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	ipedia.com: Winter Olympic Games Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The 1940 Winter Olympics had originally been awarded to Japan, and were supposed to be held in Sapporo, but the IOC voted to take back the Games from Japan because of their involvement in the war in China.
		In 1952, the Winter Games came to Norway, considered to be the birthplace of modern skiing.
		Winter pentathlon, a variant to the modern pentathlon, was included as a demonstration event in 1948.
	www.ipedia.com /winter_olympic_games.html (5171 words)

	Winter Olympic Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1940 Winter Olympics had originally been awarded to Japan, and were supposed to be held in Sapporo, but Japan had to give the Games back in 1938, because of the Japanese invasion of China in the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945).
		In 1952, the Winter Games came to Norway, considered to be the birthplace of modern skiing.
		Winter pentathlon, a variant to the modern pentathlon, was included as a demonstration event in 1948.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winter_Olympic_Games (5575 words)

	Winter Olympic Games
		The Winter Olympic Games, or Winter Olympics are the cold-weather counterpart to the Summer Olympic Games.
		The 1940 Winter Olympics had originally been awarded to Japan, and were supposed to be held in Sapporo, but the IOC voted to take back the Games from Japan because of their involvement in the war in China.
		After not being able to host the Games in 1944 due to the war, Cortina d'Ampezzo was able to organize the 1956 Winter Olympics.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/winter_olympic_games.html (5149 words)

	Encyclopedia: Winter Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Sankt Moritz was appointed by the Swiss organisers to host the second Olympic Winter Games, held from February 11 to February 19 in 1928.
		This decision caused the Swiss and Austrian skiers to boycott the Olympics.
		The Olympic Flame at the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics The Olympic Flame or Olympic Fire is a symbol of the Olympic Games.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Winter-Olympic-Games (10570 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The Paralympic Games are elite sport events for athletes from different disability groups.
		The number of athletes participating in the Summer Paralympic Games has increased from 400 athletes in Rome in 1960 to 3,806 athletes from 136 countries in Athens in 2004.
		The Organising Committees of the Olympic Games (OCOGs) organise the Olympic Games in collaboration with their National Olympic Committee and the host city.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/index_uk.asp (175 words)

	Winter Olympics by Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Sapporo was chosen to host the XI Olympic Winter Games at the IOC Session held in Rome in April 1966, one and a half years after the Tokyo Games.
		Originally the host for the XII Olympic Winter Games was to be Denver, Colorado, a city of approximately 1,000,000 located in the Rocky Mountains.
		Albertville was chosen from among the candidates at the IOC Session in Lausanne in October 1986.
	hvv.freeservers.com /olymwint.htm (1813 words)

	Olympic Winter Games
		The 1928 Winter Games, hosted by St. Moritz, Switzerland, were the first to be held in a different nation than the Summer Games of the same year.
		The 1976 Winter Olympics were awarded to the U.S. city of Denver, but the people of the state of Colorado voted to prohibit public funds from being used to support the Games.
		The spirit of the Games was exemplified by Alpine skier Hermann Maier.
	www.noc.by /eng/games/htdocs/8 (3044 words)

	1948 Winter Olympics - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The V Olympic Winter Games were held in St.
		These Games were the first in twelve years, as none were held during World War II.
		The 1906 Olympic were organised by the IOC, but are currently not officially recognised by the IOC.
	open-encyclopedia.com /1948_Winter_Olympics (137 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.
		The Olympic Games were part of the Panhellenic Games, four separate games held at two- or four-year intervals but arranged so that there was one set of games every year.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/o/ol/olympic_games.shtml (1103 words)

	The Voice of Russia ( Olympic games 2002 )
		The 16th winter games in Alberville, France in 1992 was attended by 1804 athletes from 65 countries vying for 57 complex of medals.
		The games in Alberville were swelled by 15 new events and debuting were the women 3 by 7,5 kilometre biathlon relay, the 7,5 and 15 kilometre races, the women 30 kilometre ski pursuit race instead of the 20 kilometre distance.
		The games in Lillehammer were the first in which sportsmen and women from the former Soviet Union competed under their own flag and of course Russia had the largest contingent and as a result won more gold medals.
	www.vor.ru /Olymp/history_eng.html (6445 words)

	Olympic Winter Games Emblems - Athens Info Guide
		The official emblem consists of an Olympic flame in the colors of the Savoie region, and is an element of the visual identity of the Albertville Games, which had to meet three main objectives: highlight the mountain site, modernity and sports.
		The 2006 Olympic Winter Games emblem portrays the unmistakable silhouette of the Mole Antonelliana.
		The emblem of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games is a contemporary interpretation of the inukshuk.
	www.athensinfoguide.com /olympicemblemswinter.htm (1116 words)

	Olympic games information and news on past & future olympics and paralympics.
		Originally these winter games were held every four years in the same year as the summer games.
		Cities throughout the world bid to host the Olympic Games and there is always keen competition, firstly between cities within each country who would like to be considered as potential hosts, and then internationally between the successful cities.
		The Olympic Games Bid Procedure is quite a long, demanding and often nerve racking process.
	www.olympicgames-news.com (327 words)

	2002 Olympic Winter Games
		The Atlanta Summer Games was chosen because it was the last Olympic Games held in the United States.
		Following the Olympic Games, net in-migration once again started to occur in both areas, but at only one-third to half of the level experienced during the oil boom years.
		The Olympics appear to have helped sustain and diversify economic activity during this energy bust, but the impacts were not enough to significantly alter macroeconomic indicators.
	www.governor.state.ut.us /dea/publications/oly/IV.htm (3375 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The 1940 Winter Olympics were scheduled for Sapporo, Japan.
		Lighting the Olympic Flame by: For the Winter Games, the flame was lit for the first time in 1952 in Oslo.
		The skeleton (a style of luge which appeared in St-Moritz at the end of the 19th century) was included for the second time at the Olympic Games.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1948 (330 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Lillehammer 1994
		The Games were held only two years after the Albertville ones because the had IOC decided that the winter and summer Games should be two years apart.
		During the weeks leading up to the Games, excessive public interest was generated by the vicious attack on American figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, and the subsequent news that teammate Tonya Harding was involved.
		In the year that the Games came to Norway, the Norwegians returned to the top of the medals table with 26.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w17lillehammer.html (490 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.
		The earliest recorded Olympic Games were held in ancient Greece at Olympia in 776 BC - a four-year tradition that continued for a thousand years.
		The first Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix, France were held in conjunction with the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris.
	www.utah.com /olympics/history.htm (941 words)

	The Winter Olympics — FactMonster.com
		Organizers of the 1916 Summer Games in Berlin planned to introduce a “Skiing Olympia,” featuring nordic events in the Black Forest, but the Games were cancelled after the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
		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 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.factmonster.com /ipka/A0115111.html (608 words)

	1948 Winter Olympics
		The 1948 Winter Olympic Games were held in St.
		These Games were the first in twelve years, as none were held during World War II.
		He was the man who introduced fires into warm He also thanks the readers in the name of the Editor for their.
	www.findword.org /19/1948-winter-olympics.html (63 words)

	Olympic games on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The recently concluded Olympic Games featured more than athletic accomplishments, drug scandals, and the usual nationalistic rah-rah featured so predominantly in the mainstream media.(Brief Article)
		OLYMPIC GAMES: `This would be a benefit for the country as a whole'.(Sport)
		The funeral of Israeli members of the Olympic team, assassinated by terrorists at the Munich 1972 Olympic games, being buried in Jerusalem.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/O/Olympicg.asp (675 words)

	A Torch for the XVII Olympic Winter Games - Lillehammer, Norway, 1994
		A Torch for the XVII Olympic Winter Games - Lillehammer, Norway, 1994
		A Torch for the XVII Olympic Winter Games – Lillehammer, Norway, 1994
		So when HRH Crown Prince Haakon was lighting the Olympic Flame at the opening ceremony in Lillehammer, he used the torch brought from Olympia.
	www.sondrenorheim.com /olympics/1994.htm (944 words)

	The Olympic Museum commemorates the VII Olympic Winter Games (photo attached) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Olympic Museum's philately zone is commemorating an Olympic anniversary (1956-2006), with a special exhibition on the Cortina d'Ampezzo Olympic Winter Games.
		This was the first time the postal administrations participated in a wide-scale commemoration of the Games, issuing a broad range of stamps.
		After the War, it was Switzerland and St Moritz which, in 1948, welcomed the V Olympic Winter Games.
	en.beijing2008.com /43/51/article212005143.shtml (204 words)

	The London Olympic Games
		Earthtimes - LONDON, June 4 The initial logo for the 2012 Olympic Games in London was revealed recently, featuring both the city’s name and the games’ trademark rings within the pattern.
		Reports of the 1908 Olympics have been rare and do not for instance contain full results for archery, track and field athletics, football (soccer), gymnastics, motorboating and shooting.
		Chicago Maroon - to develop plans for neighborhood development and direct University involvement with the Olympic Games transportation for athletes, were important factors in New York City’s failed bid for the 2012 Olympics, which was instead awarded to London.
	londonolympicgames.wordpress.com (2337 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The city of Vancouver was elected Host City of the XXI Olympic Winter Games in 2010 at the 115th IOC Session in Prague on 2 July 2003.
		Eight cities applied to host the Games: Andorra la Vella in Andorra, Bern in Switzerland, Harbin in China, Jaca in Spain, PyeongChang in Korea, Salzburg in Austria, Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Vancouver in Canada.
		The city of Vancouver has been elected the Host City of the XXI Olympic Winter Games in 2010 in the second round of votes.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/vancouver/index_uk.asp (208 words)

	ESPN.com - 2006 Winter Olympics
		The Winter Olympics came to an end Sunday in Torino.
		Michelle Kwan is out of the Olympics, bringing her quest for gold to a likely end.
		Top U.S. skeleton slider Zach Lund was suspended for one year and will not race in the Winter Olympics, the Court of Arbitration for Sport decided Friday.
	sports.espn.go.com /oly/winter06/index (202 words)

	Report of the American Olympic Committee: Games of the XIth Olympiad; IVth Olympic Winter Games. - RUBIEN FREDERICK W. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Report of the American Olympic Committee: Games of the XIth Olympiad; IVth Olympic Winter Games.
		RUBIEN FREDERICK W. Report of the American Olympic Committee: Games of the XIth Olympiad; IVth Olympic Winter Games.
		New York: American Olympic Committee.275x200 491pp hard cover gilt lettering on cover and spine slightly worn cover and spine including illustrations else in fair condition.
	www.antiqbook.com /boox/bkgall/V_1072_27.shtml (100 words)

	Abandonia - Abandonware DOS Games - Download Winter Games
		After you’ve done that, you can enjoy the winter sports in the warmth of your home and even invite some friends over and compete in six different Winter Olympic events (although there are seven).
		Each player gets to choose the country to represent (15 countries or Epyx) and then you can select to compete in all events, compete in some events, compete in one event, or practice an event (strangely enough each option allows you to do just what it says).
		All in all I think this is a perfect game to start off the winter season (especially because this season we will have Olympic Games).
	www.abandonia.com /games/725/download/WinterGames.htm (483 words)

	United States Olympic Committee - Visa
		Visitors to the Olympic games benefit from the company's VISA NET service, which links thousands of ATM machines in 200 countries.
		Visa International's Olympic partnership as a TOP V Worldwide Partner extends into the XIX Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, 2002 and the XXVII Olympic Summer Games in Athens, 2004.
		As a TOP V Olympic Sponsor, Visa will be the exclusive payment card and the official payment system of the 2002 and 2004 Olympic Games.
	www.usolympicteam.com /12956_12982.htm (150 words)

	MSN Encarta - Archive Article - 1994: Olympics
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		"The best Olympic Games ever." So said Juan Antonio Samaranch, the president of the International Olympic Committee, at the closing ceremonies of the XVII Olympic Winter Games, which were held in February 1994 in and around Lillehammer, Norway.
		Norway's King Harald V was among the thousands in...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /sidebar_461575403/1994_Olympics.html (161 words)

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