ClickOnDetroit.com - Olympics many sports. Check out the who's who. More Details Take Bobsled RideWith Local 4's Rob Malcolm. olympic history. Hockey 1932 Olmpics http://ia.clickondetroit.com/olympics/
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Olympics - EnchantedLearning.com combined (skiing plus ski jumping), and biathlon (skiing and The motto of the OlympicGames is Citius, altius history of the Olympics Flag Pierre de Frédy http://www.enchantedlearning.com/olympics/
Extractions: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, was where the year 2002 Winter Olympics were held. For information on Utah, click here . For a page on Utah's flag, click here The year 2002 Winter Olympic Games are being held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The opening ceremonies were on February 8, 2002. The closing ceremonies were on Sunday, February 24, 2002. The events in the Winter Olympics include: ice hockey, figure skating, speed skating, snowboarding, luge, bobsleigh, skeleton (a type of sledding), curling, cross-country skiing, freestyle skiing, slalom, downhill (Alpine) skiing, ski jumping, Nordic combined (skiing plus ski jumping), and biathlon (skiing and shooting). The flag of the Olympic Games has five interlocking rings (blue, yellow, black, green, and red) on a white ground. The rings represent the five parts of the world that were joined together in the Olympic movement: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe. The motto of the Olympic Games is "Citius, altius, fortius" (meaning "Faster, higher, stronger" in Latin). History of the Olympics Flag The flag was first used in the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium. The Olympic flag is paraded during the opening ceremony of each Olympic Games. At the end of an Olympics, the mayor of the host-city presents the flag to the mayor of the next host-city. The flag will remain in the town hall of the next host-city until the next Olympic Games, four years later.
Rocky Mountain News: Nordic Skiing grabbed the silver in the K90 and won a gold when Germany won the team jumping competitionby onetenth of one point, the closest margin in olympic history. http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/nordic_skiing/article/0,1299,DRMN_263_1001
Bigchalk: HomeworkCentral: Events (2002 Winter Olympics) biathlon; Summary; World Book Online Article on biathlon; biathlon News Info (USOlympic Committee); Equipment; history; International biathlon Union; Overview of http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/Homework/High_School/Cur
Dave M. History The 1st olympic Winter Games in Chamonix (FRA) included a ski patrol race (type ofBiathlon race) organized as a demonstration and again in 1928, 1936 and 1948 http://www.sd83.bc.ca/stu/9806/dpmf-history.html
SportServer: 2002 Olympic Coverage to win four gold medals at a single games when Norway won the men's 30kilometerbiathlon relay Wednesday. Three-time defending olympic champion Germany won http://www.sportserver.com/spec/olympics/02olympics/biathlon/
Extractions: Biathlete Bjoerndalen boasts boatload of gold By MARK LONG, Associated Press Three-time defending Olympic champion Germany won the silver and France took the bronze. Only two others have won four gold medals in one Winter Olympics: American speedskater Eric Heiden and Russian speedskater Lydia Skoblikova. Heiden won five at the 1980 Lake Placid Games; Skoblikova won four at the 1964 Innsbruck Games. "This is very special," Bjoerndalen said. Bjoerndalen swept the biathlon events here, winning three individual events and then the team relay. He could have gone for a fifth gold in the 50K cross-country race Saturday, but decided to skip the event. The Norwegians - Halvard Hanevold, Frode Andresen, Egil Gjelland and Bjoerndalen - covered the Soldier Hollow course in 1 hour, 23 minutes, 42.3 seconds. Germany was 45.3 seconds behind. As Bjoerndalen crossed the finish line, he screamed loudly while repeatedly pumping both poles into the air as Norwegian flags waved all around through the falling snow. His teammates quickly greeted him with hugs, then Gjelland picked him up and put him on his shoulders for a victory ride.
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.
Women's History Month 2002 Quiz Answers | Status Of Women Canada Waldo became the first woman in Canadian history to win 12A, At the 1994 WinterOlympic Games in Lillehammer in both the 7.5 and 15-kilometre biathlon events. http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/dates/whm/answers_e.html
Extractions: Contact Us Help Search Canada Site ... WHM 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. 2-B In 1954, 16-year-old marathon swimmer Marilyn Bell became the first swimmer to cross Lake Ontario, and in 1955, at age 17, she became the youngest person ever to swim across the English Channel. 3-L At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico, 17-year-old swimmer Elaine Tanner became the first Canadian woman ever to win three Olympic medals two silvers and a bronze. 4-M In Tel Aviv, Israel, at the 1968 Paralympic Games, then called the " International Stokes Mandeville Games for the Paralyzed ," wheelchair racer Hilda May Torok Binns won two gold medals and a silver medal. 5-G In 1976, Sue Holloway competed in the Olympics cross-country skiing competition in Innsbruck, Switzerland, and then participated in the Olympics kayak competition in Montreal, Canada. 6-F In 1981, sport advocate and former track athlete
Usolympicteam.com 30-Second history - Timeline - Full history 30-Second history Biathlonis one of the oldest olympic sports. It can trace its origins http://www.usolympicteam.com/sports2/bi/az_hist.html
Extractions: ~3000 BC Early hunters used cross-country skis to travel across snow and ice while hunting with bow and arrow. 1700 AD Cross-country soldiers were used in the Great Scandinavian War that lasted until 1718. The first recorded biathlon race was organized by Norwegian soldiers. The first rifle and ski club was founded to assist in the development of military ski patrols. Biathlon was held as a demonstration sport under the name "military patrol" at the Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix, France. The renamed event "biathlon" first appeared as an official International Olympic Committee sport.
Utah Athletic Foundation Brunskill/Getty Images Ross Powers (USA), the Americans made olympic history on February11 with the first medals sweep in the history of olympic snowboarding. http://www.utahathleticfoundation.com/2002games/olyrecap_snowboarding.html
Extractions: Led by gold medalist Ross Powers (USA), the Americans made Olympic history on February 11 with the first medals sweep in the history of Olympic snowboarding. Danny Kass (USA) took the silver and Jarret "J.J." Thomas won bronze as the trio completed the first USA medals sweep in any sport at an Olympic Winter Games since men's figure skating in 1956. Ironically, it was Czeschin who set the pace for the Americans during qualifying, posting the second-highest score behind 2001 world junior champion Heikki Sorsa (FIN) on the first run. But after a lackluster first-run performance, his teammates managed to regroup and charge through the second run of qualifying, posting the top three scores in that round and earning their shot at the medals round.
Utah Athletic Foundation forced to settle for third. Their bronze was Italy's first figure skatingmedal in olympic history. In the mens' event, Alexei Yagudin http://www.utahathleticfoundation.com/2002games/olyrecap_figureskating.html
Extractions: When Jamie Sale / David Pelletier (CAN) delivered the free skating performance of their career only to come up on the short end of a 5-4 split of the judging panel to Russia's Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze for the gold medal, official and unofficial protests rained down on the judges and the International Skating Union (ISU). Within hours of the announced result, a story began surfacing involving the swapping of judging favors that threatened to taint the outcome of the ice dancing competition to begin later that week. Within days, the ISU acknowledged that it had seen enough evidence in the matter to recommend that the International Olympic Committee award an unprecedented second gold medal to the Canadians.
Ntala Skinner - US Olympic Biathlon to a coach's decision, she did attend the 1994 Winter olympic Games in Lillehammer,Norway and is the only member of the current US olympic biathlon team with http://www.pinedaleonline.com/ntala/
Extractions: Ntala Skinner Ntala will be competing in all 3 women's biathlon events at the Nagano Winter Olympic Games. She is currently the highest ranked USA woman in the World Cup Standings (24th in women's individual and 52nd in women's overall), and the USA National Champion in both the Sprint (7.5Km) and Individual (15Km) events. This will be her second Olympic Games. Allthough she did not race due to a coach's decision, she did attend the 1994 Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway and is the only member of the current U.S. Olympic Biathlon team with Olympic experience. Ntala is part of the Skinner family of Pinedale. She lived in Pinedale with her parents Ole and Karen Skinner until the age of 15 when they moved to Sun Valley, Idaho for better training opportunities. For more information on Ntala read "America's Olympic Kick-Ass Cowgirl" from Sports Afield Magazine, February 1998 and a profile by the United States Olympic Committee. You can send Ntala email for support through the Fan Email site setup by IBM and the Nagano Olympic Organizing Committee.
HickokSports.com - History - The Winter Olympics This document contains a history of the Winter Olympics. It is a page in the history section of HickokSports.com, the largest collection of sports information on the Internet. http://www.hickoksports.com/history/winterol.shtml
Extractions: Alpha Index Index by Sport History Bits Forum ... Search Table of Contents History Biography Glossaries Calendar Quotations ... 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."
ClickOnDetroit.com - Olympics - Medal Results: Feb. 12-14 Finland. biathlon. Men's 10k GOLD Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, Norway SILVERSven Fischer, Germany BRONZE Wolfgang Perner, Austria Women's http://ia.clickondetroit.com/olympics/1235721/detail.html
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Extractions: During the Paralympic biathlon event, the visually-impaired fire an air rifle equipped with electro-acoustic glasses (optronic system) and pellets. A sound occurs when the laser lines up with the 30 mm target so blind people will know when to activate the trigger! Sled -Sledge Hockey is played while seated on a sled/sledge with hockey blades. Sled/sledge users propel themselves, shoot and pass a hocky puck by using two special hockey sticks. These hockey sticks, one for the left and right hand, have terminal ice picks embedded on the ends to help with balance and agility while on the ice.
Olympics 2002: Biathlon been shot. The United States has not had much success in the Olympicbiathlon and that doesn't look to change in 2002. Raphael Poiree http://www.infoplease.com/spot/02olbiathlon1.html
