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	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 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 (416 words)

	Olympic Speed Skating \| Short Track \| History \| Picture \| Training \| Apolo Ohno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Short track speed skating is a more exciting spectator sport because the athletes move faster and there are often nasty collisions on the ice.
		Speed skating is a fast and fun sport that is a great way to build leg strength and improve your cardio system.
		Speed skating is also a good crosstraining sport for skiers, ice hockey players and cyclists.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p6336.htm (341 words)

	Winter Olympics: Speed Skating
		Women's speed skating became an official event in 1960 at Squaw Valley.
		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.infoplease.com /spot/02olspeedskating1.html (547 words)

	Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bradbury was way behind in 5th place, but all the other finalists collided and fell while turning the last corner.
		Yang Yang (A) - the A is to distinguish from Yang Yang (S) - won the People's Republic of China's first Olympic winter gold medal.
		Choi set a new World Record in the semis, but compatriot Ko beat her to win the inaugural Olympic 1500 m.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Short_track_speed_skating_at_the_2002_Winter_Olympics (279 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 (1255 words)

	TIME.com Print Page: Arts & Entertainment -- Olympic Figure Skating: A Sport on Thin Ice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Skating is full of fancy footwork, but we like to think it's confined to the skaters.
		Technique--things like the speed of their jumps and the intricacy of their footwork--is supposed to be the more objective of the two.
		By that time Rogge and the other members of the Olympic committee were aware that the Canadian Olympic Association had filed an application before the court of Arbitration for Sport, a non-Olympic body, asking the court to hear its request for a second gold medal and to compel the pairs judges to testify.
	www.time.com /time/olympics2002/printout/0,8816,203477,00.html (2508 words)

	Inline speed skating - Definition up Erdmond.Com
		Inline speed skating races are held in a variety of formats and on a variety of surfaces.
		Indoor races are held at roller skating rinks on coated wood floors and are common primarily in the United_States, which has a long tradition of roller skate racing at rinks.
		The technique for inline speed skating is generally the same as the classic ice speed skating style.
	www.erdmond.com /Inline_speed_skating.html (1786 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)

	NPR : 2002 Winter Olympics, A Special Report
		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)

	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 (1189 words)

	German Info: Germany at the Olympics
		Among the stories for which the 1936 Winter Games have gone down in Olympics history was the performance of 16-year-old Norwegian Laila Schou Nilsen, who at the time held every speed-skating record for distances between 500 and 5,000 meters.
		Due to the exclusion of women's speedskating from the Olympics, she instead chose to compete in the combined downhill, which she won, although no medals were awarded at the time for success in individual races.
		Rudi Ball, a leading member of the Germany's 1932 Olympic hockey squad and a Jew in voluntary exile in France, was invited by the German government to return home to compete under the banner of his native country.
	www.germany-info.org /relaunch/info/publications/infocus/olympics2002/wg1936.html (592 words)

	usnews.com - Winter Olympics 2002
		At the 2002 winter games, 77 countries were represented at the opening ceremonies, and the total grew to 78 on February 11, when Costa Rica's sole competing athlete, a cross-country skier, arrived.
		A: The founder of the modern Olympics, the French nobleman Baron de Coubertin, was opposed to professional athletes at his games, which made their debut in 1896.
		First of all, to be even considered for the Olympics, a sport has to be "universal," which means it has to be played at a minimum number of countries.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/olympics/winter/articles/event020213.htm (1419 words)

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		After the 1994 olypmics and Apolo's watching speed skating, both his father and he became very interested.
		Yuki took Apolo to a secluded cabin and left him there for eight days to think over speed skating, to see if it was really what he wanted to do.
		The next year, he won the US title, and in the 2002 Winter Olympics he has won both silver and gold medals so far.
	www.angelfire.com /linux/apolo/profile.html (782 words)

	Figure skating - Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympic Games coverage
		The figure skating world was still spinning today from a report that a French judge was pressured to "act in a certain way" in the voting on this week's highly controversial pairs competition.
		Skating's roots may stretch back as far as the Middle Ages, where drawings depict ancient gods wearing huge "skis" with runners.
		The grace and artistry of Olympic skating is never difficult to express.
	deseretnews.com /oly/fska/0,3990,02~14,00.html (209 words)

	CNNSI.com - 2002 Winter Olympics - Speed Skating - Canada's Gagnon wins 500m short track gold - Sunday February ...
		American Apolo Anton Ohno, hoping to win his third Olympic medal, was disqualified in the semifinals after he collided with Japanese skater Satoru Terao on the next-to-last turn.
		Japan's Takafumi Nishitani, the defending Olympic champion, was knocked out in the quarterfinals, finishing third in the race won by Smith.
		Australia's Steven Bradbury skated across the line as the fortuitous winner, while Ohno staggered across in time to get the silver despite a gash in his left.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/2002/speed_skating/news/2002/02/23/mens_500_ap (804 words)

	NPR : Former Rollers Give Speed Skating a New Look, 2002 Winter Olympics, A Special Report
		On the second day of competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics, a silver medal in the 5,000-meter speed skating event went to Derek Parra, who's 5 feet 4 inches tall and hails from southern California.
		Parra is a prime example of a new trend in U.S. speed skating.
		Shani Davis began speed skating at the age of six.
	www.npr.org /programs/specials/olympics2002/athletes/skaters/020213.skaters.html (597 words)

	Canada Post - Collecting
		Clara Hughes, a modern day heroine, won two bronze medals in cycling at the 1996 Olympics, a bronze medal in speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics, and a gold medal in cycling at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
		For Colonello, the challenge was "to capture the essence and the spirit of a cycling race, a combination of concentration, focus, speed, competition and internationalism." She explains that "the international spirit of the Road World Championships was achieved through the multicoloured bands in the flags for the various nations participating in the event.
		Through the use of a blurred image, a dynamic feeling of competition and speed is created and global quality is conveyed by the design, since gender, race and age are not specified.
	www.canadapost.ca /textonly/personal/collecting/default-e.asp?stamp=stpartl&detail=721 (391 words)

	Sports Venue Technology - 2002 Winter Olympics - Salt Lake City
		The venues for the 2002 Olympic Games were located in Salt Lake City and the nearby locations of Ogden, Park City, Heber City, West Valley City and Provo.
		For the 2002 Winter Olympics, ISB had a team of 1,600 technicians, engineers and others handling the comprehensive and integrated tasks required of an OBO.
		The Olympic Village on the University of Utah campus.
	www.sportsvenue-technology.com /projects/saltlakecity (2610 words)

	Olympics
		Olympic ring border, list of words related to bobsledding and luge to use in poem.
		This reading comprehension is a biography of Olympic champion Kerri Strug and the story of her famous gold-medal win in gymnastics at the 1996 Olympics.
		When the Olympics are over, use the results from your chart to answer the questions.
	abcteach.com /directory/theme_units/funkids/olympics (873 words)

	On top of the world
		Biondo took up speed skating at the age of 5, learning the sport from his father, Ron.
		Short-track speeding skating is a sport in which a single second often separates the first four places in a heat, and the difference between first and second place often is measured in hundredths and even thousandths of a second.
		Short-track speed skating, with competition in hockey-rink size forums, involves a lot of strategy because of the numerous laps (45 for the 5,000 meters).
	www.sunnews.com /news/2001/0412/SSKATER.htm (738 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The first event to be decided in Chamonix was the men’s 500m speed skating.
		Lighting the Olympic Flame by: For the Winter Games, the flame was lit for the first time in 1952 in Oslo.
		He won the gold medal in the first event, the 500m speed skating.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1924 (253 words)

	Women's History Month 2002 Quiz Answers \| Status of Women Canada
		Two years earlier, in 1988, she was the first woman in the world to be chef de mission of an Olympic team.
		She became the first Canadian athlete (male or female) ever to win two Winter Olympic gold medals, as well as the first North American athlete ever to win gold in Olympic biathlon events.
		At the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Clara Hughes won two bronze medals in the cycling competition and she won a bronze medal in speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, making her the first Canadian athlete (male or female) to win medals at both summer and winter Olympics.
	www.swc-cfc.gc.ca /dates/whm/2002/answers_e.html (552 words)

	Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A controversial decision which extended the Russian of pairs skating at the Olympics.
		Salé/Pelletier the crowd favorites and skated a flawless while Berezhnaya/Sikharulidze stumbled during their double axel.
		On February 15 the ISA and IOC in a press conference announced that it would award second gold medal to Salé and Pelletier that Marie-Reine Le Gougne the French judge in collusion was guilty of "misconduct" and suspended effective immediately.
	www.freeglossary.com /Figure_skating_at_the_2002_Winter_Olympics (372 words)

	Avon Grove Sun - News - 10/28/2004 - AGHS senior on target for Olympic dream (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When the next Summer Olympic Games are held in Beijing, China in 2008, Jack Aldridge expects to be there representing the United States of America.
		This past September, he was one of 13 shooters out of a total of 5,000 applicants invited to participate in the Olympic Development Program at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., under the tutelage of Olympic coach Lloyd Woodhouse.
		For instance, every morning while he was there training he ate breakfast with Apollo Ohno, who won the Gold Medal in Men's 1500-meter short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=2243&dept_id=451162&newsid=13237244&PAG=461&rfi=9 (861 words)

	[PHOTO/CAPTION: Curtis Chong] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When Ivan FitzRandolph heard that his grandson Casey would be speed-skating in the 2002 Winter Olympics, the news was bittersweet.
		It came in the form of a pair of goggles called the Jordy--a sophisticated piece of technology that views the world through a camcorder lens, then enhances and displays the images on two tiny screens in front of the wearer's eyes.
		When his grandson skated past the finish line at the Olympics that year, FitzRandolph didn't miss a moment.
	www.nfb.org /bm/bm03/bm0310/BM031005.htm (820 words)

	skating olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Were slowly page form given been however longer onlien become olympics 2002 figure skating, use to who city use not were warm best makes.
		However, no skating was conducted at the Olympics until the 1908 Summer Olympics in London...
		The three figure skating events held at the 1924 Winter Olympics were not the first figure skating events contested at...
	www.111-olympics.com /15/skating-olympics.html (719 words)

	CNNSI.com - 2002 Winter Olympics - Speed Skating
		Apolo Anton Ohno couldn't add to his medal tally on the last night of speed skating.
		After being disqualified in the semifinals of the 500-meter short track Saturday, the U.S. relay team finished fourth.
		Speed skater given 'severe warning' over drug test
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/2002/speed_skating (241 words)

	Speed Skating Suit -- 2002 Winter Olympic News from KSL
		Probably the main thing that helped Utah get the chance to host the Olympics is all the snow we get each year...and the kind of snow it is...powdery for the most part.
		But when these Olympic Games are over...Utah might be better known as the place with "The Fastest Ice on Earth." Already several world records have been set at the Olympic Ice Oval in Kearns.
		Like all of the speed events...medals are won and lost in fractions of a second in speedskating.
	2002.ksl.com /news-3752i.php?p=1 (570 words)

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