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	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)

	Speed Skating
		Speed skating is the sport of gliding along an ice oval in an attempt to cover the most distance in the least amount of time, much like a runner in a track and field event.
		Speed is maximized in speed skating by adopting the crouched position, which reduces air resistance and which is characteristic of the sport.
		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 has been a highlight of the Games ever since.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=A1ARTA0007605 (1854 words)

	Speed skating - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Speed skating or speedskating is a form of ice skating in which the competitors attempt to travel a certain distance over the ice as quickly as possible.
		Speed skating is currently conducted on outdoor or indoor ovals, often with artificially frozen ice.
		Skaters skate four distances and a ranking is made up based on the times skated on all of these distances.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Speed_skating (655 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)

	2002 Winter Olympics
		The XIX Olympic Winter Games were held in 2002 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
		Prior to these Olympic Winter Games, 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 (including doping), leading Russia and South Korea to file protests and threaten to withdraw from competition.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/2/20/2002_winter_olympics.html (422 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)

	ABC Sport - Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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
		The first modern Olympic games were held in 1896 but it was not until 1924 that the first Winter Games were held.
		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.
	www.sportinglife.com /winterolympics/history (2087 words)

	History - Speed Skating Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The roots of ice skating date back over 1,000 years to the frozen canals and waterways of Scandinavia and the Netherlands when men laced animal bones to their footwear and glided across frozen lakes and rivers.
		In 1763 the world's first organized speed skating race, which covered a distance of slightly more than 24 kilometres, was held on the Fens in England.
		Short track speed skating became part of the ISU in 1967, although it would be some time before ISU-sanctioned competitions were organized on a world-wide basis.
	www.speedskating.ca /eng/about (2661 words)

	Prince George Blizzard Speed Skating Club - Skating Info - Skating History - On to the Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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)

	Sheila Young
		Speed Skating–Women - 500 Meters 1972 Anne Henning 43.33 1976 Sheila Young 42.76 1988 Bonnie Blair 39.10 1992 Bonnie...
		1976 Olympics - The IOC originally gave the 1976 Winter Games to Denver, but in 1972 Colorado voters rejected a $5...
		Speed Skating - Men Multiple gold medals: Eric Heiden and Clas Thunberg (5); Ivar Ballangrud, Yevgeny Grishin and...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0109768.html (150 words)

	NPR : 2002 Winter Olympics, A Special Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Olympic officials -- seeking to thwart performance-enhancing drugs -- must determine which of hundreds of dietary supplements should be banned from use during competition.
		The 1932 speed skating gold medalist was killed in a car crash, just three weeks before his grandson is to compete in the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
		At recent Olympic trials for the biathlon -- an event that combines cross-country skiing and shooting -- several U.S. hopefuls were soldiers, training for the Olympics at a time of war.
	www.npr.org /programs/specials/olympics2002 (2380 words)

	Detroit Free Press \| Winter Olympics 2002
		When Hayes Alan Jenkins won the figure skating gold in 1956, his brother David the bronze and teammate Ronnie Robertson the silver, it was a first for the United States in the Winter Olympics.
		SALT LAKE CITY -- One of the most exciting Winter Olympics events is pairs figure skating, which combines the beauty of an intimate dance with the athleticism of a large man throwing a tiny woman as far as 75 feet.
		Blustery winter weather was the big winner Friday on the first day of competition at the Winter Olympics, postponing ski-jump qualifying and practice for the men's downhill and several other events.
	www.freep.com /index/2002olympics.htm (11506 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)

	1988 Winter Olympics - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.grohol.com /wiki/1988_Winter_Olympics (562 words)

	CNNSI.com - 2002 Winter Olympics - Speed Skating - Le May Doan sets Olympic speed skating record - Wednesday February ...
		Le May Doan skated 37.30 seconds, just.08 off her world record of 37.22 set in December at her home oval in Calgary.
		She skates every other day, always gauging how she feels each time.
		Her 100-meter split of 10.78 seconds was the second-slowest among the eight pairs who skated after the ice was resurfaced.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/2002/speed_skating/news/2002/02/13/womens_500_ap (704 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck were threatened by a lack of snow.
		Lydia Skoblikova won all four women’s speed skating events to become the first athlete to win four gold medals in one Winter Olympics.
		Lidiya Skoblikova (URS-speed skating) became the first woman to win all four speed skating events in the same Games, setting new Olympic records in the 500m, 1,000m and 1,500m.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1964 (324 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)

	BBC SPORT \| Winter Olympics 2002 \| Skating \| Golden time for van Velde
		Gerard van Velde of the Netherlands set a new world record as he flew to gold in the final of the men's 1,000m speed skating.
		The victory was a real fairytale for van Velde who missed out on a bronze medal in the 1992 Olympics by just 0.01secs in the 1,000m.
		Desperate to make amends for that here he skated at world record pace early on but then slipped on a curve, all but giving up on the last bend as he realised his chance had gone.
	newsrss.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/hi/english/skating/newsid_1825000/1825073.stm (343 words)

	The Winter Olympics (Reference)
		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.teachervision.fen.com /page/8613.html (536 words)

	ESPN Classic - January Moments
		That first winter, according to "The Official NBA Basketball Encyclopedia," the Globetrotters will win 101 of 117 games before audiences whose exposure to the sport was minimal.
		Tired and short of breath due to the mile-high altitude, he skates a program that, by his standards, is off-center and uninspired.
		He won the 100-meter freestyle in the 1912 and 1920 Olympics and finished second to Johnny Weissmuller in 1924 at the age of 33.
	www.espn.go.com /classic/moments/s/january.html (9771 words)

	Speed skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		At the 1928 Winter Olympics, four speed skating events were contested, but the 10000 m event was not completed..
		Competition cancelled because of rising temperatures, no rerun arranged.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Speed_skating_at_the_1928_Winter_Olympics (87 words)

	NZ Winter Olympic History
		Gibson managed New Zealand's first top twenty result but her 19th placing was because that was the number of competitors in the slalom.
		Also in the 1984 team were Bruce Grant and his sister Christine, Kate Rattray and Simon Wi Rutene, making the first of his four Winter Olympic appearances.
		Harris would represent her country in cycling at the Summer Olympics in Seoul later that year.
	www.olympic.org.nz /Article.aspx?ID=340 (997 words)

	Bevil Winter Olympics
		Selling Games at cachet (applied 1980 LAKE issued in shows through 1.50 was cut speed skating Lake Placid, through.
		Winter Olympic an opening OLYMPICS PLACID WINTER from the an address inside, which is printed block of stamp from SKATING.
		LUGE / SKING 1994 WINTER OLYMPICS LILLEHAMMER NORWAY
	www.mspac.com /pages/en_US/itname2143-687-Bevil-Winter-Olympics.php (277 words)

	Neo Speed Skating News Archives
		Skating that wider track although a little farther distance wise is better for cornering and overall speed.
		NEO Speed Skating has received word from race promoter Jeff Glze of Premier Sports that he has a great new circuit planned for next year including the addition of a points circuit and more.
		NEO Speed Skating has received word that Phil Senechel's EC (East Coast) Beast professional racing team may be dissolved and somehow incorporated into the Verducci USA racing team.
	www.neospeedskating.com /news/arc11-2002.php (5842 words)

	Articles - Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Van Velde, who had finished 4th in the Olympics twice already, delivers a huge surprise by skating a World Record and winning the gold medal.
		He is the first Mexican-American to medal in a winter sport.
		The latter only started competing in long track skating this year, although she and her sisters have proven almost unbeatable in marathon skating, which is performed in groups.
	www.sidepoint.com /articles/Speed_skating_at_the_2002_Winter_Olympics (329 words)

	1924 Winter Olympics
		Originally called Semaine des Sports d'Hiver ("International Winter Sports Week") and held in association with the 1924 Summer Olympics, the sports competitions held in Chamonix between 25 January and 5 February 1924 were later designated by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the '''Ist Olympic Winter Games.
		However, no such designation was made in 1924, nor by the IOC at any time, and many Olympic historians now consider them to be full medal events.
		Cross country skiing at the 1924 Winter Olympics
	brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1924_winter_olympics.html (153 words)

	International Games News October 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Olympic flag was lowered to half mast at Stadium Australia on Sunday 17 September 2000.
		The Olympic flag was lowered to half mast for three days at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne.
		The five remaining bidders for the 2008 Summer Olympic games are trying to show that they have support, by publicizing via their web sites that public opinion is on their side.
	www.internationalgames.net /october2000.html (1654 words)

	1976 Olympics
		The IOC originally gave the 1976 Winter Games to Denver, but in 1972 Colorado voters rejected a $5 million bond issue to finance the undertaking.
		For the second straight Winter Carnival the USSR and East Germany finished 1–2 in overall medals.
		In figure skating, 19–year-old Dorothy Hamill of the U.S. and John Curry of Britain won gold medals.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0300769.html (349 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.
		Meanwhile, South Korea's top Olympic official said his team will not boycott the closing ceremony, despite earlier reports.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/hi/english/skating/newsid_1833000/1833158.stm (339 words)

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