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		From the curve of a skate to the slope of the luge, engineering will be a crucial player at Nagano—and the new Winter Olympic sport of snowboarding is a prime example.
		After more than 30 years on the edge of mainstream athletics, snowboarding—the bad boy of winter sports—will come of age next February when it debuts at the 1998 Nagano Olympiad.
		He notes that the camber, or arch, of the snowboard, which allows the deft turns that is the signature of the sport of snowboarding, created so much fun for the rider that ski manufacturers quickly lifted the idea for use in their equipment.
	www.eweek.org /site/news/Features/snoboard.shtml (1023 words)

	Winter Olympics 2002: Salt Lake City
		Accessories, Apparel, Baseball, Basketball, Binoculars, Boating, Cycling, Camping/Hiking, Electronics, Field Hockey, Fitness, Fishing, Football, Footwear, Games, Gift Store, Golf, Hockey, Hunting/Archery, In-Line Skating, Lacrosse, Paintball, Racquet Sports, Running, Scooters, Skateboarding, Skiing, Snowboarding, Soccer, Softball, Volleyball, Water Sports, Winter Sports.
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		Alping Skiing, Biathlon, Bobsled, Curling, Figure Skating, Freestyle Skiing, Ice Hockey, Luge, Nordic Skiing, Snowboarding, Speedskating
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	Winter Olympics 2002: Salt Lake City
		Accessories, Apparel, Baseball, Basketball, Binoculars, Boating, Cycling, Camping/Hiking, Electronics, Field Hockey, Fitness, Fishing, Football, Footwear, Games, Gift Store, Golf, Hockey, Hunting/Archery, In-Line Skating, Lacrosse, Paintball, Racquet Sports, Running, Scooters, Skateboarding, Skiing, Snowboarding, Soccer, Softball, Volleyball, Water Sports, Winter Sports.
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		Skiing, Ice Hockey, Sledding, Snowshoeing, Ice Skating, Snowboarding.
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	Winter Olympics 2002: Salt Lake City
		Apparel, Baseball, Basketball, Boxing/M. Arts, Camping/Hiking, Cycling, Electronics, Fishing, Fitness, Football, Footwear, Games, Golf, Hockey, Hunting/Archery, In-Line Skating, Paint Ball, Pro/College Fan Gear, Racquetball/Squash, Roller Hockey, Running, Skateboarding, Skiing, Snowboarding, Soccer, Softball, Tennis, Volleyball, Water Sports, Winter Sports.
		Accessories, Apparel, Baseball, Basketball, Binoculars, Boating, Cycling, Camping/Hiking, Electronics, Field Hockey, Fitness, Fishing, Football, Footwear, Games, Gift Store, Golf, Hockey, Hunting/Archery, In-Line Skating, Lacrosse, Paintball, Racquet Sports, Running, Scooters, Skateboarding, Skiing, Snowboarding, Soccer, Softball, Volleyball, Water Sports, Winter Sports.
		Skiing, Ice Hockey, Sledding, Snowshoeing, Ice Skating, Snowboarding.
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	Winter Olympics 2002: Salt Lake City
		Apparel, Baseball, Basketball, Boxing/M. Arts, Camping/Hiking, Cycling, Electronics, Fishing, Fitness, Football, Footwear, Games, Golf, Hockey, Hunting/Archery, In-Line Skating, Paint Ball, Pro/College Fan Gear, Racquetball/Squash, Roller Hockey, Running, Skateboarding, Skiing, Snowboarding, Soccer, Softball, Tennis, Volleyball, Water Sports, Winter Sports.
		Accessories, Apparel, Baseball, Basketball, Binoculars, Boating, Cycling, Camping/Hiking, Electronics, Field Hockey, Fitness, Fishing, Football, Footwear, Games, Gift Store, Golf, Hockey, Hunting/Archery, In-Line Skating, Lacrosse, Paintball, Racquet Sports, Running, Scooters, Skateboarding, Skiing, Snowboarding, Soccer, Softball, Volleyball, Water Sports, Winter Sports.
		Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the Company operates 199 stores in 32 states.
	saltlake.homestead.com (704 words)

	Winter Olympics 2002: Salt Lake City
		Accessories, Apparel, Baseball, Basketball, Binoculars, Boating, Cycling, Camping/Hiking, Electronics, Field Hockey, Fitness, Fishing, Football, Footwear, Games, Gift Store, Golf, Hockey, Hunting/Archery, In-Line Skating, Lacrosse, Paintball, Racquet Sports, Running, Scooters, Skateboarding, Skiing, Snowboarding, Soccer, Softball, Volleyball, Water Sports, Winter Sports.
		Apparel, Baseball, Basketball, Boxing/M. Arts, Camping/Hiking, Cycling, Electronics, Fishing, Fitness, Football, Footwear, Games, Golf, Hockey, Hunting/Archery, In-Line Skating, Paint Ball, Pro/College Fan Gear, Racquetball/Squash, Roller Hockey, Running, Skateboarding, Skiing, Snowboarding, Soccer, Softball, Tennis, Volleyball, Water Sports, Winter Sports.
		Skiing, Ice Hockey, Sledding, Snowshoeing, Ice Skating, Snowboarding.
	saltlake.homestead.com (704 words)

	Winter Olympics 2002: Salt Lake City
		Accessories, Apparel, Baseball, Basketball, Binoculars, Boating, Cycling, Camping/Hiking, Electronics, Field Hockey, Fitness, Fishing, Football, Footwear, Games, Gift Store, Golf, Hockey, Hunting/Archery, In-Line Skating, Lacrosse, Paintball, Racquet Sports, Running, Scooters, Skateboarding, Skiing, Snowboarding, Soccer, Softball, Volleyball, Water Sports, Winter Sports.
		Apparel, Baseball, Basketball, Boxing/M. Arts, Camping/Hiking, Cycling, Electronics, Fishing, Fitness, Football, Footwear, Games, Golf, Hockey, Hunting/Archery, In-Line Skating, Paint Ball, Pro/College Fan Gear, Racquetball/Squash, Roller Hockey, Running, Skateboarding, Skiing, Snowboarding, Soccer, Softball, Tennis, Volleyball, Water Sports, Winter Sports.
		Skiing, Ice Hockey, Sledding, Snowshoeing, Ice Skating, Snowboarding.
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	OLYMPICS/NAGANO 1998
		The International Olympic Committee had been hoping to create a buzz and draw in a generation of sports fans used to pierced noses when it added snowboarding as a full-medal sport to the Nagano Games.
		The 26-year-old from British Columbia had tested positive for marijuana (a urine level of 17.8 nanograms per milliliter, exceeding the 15.0 limit set by snowboarding's Olympic governing body, the International Ski Federation), and after a 3-to-2 vote, the I.O.C.'s executive board recommended he be stripped of his prize.
		In any case, most of Rebagliati's fellow Olympic snowboarders have come to his defense.
	www.time.com /time/reports/olympics/snowboarding2.html (1151 words)

	Winter Olympics, World Cup on the horizon for 1998
		While women's ice hockey and curling won't figure prominently in the overall success of this year's Winter Olympics, another new event, snowboarding, may stimulate some interest among American viewers.
		While the United States is not favored in this event, with preference going instead to France or another European country, even a silver medal in either slalom or half-pipe snowboarding may trigger a huge rise in interest in what is already one of the fastest growing recreational sports in the nation.
		he new year is here, and 1998 figures to be unique for the sports world, due mainly to the Nagano Winter Olympics in February and summer's soccer World Cup in France.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V133/N04/03-armen.04s.html (679 words)

	Winter Olympics 2002: Salt Lake City
		Apparel, Baseball, Basketball, Boxing/M. Arts, Camping/Hiking, Cycling, Electronics, Fishing, Fitness, Football, Footwear, Games, Golf, Hockey, Hunting/Archery, In-Line Skating, Paint Ball, Pro/College Fan Gear, Racquetball/Squash, Roller Hockey, Running, Skateboarding, Skiing, Snowboarding, Soccer, Softball, Tennis, Volleyball, Water Sports, Winter Sports.
		Accessories, Apparel, Baseball, Basketball, Binoculars, Boating, Cycling, Camping/Hiking, Electronics, Field Hockey, Fitness, Fishing, Football, Footwear, Games, Gift Store, Golf, Hockey, Hunting/Archery, In-Line Skating, Lacrosse, Paintball, Racquet Sports, Running, Scooters, Skateboarding, Skiing, Snowboarding, Soccer, Softball, Volleyball, Water Sports, Winter Sports.
		Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the Company operates 199 stores in 32 states.
	saltlake.homestead.com (704 words)

	NPR : 2002 Winter Olympics, A Special Report
		The Olympics in Salt Lake City will feature a contrast between the guardians of the Olympic tradition and the brash interlopers of relatively new sport of snowboarding.
		At recent Olympic trials for the biathlon -- an event that combines cross-country skiing and shooting -- several U.S. hopefuls were soldiers, training for the Olympics at a time of war.
		Shorter, who won the gold in the 1972 Olympic marathon and silver in the 1976 games, talks about the drugs involved in doping, and says it has become much easier to detect their use.
	www.npr.org /programs/specials/olympics2002 (704 words)

	NPR : 2002 Winter Olympics, A Special Report
		The Olympics in Salt Lake City will feature a contrast between the guardians of the Olympic tradition and the brash interlopers of relatively new sport of snowboarding.
		At recent Olympic trials for the biathlon-- an event that combines cross-country skiing and shooting -- several U.S. hopefuls were soldiers, training for the Olympics at a time of war.
		Shorter, who won the gold in the 1972 Olympic marathon and silver in the 1976 games, talks about the drugs involved in doping, and says it has become much easier to detect their use.
	www.npr.org /programs/specials/olympics2002 (2380 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		A total of eight sports were included in the winter Olympics in 1998: biathlon (cross-country skiing and rifle marksmanship), bobsled, curling (for the first time), ice hockey (which included women’s hockey for the first time), luge (toboggan), figure skating, speed skating, and skiing (which, for the first time, included snowboarding as a medal sport).
		The winter Olympics were begun in 1924 and were held in the same year as the summer games until the 1994 winter games in Lillehammer, Norway, when the alternating cycles began.
		OLYMPIC GAMES, international athletic competition comprising two separate 4-year cycles, the summer Olympics and the winter Olympics.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/sports/olympics.html (1093 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		A total of eight sports were included in the winter Olympics in 1998: biathlon (cross-country skiing and rifle marksmanship), bobsled, curling (for the first time), ice hockey (which included women’s hockey for the first time), luge (toboggan), figure skating, speed skating, and skiing (which, for the first time, included snowboarding as a medal sport).
		The winter Olympics were begun in 1924 and were held in the same year as the summer games until the 1994 winter games in Lillehammer, Norway, when the alternating cycles began.
		OLYMPIC GAMES, international athletic competition comprising two separate 4-year cycles, the summer Olympics and the winter Olympics.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/sports/olympics.html (1093 words)

	1998 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tara Lipinski, 15, won the women's figure skating title to become the youngest champion in an individual event in the history of the Winter Olympics.
		Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Uruguay and Venezuela made their first appearance at these Olympic Winter Games.
		The XVIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1998 in
	en2.wikipedia.org /wiki/1998_Winter_Olympics (1093 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		A total of eight sports were included in the winter Olympics in 1998: biathlon (cross-country skiing and rifle marksmanship), bobsled, curling (for the first time), ice hockey (which included women’s hockey for the first time), luge (toboggan), figure skating, speed skating, and skiing (which, for the first time, included snowboarding as a medal sport).
		The winter Olympics were begun in 1924 and were held in the same year as the summer games until the 1994 winter games in Lillehammer, Norway, when the alternating cycles began.
		OLYMPIC GAMES, international athletic competition comprising two separate 4-year cycles, the summer Olympics and the winter Olympics.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/sports/olympics.html (1093 words)

	Snowboarding at the Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Snowboarding has been contested at the Winter Olympics since the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan.
		1 Events contested at each Winter Olympics Games
		This page was last modified 23:59, 28 February 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Snowboarding_at_the_Winter_Olympics (70 words)

	2006 Winter Olympics
		An Olympic snowboarder from Sweden was killed in a freak snowboarding accident today in the Adirondacks.
		While his Olympic medal figured into the award, the journalists also considered his performances in the Chevrolet U.S. Snowboard Grand Prix before the Olympics and the U.S. Open after the Olympics.
		Jonatan Johansson advanced to the quarterfinals in the snowboard cross in Turin and finished 12th, overall, at the Olympics.
	2006turinolympics.com (1020 words)

	Torino Winter Olympics 2006 Review, Preview, Screenshots, Movies, Trailers, Downloads for PlayStation 2 (PS2)
		Considering how well developed the racing and snowboarding genres are it would seem almost impossible not to make a good Winter Olympic game.
		Up to four players can take part in this virtual Winter Olympics but they all have to be in the same room since there is no online play.
		Pulling out a copy of Torino 2006 is a great way to get your friends to leave your house at the end of a day.
	www.cheatcc.com /psx2/rev/torinowinterolympics2006review.html (1127 words)

	Snowboarding at the 2002 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 2002 Winter Olympic Games Snowboarding competition results were as follows.
		The first time the Americans have swept a Winter Olympic event since the men's figure skaters did it in 1956.
		Events at the 2002 Winter Olympics (Salt Lake)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Snowboarding_at_the_2002_Winter_Olympics (201 words)

	Mountain Zone Olympic Cybercast of the 1998 Winter Olympics with Alpine Skiing and Snowboarding Live from Nagano, Japan
		Mountain Zone Olympic Cybercast of the 1998 Winter Olympics with Alpine Skiing and Snowboarding Live from Nagano, Japan
	classic.mountainzone.com /olympics/nagano/map-world.html (18 words)

	Winter Olympics, 1924-1998: Geographical Aspects
		Half of the Olympic winter sports, such as speed skating, bobsleding, luge, figure skating, ice hockey, and curling, require sophisticated and expensive high-techology and high-energy facilities and the other seven outdoor sports, e.g., various kinds of skiing and snowboarding, require sophisticated and expensive high-techology equipment.
		The published data on the Winter Olympics provide only the results; but the environmental elements of climates and snow-covered moutains, the national cultural values, national sport organizations, and the will and performance of individual altheletes can only be suggested by this geographical analysis of these data.
		An exclusive club of countries participate, and even more so, win all the medals, at the Winter Olympics, even though they have expanded from 16 countries in 1924 to 72 in 1998.
	www.uwec.edu /geography/Ivogeler/Papers/olympics/olympics.htm (314 words)

	Salon Coverage of the 1998 Winter Olympics
		The IOC thought it would be really cool to make snowboarding an Olympic sport.
		The Olympics are like the pilgrimages of old, with holy relics (the medals), saints (the athletes), evil bishops (corrupt figure-skating judges) and an unruly array of followers
		Hundreds of thousands of athletes and fans are about to descend -- so where's the Olympics fever?
	www.salon.com /special/1998/olympics/coverage.html (352 words)

	Skiing & Snowboarding - Names to know in Nagano - 1998 Winter Olympics - includes television broadcast schedule
		Granato, younger sister of Tony Granato, grew up in a hockey-crazed household, scrambling to keep up with her brothers during recreations in the family basement of the 1980 "Miracle On Ice." Today, Granato is a forward on the Olympic hockey team and its all-time leading scorer.
		Von Gruenigen has yet to make his mark at the Olympics, placing 15th in the slalom in 1994 and seventh in 1992.
		The 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, are hurtling this way like a German bobsled, household-bound in mere days, courtesy of CBS and TNT.
	skiing-today.com /articles/snowboarding/snowboarding-article-3539.htm (1210 words)

	Winter Olympics: The Coolest Games
		Over the years, more sports have been added to the Winter Olympic events, and, in 1998, the addition of snowboarding to the lineup opened the door to extreme sports that have caught the enthusiasm of a new generation of Olympic fans.
		The first winter Olympic-level games were held in 1924, but the IOC (International Olympic Committee) did not decide to host a Winter Olympics until their 1925 meeting.
		The figure skater who took the world by storm at the 2002 Winter Olympics and is a favorite to win gold in the 2006 Olympics talks about her childhood and her long training to become a champion.
	www.kidspoint.org /columns2.asp?column_id=1292&column_type=homework (1268 words)

	Squaw Valley Academy -- California International Boarding Schools at Lake Tahoe
		Located less than three kilometers from the base of Squaw Valley USA, site of the 1960 Winter Olympics, Squaw Valley Academy gives students immediate access to world-class skiing, snowboarding, ice skating, cross-country skiing, and a number of other mountainside activities.
		During the winter season, the academic schedule provides time each day for students to ski or snowboard at Squaw Valley USA, site of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
		Developmental ski and snowboard classes, from novice to advanced, are available to help students refine skills and enjoyment of these winter sports.
	www.sva.org /index.php?click1=wintermountain (260 words)

	2002 Winter Olympics Salt Lake City Figure Skating Scandal Ice Hockey Olympic Snowboarding
		The last time Canada won a gold medal in ice hockey was at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway.
		The 2002 Winter Olympics brought out several freaky fashions from around the world - not including those shiny, skin-tight suits worn by lugers.
		This is the first time in Olympic history that there has been two golds, a bronze, but no silver medal in a competition.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p1824.htm (514 words)

	2002 Winter Olympics
		The 2002 Winter Olympic Games were held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
		A feature of this Olympics has been the emergence of the so-called "extreme" sports, such as snowboarding, moguls and aerials, which appeared in previous Olympics but have captured greater public attention this year.
		The Canadian women's team also defeated their American counterparts 3-2 after losing to them at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano and at all 8 exhibition games prior to the Salt Lake Games.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/2/20/2002_winter_olympics.shtml (431 words)

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