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	Winter Olympic Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		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).
		Nordic combiner Ulrich Wehling and figure skater Irina Rodnina both won their third consecutive gold medals in the same event, while biathlete Aleksander Tikhonov won his fourth one in the relay.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winter_Olympics (5551 words)

	Nordic skiing at the 1924 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nordic_skiing_at_the_1924_Winter_Olympics (225 words)

	Encyclopedia: Nordic combined (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Nordic combined is a winter sport in which competitors involve in both cross-country skiing and ski jumping.
		Skiing by free technique/skating Cross-country skiing (aka XC skiing) is an adventure and fitness activity as well as a competitive winter sport popular in many countries with large snowfields, primarily in Europe and Canada.
		While Norwegian soldiers are known to have been competing in nordic skiing since the 18th century, the first major competition in nordic combined was held in 1892 in Oslo at the first Holmenkollen Ski Festival, an event still held annually.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nordic-combined (985 words)

	Encyclopedia: Nordic skiing at the 1924 Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cross-country skiing (aka XC skiing) is an adventure and fitness activity as well as a competitive winter sport popular in many countries with large snowfields, primarily in Europe and Canada.
		Ski jumping is a winter sport in which skiers go down a hill with a take-off ramp (the jump), attempting to go as far as possible.
		Skiing At the 1928 Winter Olympics, four Nordic skiing events were contested.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nordic-skiing-at-the-1924-Winter-Olympics (653 words)

	1924 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The very first gold medal awarded in the Olympic Winter games was won by Charles Jewtraw, in the opening event, the 500 meter speedskating.
		At the closing of the games a prize was awarded for a sport that didn't lend itself very well for tournaments: Pierre de Coubertin presented a prize for alpinisme to Charles Bruce, the leader of the expedition that tried to climb Mount Everest in 1922.
		In 1925, the IOC decided to organize Olympic Winter Games every four years, independent of the Olympic Games proper, and recognized the International Winter Sports Week as the first Olympic Winter games in retrospect.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1924_Winter_Olympics (467 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: 1924_Winter_Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1921, on the convention of the IOC in Lausanne, there was a call for equallity for wintersports, and after much discussion it is decided to organise an "international week of winter sport" in 1924 in Chamonix.
		In 1974 the final medal of Chamonix 1924 was presented.
		After fifty years an error had been discovered in the score of Thorleif Haug, winner of the bronze, which caused the two men to change places.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=1924_Winter_Olympics (433 words)

	The Sports Network - Olympics
		Nordic Combined individual events have been included since the First Olympic Winter Games at Chamonix Mont-Blanc in 1924.
		Competition: The competition begins with Ski Jumping on the Normal Hill, and is followed by free technique Cross-Country Skiing on a 15 km course the next day.
		For the same reason, the initial plan for a Cross-Country Skiing course with four 5 kilometer circuits was revised to a course with three 5 kilometer circuits.
	www.sportsnetwork.com /default.asp?c=sportsnetwork&page=olymp/events/olympics-nordic-combined-s.htm (360 words)

	Olympics Alpine Skiing Tickets -- Resources for Olympics Alpine Skiing Ticket
		Skiing grew more popular in the early 1900's, as Europeans learned about all of the fun their Norwegian neighbors were having.
		It was during the 1930's that alpine skiing became a popular European pastime, as ski lifts were invented that eliminated the labor of climbing a mountain before experiencing an exhilarating descent.
		Olympics Alpine Skiing Ticket deliveries are guaranteed no later than the day before the event unless stated otherwise, however every effort will be made to deliver Olympics Alpine Skiing tickets as early as possible.
	www.nwtix.com /Olympics_Alpine_Skiing_Tickets.html (1590 words)

	info: 1924_Winter_Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Road to OlympiaToppen From the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamanoix to the 1952 Winter games in Oslo, Norway was dominant by virtue of tradition, not...
		She had earlier placed eighth in a field of eight at the 1924 Winter Olympics, at the age of eleven.
		During the 1924 program, she skated over to the side of the rink...
	www.info-assicurazione.com /1924_Winter_Olympics.html (771 words)

	HickokSports.com - History - The Winter Olympics
		Because of the coverage given the Winter Olympics by the press in Europe and North America, Henie was the first woman to become a genuine international sports figure.
		Alpine skiing was on the program for the first time in 1936, with the combined event for both men and women.
		Alpine skiing became a major Olympic sport at St. Moritz and Gretchen Fraser of the U. was the surprise winner of the first Gold Medal for the women's slalom event.
	www.hickoksports.com /history/winterol.shtml (3708 words)

	History of Skiing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		These first skis may have been used by a hunter or a traveler, as they were commonly used during the long winters in Northern Russia and the Scandinavian countries.
		Early skis were not made for speed, but to designed to keep a traveler on top of the snow as they went about their business.
		Alpine ski equipment used a boot that was mounted to the ski at both the toe and the heel, and gave more control to the skier, allowing him/her to negotiate steeper slopes and ski at faster speeds.
	www.speedski.com /historyofskiing.htm (838 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: 1924, Chamonix, France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.
		Clas Thunberg (Finland) dominated the speedskating events and became the 1924 Games' most decorated athlete, winning five medals in all: three golds in the 1,500m, 5,000m and the All-Round, a silver in the 10,000m and the bronze in the 500m.
		His bronze medal in the fourth event — ski jumping — was later found to have been given in error.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/history/years/1924.htm (267 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Winter Olympics 2002 \| Front Page \| How the Winter Games were born
		By 1908 figure skating had been included in the Summer Olympics and from there it seemed a matter of time before winter sports got their own Games, which arrived in 1924.
		The 1928 Winter Olympics in St Moritz, Switzerland, attracted an 84 percent increase in participants.
		The Winter Games were cancelled in 1940 and 1944 due to World War II and returned in 1948 in St. Moritz.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/low/english/front_page/newsid_1628000/1628703.stm (408 words)

	Nordic gold - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Nordic gold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nordic gold - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Nordic gold.
		Here you will find more informations about Nordic gold.
		Nordic gold is the alloy from which the middle three denominations of euro coins, 50 cent, 20 cent, and 10 cent coins are made.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Nordic-gold.html (133 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").
		At the end of an Olympics, the mayor of the host-city presents the flag to the mayor of the next host-city.
		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.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /olympics (1145 words)

	History of the Winter Olympics
		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.students.dsu.edu /magnusoa/edfn465/Module/winterhistory.htm (296 words)

	Sports: Nordic combined
		History While Norwegian soldiers are known to have been competing in nordic skiing since the 18th century, the first major competition in nordic combined was held in 1892 in Oslo at the first Holmenkollen Ski Festival, an event still held annually.
		This was reversed as difference in the cross-country race tended to be to big to overcome in ski jumping.
		In the ski jump, no style points are awarded, although jumpers receive less points for falling or failing to make a Telemark landing.
	www.americanfactfinders.com /Sports/Nordic_combined.shtml (505 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)

	Cross country skiing at the 1924 Winter Olympics - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cross country skiing at the 1924 Winter Olympics - free-definition
		At the 1924 Winter Olympics, two cross country skiing events were contested, both won by Norway's Thorleif Haug.
		The 18 km was also part of the nordic combined, which was also won by Haug.
	www.free-definition.com /Cross-country-skiing-at-the-1924-Winter-Olympics.html (81 words)

	1956 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The VII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1956 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
		They immediately showed their strength by winning more medals than any other nation.
		This combined team appeared in the 1956, 1960, and 1964 Winter Olympics).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1956_Winter_Olympic_Games (99 words)

	CHAMONIX SKIING PART FOUR:THE FIRST WINTER OLYMPICS OF 1924
		While Chamonix’s connection with winter sports extends back into the 1800’s, the 1924 Winter Olympics, even though it was called the Chamonix International Sports Week, expanded the areas winter options.
		Perhaps the most overwhelming Olympic team of all time, the Canadian ice hokey team, took the gold by outscoring the opposition 110 goals to three.
		The winter games, aside from the fact the host French only won a single medal, a bronze, were off and running..
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/luxury_travel/56469 (518 words)

	Pre-1924 - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		The Swedes balk at the proposal, fearing competition against its own Nordic Games, an every-fourth-year competition for the past decade.
		1916: Germany considers a Skiing Olympia as a supplement to the 1916 Olympics, with the February event projected for the Black Forest.
		1922: "International Sports Week 1924" is planned and approved for Chamonix, France, despite the opposition of Olympics founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,21,00.html (177 words)

	Information about U.S. First Day of Issue Maximum Card: 20¢ Nordic Skiing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The demanding sport of cross country skiing first joined the modern Olympic Games during the 1924 Winter Olympics.
		Fortunately, in 1924, the Federation Internationale de Ski -- an international skiing organization -- was formed to regulate cross country skiing, as well as govern such other Olympics skiing events as slalom, giant slalom and downhill racing.
		In honor of this demanding Olympics event, the United States Postal Service issued the stamp which is featured on the front of this Maximum Card.
	www.unicover.com /EA4ODA73.htm (385 words)

	1924 Olympics
		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 first were held in 1924; where to write to Tonya Harding.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0300756.html (352 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 (232 words)

	International Games News December 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The games are open to athletes of all ages who have had a life-saving organ transplant (heart, lung, kidney, liver and bone marrow) with five sports: downhill and nordic skiing, snowboarding, biathlon and curling.
		The fifth Winter X Games will be held again at last years venue Mount Snow in Vermont, Feb. 1-4.
		The vote for the 2008 Olympic host will be in July a month before the Universiade begins.
	www.internationalgames.net /december2000.html (2283 words)

	1924 Winter Olympics: Dictionary definition
		The I Olympic Winter Games were held in 1924 in Chamonix, France.
		This was, though only called thus in retrospect, the first celebration of the Olympic Winter Games.
		Person who lit the Olympic Torch: not applicable
	www.encyclopedian.com /19/1924-Winter-Olympics.html (135 words)

	Sports: Olympics: Winter Games: Skiing - Open Site
		There are six disciplines in Olympic skiing: Alpine, Cross Country, Freestyle, Nordic Combined, Ski Jumping, and Snow Boarding.
		Freestyle skiing was first introduced into the Olympics during the 1988 Calgary Games as a demonstration sports.
		The Nordic Combined event was included in the first Olympic Winter Games in 1924 in Chamonix Mont Blanc.
	open-site.org /Sports/Olympics/Winter_Games/Skiing (324 words)

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