101. HickokSports.com - History - The Winter Olympics This document contains a history of the Winter Olympics. Two new sports,shorttrack speed skating and freestyle skiing, were on the program for the 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."

102. CBC.ca The Olympics A history of the 2000 Sydney Olympics. At the Salt Lake City Winter Games,a judging scandal rocked the figure skating world. http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/

103. Olympics: A Sport Without A Conscience SALT LAKE CITY In the questionable sport of figure skating, It has beensome week for figure skating. The sport has embarrassed itself, http://www.sptimes.com/2002/02/14/Olympics/A_sport_without_a_con.shtml

The games Feb. 8-24, 2002 Olympics Coverage Photo Galleries Feb. 9, 2002 Opening night Feb. 10, 2002 Day one events Feb. 11, 2002 Day two events Feb. 12, 2002 Day three events Feb. 13, 2002 Day four events Feb. 14, 2002 Day five events Feb. 15, 2002 Day six events Feb. 16, 2002 Day seven events Feb. 17, 2002 Day eight events Feb. 18, 2002 Day nine events Feb. 19, 2002 Day 10 events Feb. 20, 2002 Day 11 events Feb. 21, 2002 Day 12 events Feb. 22, 2002 Day 13 events Feb. 23, 2002 Day 14 events Feb. 24, 2002 Day 15 events Feb. 25, 2002 closing ceremony Special links Salt Lake 2002 U.S. Olympic Committee International Olympic Committee NBC Olympics Interactive Forums: Follow your sport at our message boards Times sites Sports A sport without a conscience SHELTON E-mail: Click here Archive By GARY SHELTON, Times Sports Columnist published February 14, 2002 SALT LAKE CITY In the questionable sport of figure skating, there are a few new queries. Are you outraged yet? Are you angry? Are you fed up to here? Well, good. Are you watching? It has been some week for figure skating. The sport has embarrassed itself, sacrificed its credibility and laid itself open to charges of corruption. It has cheated its athletes, exposed its judges and cheated its fans. It has betrayed its defenders and provided evidence to its critics.

104. Nutrition Science & The Winter Olympics Nutrition Science the Olympics. Welcome to sports Nutrition! Science is apowerful asset figure skater, singles competition (female), Strength/power http://btc.montana.edu/olympics/nutrition/default.htm

Welcome to Sports Nutrition! Science is a powerful asset for athletes who want to use nutrition to their advantage. Whether an Olympic medal is won by tenths of a second in a ski race, decimal points in a figure skating competition, or goals in an ice hockey game, an athlete's nutritional status makes a critical difference in reaching peak performance.This course explores the science of sports nutrition and shows how to apply nutrition principles to benefit an athlete's training and performance. Nutrition and physical training are connected long term athletic success depends on meeting day-to-day nutritional needs. For example, maintaining optimal hydration status and sufficient muscle glycogen stores delays the onset of fatigue and enables athletes to train longer before tiring. Also, although the stress of exercise training stimulates physiological improvement, adaptations to physical stress actually occurs in the recovery period following the exercise sessions. Satisfying an athlete's needs for rehydrating, refueling, and rest are essential components of the recovery process. Check out the Physiology and Psychology section for more information on the physiological aspects of exercise training. Although sport nutrition basics are similar for all athletes, important differences exist for individual athletes in various sports. The focus here is on the nutritional needs of selected endurance sports and strength/power sports. One of these sports, women's ice hockey, has its debut as a medal sport in the 1998 Winter Olympics!

105. Poynter Online - Skating Coverage Lacks Technical Merit 14 column titled, skating as a sport in Olympics? Go figure, Lincicome retreadsthe oftrepeated argument that figure skating is more a show than it is an http://www.poynter.org/dg.lts/id.3464/content.content_view.htm

Posted, Jan. 16, 2002 Updated, Jan. 16, 2002 QuickLink Skating Coverage Lacks Technical Merit By Ellen W Sung more by author E-mail this item Print this Page ... Add Your Comments on this Article I'd love to know where the ESPN SportsTicker writer sat at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships last week. Because from the story that they ran about the women's short program, it's hard to imagine they were even given a seat in the building. "[Michelle] Kwan took the lead with a flawless routine in the ladies' short program on Thursday," SportsTicker reported on Jan. 12. "Continuing her pursuit of an Olympic gold medal, Kwan received seven perfect 6.0s." Actually, she didn't get any perfect marks that night. Not one. I read the story with exasperation, but little surprise. Over the years, I've gotten used to lousy coverage of figure skating news. It's unclear exactly how many people watch figure skating, but in the mid-1990s, it was routinely trumpeted as the second most popular television sport on television, behind pro football. Still, even the biggest skating events are relegated to third-rate page placement, sandwiched between racing news and tennis. Figure skating stories often are riddled with errors, and coverage of last week's national championships was no exception. Just a month before the Salt Lake City Olympics, media scrutiny of figure skating is intense and somehow, still embarrassingly clumsy.

106. Poynter Online - Skating Coverage Lacks Technical Merit In a Jan. 14 column titled, skating as a sport in Olympics? Go figure, Lincicomeretreads the oftrepeated argument that figure skating is more a show http://www.poynter.org/content/content_print.asp?id=3464&custom=

107. CBC Sports - Road To Torino Sport Primers Days Remaining Until the Torino 2006 Olympics Like most sports, figureskating requires tremendous psychological, as well as physical discipline. http://www.cbc.ca/sports/amateur/torino/sport_primers/figureskating.html

108. NJ.com: Everything Jersey figure skater, 40, proves sport isn t just kids stuff What doesn t readilycome to mind is an adult figure skater who can jump and spin like nobody s http://www.nj.com/living/hunterdon/index.ssf?/base/living-0/1122641801265320.xml

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