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	Nordic Combined - Torino 2006 Winter Olympic Games
		The Nordic combined is a winter sport in which competitors involve in both cross-country skiing and ski jumping.
		Nordic Combined at the 2006 Winter Olympics will be held in the town of Pragelato, Italy from February 11 to February 21.
		Norwegian soldiers have been competing in nordic skiing since the 18th century, but the first competition in nordic combined was held in Oslo at the first Holmenkollen Ski Festival in 1892.
	www.italyworldclub.com /piemonte/turin_2006/sport_nordic_combined.htm (532 words)

	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.
		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.
		Nordic skiing is the term that covers cross-country skiing, ski jumping, and nordic combined (cross-country skiing and ski-jumping events combined).
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572547/winter_olympics.html (1241 words)

	Nordic skiing at the 1924 Winter Olympics - Definition, explanation
		At the 1924 Winter Olympics, four Nordic skiing events were contested, both Cross country skiing events and the Nordic combined were won by Norway's Thorleif Haug.
		The ski jumping event held at the 1924 Winter Olympics was unusual, as the bronze medallist was not properly rewarded until 50 years later.
		At the 1924 Winter Olympics, the nordic combined event consisted of 18 km cross country skiing and the ski jump.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/n/no/nordic_skiing_at_the_1924_winter_olympics.php (273 words)

	Nordic Combined (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Nordic Combined involves ski jumping, which requires physical strength and technical control, and Cross-country Skiing which demands endurance and strength.
		Nordic Combined individual events have been included since the First Olympic Winter Games at Chamonix Mont-Blanc in 1924.
		All three nordic combined events consist of a ski jumping competition and a cross-country skiing competition.
	www.olympics.org.uk /sports/winter/nordiccombined.asp (544 words)

	1924 Nordic Olympics Skiing Winter Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		1924 was international winter sports week later called the first winter olympics held with the events of figure skating, hockey, nordic skiing.
		At the 1924 winter olympics, four nordic skiing events were contested, both cross country skiing events and the nordic combined were won.
		1924 winter olympics, two cross country skiing events were contested, both won by norway's thorleif haug.
	www.xcountry-skiing.info /1924-nordic-olympics-skiing-winter.html (742 words)

	[ information-center.be \| 1924_Winter_Olympics Resources ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1924 in Chamonix, France.
		The very first gold medal awarded in the Olympic Winter games was won by Charles Jewtraw, in the opening event, the 500 meter speedskating.
		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.
	information-center.be /1924_Winter_Olympics.html (588 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)

	Sporting Life - Winter Olympics
		The first modern Olympic games were held in 1896 but it was not until 1924 that the first Winter Games were held.
		Winter Sports had long had their own World Championships with speed skating first holding theirs in 1893, and the first figure skating World Championships taking place in 1896 - the same year as the first Olympics.
		The feat was unique because at the time she held every speed skating record for the distances between 500m and 5,000m but was unable to enter that competition because of the ban on women.
	www.sportinglife.com /winterolympics/history (2087 words)

	Nordic Skiing At The 1932 Winter Olympics Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sport since 1924, the winter olympics wouldn't be the same.
		Winter olympic posters are some of the most stunning.
		At the 1932 winter olympics, four nordic skiing events were contested.
	xcountry-skiing.info /nordic-skiing-at-the-1932-winter-olympics.html (810 words)

	KIAT.NET - Olympic Winter Games Nordic Combined
		Nordic combined has been a part of every Olympic Winter Games.
		In 1924, 1928, 1932 and 1936, the nation swept the medals in the individual event.
		It was not until 1960 that the Scandinavian grip on the Nordic combined was finally broken when West German Georg Thoma won the gold medal at Squaw Valley in 1960.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/sports/winter/nordiccombined.html (559 words)

	The First Winter Olympics
		Winter Olympics first took place in 1924, in Chamonix, France.
		The Games were actually called "The International Winter Sports Week" and went on for 11 days, from January 25 to February 5.
		Thorleif Haug from Norway won three gold medals in cross-country skiing and the nordic combined.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/sports/winter_olympics_first1.htm (270 words)

	Nordic history still reigns — but hold that thought, guys - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		You'd never know it by all the rings going on in Salt Lake's Olympic circus, but go back far enough in the history of winter sports and one by one they'll drop off until you're left only with these two: jumping and cross country skiing.
		At the first Winter Olympics in France in 1924, nordic combined was one of 13 inaugural events.
		Not, that is, until a few winters ago when Todd, Billy, Johnny and Matt started living and training and eating and training and sleeping and training together in Steamboat Springs, Colo., itself a pretty decent facsimile of the old country.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,70000978,00.html (728 words)

	CNN.com - Nordic Combined Skiing - Jan 31, 2006
		Nordic Combined was contested at the first Winter Games in 1924.
		TORINO, Italy (CNN) -- The roots of Nordic combined skiing stretch back thousands of years, but competitions are said to have been started by the Norwegian Army in 1767.
		There are three Nordic combined events, each of which comprise a ski jumping section followed by a cross-country race.
	cnn.com /rssclick/2006/SPORT/01/31/sports.nordiccombined/index.html?... (700 words)

	GBROLYMPICS.COM / LONDON-OLYMPICS.COM - Olympic Games Medallists
		The modern Olympics were first held in 1896.
		Note Germany, although officially two discrete republics at the time, entered a combined team from 1952 to 1964 whilst the Soviet Union did not compete until 1952.
		The Winter Olympics were first held in 1924.
	www.london-olympics.com /olympic (336 words)

	Outstanding Athletes of the 1924 Chamonix Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He won the men's figure skating competition as he had done at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics.
		The first Olympic ski jump event was won by the Norwegian ahead of his compatriot Narve Bonna.
		He won the Nordic combined event which consisted of an 18-km cross-country ski race.
	www.sportz4u.com /isport/olympics/fnlsite/hofame/Heroes/1924w.htm (71 words)

	2006 Winter Olympic Nordic Combined, Ski Events, News, Athletes, Teams, Pictures
		Much like the Olympic biathlon that combines two separate disciplines in one sport, the Nordic Combined pairs the elegance and technical grace of ski jumping with the physical stamina required of Olympic cross-country skiing.
		The Nordic Combined not surprisingly began in Northern Europe with Norwegian skiiers dominating the sport since it was first included in the Winter Olympic Games in Chamonix - Mont Blanc in 1924.
		There are three heats in the Nordic Combined, two individual and one team event.
	www.chiff.com /olympics/olympics-nordic-combined.htm (335 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		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.
		The Bosnian city of Sarajevo was virtually unknown on the global stage when the Winter Olympics landed in the Balkans for the first time.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/history (1273 words)

	Winter Olympics: Nordic Combined
		Nordic combined is one of three current Olympic Winter Games events that the United States has never won a medal.
		The new procedure meant that, for the first time, the first athlete to break the tape at the end of the cross-country race was the overall winner.
		The Nordic combined will be held on Feb. 11, 15, and 21 at Pragelato, located in Val Chisone at the foot of Mount Albergian.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/winter-olympics-nordic-combined.html (375 words)

	Cross-Country Skiing: Norway, Italy Likely To Dominate - Olympics 2006 News Story - KMGH Denver
		Scandinavian countries have historically dominated cross country at the Olympics, and the sport's athletes have been especially prolific among medal winners.
		U.S. The United States has won only one Olympic medal in cross country skiing -- William Koch's bronze in the 30km mass start at the 1976 Innsbruck Games -- but the United States Olympic Committee believes that its team is the strongest it has been in years.
		Canadian Becky Scott is one of the best cross country skiers in the world and has won her country's only Olympic medal ever in the sport, a gold in women's pursuit at the 2002 Games.
	www.thedenverchannel.com /olympics2006/6207732/detail.html (548 words)

	1800-Olympics.com -- Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics
		Nordic Combined, Curling, Giant Slalom, Ice Hockey, Speed Skating, Bobsleigh and Figure Skating.
		Six days of Olympic events will be held at Park City Mountain Resort including the alpine giant slalom competition, the snowboarding parallel giant slalom and the snowboarding halfpipe.
		The Olympic Area spreads out from Ogden to Provo -- but all venues should be reachable in under an hour; from the Olympic Village, in Salt Lake City.
	1800-olympics.com /WinterOlympics/salt_lake_city_2002.htm (428 words)

	Winter olympics games. Team Canada Olympic Teams. Olympiad
		The next winter olympics will be in Vancouver in 2010.
		In the 1924 Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix, France, Canada won the hockey title with five games won in a row.
		Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati was stripped of his gold medal in the winter Games held in Nagano, Japan in 1998 when he tested positive for marijuana.
	www.canadianolympicteams.ca /winterolympics.htm (400 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Other Sport... \| Winter Olympics \| Events guide: Nordic combined
		The Nordic combined puts together two very different skills to produce one seriously demanding event.
		A men-only discipline, it asks competitors to tackle the ski jump first, and ends with a race for the gold medal on the cross country ski course on day two.
		Scandinavians have dominated ever since the Nordic combined made its Olympic debut at the Chamonix Games in 1924.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/other_sports/winter_sports/4545290.stm (327 words)

	No1 Events Specialise in 2006 Winter Olympic Games Nordic Combined Tickets
		In the mid-19th century, Norway held the first nordic ski carnivals, in which the nordic combined was the featured event.
		1924 : Nordic combined debuts as an Olympic sport at the first Winter Games, held in Chamonix, France.
		No.1 Events are currently taking orders for Nordic Combined tickets for the 2006 Olympic Winter Games competition in Torino, Italy.
	www.no1events.co.uk /site/winterolympics/nordic.htm (364 words)

	1924 - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		The success results in the Scandinavians withdrawing claims of their quadrennial Nordic Games being undercut and pledging their support in favor of this new, every-fourth-year international competition.
		Two years after the fact, the International Sports Week 1924 is retroactively labeled the First Olympic Winter Games.
		American speedskater Charles Jewtraw earns the distinction of being the first gold medalist in Winter Olympics competition, with his upset victory in the 500-meter speedskating race coming in the opening event.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,20,00.html (243 words)

	Sporting Life \| Winter Olympics, Turin, Curling, Skiing, Skeleton, News, Schedule, Results, Medal Table (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Winter Olympics closing ceremony in Turin was subject of an apparent breach of security.
		Michaela Dorfmeister marked her final season with an Olympic gold medal in the women's downhill at Sestriere.
		American figure skating star Michelle Kwan withdrew from the Winter Olympics due to a groin strain.
	www.sportinglife.com /winterolympics2006/news (1435 words)

	TSN : OLYMPICS - Canada's Sports Leader
		All the events in Nordic Combined (ski jumping and cross country skiing) have Norwegian roots - some going back over 5,000 years.
		From Norway, the sport spread to the rest of Scandinavia and parts of Russia.
		The team competition was added to the Olympics in 1988, and the sprint in 2002.
	www.tsn.ca /olympics/feature.asp?fid=10522 (118 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Lake Placid 1980
		As the Winter Games reconvened for the second time in Lake Placid, N.Y., relations between East and West were in a deep freeze, after the December 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviets.
		Spectators saw two of the greatest moments in both American sports history and Olympic Winter Games history..
		But even with all the varied success, it was the Soviet Union that topped the medals table once again with 22.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w13lakeplacid.html (336 words)

	Winter Olympics Sports History
		In the case of the Winter Olympics, it is interpreted as a joining of two sports: cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.
		In the modern Olympics, Curling is a competition between two teams with four players each.
		Nowadays, there are five disciplines, or different types of skiing, in the Winter Olympics: Alpine, Cross-Country, Ski Jumping, Nordic Combined, Freestyle as well as Snowboarding.
	ebiz.netopia.com /skyepub/winterolympicssportshistory (877 words)

	1924 Olympics — FactMonster.com
		The first Winter Olympic Games were actually called “The International Winter Sports Week” and went on for 11 days in the French Alps, 60 miles northeast of Grenoble.
		Norway and Finland won 27 of the 43 medals available, including all four Nordic events and four of the five speed skating races.
		Winter Olympics: Speed Skating - Preview of the Olympic event speed skating
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0300756.html (371 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		In 1921, the International Olympic Committee voted to stage “International Sports Week 1924” in Chamonix, France.
		Lighting the Olympic Flame by: For the Winter Games, the flame was lit for the first time in 1952 in Oslo.
		In 1926, during the 25th Session of the International Olympic Committee in Lisbon, the Chamonix Games were recognized as the first Olympic Winter Games.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1924 (231 words)

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