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	Winter Olympics - ninemsn 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.
		Figure skating has been an ever-present event at the Games with the men’s and women’s figures; the pairs was introduced in 1908 and the ice dance in 1976.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572547/Winter_Olympics.html (1241 words)

	Winter Olympic Games - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This decision caused the Swiss and Austrian skiers to boycott the Olympics.
		The 1940 Winter Olympics had originally been awarded to Japan, and were supposed to be held in Sapporo, but the IOC voted to take back the Games from Japan because of their involvement in the war in China.
		Winter pentathlon, a variant to the modern pentathlon, was included as a demonstration event in 1948.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /winter_olympic_games.htm (5572 words)

	ipedia.com: Winter Olympic Games Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The 1940 Winter Olympics had originally been awarded to Japan, and were supposed to be held in Sapporo, but the IOC voted to take back the Games from Japan because of their involvement in the war in China.
		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)

	1988 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1988 Games were the last games where the Paralympics were not also held in the same city.
		For the first time in history the Winter Olympics were extended to 16 days, the speed skating events were held indoors on a covered rink, the alpine events took place on artificial snow, and warm Chinook winds not only threatened to cancel events, but sent a ski jumper flying into a camera tower.
		The Canadian Olympic Committee has pledged to change this at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1988_Winter_Olympics (624 words)

	winter olympics magazine article learnenglish
		The Olympic Motto is 'Citius, Altius, Fortius', (or faster, higher, stronger), and when you hear the words "The Olympics", you may see mental pictures of tanned men and women athletes in brightly coloured sportswear, trying hard to live up to the motto, while keeping to the Olympic ideals of friendship, unity, fair play and peace.
		In the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, two Japanese ski jumpers, Masahiko Harada and Takanobu Okabe, won the gold and silver medals after both of them jumped 137 metres, the longest ski jumps ever seen at the games.
		Fans of the event still remember the 1988 Winter Games, where British figure skaters Jayne Torville and Christopher Dean (Britain) were given maximum points in the ice dancing event, for their artistic interpretation of Ravel's Bolero.
	www.learnenglish.org.uk /magazine/winter_olympics02.html (744 words)

	1988 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The XV Olympic Winter Games were held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
		1988 was the second time Canada had hosted the Olympics, this includes the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
		Ever mindful of the financial disaster of the 1976 Summer Olympics, Calgary was financially successful, erasing the spectre of a second Canadian games at a loss.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1988_Winter_Olympics (538 words)

	Kurt Browning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Category:Figure skaters at the 1988 Winter OlympicsBrowning, Kurt/
		Category:Figure skaters at the 1992 Winter OlympicsBrowning, Kurt/
		Category:Figure skaters at the 1994 Winter OlympicsBrowning, Kurt/
	www.infothis.com /find/Kurt_Browning (314 words)

	1988 Winter Olympics at AllExperts
		The 1988 Games were the last games where the Paralympics were not also held in the same city.
		1988 was the second time Canada had hosted the Olympics, this includes the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
		The Canadian Olympic Committee has pledged to change this at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/1988_Winter_Olympics.htm (660 words)

	2002 Winter Olympics
		The XIX Olympic Winter Games were held in 2002 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
		Prior to these Olympic Winter Games, 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.
		Athletes in short-track speed skating and cross-country skiing were disqualified for various reasons as well (including doping), leading Russia and South Korea to file protests and threaten to withdraw from competition.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/2/20/2002_winter_olympics.html (422 words)

	Top 10 Winter Olympics Showdowns - MSN Encarta
		In the first Winter Olympic Games, American Charles Jewtraw was the only speed-skating medalist not from Norway or Finland.
		His was the first gold medal ever awarded in a Winter Olympic Games.
		In 1988, American skater Debi Thomas and the reigning Olympic champion, East Germany's Katarina Witt, both skated to Georges Bizet's Carmen, giving fans a rare opportunity to compare two top skaters' interpretation of the same piece.
	encarta.msn.com /list_winterolympicshowdowns/Top_10_Winter_Olympics_Showdowns.html (678 words)

	1994 Winter Olympics at AllExperts
		The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games, were celebrated in 1994 in Lillehammer, Norway.
		The Lillehammer Olympics are still considered to this day by sport specialists and Olympic officials as one of the greatest Winter Games ever, and it ranks among the greatest sporting events in history.
		In his address at the opening ceremony, Samaranch recalled Sarajevo and its 1984 Winter Olympic Games, at the time in the midst of Yugoslav war of 1991-1995, with an emotive message: "Our message is stronger than ever: Please stop the fighting.
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/1994_winter_olympics.htm (677 words)

	The Winter Olympics
		Winter Olympics is an important event is the lives of thousand of athletes.
		The first Winter Games took place in Chamonix, France, in 1924, with 292 athletes from 16 nations competing in 18 events.
		At the 2002 Winter Olympics, in Salt Lake City, Utah, a total 2,399 athletes from 77 nations competed in 78 events.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/sports/thewinterolympics2.htm (277 words)

	KIAT.NET - Olympic Winter Games Short Track Speed Skating
		Following the success of its Olympic debut, short track was expanded to six events in Lillehammer in 1994, with the men and women competing in the 500, 1000 and relay.
		All speed skating events that year were competed in a format similar to that of present-day short track - much to the dismay of the Europeans.
		Short track speed skating is an elimination event in which athletes race in packs and try to outskate and outwit fellow competitors within their heats.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/sports/winter/shorttrack.html (540 words)

	1988 Summer Olympics information - Search.com
		The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were held in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea.
		After boycotts of the Olympics in 1976, 1980 and 1984, the Seoul Games were again boycotted, led by North Korea and followed by Cuba; the basis of the boycott was South Korea's refusal to co-host the Olympics with North Korea, which rejected all compromise.
		Tennis returns to the Olympics after a 64-year absence, and Steffi Graf adds to her four Grand Slam victories in the year by also winning the Olympic title.
	www.search.com /reference/1988_Summer_Olympics (588 words)

	Iceskate.Net - Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Olympic eligible skaters are restricted to skating in events that are sanctioned by their federation and/or the International Skating Union.
		Shortly before the 1994 Olympics the ISU temporarily opened up reinstatement for professional skaters (which is why you saw Boitano, Browning, and others skating in Lillihammer), then closed it again in 1995.
		Figure skating was not listed on Olympic programs until the first Winter Olympic games in 1924.
	www.iceskate.net /olympics.html (356 words)

	The Sports Network - Olympics
		Olympic figure skating consists of four medal events or disciplines: ladies' singles, men's singles, pairs and ice dancing.
		Yagudin made it to the 1998 Olympics, but he suffered from flu-like symptoms in Japan and that hurt his performance as he fell and finished fifth.
		He was denied a chance to skate in Nagano because an injury prevented him from competing in the required number of events as per the Canadian Olympic Association.
	www.sportsnetwork.com /?c=sportsnetwork&page=olymp/news/BON1912923.htm (1413 words)

	ABC Sport Online - Winter Olympics 2006 - History
		Figure skating was included in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and, with ice hockey, at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.
		The Winter Olympics returned to the United States for the first time in 22 years after calls for the Games to be cancelled following the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.
		The abiding memory of the second Japanese Winter Olympics after Sapporo in 1972 was the spectacular "human-cannonball" fall sustained by Austrian giant Hermann Maier in the men's downhill.
	www.abc.net.au /winterolympics/2006/history.htm (4179 words)

	Winter Olympics Memorable Moments: Katarina Witt
		By age nine she was already skating under the guidance of renowned East German coach Jutta Muller, and by age 11 she had landed her first triple jump.
		But she truly reached the pinnacle by dazzling the judges at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, edging American Rosalynn Sumners for the gold medal.
		The 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary showcased the highly anticipated battle between Witt and American rival Debi Thomas, winner of the 1986 world championships.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/winter-olympics-witt.html (438 words)

	2002 winter olympics women figure skating medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Sarah Hughes Wins Gold Medal At 2002 Olympics :: Photos Courtesy - - States waves to the crowd with her gold medal, after women's skating competiton at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2002.
		Skating - are awarded a gold medal in the Olympics pairs figure skating controversy.
		The International Olympic Committee (IOC), which sets and enforces Olympic policy, has struggled with the licensing and commercialization of the games, the need to schedule events to accommodate American television networks (whose broadcasting fees help underwrite the games), and the monitoring of athletes who seek illegal competitive advantages, often through the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
	www.olympic-headquarters.net /2002-winter-olympics-women-figure-skating-medal.htm (919 words)

	Olympic highlights - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		In fact, his futility was well-known — he had been hindered at the 1988 Calgary Games by the last-minute news that his younger sister had died of leukemia, and in other races he fell victim to a stumble here or a wrong strategy there.
		First, with her sweep of the golds in the women's 500, 1,000, 1,500 and 3,000 in 1964, she was the first woman to win to win four gold medals in a single Winter Olympics.
		Setting Olympic records in each event, she collected three golds — the 500 in 1980 and the 1,000 and 1,500 in 1984.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,50,00.html (953 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)

	BBC SPORT \| Winter Olympics 2002 \| Skating \| Controversy on the greatest stage
		In a similar case to Thorpe's, the German pair were alleged to have signed a professional skating contract prior to the 1964 Winter Games in Austria.
		They were stripped of their medals in 1966 but were "rehabilitated" by the IOC in 1987 and the original result stood.
		Lewis was the beneficiary of one of the most infamous incidents in Olympic history, when Ben Johnson tested positive for the use of prohibited substances after he had raced away with the 100m gold in record time.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/hi/english/skating/newsid_1823000/1823052.stm (485 words)

	1988 Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		1988 Seoul Olympics vintage seed packet Nisida was not one of the weak and timid natures that are broken by suffering or domineered over by tyranny.
		1988 Seoul Olympics susan powter stop the insanity Anna ministers to her daughter, and is intent on braiding and adorning her long golden hair, while the angels look on with devout admiration.
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	www.olympicsi.com /1988olympics (996 words)

	Winter Olympic moments - Sport - smh.com.au
		Tonya Harding was vying for the No.1 US female figure skating position and her chances were helped immeasurably by an attack on her fiercest rival Nancy Kerrigan during the trials for the 1994 Winter Olympics.
		Olympic bobsled champion Irv Blitzer was persuaded by runner Derice Bannock and his go-kart pal Sanka to train them for the Games.
		But it was a long time before the first winter Olympic medal, a bronze, was won by the 5000m speed skating relay team comprising Kieran Hansen, Steven Bradbury, Andrew Murtha and Richard Nizielski.
	www.smh.com.au /news/sport/winter-olympic-moments/2006/01/27/1138319454214.html (693 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Innsbruck 1976
		Two Olympic flames burned brightly at Innsbruck; one each was lit for the Austrian city's host roles in 1964 and 1976.
		Sixty thousand spectators were present at the opening ceremony of the XII Winter Games and 200 million people watched it live on television.
		Figure skating was once again dominated by the Soviets, who captured gold in pairs as well as the newly-introduced ice dancing event.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w12innsbruck.html (433 words)

	Spotlight Sport - Speed Skating
		Although archeologists in Scandinavia have relics that demonstrate primitive people glided over the ice using skates fashioned from animal bone and straps of leather, it was in the Netherlands that skating became a mode of transportation and national passion.
		The first known skating competition is thought to have been a 15-meter race and took place in England on February 4, 1763.
		Speed skating giant, Eric Heiden (Madison, Wisconsin) produced the greatest single feat in Winter Olympic history when he won all five events at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics.
	www.edgate.com /wintergames/design/spotlight_sport/spdsktng.htm (782 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.
		Athletes in short-track speed skating and cross-country skiing were disqualified for various reasons as well, leading Russia and South Korea to file protests and threaten to withdraw from competition.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/2/20/2002_winter_olympics.shtml (431 words)

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