61. Halfbakery: Fewer Olympic Sports Basically, the number of olympic sports is just getting silly. on a bobsled team, winning a nonolympic championship tournament is every bit as http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Fewer_20olympic_20sports

h a l f b a k e r y Puts the 'reek' in Eureka idea: new search annotate link , view, overview recent by name best ... random meta: news help about links ... report a problem account: Browse anonymously, or get an account and write. User: Pass: Login Create account. Bouillon Cube Unwrapping Children's Olympics Cross sport olympics ... olympics Fewer olympic sports Remove the ones where winning the olympic medal isn't the high point of your career [vote for against Basically, the number of olympic sports is just getting silly. And, there are a whole load of them where there is a world cup (or equivalent tournament) which is more prestigious than winning the olympic title (football is a case in point). So, we just remove these sports and leave the ones (e.g. athletics, swimming) where the olympic title is what people really care about. vincebowdren , Feb 08 2002 motto interpretation? http://www.halfbake...dea/Anabolympics_3f fits the 'higher' criteria [ chud , Feb 25 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004] Olympics would gain by returning to old ways http://www.usatoday...020225/3890387s.htm bristolz , Feb 25 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004] link I think you'll find that the other sports you mention (and presumably others inferred) have similar tournament level competition that carries the same level of meaning as your football example (guessing you're referring to World Cup non-US 'football' there) to the competitors. Those events just aren't as news-worthy (sports-worthy?) and have a lower profile than others, but they exist. They compete more than once every four years, you know.

62. CBC Sports: Chelios Making Olympic Bid In Bobsled Starting next week, Chelios will begin training with the US bobsled federation in a bid to compete for Greece at the Turin Olympics. http://www.cbc.ca/story/sports/national/2004/10/08/Sports/chelios041004.html

CBCCat = "Sports,News,Arts,Kids,Interactive"; Sports = "Hockey,Baseball,Football"; News = "Canada,World,SciTech,Local,Consumers,SpecialReports,Business"; Arts = "ArtsNews,Infoculture,Music,Books,ArtsFeatures"; Kids = "CBC4Kids,PreSchool,Teachers"; Interactive = "MessageBoards,Forums,Games,Media"; CBC is currently experiencing a labour disruption. Go to the official CBC negotiations site. View CBC's updated programming schedules. Chelios making Olympic bid in bobsled WebPosted Fri, 08 Oct 2004 17:30:23 EDT CBC Sports Detroit Red Wing defenceman Chris Chelios hopes to compete in the 2006 Winter Games, but not as a hockey player. Starting next week, Chelios will begin training with the U.S. bobsled federation in a bid to compete for Greece at the Turin Olympics. Detroit Red Wings defenceman Chris Chelios wants to compete in a fourth Olympic Games. (CP Photo) "I am looking forward to getting the experience of learning the ropes of bobsledding," read a statement issued by Chelios "I hope this is the first stepping stone on my way to making it to the next Olympic Games." One of the NHL's top defenceman, Chelios has won three Stanley Cups during his 21-year career. He's also played in three Olympics as a member of the United States hockey team.

63. African Americans In Sports African Americans in sports bobsled, Close. Willie Davenport and Jeff Gadley bobsled 1980 Winter olympic Games, February 24, 1980 Lake Placid, New York http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/jimcrow/sports.cgi?sport=Bobsled

64. The National Guard - Bakken's Business I ve always been with the maledominated sports. US Army olympic Correspondent Brian Lepley and the United States bobsled and Skeleton Federation http://www.ngb.army.mil/news/story.asp?id=535

65. We Need New Olympic Sports - The Varsity - Opinion & Analysis b We need new olympic sports /b , , The Varsity, a newspaper of Dual bobsled. There s nothing quite as boring as seeing one team after another glide http://www.thevarsity.ca/news/2002/02/14/OpinionAnalysis/We.Need.New.Olympic.Spo

document.write(''+''); The Varsity Extras: Student Resources Scholarships Movies Travel ... Events (TOstudent.com) showNetworkBanner(1); var story_id = 184251; Home We need new Olympic sports By Jeremy Nelson, Varsity Staff Published: Thursday, February 14, 2002 Call them what you want, but the events of the winter Olympics are not all sports. And so, if we have don't have to worry about their "purity," let's mess with them a little and make a far, far more interesting Olympics. • Dual Bobsled. There's nothing quite as boring as seeing one team after another glide down the same course in a minute with performances that are imperceptable from one another save for a few split seconds. It's like watching a 100-metre sprint, except having each runner go individually. The simple solution: widen the track and allow (or should I say force) both teams to run down the same track at the same time. Think of the passes on the hairpin turns, the crashing of sleds together, the chaos and life-endangering injuries. • Picnic Skiing. Now does anyone, I repeat, anyone at all watch cross-country skiing? Yes, it requires a great deal of athleticism, but the award for stamina must surely go not to the athletes but to any spectator who manages not to nod off during a 15 km trek.

66. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Sports Bodine Aims to Help US bobsled Program. By JOHN KEKIS AP sports Writer I ve been promoting the sport all my life, and during a preolympic year you http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CAR_NASCAR_BODINE_BOBSLED?SITE=PAPIT&SECT

67. TimesDispatch.com AP Sports Bodine Aims to Help US bobsled Program. By JOHN KEKIS AP sports Writer His father was an olympic bobsled driver at the 1972 Games in Sapporo, Japan. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CAR_NASCAR_BODINE_BOBSLED?SITE=VARIT&SECT

68. ChildArt: Art And Sport The artists drew pictures that included the olympic rings, sports, and athletes The bobsled team from Britain, driven by Tony Nash, was in second place. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0OTH/is_2_7/ai_n6094626

@import url(/css/us/style1.css); @import url(/css/us/searchResult1.css); @import url(/css/us/articles.css); @import url(/css/us/artHome1.css); Home Advanced Search IN free articles only all articles this publication Automotive Sports FindArticles ChildArt April-June 2004 Content provided in partnership with 10,000,000 articles Not found on any other search engine. Related Searches Children's art / Competitions Olympics / Portrayals Featured Titles for ALAN Review Afterimage American Drama American Music Teacher ... View all titles in this topic Hot New Articles by Topic Automotive Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Automotive Sports Art and sport ChildArt April-June, 2004 Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. When asked to get creative, some secondary school children in New Zealand did just thatand they were good sports about it, too! Children from 12 to 17years old created art on the theme "Sport and Olympism', in a national art and sport contest that was sponsored by the New Zealand Olympic Committee. The young artists were asked to use their imagination to draw, sculpt, print, or paint what the theme means to them. But what does the word "Olympism" mean? Olympism is what the Olympic Games are all about: tolerance, unity, respect, fair play, friendship and peace. So this means that the Olympic Movement is about meeting and making new friends, being nice people from other cultures and other countries, being the best that you can be, or the joy found in effort. Olympism can be shown not only at the Olympic Games, but also in Everyday life. Whether playing at school or at home, using these ideas and values will make the game a whole lot more fun!

69. Bobsled Team - Winter Sports - Sporting Lives Images Of Canadian 4men bobsled team, gold medal winners at the 1964 Winter olympic Games in At the 1964 Winter olympics, they surprised the favoured European teams http://www.collectionscanada.ca/sporting-lives/05270505_e.html

Help Home Browse Selected Topics Sporting Lives ... Water Sports National Archives of Canada PA-207878 Members of the Canadian 4-men bobsled team, gold medal winners at the 1964 Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria, photographer unknown In the late 1950s and early 1960s, although there were neither training facilities nor tracks in Canada, Vic Emery (born 1933) assembled a team made up of his brother John (born 1932), Peter Kirby (born 1931) and Doug Anakin (born 1930), to represent Canada for the first time in an international competition. At the 1964 Winter Olympics, they surprised the favoured European teams by winning the gold medal. The following year, Vic Emery and Peter Kirby led another foursome to a world championship. Sporting Lives Introduction Legends Winter Sports ... Water Sports

70. Utah Olympic Sports Park Utah olympic sports Park The Utah olympic Park at Bear Hollow, site of ski jump, bobsled and luge events. During the summer watch olympic hopefuls http://www.western-leisure.com/pages/conventions/local-companion tour desc/olymp

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71. Untitled Document Vonetta Flowers olympic gold medalist in the bobsled The Black Women in Sport Foundation has announced a new partnership with Women s sports Services, http://www.blackwomeninsport.org/home.html

"Champions and Change Makers" By Stephanie Iovieno Trailblazers. Pioneers. Leaders. Breaking down barriers of race and gender, these 10 black female sports figures redefined the role of women in sports and laid the foundation for future generations. In honor of Black History Month, we celebrate their groundbreaking achievements and honor their contributions. Alice Coachman - Pioneer for black female athletes in all sports Growing up in the segregated South during the 1920s and '30s, Alice Coachman was denied access to public facilities and forced to run barefoot in the streets. With the little opportunity she was given, Coachman took it and ran with it - literally. Overcoming racial segregation, Coachman went on to win 25 AAU track titles and numerous national championships at Tuskegee Institute, mostly in the long jump. However, her greatest achievement came in 1948 in London when she became the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal. By breaking the race barrier for women, Coachman opened the door for the future black female track stars, including some of the greats, like Wilma Rudolph, Florence Griffith Joyner and Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Dominique Dawes - Three-time Olympic medalist As a young girl, Women's Sports Foundation President Dominique Dawes spent hours at the gym in order to achieve her dream of winning an Olympic medal. Her hard work paid off - big time. In 1988, she became the first African-American on the U.S. national gymnastics team, and in 1992, the first on the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team. In 1996, Dawes reached another milestone, winning an individual bronze medal in the floor exercises - the first black to earn an individual Olympic medal in women's gymnastics. She earned an Olympic gold medal the same year, as the U.S. women's gymnastics team won the team event in Atlanta. In a career of firsts, Dawes inspired a generation and set the stage for today's black gymnasts.

72. The Sports Network - Olympics Salt Lake City, UT (sports Network) Close finishes in sports tend to produce The close call continued the drought for the US olympic team in bobsled. http://www.sportsnetwork.com/default.asp?c=sportsnetwork&page=olymp/misc/winter/

73. Observer Newspaper - Sports bobsled 2001 ND graduate competes in olympics By NOAH AMSTADTER He enjoyed the sport, said Millar, who has coached multiple olympic athletes in his http://www.nd.edu/~observer/02222002/Sports/8.html

Daily Index Advertise Contact Us Submit a letter to the Editor ... Breaking News from the Associated Press at the New York Times Vol XXXV No. 97 Friday, February 22, 2002 Bobsled: 2001 ND graduate competes in Olympics By: NOAH AMSTADTER Sports Editor Two weekends ago, the Notre Dame track and field team had just stepped off the bus and was checking into their hotel in Windsor, Canada, where they had a meet the next day. As the athletes waited for their room assignments, somebody flipped on the television to watch the Opening Ceremonies for the Winter Olympics. The camera scanned the athletes, showing faces from countries spanning Nepal to Cameroon. All of the sudden, a face from Hungary appeared on the screen, a face quite familiar to the Irish athletes. It was Marton Gyulai, a 2001 Notre Dame graduate who competed in the sprints for the Irish the previous four seasons. "The Opening Ceremonies were going on and for some reason they kind of zoomed in on Marton," Notre Dame sprint coach John Millar said. "That was kind of the talk of the meet for a little while there." Gyulai, whose father and brother have both previously represented Hungary in the Olympics, is carrying on the family tradition as a member of his country's four-man bobsled team. Competition begins today at 5:30 p.m. EST at Utah's Olympic Park.

74. AGPix.com toboggan, luge, bobsled, snowshoeing, triathlons, ice skating, running. olympic sports (from actual olympics, World Cups, National Championships and http://www.agpix.com/photographer/prime/A0197410.html

Nancie Battaglia Photography About No Images Stocklist Latest Coverage Nancie Battaglia Photography PO Box 229 Sweetwood Farms Lake Placid NY 12946-0229 Phone: Fax: Email: nbphotog@northnet.org Website: http://www.directstock.com AGPix URL: http://www.agpix.com/battaglia To request photographs, or for more information, please contact directly. AGPix photographers: to post updates, access the utilities section. THE FILE 30,000 35mm; 6,000 B/W. Sepia for special projects. OVERVIEW Outdoor recreational lifestyle activities, sports (winter, summer, fall), especially in the Adirondack Mtns. (upstate NY), with classic Adirondack themes and scenes; extensive Winter Olympic sports, some summer. STOCK Adirondack Mtns. (Lake Placid, Saranac Lakes, Blue Mtn. Lake, Lake Champlain, etc.), healthy lifestyles, active families, women, kids, dogs, scenics, interiors, crafts, holidays. Recreational sports: guideboats, canoes, sailing, hiking, biking, golf, fishing, rock climbing, skiing (cross-country, alpine, telemark), sled dogs, toboggan, luge, bobsled, snowshoeing, triathlons, ice skating, running. Olympic sports (from actual Olympics, World Cups, National Championships and training): luge, bobsled (including women), skeleton sledding (face first on iced track), speed skating (short track and long track), figure skating, biathlon, cross-country, ski jumping (including women), freestyle (moguls and aerials), hockey (including women), alpine skiing, Nordic combined, curling, equestrian, kayak, track, archery, soccer, snowboard, softball, more.

75. The Gaming Of The Olympics - Forbes.com Germany starred in traditional olympic sports such as biathalon, in women s bobsled and women s ice hockey, which are new olympic sports for women, http://www.forbes.com/2002/02/25/0225topnews.html

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76. New Sports: Canadian Women At The 2002 Olympics In Salt Lake City, Utah Jen Davidson, a braker on the US women s bobsled team from Layton, Utah, sport 100percent based on hopes that it would be an olympic sport someday. http://www.caaws.ca/olympics/2002/newsports/may_20.htm

Following Canadian Women to Salt Lake City NEW SPORTS By Sport. Alpine Skiing Biathlon Bobsleigh Cross-country Curling Figure Skating Freestyle Skiing Hockey Luge Paralympic Alpine Paralympic Nordic Skeleton Snowboarding Speed Skating Thursday, May 20,1999 New women's events awaiting approval SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Women's sports got a big boost from Salt Lake Olympic organizers Thursday, moving into a near-dead heat with men when it comes to the schedule for 2002. Under a proposal by the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, two-woman bobsled, skeleton and cross-country ski sprints would be added to the Winter Games. SLOC president Mitt Romney said he was confident the plan would be approved by the boards of both his panel and the International Olympic Committee.

77. Washingtonpost.com: Bobsled bobsled news from the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/sport/bobsled.

Olympics Front Sport by Sport Gallery History ... Biathlon Bobsled Curling Figure Skating Freestyle Skiing Ice Hockey ... Speedskating Send us your feedback on our Olympics section. Bobsled Beth A. Kaiser/AP Shimer Just Misses Bronze Brian Shimer, trying to break a 42-year Olympic bobsled drought for the United States, just missed a bronze medal in the four-man event, finishing two-hundredths of a second behind France and Britain, who tied for third. Germany ( pictured ), led by Christoph Langen, won the gold. After Drug Probe, U.S. Bobsledder Back on Course John McDonnell/The Post Brian Shimer ( pictured ) was on the verge of having his life ruined after a disputed drug test almost got him kicked off the U.S. Olympic team. His case, put to rest officially just before the Games opened, provides more fuel for a growing controversy over the current means of testing for testosterone. BEFORE THE GAMES: Again, Shimer Aims for Medal Reuters Italy, Canada Share 2-Man Gold For the first time, there was a tie for the gold medal in bobsled. Canada's Pierre Lueders and Italy's Guenther Huber ( pictured, right

78. Utah Olympic Park try up to 7 winter sport introductory camps at the Utah olympic Park and the Package retail value with bobsled is $740 and without bobsled is $540; http://www.utaholympicpark.com/sportservices/airandice_school.html

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79. SLAM! NAGANO: Bobsled the sport to concentrate on making the Summer olympic Games as a sprinter. A decade ago, Brian Shimer watched Brent Rushlaw lose an olympic bobsled http://www.canoe.ca/SlamNaganoBobsled/home.html

September 19, 2005 Hockey Baseball Basketball Football ... CANOE NAGANO '98 ISP DIRECTORY No crowning glory for Lori By CHRIS STEVENSON Ottawa Sun Feb. 22: Full story Feb. 21: Turmoil in Canadian bobsled Hindle's Olympic pane By TOM BRENNAN Calgary Sun Feb. 24: Full story Greenidge trades the ice for the track By CHRIS STEVENSON Ottawa Sun Feb. 22: Full story Germany wins four-man bobsled Feb. 21: Full story and results Brian Shimer fails again to medal Feb. 21: Full story MORE HEADLINES Feb. 20: Hindle planning legal action Feb. 20: Hindle receives pat on injured shoulder from U.S. chief Feb. 20: Hindle gets OK to play Feb. 20: Police investigating after Hindle injured Feb. 20: Rain cancels second heat Feb. 20: Langen takes four-man lead Feb. 20: Shimer's driving puts him to fourth Feb. 19: U.S. tries to break medal-less bobsled streak Feb. 19: Mis-sled or misunderstood? Feb. 19: The start's the key for U.S. bobsledders Archive of Olympic Bobsled Stories

80. HickokSports.com - History - The Winter Olympics This document contains a history of the Winter olympics. USOC Home PageOffers a lot of information, including history, on all olympic sports http://www.hickoksports.com/history/winterol.shtml

Sports History Alpha Index Index by Sport History Bits Forum ... Search The Winter Olympics Table of Contents Before 1924 1924: Chamonix, France 1928: St. Moritz, Switzerland 1932: Lake Placid, New York ... In the Library History My Blog Biography Glossaries Calendar ... Directory Before 1924 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 1924: Chamonix, France 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."

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