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	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)

	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)

	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)

	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)

	Winter History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The 10,000 meter speed skating race was cancelled due to the slush left on the rink.
		Speed skater Yevgeny Grishin won at the 500 and 1500 meters for the second olympics in a row.
		The 1964 Olympics came with mild weather and the deaths of luger Kazimierz Kay-Skyszpeski and downhill skier Ross Milne.
	www.fccps.k12.va.us /gm/webs-2002/gr8-3/hillary/winterhistory.html (2060 words)

	Olympic Games
		A special edition for winter sports, the Winter Olympic Games, started in 1924; since 1994 these are no longer held in the same year as the Games of the Olympiad.
		The ancient Olympic Games were abandoned in AD 394 by the Roman emperor Theodosius I, who considered the Games to be a savage celebration.
		Olympic uses varous types or airplanes, like the Boeing 747 and Airbus A340 for international routes, and the Boeing 727 and Boeing 737 for domestic routes.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/o/ol/olympic_games.shtml (1103 words)

	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Olympic Games
		However, beginning with the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, the Winter Games were rescheduled to occur in the middle of the Olympic cycle, alternating on even-numbered years with the Summer Games.
		Swedish cross-country skier Sixten Jernberg won the last of his nine Olympic medals, with golds in the 50-kilometer individual race and the 4 × 10-kilometer team race and a bronze in the 15-kilometer race, and Soviets Liudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov won the pairs figure skating competition.
		The 2002 Winter Olympics, held in Salt Lake City, were dogged by controversy both before and during competition.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761562380___14/Olympic_Games.html (1269 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Winter Olympics 2002 \| Skating \| Winter Olympic hero dies
		Winter Olympics speed skating legend Jack Shea has died from injuries in a car accident near his home in the United States.
		He skated past the Scandinavian stars to win gold in the 500m event in 43.4 seconds - six-tenths of a second faster than his idol, Charles Jewtraw, managed in 1924 at Chamonix.
		And when the Olympic Torch relay came through the area three weeks ago on its way to Salt Lake City, Shea carried the flame into the Olympic speed skating oval and lighted the cauldron.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/hi/english/skating/newsid_1776000/1776146.stm (388 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.
		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.
		Though this CBS Sports — Speed Skating page is focused on the 1998 Olympics in Japan, there is a lot to learn about speed skating at this Web site.
	www.edgate.com /wintergames/design/spotlight_sport/spdsktng.htm (782 words)

	Category:Speed skating - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The main article for this category is Speed skating.
		Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics
		This page was last modified 23:25, 13 November 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Speed_skating (54 words)

	Timeline Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		At the Olympics the game of golf was played for the last time due to lack of general appeal.
		Olympic Committee banned Vince Matthews and Wayne Collett from further competition for talking to each other on the victory stand in Munich during the playing of the "Star-Spangled Banner" after winning the gold and silver medals in the 400-meter run.
		Olympic Committee expelled 6 members in the wake of a bribery scandal, but gave a vote of confidence to IOC pres.
	www.bonus.com /contour/timelines_history/http@@/timelines.ws/subjects/Olympics.HTML (3992 words)

	Current Biography Excerpts: Speed Skating
		The best female speed skater ever produced by the United States is Bonnie Blair, the winner of one gold medal at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada and two at the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France.
		Until February 18, 1994 the speed skater Dan Jansen was one of the most tragic figures in the history of the Olympics.
		On February 18, 1994, he skated the 1,000 meters more than a half a second (an eternity in speed skating) faster than he ever had before and not only won the gold medal but shattered the world record.
	www.hwwilson.com /Currentbio/speedsk.html (632 words)

	speed skating -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		The blade of the speed skate is longer and thinner than that of the hockey or figure skate.
		The activity of ice skating has given rise to two distinctive sports: figure skating, which involves the performance of various jumps, spins, and dance movements; and speed skating and short-track speed skating, both of which are forms of racing on ice skates.
		The 28-year-old truck driver was the first athlete in the history of the Winter Olympics to win three gold medals in his native country.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9379273?tocId=9379273&query=oval&ct= (902 words)

	Winter Olympics1, Winter Olympics2 and Winter Olympics3 - Golden Tickets
		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 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.
	www.goldentickets.com /winter_games_tickets/35.html (1754 words)

	The 2002 Olympics
		The first winter Olympics were held in 1924 in Chamonix, France, and had 13 female and 245 male athletes representing 16 countries.
		But in 1986, the International Olympic Committee decided to alternate the summer and winter games every two years, so the Summer Games were held in 2000 in Australia, and now it is time for the Winter Olympics.
		Meagan fell in love with skating the first time her mom took her to a rink at the age of 7, and she has been skating seriously for the past year and a half.
	www.courier-journal.com /foryourinfo/020402/020402.html (1900 words)

	Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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)

	GBROLYMPICS.COM / LONDON-OLYMPICS.COM - Olympic Games Medallists
		The modern Olympics were first held in 1896.
		Nevertheless all those competitions reported, at one time or another, as Olympic medal events have been included here for the record, with those no longer regarded as official footnoted.
		The Winter Olympics were first held in 1924.
	www.london-olympics.com (336 words)

	Winter in Montana- Speed Skating
		Speed skating was the first of the three forms of skating to develop into a sport.
		In 1963, Judy Martz became a member of the U.S. World Speed Skating Team; in 1964, she represented the United States at the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.
		Bonnie Blair, the most famous woman in speed skating history, lived in Butte and trained at the Center during her Olympic career.
	wintermt.com /other/speedskating.htm (429 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)

	Whitehorse 2007 - Jeux du Canada Winter Games
		Skating on ice was, for hundreds of years, a rapid form of transportation across frozen lakes, rivers and canals.
		Speed skating has been a part of the Olympic program since the first Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix Mont Blanc in 1924.
		Short track speed skating was first introduced at the 1983 Canada Winter Games in Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, Québec and was first included in the official program at the XVI Olympic Winter Games in Albertville in 1992.
	www.2007canadagames.ca /en/sports (2371 words)

	History of the Modern Summer and Winter Olympics from Fanbay.net
		The Summer and Winter Olympics of 1932 were both held in the United States, in Los Angeles, CA and Lake Placid, NY, respectively.
		The Olympic facilities were as impressive as the cutting edge facilities that brought the Summer Olympics to a new level in Munich (1972).
		The Winter Olympics of 2002 were overshadowed by the terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001.
	www.fanbay.net /olympics/modern_history.htm (2739 words)

	2002 Winter Olympics
		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.
		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.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/2/20/2002_winter_olympics.shtml (431 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Innsbruck 1964
		The only real problem was the lack of snow, a circumstance which involved a tremendous amount of work by whole detachments of the Austrian army who transported over 20,000 cubic metres of snow from the seas of the North.
		A double-gold medalist at Squaw Valley, the Soviet speed skater swept all four speed skating events to become the first person to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Winter Games.
		In 1961 the entire U.S. figure skating team, including coaches, died in a plane crash on the way to the World Championships.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w09innsbruck.html (380 words)

	Cool Attractions - Olympic History
		As Salt Lake City prepares for the 19th Olympic Winter Games, constructing multi-million dollar venues, landing corporate sponsorships, and adjusting the city's infrastructure to accommodate the temporarily swollen population, all eyes are on the future.
		The Olympics have always reflected the political goings-on in the world, and for this reason, the 1964 games in Innsbruck, Austria were particularly noteworthy.
		Calgary's Olympics in 1988 were well received by both athletes and spectators, however, there were some concerns regarding the facilities, and the choice of competition sites.
	www.saltlakecity.coolattractions.com /history.html (862 words)

	Olympics - EnchantedLearning.com
		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 events in the Summer Olympics include: archery, badminton, baseball, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, diving, equestrian, fencing, football (soccer), gymnastics, handball, hockey, judo, kayaking, marathon, pentathlon, ping pong, rowing, sailing, shooting, swimming, taekwando, tennis, track and field (many running, jumping, and throwing events), triathlon, volleyball, water polo, weightlifting, wrestling (freestyle and Greco-Roman).
		Invent A New Olympic Sport There are many unusual Olympic sports, like skeleton (running and then sledding), biathlon (skiing plus shooting), and curling (using brooms to propel an object over ice).
	www.enchantedlearning.com /olympics (1145 words)

	Winter Olympic Games - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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.infosearchpoint.com /display/Olympic_Winter_Games (316 words)

	Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		His son Jim Shea competed in the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria and his grandson Jim Shea Jr.
		Jack Shea began ice-skating at the age of three and was competing in speed skating competitions by the time he was 10 years old.
		In the 1932 Olympics held in his hometown of Lake Placid, Shea won two gold medals for his performance in the 500-meter and 1,500 meter speed skating events.
	www.house.gov /sweeney/press/2002/Feb/02-06_Jack_Shea_Resolution.htm (280 words)

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