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	MSN 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.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572547/winter_olympics.html (1248 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1956 Winter Olympics
		The VII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1956 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
		The 1996 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and informally known as the Centennial Olympics, were held in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
		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.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1956-Winter-Olympics (2029 words)

	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)

	Canada at the Winter Olympics
		In 1976 the Winter Olympics were awarded to Denver, Colorado, but in an unprecedented move the voters of Denver decided against the use of public funds.
		Olympic rules differ somewhat from NHL rules, particularly in the size of the rink, which is 4 metres wider and 700 centimetres longer.
		Since the winter Olympics began in 1924, Norway, Sweden, Soviet Union/Russia and Finland have won 63 of the 66 gold medals awarded in men’s cross-country skiing.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=FET_E8 (5612 words)

	2002 Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Prior to these Olympic Winter Games, a number of IOC 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.
		During the opening ceremonies, Rogge, presiding over his first olympics as IOC president, told the athletes of the host country that their nation was overcoming the horrific tragedy and stand with them in their ideals.
		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.
	www.toshare.info /en/2002_Winter_Olympics.htm (495 words)

	Figure skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Winter Olympics first were held in 1924; where to write to Tonya Harding.
		Organisers of the 1924 Winter Olympics staged in...
		The three figure skating events held at the 1924 Winter Olympics were not the first figure skating events contested at the Olympic Games, as the sport had also been on the programme at the 1908 and 1920 Summer Olympics.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Figure_skating_at_the_1924_Winter_Olympics (258 words)

	Prince George Blizzard Speed Skating Club - Skating Info - Skating History - On to the Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Olympic speed skating, or long track as it is known today, made its debut in 1908 in London.
		By the late 1930s, popular interest in speed skating began to decline as hockey arenas were built, professional hockey hastened the diminishing spectator appeal of the sport.
		By 1956 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, speed skaters from the Soviet Union, absent from Olympic competition for 48 years, ended the Norwegian stranglehold on Olympic speed skating.
	members.shaw.ca /pgblizzard/blizzard/otto.html (811 words)

	1928 Winter Olympics - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The 1928 Games were the first true Winter Olympics, held on its own, and not in conjunction with a Summer Olympics.
		The preceding 1924 Winter Olympics were retroactively renamed into Winter Olympics.
		All preceding Winter Events of the Olympic Games were the winter sports part of the schedule of the Summer Games, and not as a separate Winter Games.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/1928_Winter_Olympics (174 words)

	ABC Sport - Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		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)

	Sporting Life - Winter Olympics
		Winter Sports had long had their own World Championships with speed skating first holding theirs in 1893, and the first figure skating World Championships taking place in 1896 - the same year as the first Olympics.
		The feat was unique because at the time she held every speed skating record for the distances between 500m and 5,000m but was unable to enter that competition because of the ban on women.
		With the Norwegians being disappointed in several events and failing to win a medal in the speed skating for the first time in 24 years, the Soviets led the medal table with 16 medals.
	www.sportinglife.com /winterolympics/history (2087 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		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 (1185 words)

	Facts about topic: (1956 Winter Olympics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The VII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1956 in Cortina d'Ampezzo (additional info and facts about Cortina d'Ampezzo), Italy (A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD).
		The USSR (A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia an others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991) debuted in these Winter Olympics.
		Olympic Games (The modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1956_winter_olympics.htm (427 words)

	St. Moritz, Switzerland, 1928 (from Olympic Games) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The second Winter Olympics, held at a ski resort, were marred by bad weather.
		Figure skating was included in the Olympics for the first time in the 1908...
		As a result of the United States boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow and the Soviet Union not attending the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, Calif., athletes from these countries were deprived of the opportunity to face one another in sports competition.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-214319?tocId=214319 (932 words)

	1948 Winter Olympics - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Moritz was also the site of the 1928 Winter Olympics.
		Barbara Ann Scott became the first Canadian to win the figure skating gold medal.
		Dick Button became the first American to win a figure skating title for the United States, and also became the first figure skater to perform a double axel during an Olympic figure skating event.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/1948_Winter_Olympics (158 words)

	1960 Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This Winter Olympics introduced Disney artist John Hench torch design, which all further torches would be based on.
		The Olympic Flame was lit in the cottage of Sondre Norheim in Morgedal, Norway, and was brought to Los Angeles by plane from Oslo.
		1960 was the first year for women's speed skating and the men's biathlon.
	www.usapedia.com /1/1960-winter-olympics.html (178 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)

	1988_Winter_Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Curling, Freestyle skiing, short track speed skating and paralympic skiing were demonstration events.
		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.partsquote.com /search.php?title=1988_Winter_Olympics (495 words)

	1980 Winter Olympics
		The Games of the XIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, United States of America.
		Hanni Wenzel won the women's giant slalom and slalom, making Liechtenstein the smallest country to produce an Olympic champion.
		Eric Heiden won all five speed skating races.
	www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/1/19/1980_winter_olympics.html (193 words)

	1984 Winter Olympics
		The Games of the XIV Winter Olympiad were held in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
		Skier Jure Franko[?] won Yugoslavia's first Winter Olympics medal; a silver in the giant slalom.
		Gaétan Boucher[?] and Karin Enke[?] each won two gold medals in speed skating, while East German women win all but 3 of the 12 medals in the sport.
	www.freearchive.info /19/1984-winter-olympics.html (380 words)

	Cortina Olympics 1956
		Cortina, one of the most beautiful winter resorts in the world, hosted the seventh edition of the winter Olympics.
		The Olympic flame was lit at the Campidoglio in Rome and blessed by the Pope.
		In the speed skating events the Soviet Union swept all but the 10,000m which was won by Sweden's Sigvard Ericsson, leaving Norway without a gold medal in speed skating for the first time in 24 years.
	www.world-of-cortina.co.uk /cortinaolympics.php (463 words)

	Winter Olympic Games : Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		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.termsdefined.net /wi/winter-olympics.html (455 words)

	1998 winter olympics
		The Games of the XVIII Winter Olympiad were held in 1998 in Nagano, Japan.
		NHL player were able to compete in men's ice hockey due to a three week suspension of the competition.
		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.
	www.fact-library.com /1998_winter_olympics.html (225 words)

	1956 Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		nature of the Winter Olympics, as is familiarity...
		The Soviet Union debuted in these Winter Olympics.
		* The 1906 Olympic were organised by the IOC, but are currently not officially recognised by the IOC, although most Olympic historians disagree.
	hallencyclopedia.com /1956_Winter_Olympics (288 words)

	1994 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In 1986 the IOC voted to change the schedule of the Olympic Games so that the summer and winter games would be arranged in alternating even-numbered years.
		For the first time, the Winter Olympics were not held in the same year as the Games of the Olympiad.
		The Olympic flame was brought into the stadium by a ski jumper.
	www.vacilando.org /_cliextra/baghdadmuseumorg/includepage.php?title=1994_Winter_Olympics&action=edit (356 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)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The 1956 Winter Olympics, held in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, were most notable for the first appearance by a team from the USSR.
		As she fell, her left skate cut through three layers of her right boot, slashed a vein, and severely scraped the bone.
		In the Olympic competition she skated well enough to earn the first-place votes of ten of the eleven judges.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1956 (282 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Winter Olympics 2002 \| Skating \| Britain's sisters of speed
		And when you consider each country in the Winter Olympics can only enter two skaters per event - a medal is certainly not out of the question.
		One skater who has already tasted Olympic medal glory is Nicky Gooch, who is taking part in his fourth Winter Games.
		Gooch admitted the medal is normally kept in his sock drawer at home in Nottingham but his proud parents have got it at the moment so they can show it to their friends during the Olympics.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/hi/english/skating/newsid_1804000/1804136.stm (468 words)

	2002 Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		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.free-template.org /20/2002-winter-olympics.html (516 words)

	1924 Winter Olympics
		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.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/19/1924_Winter_Olympics.html (136 words)

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