Extractions: Prepare your class with lessons on athleticism, perseverance, and Olympic history. Online Resources, information, lesson plans, activities and integrated lessons about the athletes and sporting events for the Olympics A great way to find out about the history, places, cultures, and politics. More than 1,300 athletes from more than 80 nations Prepare your class with lessons on athleticism, perseverance, and Olympic history. Online Resources, information, lesson plans, activities and integrated lessons about the athletes and sporting events for the Olympics
Belarus At The Olympics - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia In Belarus s first showing at the Summer Olympics, the delegation (sized 154 by I. Zhelezovsky in speed skating and by S. Paramygina in the biathlon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus_at_the_Olympics
Extractions: Flag of Belarus (Since 1995) Belarus IOC country code :BLR) began their Olympic participation at the 1952 Summer Olympics , which were held in Helsinki Finland . However, at the time, Belarus was part of the Soviet Union (IOC country code:URS). When the Soviet Union disbanded in , Belarus, along with eleven (out of fifteen) other former Soviet republics, competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics (held in Barcelona Spain as the Unified Team . In the 1992 Winter Olympics , located in Albertville France , only four republics joined Belarus to compete as the Unified Team. In the 1994 Winter Olympics , held in Lillehammer Norway , Belarus competed for the first time on their own. edit Flag of the Soviet Union Main article: USSR at the Summer Olympics and USSR at the Winter Olympics Since the Soviet Union began participating in the Olympic Games, they have come home with 194 total medals in the Winter Games, 1010 from the Summer Games (1204 total medals). Out of those medals, 473 were gold, 376 were silver and 355 were bronze. In , the Soviet Union competed for the last time as a unified country. In
HickokSports.com - History - The Winter Olympics This document contains a history of the Winter Olympics. It is a page in thehistory section of HickokSports.com, the largest collection of sports http://www.hickoksports.com/history/winterol.shtml
Extractions: Alpha Index Index by Sport History Bits Forum ... Search Table of Contents History My Blog Biography Glossaries Calendar ... Directory Because of its popularity in England, figure skating was on the program for the 1908 Olympic Games in London. When Antwerp, Belgium, hosted the 1920 Olympics after World War II, there was competition in both ice hockey and figure skating. Those sports could, of course, be conducted in rinks during the Summer Games. But other winter sports that were becoming popular in Northern Europe and the Alpine regions, such as skiing and bobsledding, obviously had to stay outdoors. After 1920, national governing bodies for such sports in several countries began talking about the possibility of a separate Winter Olympics. Top of Page The town of Chamonix, in the French Alps, planned a winter sports festival in 1924, when Paris was to host the Olympics. The Marquis de Polignac, a member of the International Olympic Committee, proposed to the IOC that the festival be formally recognized as the Winter Olympic Games. Another Frenchman, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympics, was opposed to the idea. However, the IOC agreed that Chamonix could call its festival a "Olympic winter carnival."
Extractions: Ole Einar Bjoerndalen dug deep to win the men's 20-kilometre biathlon gold medal at the Winter Olympics. The Norwegian, who took part in a cross-country competition just two days earlier, held off the challenge of Germany's Frank Luck who took silver at Soldier Hollow. Victor Maigourov of Russia finished in the bronze medal position. Late call-up Jason Sklenar led Britain's standings with a finish of 48th out of 87 competitors. Mike Dixon and Mark Gee struggled into 79th and 81st places respectively. Bjoerndalen put skiing power ahead of marksmanship to triumph. The 28-year-old won the individual 10km sprint four years ago at Nagano. This time, he missed two of his 20 targets to earn a two-minute penalty, yet still came home ahead of Luck in 51 minutes 03.3 seconds. The winner had to recover from the 30km cross-country on Saturday, when he finished sixth.
