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	1960 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This Winter Olympics introduced Disney artist John Hench's Olympic 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1960_Winter_Olympics (310 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)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Olympic Games
		For example, the Winter Olympics were held in 1994 and the Summer Olympics in 1996.
		Although the Olympic Charter, the official constitution of the Olympic movement, proclaims that the Olympics are contests among individuals and not among nations, the IOC assigns to the various NOCs the task of selecting national Olympic teams.
		Women’s Olympic sports have grown significantly since then, and currently women account for approximately half of the members of teams, except in teams from Islamic nations, where the level of female participation is generally lower.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761562380__1/Olympic_Games.html (6888 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)

	Figure Skating Equipments - Short Track Speed Skating
		Speed Skating is a form of Ice Skating where the competitors cover a certain distance over ice as quickly as possible.
		Olympic speed skating, or long track speed skating, was introduced at the first Winter Olympics in 1924 in Chamonix, France.
		Speed skaters in the inner lane wear a white armband and skaters on the outer lane wear a red armband.
	www.clearleadinc.com /site/skating.html (1603 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)

	1960 Winter Olympics
		The Games of the VIII Olympiad were held in 1960 in Squaw Valley, California.
		This Winter Olympics introduced Disney artist John Hench[?] torch design, which all further torches would be based on.
		There were 15 alpine and ski jumping events, 8 speed skiing events, and 3 figure skating events.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/19/1960_Winter_Olympics.html (178 words)

	SnapShotsNow.com - Olympic Speed Skating
		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.
	snapshotsnow.com /Olympic_Speed_Skating.html (1699 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)

	The Sports Network - Olympics
		The 500 is the only Olympic event in which the athletes skate two races, with the final results based on the total time of the two events.
		Romme is the king of long-distance speed skating and was the all- around world champion in 2000.
		Canadian speed skaters won nine of the nation's 15 medals in Nagano and could be in line for another impressive performance in Salt Lake City.
	www.sportsnetwork.com /?c=sportsnetwork&page=olymp/news/BON1912960.htm (833 words)

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		The symbolic Tower of Nations and Olympic Flame still greet visitors at the entrance to the Valley and Alexander Cushing, Squaw Valley's Founder and Chairman, still provides the vision and character with which Squaw Valley USA became and continues to be famous.
		The VIII Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley marked many notable events and historic firsts for Olympic competition: * The 1960 Winter Olympics were the first Games to be held in the Western United States and the first to be televised, bringing skiing and winter sports competition into the homes of millions worldwide.
		Women's speed skating and the men's biathlon, a combination of Nordic skiing and rifle marksmanship, made their debut at the 1960 Games.
	www.squaw.com /mediacenter/text/olympicinsert.txt (1662 words)

	Cover Story (010803) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Syracuse Speed Skating Club, which practices on Tuesday and Thursday nights during the winter at Sunnycrest Ice Rink, located next to Henninger High School, is the local outlet for skaters of all ages to experience high-speed aggression on ice.
		Skates were born out of practicality, with prototypes made out of the bones of animals, and were used to transport people and things across frozen rivers and lakes.
		Most telling about speed skating, then and now, is that it is a sport for the people; the working class competed in speed skating in its earliest days, while aristocrats preferred figure skating.
	newtimes.rway.com /2003/010803/cover.shtml (1651 words)

	Olympics 2002: Speed Skating
		Though short-track speed skating dates back to the late 1800s, the sport didn't become an officially recognized Olympic event until the 1992 Albertville Games.
		Though speed skating can be traced back to England in the mid-1700s, the Netherlands is widely considered the sport's birthplace.
		The skate is a technological breakthrough in which the blade actually detaches from the heel of the skate, allowing for it to stay on the ice longer.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/02olspeedskating1.html (534 words)

	1980 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The XIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, United States of America.
		Although they didn't get any medals, the People's Republic of China returned to the Olympics Games after the IOC agreed to designate the ROC "Chinese Taipei".
		Eric Heiden won all five speed skating races.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1980_Winter_Olympic_Games (300 words)

	1960 Olympics
		The first Winter Olympics in the U.S. since 1932 was held at an obscure California ski resort near Lake Tahoe that had no bobsled run and in the days leading up to the opening ceremony, no snow.
		Outside, speed skater Yevgeny Grishin of the USSR won at 500 and 1,500 meters for the second Olympics in a row.
		This was also the first year women could compete in speed skating and the Soviets' Lydia Skoblikova won twice, at 1,500 and 3,000 meters.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0300765.html (476 words)

	RGJ.com - Norway’s Olympic golden boys reunite at Squaw Valley
		In 1960, they called themselves “the boys.” They were among the best athletes in the history of their country, Norway’s speed skating team for the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley.
		In 1960, there were six skaters standing in a row for in the photo.
		Maier finished his Olympic career with a gold medal, two silvers and a bronze — won in 1964 and 1968 — and was world champion in 1968.
	www.rgj.com /news/stories/sports/960517867.php (623 words)

	QuickLockCameras.com - Olympic Speed Skating
		By 1956 at 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.
		At the Lillehammer Winter Olympic Games, Susan Auch won the first medal in long track for Canada since the 1984 Games by placing second in the 500 m and 8th in the 1,000 m.
		Not to be outdone, Susan Auch won 500 m silver medals at the Nagano Olympics and the World Sprint Championships and finished the season second overall in the World Cup standings for that distance.
	www.quicklockcameras.com /Olympic_Speed_Skating.html (1721 words)

	Squaw Valley USA: History Olympics
		The committee was so engaged with the "idea of a California valley with an annual snowfall of 450 inches, and a downhill event with areas that had never even been schussed successfully," recalls Cushing, that he found himself buried under an avalanche of questions and controversy.
		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)

	VIII Olympic Winter Games - Squaw Valley USA
		They were the first Winter Games to be nationally televised and to house the athletes in their own Olympic Village.
		For the first time in Winter Olympic history artificial refrigeration was utilized for speed skating events and electronic computers were used to tally results.
		The saga of the VIII Olympic Winter Games is a lasting tribute to the daring and vision of Alexander C. Cushing, the founder and Chairman of the Board of Squaw Valley Ski Corporation.
	www.tahoebest.com /Skiing/squawolympics.htm (752 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)

	1960 Winter Olympics -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Olympic Village housed all the (A person trained to compete in sports) athletes.
		An early (Click link for more info and facts about IBM) IBM (A machine for performing calculations automatically) computer was used to (Click link for more info and facts about calculate) calculate the results.
		1960 was the first year for women's (Competitive skating on speed skates (usually around an oval course)) speed skating and the men's (Click link for more info and facts about biathlon) biathlon.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1960_Winter_Olympics.htm (775 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1960 Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The VIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1960 in Squaw Valley, USA.
		(¹ East Germany and West Germany competed as a single team; team appeared in the 1956, 1960, and 1964 Winter Olympics)
		The 1906 Olympic were organised by the IOC, but are currently not officially recognised by the IOC.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1960-Winter-Olympics (316 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Winter Olympics 2002 \| Luge and Skeleton \| Tearful triumph cheers America
		He truly appreciated the significance of reciting the same words in that oath that his grandfather, who won double speed skating gold back in 1932, had delivered at Lake Placid all those years ago.
		Shea dominated both runs at the Utah Olympic Park, and began celebrating with the thrilled masses trackside before he had even come to a stop second time round.
		One of the first to mob him was his father, Jim Sr, who represented the USA in nordic skiing at the 1960 Games.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/low/english/luge_and_skeleton/newsid_1832000/1832822.stm (406 words)

	Sports: Olympics: Winter Games: Skating - Open Site
		There are three main divisions of competition ice-skating: figure skating, ice dancing, and speed skating.
		Women’s speed skating was introduced into the Olympics in 1960 during the Squaw Valley, California games.
		Speed skating consists of a race around an oval track.
	open-site.org /Sports/Olympics/Winter_Games/Skating (180 words)

	ORDA News Release: September 20: Winter National Senior Games Coming to Lake Placid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Art was a member of the 1940, 1948, 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympic ski jumping teams.
		The 1944 Winter Olympics were pre-empted due to the war.
		Art began his broadcasting career with CBS at the 1960 Winter Games in Squaw Valley, Calif. He later spent 21 years working for ABC starting in 1962.
	www.whiteface.com /ordapublic/cnewsdetail.cfm?id=598 (370 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The 1960 Squaw Valley Games were preceded by a controversy when the organizing committee refused to build a bobsleigh run because only nine nations had indicated an intention to take part.
		Male speed skater Yevgeny Grishin gained victories in the 500m and the 1,500m, just as he had in 1956.
		It was the first Olympic medal to be won on metal skis.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1960 (325 words)

	Special Olympics, 1989. 89-52
		Since the first Special Olympics were held in 1968 in Chicago, International Summer and Winter games have been held, alternatively, every two years, and are run almost entirely by volunteers.
		A unique Olympic Town was built at the Convention Center, following an "Old West" theme; this was the setting for many activities for the athletes and their families.
		Preliminary to the IWSOG was the Pre-Games Invitational for Special Olympics, held at Lake Tahoe/Reno, January 23-26, 1989.
	www.library.unr.edu /specoll/mss/89-52.html (1051 words)

	Talk:1960 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Olympic Flame is lit in Squaw Valley at February 18 by the 1952 Olympic champion in 500 meter speed skating, Ken Henry.
		A 50 star US flag is shown in the medal table.
		This is incorrect - the US flew a 49-star flag from July 4 1959 until July 3 1960.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:1960_Winter_Olympics (105 words)

	Olympics Timeline
		The Olympic flag is introduced, as is the Olympic oath.
		Gillis Grafström of Sweden wins the last of his three consecutive gold medals in figure skating; Norwegian Sonja Henie will equal that feat, winning the first of her three consecutive gold medals in figure skating here at the age of 15.
		The American Olympic Committee sends a hockey team, as does the American Hockey Association; the IOC bars either from being considered for a medal.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/olympicstimeline.html (1351 words)

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