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	Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A winter sports week with speed skating, figure skating, ice hockey and nordicskiing 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, andthe 50 km cross-country ended with a temperature of 25 degrees above zero, forcing a third of the field to abandoncompetition.
		The 1940 Winter Olympics hadoriginally been awarded to Japan, and were supposed to be held in Sapporo, but the IOC voted to take back the Games from Japanbecause of their involvement in the war in China.
	www.therfcc.org /winter-olympics-64138.html (4893 words)

	2002 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Olympic venues were scattered around Salt Lake City, as well as in the mountains at Park City, Ogden, Provo, Kearns and West Valley City.
		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.
		Athletes in short-track speed skating and cross-country skiing were disqualified for various reasons as well (including doping by two Russians in the cross-country skiing), leading Russia to file protests and threaten to withdraw from competition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2002_Winter_Olympics (933 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)

	2006 Winter Olympics Speed Skating, Events, News, Athletes, Teams, Pictures
		As a result, the International Skating Union was founded in 1892 in Holland, the birthplace of speed skating, to establish worlwide regulations governing the sport.
		While Olympic Short Track speed skating arguably provides more thrills, traditional speed skating is admired for combining speed and endurance as skaters cover distances ranging from 500 to 10,000 meters while reaching incredible speeds of up to 60 km/h (37 mph).
		Speed skating at the Olympic Games consists of ten events: 500m, 1000m, 1500m, 5000m for both woman and men, 3000m for women, 10,000m for men, and Team pursuit for women and men.
	www.chiff.com /olympics/olympics-speed-skating.htm (710 words)

	Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saturday February 23, 1980 — 25 competitors from 13 countries
		Sunday February 17, 1980 — 36 competitors from 16 countries
		Thursday February 14, 1980 — 30 competitors from 14 countries
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Speed_skating_at_the_1980_Winter_Olympics (231 words)

	Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the 2002 Winter Olympics, ten speed skating events were contested.
		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.
		The latter, breaking the world record in her race, 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Speed_skating_at_the_2002_Winter_Olympics (499 words)

	Eric Heiden
		Eric Heiden won gold medals in all five speed skating competitions at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, NY -- 500 meters, 1,000 meters, 1,500 meters, 5,000 meters, and 10,000 meters.
		He was an alternate on the U.S. Olympic cycling team in 1980, won the 1985 U.S. professional cycling championship, and was a member of the first U.S team to compete in the Tour de France, in 1986.
		At the 2002 Olympics, Heiden was asked to carry the torch into the stadium for the opening ceremony, but declined when he learned he was expected to hand it to a member of the 1980 gold medal U.S. Olympic hockey team, who would then light the flame for the Games.
	www.nndb.com /people/878/000024806 (447 words)

	1980 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIII Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, United States of America.
		Eric Heiden won all 5 speedskating events (500m, 1,000m, 1,500m, 5,000m and 10,000m) he also set 4 olympic records and 1 world record (10,000m).
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1980_Winter_Olympics (398 words)

	Olympic Speed Skating \| Short Track \| History \| Picture \| Training \| Apolo Ohno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Speed skating is a fast and fun sport that is a great way to build leg strength and improve your cardio system.
		Speed skating can also improve your endurance, as well as strengthen your back and stomach muscles.
		Speed skating is also a good crosstraining sport for skiers, ice hockey players and cyclists.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p6336.htm (331 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Winter Olympics
		They feature outdoor winter sports held on ice or snow, such as skiing and skating[?].
		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.
		The most recent Winter Games were the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/wi/Winter_Olympics (289 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)

	BBC SPORT \| Winter Olympics 2002 \| Skating
		Belarus speed skater Yulia Pavlovich is given a warning by the IOC after failing to turn up for an Olympic drug test.
		Olympic champions Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat shared the same dream but 10 years ago they were worlds apart.
		Of all the figure skating disciplines, it is the ladies competition that is the most prestigious and for the winner the most lucrative.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/hi/english/skating/default.stm (845 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)

	Heiden, Eric Arthur - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Eric Arthur Heiden, born in 1958, American ice skater, winner of an unprecedented five gold medals in speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
		Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Heiden began training as a speed skater with his sister Beth (also a 1980 Olympian) as a young teenager.
		His dominance of men's speed skating continued through the Olympics, in which he broke one world record and captured the gold medals in the 500-m, 1000-m, 1500-m, 5000-m, and 10,000-m races.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761565676__1/Heiden_Eric_Arthur.html (245 words)

	Winter Olympics
		The reason the Summer, rather than the Winter, Olympics hold more interest for sports collectors is obvious: who wants a trading card of Gerda Weissenstiener (1994 Luge gold medalist from Italy) or is going to go out and get a jersey with Gustva Weder (1994 gold medalist in the two man bobsled from Switzerland).
		Even the great speed skating achievements of Bonnie Blair of Champaign, Il., who won a total of seven medals, Eric Heiden who was the individual American champ in 1980 and the heroic story of Dan Jansen don't have a lasting effect on the minds of fans and collectors once the games are completed.
		However, it is unlikely to generate the same type of interest that the 1980 Lake Placid "Miracle on Ice" did when the USA rode one upset win over another to the gold and catapulted its previously unknown performers into stars.
	www.psacard.com /articles/article269.chtml (817 words)

	1980 Winter Olympics Summary
		Before the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the United States Olympic hockey team was not expected to compete for a medal.
		Before 1980, the United States formed their Olympic hockey teams hastily and then expected them to compete in the tournament.
		Eric Heiden won all five speed skating races at all distances, a new record for individual gold medals won at a single Olympics.
	www.bookrags.com /1980_Winter_Olympics (1204 words)

	Winter Olympics: Speed Skating
		Heiden and Blair are the two most decorated American winter Olympians of all time, Heiden with five golds (all from the 1980 Lake Placid Games) and Blair with five golds and a bronze.
		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/winter-olympics-speed-skating.html (539 words)

	Eric Heiden - Wisconsin Historical Society
		He is one of few speed skaters to combine powerhouse sprint starts, long distance endurance, effortless style, speed on the turns, and coolness under pressure – the results of his extraordinary ability to concentrate, endure pain, and train hard.
		As a child Eric skated with the Madison Speed Skating Club team but did not begin training seriously until 1972, when Dianne Holum, an Olympic gold medalist and University of Wisconsin student, took him under her wing.
		He was the United States speed skating team doctor at the 2002 Olympics and is so again at the 2006 games.
	www.wisconsinhistory.org /museum/exhibits/skate/eheiden.asp (303 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		American-Soviet relations were as chilly as ever at the start of the 1980s when the Winter Olympics returned to this small New York town nestled in the Adirondacks.
		These were the Winter Games that featured the "Miracle on Ice," when the United States won the gold medal in hockey, defeating the highly favoured Soviets, then cruising to the gold by defeating Finland in the final.
		After retiring from speed skating shortly after Lake Placid, Heiden took up cycling and competed in the 1986 Tour de France.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/history/1980lakeplacid.shtml (1167 words)

	Winter Olympics Memorable Moments: Eric Heiden
		The 21-year-old Wisconsin native won five individual gold medals in speed skating.
		He won the speed skating equivalent of a sprint, a marathon, and everything in between.
		He set five Olympic records and one world record, and defeated every single one of the 144 athletes competing in the five events.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/winter-olympics-heiden.html (355 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)

	NBCOlympics.com - Speed Skating - Davis, Cheek go 1-2 in 1000m (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The feat marked the first one-two finish in a men's speed skating event for the U.S. since the 500m in 1952 when Kenneth Henry and Don McDermott won gold and silver, respectively.
		Hedrick, who had only skated the 1000m a half-dozen times in his career, put up an early time that stood until Davis bested it in the 19th of 21 pairs with a clocking of 1 minute, 8.89 seconds.
		He's not even sure that being the first African-American man to win an individual winter gold is that big a deal because of speed skating's obscurity outside of the Olympics.
	www.nbcolympics.com /speedskating/5116658/detail.html (1217 words)

	ESPN.com: Overslept, over-won
		Heiden, winner of all five men's speed-skating races at the 1980 Winter Olympics, was voted No. 46 among North American athletes of the 20th century by SportsCentury's distinguished 48-person panel.
		In the late seventies in Norway, where speed skating is as big as baseball is in the U.S., Heiden received more attention than any other foreign athlete in history did.
		For 1980, Heiden won the Sullivan Award as the best U.S. amateur athlete, the UPI International Athlete of the Year and was named the USOC Sportsman of the Year for the third time in four years.
	espn.go.com /sportscentury/features/00014227.html (741 words)

	1980 Olympics — Infoplease.com
		Over 1,100 athletes from 37 countries participated in the 1980 Winter Games, but the only ones most people will ever remember are 21–year-old American speed skater Eric Heiden, who won five individual gold medals, and the U.S. hockey team—a bunch of college kids (average age 22) who beat the unbeatable Russians.
		No one before or since Heiden has won five individual gold medals in a single Olympic Games (three of swimmer Mark Spitz's seven gold medals were for relay races).
		And Heiden's sweep of the men's speed skating events has never been duplicated.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0300770.html (436 words)

	Hilton Lake Placid Resort - Attractions & Businesses - Olympics Then & Now
		The small village of Lake Placid is world-famous as the host of the Winter Olympic Games in 1932 and 1980, but its place in the sporting world goes beyond that.
		In addition to improvement of the existing ski jumps and the expansion of cross-country ski trails, the Olympic stadium (speed-skating oval), arena and bobrun were constructed at a cost of over $650,000.
		An Olympic Village was constructed for the athletes.
	www.lphilton.com /attractions_olympics.html (696 words)

	1980 Winter Olympics
		The XIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, United States of America.
		Eric Heiden won all five speed skating races.
		An upstart United States ice hockey team, made up primarily of collegiate players, won the gold medal, defeating the heavily favored Soviet team and then Finland in the medal round.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/1/19/1980_winter_olympics.html (218 words)

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