an international scale.
		The International Olympic Committee was formed and the Modern Olympics were born.
		The 1976 Winter Games were supposed to be held in Denver but in 1972, Colorado voters rejected a bond issue to finance the undertaking and the IOC selects Innsbruck (1964) to take over.
	www.portlandsports.org /olympic.html (1685 words)

	24 January 2006 - The Garden Party Forum - GardenWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		There is no greater honor than the one received by athletes the moment they see the raised flag of their country at the highest level, and when they hear their national anthem inundating every corner of the stadium and reaching the ends of the earth.
		The "International Winter Sports Week," as it was known, was a great success, and in 1928 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially designated the Winter Games, staged in St. Moritz, Switzerland, as the second Winter Olympics.
		Five years after the birth of the modern Olympics in 1896, the first organized international competition involving winter sports was staged in Sweden.
	forums2.gardenweb.com /forums/load/party/msg0101020732309.html (764 words)

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		The Winter Olympics were then popularly known as the International Winter Sports Week.
		Slovenes have been among the competitors at the Winter Olympic Games from their very beginning in 1924 when there were two cross-country skiers from Slovenia on the four-man team that Yugoslavia sent to Chamonix.
		With the exception of two Winter Olympics held in the United States (1932 and 1960), Slovenes made up the majority of all the Yugoslav Winter Olympics teams.
	lycos.cs.cmu.edu /info/winter-olympic-games--winter-olympics.html?page=2 (431 words)

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