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	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Sport (A-M)
		Cyclo-Cross is a form of bicycle racing practised in winter on cross-country courses of about 20 km length over a duration of about 60 minutes depending upon the severity of the course.
		It entered the Olympics in 1912 and is a two day event testing sprinting, hurdling, middle-distance running and a range of field events.
		They were first held in 523 BC and resemble the Olympic games except that the victor received a crown of wild parsley.
	www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/O1.HTM (10998 words)

	Winter Olympics - MSN Encarta
		The Olympics organization is headed by a president, elected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) members for an initial period of eight years.
		Alpine skiing, for men and women, has been part of the Olympic programme since 1948: the events are the downhill, the slalom, the giant slalom (since 1952), the super giant slalom or super-G (since 1988), and the combined event (downhill and slalom), which has been staged intermittently since 1936.
		Bobsleighing or tobogganing was instituted in 1924 (the four-man version); the two-man version was introduced in 1932.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572547/Winter_Olympics.html (1241 words)

	Olympic Games
		The purposes of the Olympic Games are to foster the ideal of a "sound mind in a sound body" and to promote friendship among nations.
		Winter Games were scheduled for 1994, after only a two-year interval, and every four years thereafter.
		One of the most dramatic feats of the Olympics was the triumph of the United States track and field team in 1896.
	greek438.tripod.com /olympic.htm (1424 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.
		Alpine skiing, for men and women, has been part of the Olympic programme since 1948: the events are the downhill, the slalom, the giant slalom (since 1952), the super giant slalom or Super-G (since 1988), and the combined event (downhill and slalom), which has been staged intermittently since 1936.
		Bobsleighing or tobogganing was instituted in 1924 (the four-man version); the two-man version was introduced in 1932.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572547/Winter_Olympics.html (1266 words)

	1972 Winter Olympics [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The XI Olympic Winter Games were held in 1972 in Sapporo Sapporo (札幌市; -shi) is the fifth-largest city in Japan and it is the capital of Hokkaido Prefecture.
		At six Winter Olympics USSR was on the first place by total number of gold medals won, at two Winter Olympics it was second by this count.
		USSR officially joined the Olympic Movement in 1951, when The Olympic Committee of the USSR was formed (April 21, 1951) and was recognized by the IOC on its 45th session (May 7, 1951).
	www.wikimirror.com /1972_Winter_Olympics (4570 words)

	1948 Winter Olympics [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		He was a five-time world champion from 1948 to 1952 and won the Gold Medal at the 1948 and 1952 Winter Olympics.
		Figure skating At the 1948 Winter Olympics, Barbara Ann Scott became the first Canadian to win the figure skating gold medal while Dick Button became the first American to win a figure skating title for the United States.
		1948 Winter Olympics medal count This is the full table of the medal count of the 1948 Winter Olympics.
	www.wikimirror.com /1948_Winter_Olympics (1692 words)

	Bobsledding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Sledding, or tobogganing, was first recorded in the 16th century.
		Tobogganing developed independently in eastern Canada among native tribes who used their transportation sleighs for occasional fun.
		Tobogganing was one of Canada's prime winter sports in the 19th century.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=A0000848 (1289 words)

	1928 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The II Olympic Winter Games were held in 1928 in Sankt-Moritz, Switzerland.
		The 1928 Games were the first true Winter Olympics, held on its own, and not in conjunction with a Summer Olympics.
		All preceding Winter Events of the Olympic Games were the winter sports part of the schedule of the Summer Games, and not as a separate Winter Games.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1928_Winter_Olympics (151 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Sport (A-M)
		Cycle Ball is an amateur cycling ball-game derived from Association Football in which the ball is trapped, driven forward, and shot at goal by the rider manipulating the front wheel of his bicycle.
		Cyclo-Cross is a form of bicycle racing practised in winter on cross-country courses of about 20 km length over a duration of about 60 minutes depending upon the severity of the course.
		It entered the Olympics in 1912 and is a two day event testing sprinting, hurdling, middle-distance running and a range of field events.
	www.galgani.it /free_encyclopedia/O1.HTM (11005 words)

	St. Moritz has the winter-sports market down cold \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		No other winter playground boasts of so many innovations, from the introduction of bobsled racing in 1890 to Switzerland's first ski school in 1929.
		Legend holds that as the winter of 1864 approached, Badrutt, who had purchased a small pension that evolved into the Kulm Hotel, tried to convince four summer guests from Great Britain to extend their visit.
		The Brits were impressed enough that they not only lasted the season but returned the next winter with scores of friends – many seeking outdoor adventures to pass the time.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041114/news_1t14moritz.html (869 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/1948 Winter Olympics
		The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games, were celebrated in 1948 in St.
		Winter pentathlon was held as a demonstration sport.
		Argentina returned to the Winter Games after missing the 1932 and 1936 Games, and Australia and Luxembourg did not compete in 1948, after having participated in 1936.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/1948_Winter_Olympics (273 words)

	Jews in Sports from P to Y
		He was an Olympic finalist in 1964 and winner of the Diamond Sculls in Britain's Henley Royal Regatta in 1965.
		Irena Kirszenstein-Szewinska of Poland added to her Olympic medal collection in 1972 with a bronze medal in the 200-meter run and a gold medal in the 400-meter run in 1976.
		Olympic medalists in yachting were Robert ("Buck") Halperin (1908-), United States, in 1960; and Valentin Mankin, U.S.S.R. in 1968 (gold).
	www.jewishsports.com /jewsin/history/p2yhistory.htm (2707 words)

	Brief History of the Olympic Games
		Although the Olympic games were never suspended, the games of 364 BC were not considered Olympic since the Arkadians had captured the sanctuary and reorganized the games.
		The climax of the ceremony was the Olympic Torch entering the stadium, relayed by veteran Australian Olympic athletes of the 20th century and handed over to the Australian athlete Cathy Freeman, who was ringed by fire after lighting the Olympic flame.
		The Olympic flame went on a 16,740 - mile route of Australia involving 11,000 torch bearers and passing near 80% of the population.
	www.nostos.com /olympics (3240 words)

	1948 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moritz, Switzerland and opened on January 30, 1948.
		Dick Button became the first American to win a figure skating title for the United States, and also became the first figure skater to perform a double axel during an Olympic figure skating event.
		Winter pentathlon was held as a demonstration sport.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1948_Winter_Olympics (149 words)

	HISTORY/FACTS
		Paralympic Winter Games), athletes must have an impairment of permanent nature in the lower part of the body of such a degree that it is obvious and easily recognizable and makes ordinary skating – and consequently ice hockey playing impossible.
		Winter sports for disabled athletes have seen a gradual increase since World War II, as injured civilians and ex-servicemen attempted to return to skiing.
		In 1988, the Paralympic Winter Games were held once again in Innsbruck and not at the Olympic facilities in Calgary, in Canada, for financial reasons.
	www.hockeycanada.ca /1/8/8/0/0/index1.shtml (1126 words)

	Tobogan - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Tobogan
		An example of such a course is the Cresta run in Switzerland.
		Olympic toboggans are either luge type seating one or two, without brakes or steering; or bobsleighs seating two or four, with streamlined ‘cowls’ at the front, steering, and brakes.
		A skibob is like a bicycle with skis replacing the wheels, and the rider wears miniature foot skis up to 50 cm/20 in long.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Tobogan (136 words)

	Park City's Olympic dreams still haven't been put to rest \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Since the 2002 winter games, when some of the showiest athletic feats – ski jumps, luge, doubles luge, skeleton and bobsled races – took place on these slopes, Park City's training facilities have attracted international champions and committed hopefuls.
		Olympic skeleton races in Park City were the first for men since St. Mortiz, Switzerland, in 1948 (it was then called tobogganing) and the first ever for women.
		The Olympic Park museum houses a panorama of soaring pride and ice: touch-screen videos of breathtaking jumps, cross-country endurance, figure-skating marvels, and the skates of ice hockey.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20051211/news_1t11morgan.html (668 words)

	2006 Winter Olympic Skeleton, Events, News, Athletes, Teams, Pictures
		No bones about it, Skeleton is the event which is likey to take your breath away - as athletes speed face down on their sleds, staring death square in the face as the force of gravity shoots them literally headlong at 80 mph around some of the sharpest and iciest corners in sport.
		Little is known about the early origins of skeleton, but the first documented dare devils to execute it was at St. Moritz in 1887, a natural evolution of tobogganing and bobsleighing so popular at the time.
		The aerodynamics of the prone skeleton position resulted in incredible speeds, and soon everyone was competing in the same way, leading to the evolution of a lighter weight and streamlined sled dubbed the "skeleton" today resembling nothing more than an oversized cafeteria tray.
	www.chiff.com /olympics/olympics-skeleton.htm (325 words)

	wiki/1992 Winter Olympics Definition / wiki/1992 Winter Olympics Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The XVI Olympic Winter Games were held in 1992 in Albertville, France The French Republic or France (French: République française or France) is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents....
		These were the last Winter Games to be staged in the same year as the Summer Games.
		They were also the first Games where the Winter Paralympics and the Winter Olympics were held at the same site.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/1992_Winter_Olympics (2633 words)

	Skeleton - Torino 2006 Winter Olympic Games
		Skeleton, sometimes also called tobogganing, is an individual winter sport where competitors drive the sled in a prone, head-first position down an ice track on a sled or 'sleigh', and differs from luge, where the rider drives the sled from a supine, feet-first orientation.
		EVENTS: Skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics will be held in the town of Cesana Torinese, in an area called Pariol, a little outside the town in the direction of San Sicario, Italy on February 16 and 17.
		The sled can only be ridden in the prone position (on the stomach, face first), and although the rider can leave the sled to push or move it, he or she must cross the finish line on the sled in order for the run to be considered valid.
	www.italyworldclub.com /piemonte/turin_2006/sport_skeleton.htm (335 words)

	They cheated, they sniped, they taught us the true meaning of \| Outside Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		By the same token, for nearly every heroic Winter Olympian who captures the hearts and cereal boxes of an adoring public, there's usually a cheater, a spoilsport, a crybaby, or even a flat-out yutz.
		This rule of thumb reached critical mass, of course, in the '94 Lillehammer Games, where the Tonya and Nancy Show established for all time that (a) just a collapsible baton, a shoelace, and a few venomous words picked up by a network microphone can make for delightful melodrama; and (b) even winners can be losers.
		1948, St. Moritz: During the ice hockey finals (Switzerland versus Canada), some 5,000 Swiss fans watching from surrounding cliffs voice their displeasure, with characteristic Swiss passion, by pelting officials with snowballs each time they disagree with a call; Switzerland nonetheless loses, 3-0.
	outside.away.com /outside/magazine/0298/9802olyhorror.html (595 words)

	1948 olympics summer
		The winter Olympics were begun in 1924 and were held in the same year...
		Olympics in 1916, 1940, and 1944, but they resumed in 1948 and are held every 4 years.
		Olympics in 1916, 1940, and 1944, but they resumed in 1948 and are held every four years.
	www.popular-sports.com /olympics/1948-olympics-summer.html (2465 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Everything You Need to Know About Bobsledding
		The first racing sleds were made of wood but were soon replaced by steel sleds that came to be known as bobsleds, so named because of the way crews bobbed back and forth to increase their speed on the straightaways.
		In 1923, the Federation Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (FIBT) was founded and the following year a four-man race took place at the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France.
		A two-man event was added at the 1932 Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y., a format that has remained to the present.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/olympics/longterm/2002/howitplays/text/bobsled.htm (912 words)

	Posh St. Moritz keeps its cool / Rich visitors, traditions in Swiss ski town
		The Brits were impressed enough that they not only lasted the season but returned the next winter with scores of friends -- many seeking outdoor adventures to pass the time.
		The run is built from scratch every winter, and participants lie prone on steel sleds -- called "skeletons" -- along a course that drops more than 500 feet.
		All the other attributes of a winter sports capital -- an ice arena, ski jumps, schools for cross-country and downhill skiing -- are here, too.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/01/23/TRGPTAT1IM1.DTL&type=printable (1121 words)

	1948 Winter Olympics at AllExperts
		The V Olympic Winter Games were held in St.
		Moritz was also the site of the 1928 Winter Olympics.
		• Canada at the 1924 Winter Olympics at AllExperts
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/1948_Winter_Olympics.htm (192 words)

	Olympic Games Medallists - Bobsleigh, Luge and Skeleton
		Bobsleigh has been included in every Winter Olympics apart from 1960.
		In Luge tobogganing competitors descend the slope feet first.
		In Skeleton tobogganing competitors descend the slope head first.
	www.gbrathletics.com /olympic/bob.htm (89 words)

	BikeAbout Trip Log: March 20, 1998
		The next Olympic games will be held in Sydney Australia in the year 2000 and then again in Athens (after 108 years) in 2004.
		With regard to the sports events themselves, the original Olympic Games were held over a five-day period and, at first only had one event called the stadium (a 200-yard/183-meter dash).
		Thus the Winter Games were in 1994, after only two years (to pull it out of sync with the Summer Games), and then held every four years thereafter.
	www.bikeabout.org /journal/notes_98.htm (2997 words)

	Alpenglow Ski History - ISHA Journals, 2000-2009
		He was the country's first great alpine racer, the second American-born skier (after John Carleton) to compete in a Winter Olympics, the first to ski the Tuckerman Headwall and, with his father, a pioneer in slalom and downhill.
		The International Olympic Committee assured them that the winter Games held at Chamonix were not Olympic and the its champions "had no right to medals." The Games were conducted as an extention of the CAF Winter Sports Week.
		The second German Winter Olympics were held in 1926 and the third in 1930.
	www.alpenglow.org /ski-history/notes/period/isha/isha-2000-09.html (2893 words)

	Bermuda Olympic Skeleton Campaign
		The St. Moritz Tobogganing Club was formed in 1885 and sliders raced down an icy road from St. Moritz to the nearby village of Celerina.
		In 1928 the Winter Olympics were held in St Moritz and Cresta was included in the event program.
		Cresta was part of the official program at 1st Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix in 1924.
	www.bermudaice.com /skeleton.asp (1012 words)

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