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	KIAT.NET - Olympic Winter Games Speed Skating
		In the Netherlands, skating served as a way to travel over the canals in winter and the Dutch are still among the world's most avid skaters.
		Although the Netherlands is the birthplace of speed skating, the first known skating competition is thought to have been held in 1676.
		Speed skating at the Olympic Games consists of ten events: 500m, 1000m, 1500m, and 5000m for both woman and men, 3000m for women, and 10,000m for men.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/sports/winter/speedskating.html (392 words)

	ipedia.com: Winter Olympic Games Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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 the IOC voted to take back the Games from Japan because of their involvement in the war in China.
	www.ipedia.com /winter_olympic_games.html (5171 words)

	iceskate.com is the official site with all the information about ice skating. Visit the coolest site in the world.
		Ice skates are boots with blades attached to the bottom, used in ice skating to propel oneself across ice surfaces.
		A clap skate (or clapper skate) is a type of skate where the shoe is connected to the blade using a hinge.
		Skating was formerly judged for "technical merit" (in the free skating), "required elements" (in the short program), and "presentation" (in both programs).
	www.iceskate.com (4179 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)

	winter olympics
		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 first Olympics after the war, the 1920 Games in Antwerp, again, featured figure skating, while ice hockey made its Olympic debut.
		The 10000 m speed skating was abandoned in the 5th pair, and the 50km cross-country event ended with a temperature of 77Â°F (25Â°C), forcing a third of the field to abandon competition.
		This decision caused the Swiss and Austrian skiers to boycott the Olympics.
	hometown.aol.de /svizaczak/wo-47740.html (4518 words)

	History - Speed Skating Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Speed skating races became a regular feature of winter life; and by 1887 the Amateur Skating Association of Canada, the young country's first sport association, was formed.
		Olympic speed skating, or long track as it is known today, made its debut at the first Winter Olympics in 1924 in Chamonix, France and it has been a highlight of the Games ever since.
		By the late 1930s, popular interest in speed skating began to decline; and as hockey arenas were built, professional hockey hastened the diminishing spectator appeal of the sport.
	www.speedskating.ca /eng/about/index.htm (2661 words)

	Winter Olympic Games
		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.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wi/Winter_Olympics.html (264 words)

	Winter Olympics: A Tale of Two Countries
		It was the most dismal Olympics on record from a Norwegian point of view with not a single gold medal and a meager 5 medals in all.
		The result is a smaller recruiting base in those traditional winter sports such as speed skating, cross country skiing and ski jumping that remain, primarily, outdoor events.
		Many of Norway's winter sports heroes are developed in small, isolated towns where being outside and active forms a good starting point for the development of future skiers, ski jumpers and speed skaters.
	sportsci.org /news/news9803/olympics.html (1579 words)

	Winter Games Facts - TheGoal.com
		Although the first modern Olympic Games took place in the Summer of 1896 in Athens, Greece, it was not until 1924 that the first Winter Olympic Greece were held.
		But since women's speed skating was excluded from this Olympics, she decided to compete instead in the combined downhill, which she won.
		The most interesting person in the Winter Games in Lake Placid in 1932 was Eddie Egan from the U.S. He became the only person in Olympic history to win medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympics when he won a gold medal in the four-man bobsled.
	www.thegoal.com /events/mtgwinter2002/facts.html (571 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)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		The inaugural Winter Olympics were a resounding success in the picturesque spa town of Chamonix, France.
		Speed skating, bobsleigh, cross-country skiing and luge events were slashed from the program due to unseasonably warm weather.
		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)

	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)

	Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The year IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch brought the Olympics to his native Spain marked the first renewal of the Summer Games since the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and the reunification of Germany in 1990.
		The first Olympics since the reunification of Germany in 1990 and the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 resulted in a record 2,174 athletes from 65 countries as the Winter Games were staged in the French Alps for the third time.
		Led by Bonnie Blair's victories at 500 and 1,000 meters in speed skating, women won all five gold medals collected by the U.S. Blair was joined by figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi, freestyle skier Donna Weinbrecht and short track speed skater Cathy Turner.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/b/u/buw107/olympics.htm (1180 words)

	1952 Olympics — Infoplease.com
		The star of the Games, however, was 28–year-old Norwegian truck driver Hjalmar Andersen who, urged on by his cheering countrymen, won three speed skating gold medals in three days and set Olympic records in two of the races.
		Meredith Gourdine 1998 Deaths - Meredith Gourdine Age: 69 won the long jump silver medal at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki; of a...
		Environmental factors in the summer Olympics in historical perspective.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0300762.html (351 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936
		For the first time the Olympic flame burned at the Winter Olympics too.
		There were 106 thousand paying spectators and record participation for the first German Olympics which was the prologue to the more imposing Summer Games in Berlin.
		Due to the exclusion of women's speed skating from the Olympics, she chose to instead compete in the combined downhill, which she won.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w04garmisch.html (362 words)

	Australia at the 1952 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was 16 years since Australia's last Winter Games, as the 1940 and 1944 Winter Olympics were cancelled, and Australia did not compete in the 1948 Winter Olympics.
		Australia sent nine athletes and competed in alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, figure skating and speed skating.
		Nancy Hallam and Gweneth Molony were Australia's first women athletes at the Winter Olympics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australia_at_the_1952_Winter_Olympics (467 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)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		Eigil Nansen, grandson of the famous explorer Fridtjof Nansen, lights the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Oslo.
		With the 1952 Games, Norwegian athletes finally could showcase their supremacy before an enthusiastic hometown crowd, and the country’s passion for winter sports would be on display for the world.
		In 1952 there was no limit on an athlete’s weight in the bobsleigh, so two German teams were rejigged to make one super-heavyweight team.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/history/1952oslo.shtml (1001 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)

	The Winter Olympics — FactMonster.com
		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.factmonster.com /ipka/A0115111.html (617 words)

	1952 - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		After the flame is lit in the hearth of the home of Sondre Hordheim, the famous 19th century Norwegian skier, the torch is relayed to Oslo by a series of 94 skiers.
		Oslo organizers cite impending poor weather conditions and hold the women000 count is an Olympic attendance record that would stand through the end of the 20th century.
		It would be their last gold, thanks to the Soviet Union, future protests over "professional athletes" in Communist countries and the hockey talent spreading all over the globe by the end of the century.
	webserver.desnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,13,00.html (270 words)

	List of Winter Olympic Sports
		Bandy (like ice hockey with a ball), 1952 (will return to the Winter Olympic Games in 2010).
		Speed skiing, 1992 (may return to Winter Olympic Games in 2010)
		Winter pentathlon (a variant to the modern pentathlon), 1948.
	www.topendsports.com /events/winter/sports/index.htm (70 words)

	Around the World in 80 Years
		And, U.S. speed skater Eric Heiden surpassed Lydia Skoblikova's record of four gold medals in one program by sweeping the speed skating races - earning all five medals.
		She is the only woman to have competed in six Winter Olympics (1976-1994).
		The Albertville Games were the final Winter Olympics held in the same year as the Summer Olympics.
	express.howstuffworks.com /exp-olympic-history4.htm (284 words)

	Amy Peterson Named Flag Bearer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, February 6, 2002--Amy Peterson, a four-time Olympic short track speedskater from Ballston Spa, N.Y., was selected by her U.S. Olympic teammates to be the U.S. Flagbearer for Friday's Opening Ceremonies of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games.
		Peterson has been a member of the U.S. Team for the 1992, 1994, 1998 and 2002 Olympic Winter Games and was a member of the 1988 team that competed as an exhibition sport in Calgary.
		She won the silver medal in the relay in 1992 and bronze in the relay and 500-meters in 1994 in Lillehammer.
	www.usspeedskating.org /releases/petersonflag.html (676 words)

	The Cincinnati Enquirer Winter Olympics 1998 Special
		Also for the first time, the Olympic torch was brought to the Winter Games via a runner relay.
		Women athletes were allowed to compete for the first time in an Olympic Nordic event (a 10k cross-country race), and Alpine skiing saw two important changes: the addition of separate men's and women's giant slalom, and the dropping of both Alpine combined events.
		This accomplishment was made all the sweeter by the fact that 31-year-old Wideman was the oldest competitor to participate at the 1952 Winter Games.
	www.enquirer.com /olympics/olymain/past/html/1952.htm (335 words)

	Local links: How Washington athletes have fared at the Olympics
		Washington state was represented by two entries in the figure skating pairs competition in the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.
		Former UW student Nick Thometz, a speed skater, participated in the 1984, 1988 and 1992 Winter Olympics.
		He was inducted into the Speed Skating Hall of Fame in 2003.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /olympics/258123_wolylocallinksrail09.html (891 words)

	1952 Olympics — FactMonster.com
		Winter Olympics: Speed Skating - Preview of the Olympic event speed skating
		Speed Skating–Women - Speed Skating–Women (U.S. winners only) 500 Meters 1972 Anne Henning 43.33 1976 Sheila Young...
		Speed Skating - Speed Skating Men's Olympic Speed Skating Multiple gold medals: Eric Heiden and Clas Thunberg...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0300762.html (323 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Winter Olympics 2002 \| Skating \| Koreans lose speed skating appeal
		The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rejected an appeal by the South Korean delegation against the disqualification of Olympic speed skater Kim Dong-Sung.
		South Korea went to the arbitration court after their 1,500m short track speed skater was disqualified from Wednesday's final for impeding America's Apolo Anton Ohno.
		Links to more Skating stories are at the foot of the page.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/hi/english/skating/newsid_1833000/1833158.stm (339 words)

	1952 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1952 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VI Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1952 in Oslo, Norway.
		New Zealand and Portugal participated at the Winter Olympic Games for the first time.
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1952_Winter_Olympics (304 words)

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