Extractions: Ancient meets modern as the Olympic Games gear up every four years to showcase the world's best athletes in both Winter and Summer events. The links, below, will take you to Olympic mega sites that cover the whole spectacular from beginning to end... enhanced by cutting-edge Internet coverage, photos, video clips, athlete bio's, team profiles, plus interactive exhibits on Olympic Games history, and a bit of Olympic trivia, facts, figures and feature stories In the U.S., watch for complete television coverage on NBC and in the UK on BBC Winter 2006 Olympic Sports Guide
The Voice Of Russia ( Olympic Games 2002 ) history OF WINTER olympic GAMES The olympic programme was expanded by addingbiathlon. For the first time technical achievements were used at the games. http://www.vor.ru/Olymp/history_eng.html
Extractions: HISTORY OF WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES MODERN REVIVAL OF OLYMPIC GAMES Baron de Coubertin, a Frenchman, inspired the Olympic revival. Owing to his great effort the International Olympic Committee was set up on June 23, 1894. To the present day the Committee is the highest governing body of the Olympic Movement. The first international competitions similar to ancient Greek Olympiads were held in the city of Athenes in 1896. They were held in 9 separate sportstrack and field, gymnastics, swimming, weight lifting, wrestling, shooting, fencing, cycling race and tennis. From that time on Olympic Games became a major international event in sports. They were held in many cities of the world, including Moscow /1980/.The Olympic cycle of four years was interrupted only three times: in 1916 because of the First World War and in 1940 and 1944 because of the Second World War.
The Official Tracy Mattes Website The oldest olympic gold medallist in the Modern Pentathlon to date is Pavel For the first time in history, the Pentathlon venues were 96% sold out. http://www.tracymattes.com/historyofpentathlon.htm
Extractions: Modern Pentathlon Organization Competitions Events The Pentathlon consisting of running the length of the stadium, jumping, throwing the spear, throwing the discus and wrestling was introduced for the first time at the 18th Olympiad in 708 BC, probably by the Spartans as a method of training soldiers. The Pentathlon held a position of unique importance in the Games and was considered to be the climax, with the winner ranked as "Victor Ludorum". Admiration for the ancient Pentathlon was fully shared by the founder of the Modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, and he expressed his support for the concept of Pentathlon most eloquently and forcefully in his Memoires Olympiques published in 1931. From 1909, he tried to have the event re-introduced into the Olympic program and after two failed attempts, Pentathlon's moment came at the 14th session of the International Olympic Committee in Budapest (HUN) 1911, when as the Baron stated: The Modern Pentathlon, introduced at the 5th Olympiad in Stockholm (SWE) 1912, comprised of the contemporary sports of pistol shooting, fencing, swimming, horse riding and running, embraced the spirit of its ancient counterpart. It was De Coubertin's belief that it would be the event, above all others, that "tested a man's moral qualities as much as his physical resources and skills, producing thereby the ideal, complete athlete.
Biathlon The history. The biathlon began in 1767 as a Scandinavian military exercise. In 1992 the women s event in the biathlon was added to the Olympics. http://library.thinkquest.org/J002862/bia.htm
Extractions: The History The biathlon began in 1767 as a Scandinavian military exercise. The first time biathlon showed up was in the rules of 1955. In 1957 it officially became a sport. The first organized competition took place in Norway, 1776. They were team events, but no individual competitions. The Sport This sport combines cross country skiing with target shooting. It also involves two activities, hunting and winter warfare. Biathlon was originally only for men, but now it is also for women. The 20 k.m. individual race is the oldest biathlon competition. The course had five sections. The competitor must stop at four areas to shoot at an electronic target . Each shooter must go through a series of shots in different positions: prone , standing- prone , standing with no rifle support. The target is 50 m away. Big bore rifle s are used to do the shooting. Every time the target is missed, one minute is added to the competitor's time. Whoever finishes with the least time wins. There is also a sprint competition that covers 10km. This competition is exciting because the competitors race, shoot from a
Extractions: National Guard Bureau Public Affairs WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2002 A soft-spoken National Guard soldier steered her two-seat bobsled to a gold medal Feb. 19 in the first women's bobsled competition featured in the Olympic Games. Spc. Jill Bakken, 25, of the Utah Army National Guard and the Army World Class Athlete Program and civilian brakeman- pusher Vonetta Flowers of Alabama drove into the pages of Olympic history Bakken's One of 12 Military Athletes at Olympics American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2002 Gold medal-winning bobsledder Spc. Jill Bakken is just one of a troupe of soldiers competing in the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Spc. Shauna Rohbock is an alternate in women's bobsledding. Spcs. Doug Sharp and Mike Kohn and Sgt. Dan Steele are three-quarters of a U.S. four-man bobsled team. Steele is a veteran of 1998 Nagano Winter Games in Japan and is competing in his second Olympics. All three men are in the National Guard. 2nd Lt. Garrett Hines was a brakeman for the two-man bobsled event. His sled missed a bronze medal by .03 of a second. Hines, a member of the Individual Ready Reserve, is also competing in his second Olympics.
The Washington Diplomat As the top international contenders for olympic gold converge on Salt Lake A similarly interesting rivalry can be found in the biathlon relayan event http://www.washdiplomat.com/02-02/a2_02_02.html
Extractions: But more recently she has recouped, edging past Kwan in six of their last eight major meetings. In jumping ability, Slutskaya clearly reigns supreme. She became the first woman to land a triple-Lutz, triple-loop combination at the 2000 Grand Prix Final, for which she received a rare 6.0 for technical merit. But Slutskaya lacks the grace that Kwan is renowned for, and her technical prowess has been inconsistent. Despite the scores of accolades, Hackl has also experienced his share of setbacks. A crash at the 1999 World Championships kept him off the podium for the first time since 1986, and problems with his sled plagued his performance at the Worlds the following year as well, where he only managed to muster a third-place finish. The German women are also in pursuit of Olympic gold. Top luge sliders such as Sylke Otto, defending Olympic champ Silke Kraushaar and Barbara Niedernhuber have been besting each other by the narrowest of margins in recent competitions: Kraushaar beat Niedernhuber by a mere two-thousands of a second at the Nagano Games, and Otto in turn overtook Kraushaar at the 2001 European championships by .759 seconds, setting the stage for what it is sure to be a tight, photo-finish at Salt Lake City.
Women's History Month 2002 Quiz Answers | Status Of Women Canada WOMEN S history MONTH 2002. WHM 2002 Quiz Answers. 1K, In 1924, at the firstofficial olympic Winter Games at Chamonix, France, 15-year-old figure skater http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/dates/whm/2002/answers_e.html
Extractions: Contact Us Help Search Canada Site ... WHM You are here: Home Commemorative Dates Women's History Month 1-K In 1924, at the first official Olympic Winter Games at Chamonix, France, 15-year-old figure skater Cecil Eustace Smith became the first Canadian woman to represent Canada at the Olympic Games, skating in both ladies' and pairs' competitions.
Utah 2002 Olympic Winter Games There are learning programs in the olympic winter sports, public skating Summer experiences include biathlon, a twosport activity that mixes either http://www.utahtravelcenter.com/olympics/
Extractions: Utah's Olympic Facilities Keep The Dream Alive Photo Courtesy of the Utah Athletic Foundation The Utah Athletic Foundation is the caretaker of the Utah Olympic Park, Soldier Hollow and Utah Olympic Oval, the legacy facilities from the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. The afterglow of the Games can be found in the array of programming for novice, recreational and high-performance athletes. "These facilities are living and breathing legacies of the Olympic Games," said Mark Lewis, UAF president and CEO. "Our mission is to maintain the commitment that Utah citizens made to sport by building these facilities. We aim to operate them in perpetuity and make them a viable part of the community with activities for athletes of all ages and abilities."
BOC - Welcome To The Official Site The Official Bulgarian olympic Committee. Discover the organisation, the heroes,the past Games, the news of the Bulgarian history. PARTNERS CONTACTS http://www.bgolympic.org/main.php?cat=about&p=history&lang=en
Awesome Library - Health_PE Provides descriptions of Snowboarding, biathlon, Luge, and Curling. 804.history - 70 Years of Olympics history for the USA (Washington Post) http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/Health_PE/Sports/Olympics.html
Opera Directory olympic history from Buffalo and Western New York. Highlights of olympic historywith stories about olympic medal winners and their accomplishments. http://portal.opera.com/directory/?cat=414
Extractions: Any Resource Type Articles / papers / reports - collections Articles / papers / reports - individual Audio-visual / multimedia resources Books Database Event / conference announcements Journal - Contents and abstracts Journal - Full text Learning material Mailing list / discussion group News / media Organisation Web Site - Companies Organisation Web Site - FE/HE depts. Organisation Web Site - Governmental Organisation Web site - Recruitment/employment Organisation Web Site - Non-profit Organisation Web Site - Professional bodies Reference materials Research Projects / Centres Resource guide / directories Software Statistics Worksheets/Activity sheets Related topics: other: sport No. of records: 85 p: 1 Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles (AAFLA) This is the Web site of an organisation that aims to serve youth through sport and to increase the knowledge of sport and its impact on peoples' lives. The site provides information on the foundation, grant guidelines, access to AAF publications, research reports, newsletters (described separately in Altis), coaching manuals, press releases, and a section on sports art and artefacts. The site also has detailed sections covering International Games, Olympic Games, coaching education and youth sports programmes. The full text of Olympic Games official reports are available from 1896. These and other documents, including books and journals, are available in PDF format and can be accessed using Adobe Acrobat software. Also available, is the AAFLA Digital Archive, described separately in Altis.
Kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Nagano 1998 We hope that the observance of the olympic Truce during the Nagano olympic Nagano was portrayed as an ancient city rich in oriental history and native http://www.kiat.net/olympics/history/winter/w18nagano.html
Extractions: XVIIIth WINTER GAMES February 7 - 22, 1998 Mascot - Snowlets 72 countries, 2302 athletes (814 women) 7 sports, 68 events Opening - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko Torch lit by - Midori Ito (figure skating) Candidates: Jaca (ESP), Ostersund (SWE), Salt Lake City, Val d'Aosta (ITA) 15 June 1991 - 97th IOC Session in Birmingham, UK - Nagano was elected to be the host of the XXVIIIth Olympic Winter Games in 1998. Round Nagano Jaca Ostersund Aosta Salt Lake City The East met West in February 1998 as Nagano, Japan played host to 72 nations - 10 of which competed for the first time in an Olympic Winter Games - and regions participating in the final Olympic Games of the 20th century. The country's raw enthusiasm for the games persisted despite a pummeling of snow, rain and more snow and finally even an earthquake which delayed several of the games alpine events. Perhaps the defining event of these games, the strange meteorology of the past two weeks bedeviled organizers and beleaguered athletes, forcing cancellations, reschedulings and general befuddlement all around. And the people came - 1,358,207 of them at competitions and victory ceremonies by Sunday afternoon. Local Olympic organizers expected the total at competitions alone to reach 1,270,000 when everything from Sunday is counted.
Extractions: National Guard Bureau Public Affairs WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2002 A soft-spoken National Guard soldier steered her two-seat bobsled to a gold medal Feb. 19 in the first women's bobsled competition featured in the Olympic Games. Spc. Jill Bakken, 25, of the Utah Army National Guard and the Army World Class Athlete Program and civilian brakeman- pusher Vonetta Flowers of Alabama drove into the pages of Olympic history Bakken's One of 12 Military Athletes at Olympics American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2002 Gold medal-winning bobsledder Spc. Jill Bakken is just one of a troupe of soldiers competing in the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Spc. Shauna Rohbock is an alternate in women's bobsledding. Spcs. Doug Sharp and Mike Kohn and Sgt. Dan Steele are three-quarters of a U.S. four-man bobsled team. Steele is a veteran of 1998 Nagano Winter Games in Japan and is competing in his second Olympics. All three men are in the National Guard. 2nd Lt. Garrett Hines was a brakeman for the two-man bobsled event. His sled missed a bronze medal by .03 of a second. Hines, a member of the Individual Ready Reserve, is also competing in his second Olympics.
Spirit Of 80 will Live Forever Lake Placid has been celebrating its olympic history, using the 25th anniversaryof olympic Regional Development Authority spokesman Sandy Caligiore http://www.pressrepublican.com/Archive/2005/02_2005/022420051.htm
Extractions: N ews By NED P. RAUCH, Staff Writer LAKE PLACID Twenty-five years ago Mike Eruzione stood on a podium in the Olympic Arena and accepted the gold medal for the U.S. hockey team. Wednesday night, in the same arena before some of the same faces and with all but two of his teammates from 1980 in the building with him, Eruzione stood on a low riser, just a few inches above the ice on which he skated to fame. "On behalf of my teammates," the squads captain said, "I think I have to say to the people of Lake Placid, thank you, thank you, thank you. You dont know how important you were." For the last two weeks, Lake Placid has been celebrating its Olympic history, using the 25th anniversary of the 1980 Winter Games to relive what many in the sporting world - and just about everyone in Lake Placid - have called the greatest Winter Olympics of all time. Wednesday night the celebration culminated with a tribute to the athletes and organizers of the 1980 Games.
ESPN.com - Germany's Jumping Edge Smallest In Olympic History Monday, February 18, 2002 Germany s jumping edge smallest in olympic history Germany had an olympic team gold to go with the one it won in 1994. http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/winter02/skijump/news?id=1335886
DerKeiler Directory - /Sports/Events/Olympics Hickock Sports Index to the olympics, Offers a detailed history of the games history House Stories olympic Follies, Amateur glory of olympics in the http://directory.derkeiler.com/Top/Sports/Events/Olympics
Extractions: Home UNIX Linux Coding ... Olympics Olympics Sub-categories See also: Links 2002 Winter Olympics Provides a listing of medals received by country, historical facts, articles about various sports, and athlete biographies. A Journey Through: The Olympics An interactive site about Olympics, the IOC, how the competitions are held, the ancient games and World Olympic Records, Paralympics. Includes also message boards to voice out opinions on olympic issues, interactive puzzles and quizzes. Andrew Jennings: The Great Olympic Swindle Investigative journalism work on Olympic corruption. Evidence of cheating, doping and bribes related to the International Olympic Committee by Andrew Jennings. Around the Rings Online News and photos about the business and politics of the Olympic movement worldwide. Edited by Ed Hula, a radio correspondent for Radio 2UE in Australia and KSL Newsradio in Salt Lake City. AskMen.com: The Other Side of the Olympic Games Article exposing the scandalous side of the games. Austrian Olympic History Historical results of Austrian athletes competing at Summer and Winter Olympics. Includes medal count tables of all countries. An unofficial site.
Canadian Olympic Committee The 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France marked the first time in the historyof the olympic Games that the biathlon was open to women. http://www.olympic.ca/EN/organization/news/2004/files/hof_bios.shtml
Extractions: Myriam Bédard of Ancienne-Lorette, Quebec was a 16-year-old Army cadet the first time she was asked to compete as part of a relay team in a local biathlon meet. Although she had never trained for the sport, she agreed, borrowing skis and wadding up tissue to stuff into the toes of too-large boots. It was at this meet that Bédard discovered her passion for biathlon and she took to the sport immediately. Within a year she won the Canadian Junior Biathlon Championship, and was the first Canadian athlete to win a World Cup biathlon event in 1991. She finished that season with a total of six medals, including two gold, and an overall second place finish in the World Cup standings. The 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France marked the first time in the history of the Olympic Games that the biathlon was open to women. Bédard headed up a strong Canadian women's team, winning a bronze medal in the 15 km race, and becoming the first North American athlete ever to win an Olympic medal in a biathlon event. She followed up this medal performance with her first World Championship victory in 1993.
The Life And Times Of CAAWS history OF CAAWS. The Life and Times of CAAWS. by Sheila Robertson Today theresbiathlon double olympic champion Myriam Bédard; rowers Silken Laumann, http://www.caaws.ca/e/about/caaws.cfm
Extractions: We must not forget: Speed skaters Lela Brooks with six world records in the 1920s; Jean Wilson, an Olympic star dead in 1933 at the age of 23; world champion Sylvia Burka, who dominated the sport in the 1970s; and recently-retired multiple world champion and double Olympic silver medallist Nathalie Lambert. Tracks star Bobbie Rosenfeld, Canadian woman athlete of the half century and winner of Olympic gold and silver in 1928 ; her teammates Ethel Smith, Olympic gold and bronze, and Ethel Catherwood, "The Saskatoon Lily", world record holder and Olympic champion high jumper; Canada’s favourite high jumper Debbie Brill; and 1992 Olympic medallist and triple Commonwealth middle distance champion Angela Chalmers. The incredible Edmonton Grads basketball team, credited with 502 wins and a mere 20 losses as they dominated the game from 1915 to 1940.
Canadian Women At The 2002 Olympics In Salt Lake City, Utah CAAWS Following Canadian Women Athletes to the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Myriam Bedard became the first North American to win a medal in biathlon when she http://www.caaws.ca/olympics/2002/history/past_olympics.htm
