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	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		Swiss four-man bobsleigh champions Pierre Musy at the helm, Arnold Gartmann, Charles Bouvier and Joseph Beerli, at the 1936 Winter Olympics.
		Less controversial was the first-ever lighting of an Olympic flame at a Winter Olympics.
		Her teammate, speed skater Ivar Ballangrud, was also a fan favourite at the 1936 Winter Games.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/history/1936garmischpartenkirchen.shtml (1266 words)

	Winter Olympic Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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 10000 m speed skating was abandoned in the 5th pair, and the 50 km cross-country ended with a temperature of 25 degrees above zero, forcing a third of the field to abandon competition.
		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).
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Winter_Olympic_Games (5395 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Winter Olympics
		The Olympics organization is headed by a president, elected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) members for an initial period of eight years.
		Men’s speed skating was introduced at the inaugural Winter Olympics; the women had to wait until 1960 for their inclusion.
		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 (1248 words)

	Figure Skating (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Olympic figure skaters wear boots that are custom-made for each foot and heavily reinforced with thick, stiff leather interiors and extra ankle bracing.
		Skating boots originally were street boots, and heels always have been part of the aesthetic.
		Skate blades are ground concave; only the two outer "edges" of the bottom of the blade contact the ice.
	www.olympics.org.uk /sports/winter/figureskating.asp (624 words)

	Olympics
		The Olympics were of fundamental religious importance, contests alternating with sacrifices and ceremonies honouring both Zeus (whose colossal statue stood at Olympia), and Pelops, divine hero and mythical king of Olympia famous for his legendary chariot race, in whose honour the games were held.
		The number of competitors at the Winter Olympics is much smaller than at the summer edition; 2,400 athletes competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in 78 events.
		The Olympic Flame is lit in Olympia and brought to the host city by runners carrying the torch in relay.
	wikipedia.openfun.org /Olympics (4696 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		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.
		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 Olympic games are competitions of individual athletes, not of nations, and the IOC does not keep national scores; however, the media of all nations report national standings according to one of two scoring systems.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/sports/olympics.html (1093 words)

	2010 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vancouver won the bidding process to host the Olympics by a vote of the International Olympic Committee on July 2, 2003 at the 115th IOC Session held in Prague, Czech Republic.
		During their coverage of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Australian comedians Roy and HG launched a campaign for the 2010 games at the little-known, tiny Australian ski resort of, even going so far as to produce a promotional video, jingle and even to directly raise the issue with IOC President Jacques Rogge.
		As of 2004, the cost of the 2010 Winter Olympics is estimated to be in the range of C$1.4 billion.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/2010_Winter_Olympics (652 words)

	1988 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The XV Olympic Winter Games were held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
		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.
		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)

	Alpine skiing blends art with speed - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		Because of the high speeds and the vulnerability of the racers to unstable snow conditions, downhill courses are required to be firm and clear of soft snow.
		Speeds in the super G are slightly slower than in a downhill but can still get up around 60 and 70 mph.
		Because the events are so opposite — the downhill is based on speed, while the slalom more on technical skills — the combined favors skiers with well-rounded skiing skills as opposed to someone who has specialized in either speed or technical events.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,30000123,00.html (1800 words)

	1936 Winter Olympics article - 1936 Winter Olympics sports February 1936 February 16 1936 Adolf Hitler Athlete's - ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The IV Olympic Winter Games were held in the villages of Garmisch and Partenkirchen in Bavaria.
		Hitler, the German Nazi leader, wished to show the world that the 'Aryan' team the National Socialist state had assembled was better than everyone elses', and would win all events.
		* The 1906 Olympic were organised by the IOC, but are currently not officially recognised by the IOC, although most Olympic historians disagree.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/1936_Winter_Olympics (116 words)

	ABC Sport - Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Figure skating was included in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and, with ice hockey, at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.
		Five-times Olympic champion Clas Thunberg of Finland refused to compete and the Americans won 10 of the 12 speed skating medals.
		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/features/history.htm (3570 words)

	German Info: Germany at the Olympics
		Among the stories for which the 1936 Winter Games have gone down in Olympics history was the performance of 16-year-old Norwegian Laila Schou Nilsen, who at the time held every speed-skating record for distances between 500 and 5,000 meters.
		Due to the exclusion of women's speedskating from the Olympics, she instead chose to compete in the combined downhill, which she won, although no medals were awarded at the time for success in individual races.
		Rudi Ball, a leading member of the Germany's 1932 Olympic hockey squad and a Jew in voluntary exile in France, was invited by the German government to return home to compete under the banner of his native country.
	www.germany-info.org /relaunch/info/publications/infocus/olympics2002/wg1936.html (592 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		Speed skating, bobsleigh, cross-country skiing and luge events were slashed from the program due to unseasonably warm weather.
		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.
		Hard-luck American speed skater Dan Jansen proved that perseverance pays off, Italy’s Manuela Di Centa took home a whopping five medals in cross-country skiing and Canada enjoyed a respectable medal haul thanks in large part to the inclusion of freestyle skiing and short-track speed skating as official sports.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/history (1273 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Winter Olympics 2002 \| Front Page \| How the Winter Games were born
		The answer is 1893, the sport was speed skating, and that event was the first step towards the birth of the Winter Olympics.
		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.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/low/english/front_page/newsid_1628000/1628703.stm (408 words)

	1984 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The XIV Olympic Winter Games were held in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
		Skier Jure Franko won Yugoslavia's first Winter Olympic medal; a silver in the giant slalom.
		Gaétan Boucher and each won two gold medals in speed skating, while East German women win all but 3 of the 12 medals in the sport.
	www.sterlingheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1984_Winter_Olympics (215 words)

	1998 Winter Olympics
		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.
		Speed skaters Gianni Romme and Marianne Timmer won two gold medals each for the Netherlands; 5 out of 10 titles in speed skating went to the Netherlands.
		The 1906 Olympic were organised by the IOC, but are currently not officially recognised by the IOC.
	www.askfactmaster.com /1998_Winter_Olympics (254 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		Speed skater Ivan Ballangrud of Norway won three of the four races, including the 500m, the shortest race, and the 10,000m, the longest.
		The skier Willy Bogner (GER) pronounces the Olympic Oath.
		One of the greatest speed skaters of the early Winter Games, Ivar Ballangrud (NOR) won three gold medals, in the 500, the 5,000 and the 10,000m.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1936 (288 words)

	Squaw Valley USA: History Olympics
		Upon hearing the news, International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage told Cushing, "the USOC obviously has taken leave of their senses." IOC member John J. Garland advised, "I think you are on a wild goose chase.
		The 1960 Winter Olympics were the first Games held in the Western United States and the first to be televised.
		The Olympic Village Inn was built to house more than 750 athletes; it allowed all athletes to be housed under one roof for the first and only time in modern Olympic history.
	www.squaw.com /winter/history_olympics.html (1207 words)

	Ivar Ballangrud - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ballangrud was one of the best speed skaters in the world for a period of 15 years, from 1924 to 1939.
		He won 3 Olympic titles in 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen: 500 m (quite surprisingly), 5000 m and 10000 m.
		However, he was paired with the recent Olympic 10000 m champion, Julius Skutnabb, in his first World Championship in Helsinki 1924, and beat the champion on is homeground.
	www.free-definition.com /Ivar-Ballangrud.html (311 words)

	Winter Olympic Games Information - TextSheet.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The First Olympic Winter Games were inaugurated on January 25, 1924 in Chamonix, France, although at the time they were not yet called Olympic Winter Games.
		Since 1994, the Winter Games are no longer held in the same year as the Games of the Olympiad (or Summer Olympics).
		The most recent Winter Games were the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
	www.powerandresponsibility.sferahost.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/winter_olympic_games.html (317 words)

	Winter Olympics by Year
		Sapporo was chosen to host the XI Olympic Winter Games at the IOC Session held in Rome in April 1966, one and a half years after the Tokyo Games.
		This left the Denver Olympic Organizing Committee with no choice but to notify the IOC of its withdrawal.In February 1973, IOC President Lord Killanin convened a meeting of Executive Board Members at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne where Innsbruck was chosen as the host.
		Albertville was chosen from among the candidates at the IOC Session in Lausanne in October 1986.
	hvv.freeservers.com /olymwint.htm (1813 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Sapporo 1972
		The eleventh edition of the Olympics was held in Sapporo, Japan.
		Organizers of the Sapporo Winter Olympics turned a tidy profit for the Games, largely as a result of their take of the record $8.47 million for the broadcast rights.
		In return for the Olympic flame to the East, the Japanese invested a fortune in facilities and structures in Sapporo, a city with over 1,500,000 inhabitants, capital of the Hokkaido island.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w11sapporo.html (359 words)

	2002 Winter Olympics - Winter Olympics History
		Salt Lake City is named host city of the Olympic Winter Games of 2002 at the 104th IOC Session in Budapest, Hungary in the first ballot vote.
		From 1928, the Olympic Winter Games were held every four years in the same calendar year as the Olympic Games.
		Squaw Valley was the debut of the Biathlon and the staging of Speed Skating events for female contestants, with Helga Haase (Germany) capturing the first gold medal in the sport, winning the 500-meter race.
	www.utah.com /olympics/history.htm (941 words)

	1936 Olympics
		The fourth Winter Olympic Games were held in the neighboring villages of Garmisch and Partenkirchen in Germany's Bavarian Alps and included Alpine skiing for the first time.
		Ballangrud won three individual gold medals and narrowly missed a fourth in speed skating, but his heroics paled compared to the attention lavished on Henie, who won her third straight gold medal.
		He was the only Jew on the German Winter Olympic team and his presence was a token gesture by the government of Adolf Hitler to mollify anxious IOC officials who objected to the Nazis' fervent anti-Semitism.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0300759.html (363 words)

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