Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics - Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics 2002 Winter Olympic Games Alpine skiing Downhill Men: Fritz Strobl (AUT) Lasse Kjus (NOR) Stephan Eberharter (AUT) Big favorite Eberharter is beaten by a compatriot and the all-rounder Kjus. Super-G Men: Kjetil André Aamodt (NOR) Stephan Eberharter (AUT) Andreas Schifferer (AUT) 10 year after his first Olympic title, Aamodt wins his second Super-G gold and his second gold of the Games. Combined Men: Kjetil André Aamodt (NOR) Bode Miller (USA) Benjamin Raich (AUT) Miller skies from a 15th place on the downhilll to a silver medal, leaving less than 3 tenths of a second to Aamodt, who a record sixth Olympic medal in alpine skiing. Giant Slalom Men: Stephan Eberharter (AUS) Bode Miller (USA) Lasse Kjus (NOR) Slalom Men:.
1928 Winter Olympics - 1928 Winter Olympics The 1928 Winter Olympic Games were held in Saint Moritz, Switzerland. (introductory comments about these particular games) Opening ceremonies held: February 11 Closing ceremonies held: (date) Number of nations participating: # Number of athletes participating: # Athlete who took the Athlete's Oath: (name) Judge who took the Judge's Oath: (name) Person who lit the Olympic Torch: (name) Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Highlights 2 Medal winners 3 Medal standings (gold/silver/bronze total) 4 Internal links Highlights Sonja Henie wins her first gold medal in women's figure skating. Medal winners Alpine skiing Biathlon Bobsleigh Cross-country skiing Figure skating Ice hockey Luge Nordic combined Skeleton Ski jumping Speed skating Medal standings (gold/silver/bronze total) Internal links WikiProject Sports Olympics Summer Olympics 1896 1900 1904 1906 1908 1912 1920.
1968 Winter Olympics - 1968 Winter Olympics See also: 1968 Winter Paralympics The 1968 Winter Olympics were held in Grenoble, France and opened on February 6. Thirty-seven countries participated. Norway won the most medals, the first time a country other than the Soviet Union had done so since the Soviet Union first entered the Winter Games in 1956. Frenchman Jean-Claude Killy won three gold medals in all the alpine skiing events. In women's figure skating, Peggy Fleming won the only United States gold medal. The year 1968 marked the first time the IOC first permitted East and West Germany to enter separately, and the first time the IOC ever ordered drug and gender testing of competitors. Summer Olympics 1896 1900 1904 1906 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952.
1960 Winter Olympics - 1960 Winter Olympics The Games of the VIII Olympiad were held in 1960 in Squaw Valley, California. Alexander Cushing, the creator of the resort, campaigned vigorously to win the Games. Then, there was a rush to construct roads, hotels, restaurants, and bridges, as well as the Ice Arena, the speed skating track, ski lifts, and the ski jumping hill, Walt Disney was the Head of Pageantry for the Games. Games of the VIII Winter Olympiad Nations participating 34 Athletes participating 1000 (?? women, ?? men) Events 26 in ?? sports Opening ceremonies February 18, 1960 Closing ceremonies ?? Officially opened by Avery Brundage Athlete's Oath not applicable Judge's Oath not applicable Olympic Torch Ken Henry The Olympic Village housed all the athletes. An IBM computer was used.
2002 in sports - 2002 in sports See also: 2001 in sports, other events of 2002, 2003 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Auto Racing 2 Baseball 3 Basketball 4 Boxing 5 Cycling 6 Figure Skating 7 Football (Soccer) 8 Football (American) 9 Canadian Football League 10 Golf 11 Thoroughbred Horse Racing 12 Harness Racing 13 Ice Hockey 14 Skiing 15 Tennis 16 General sporting events 17 Births 18 Deaths Auto Racing Stock car racing: Ward Burton won the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Tony Stewart Indy Racing League - Sam Hornish Jr won the season championship. Indianapolis 500 - Hélio Castroneves CART Racing - Cristiano da Matta won the season championship. Formula One Championship - Michael Schumacher of Germany 24 hours.
Anja Pärson - Anja Pärson (Anja Paerson), is a Swedish alpine skier born April 25, 1981 in Umeå. She stands 1.70 meters (5'7") tall and weighs 75 kg (165 Lbs). She won the bronze medal in the women's slalom and the silver medal in the giant slalom at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games See also: Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics, List of Swedes in sports.
List of Swiss people - Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002), sculptor Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943), painter, sculptor Jean Tinguely (1925-1991), kinetic artist Rodolphe Toepffer (1799-1846) Félix Vallotton (1865-1925), painter Aviation Oskar Bider (1891-1919) Henri Dufaux (1879-1980) Armand Dufaux (1883-1941) Walter Mittelholzer (1894-1937), pilot, director Ad Astra, Swissair Bertrand Piccard (born 1958), psychiatrist and balloonist Eduard Spelterini (1852-1931), balloonist Linguistics Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), linguist Mathematics Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782), mathematician and physicist Jakob Bernoulli (1654-1705), Swiss mathematician Johann Bernoulli (1667-1748), Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), mathematician and geometer Military Pierre Victor Besenval_de_Bronstatt (1721-1791) Guillaume-Henri Dufour (1787-1875), General, geographer Joachim Forrer (1782-1833) Henri Guisan (1874-1960), General during WWII Hans Herzog (1819-1894), General 1870-1871 Franz Ludwig Pfyffer von Wyher (1716-1802) Pius Segmüller (born 1944), commander Swiss Guard Theophil Sprecher von Bernegg (1850-1927) Ulrich Wille (1848-1925), General during WWI Music Ernest.
Freestyle skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics - Freestyle skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics 2002 Winter Olympic Games Freestyle skiing Aerials Men: Aleš Valenta (CZE) Joe Pack (USA) Aleksey Grishin (BLR) Valenta completes five twists in three flips to take the gold, while defending Olympic champion Eric Bergoust, in first place after the first jump, falls on the second after jumping too hard and ends in last place. Extra Twist Does the Trick in Aerials, The New York Times, February 20, 2002 Moguls Men: Janne Lahtela (FIN) Travis Mayer (USA) Richard Gay (FRA) Before a crowd of 14,237, Lahtela performed a near-flawless run with a quad twist and triple twist spread to win the gold. Jonny Moseley, the defending Olympic champion and crowd favorite who performed his unusual Dinner Roll jump in both the.
Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics - Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics 2002 Winter Olympic Games Cross-country skiing The winners of three races were disqualified after blood tests showed that three skiers had high red blood cell counts that indicated the use of darbepoetin, a drug used to treat anemia. The drug is not specifically listed in the IOC's list of banned substances, but the rules prohibit doping of any kind. The skiers Johann Mühlegg of Spain and Larisa Lazutina of Russia were permitted to keep medals they had won in previous races for which their blood tests were negative. Note: this article will have to be further rewritten due to the CAS ruling of 18 December 2003; see that date's Current events for the relevant external link. The final rankings will most.
Nordic combined at the 2002 Winter Olympics - Nordic combined at the 2002 Winter Olympics 2002 Winter Olympic Games Nordic combined Individual Samppa Lajunen (FIN) Jaakko Tallus (FIN) Felix Gottwald (AUT) Tallus was the surprise leader after the ski jump, but Lajunen beat him in the skiing. Team Finland Germany Austria Finland has a huge lead after the ski jumping, and does not lose it. Germany comes from fifth place to edge Austria for the silver medal. Sprint Samppa Lajunenn (FIN) ... Ackermann (GER) Felix Gottwald (AUT).
1988 Winter Olympics - 1988 Winter Olympics See also: 1988 Winter Paralympics This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. The 1988 Winter Olympics were held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The Olympics were highly successful, financially, as they brought in million dollar profits. Games of the X Olympiad Nations participating X Athletes participating X (Y men, Z women) Events X in Y sports Opening ceremonies Closing ceremonies Officially opened by Athlete's Oath Judge's Oath: Olympic Torch Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Highlights 2 Medals awarded 3 Template medal table 4 Template bottom links Highlights Two competitors, Michael Edwards ("Eddie the Eagle") in ski jumping and the Jamaican bobsledding team, entered their respective competitions with little experience and less chance of winning any medals. However, the determination of.
History of skiing - History of skiing The History of skiing Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Ancient history of skiing 1.1 Invention 1.2 Early Skis 1.3 Ski Poles 2 Modern history of skiing 2.4 Ski jumping 2.5 Austrian Ski pioneers 3 Museums 4 See also 5 Reference Ancient history of skiing The first hints to the existence of skis are on 4500 to 5000 year old rock drawings, e.g. at Rødøy in Norway. There are also remains of skis in bogs, e.g. the oldest ski found in Hoting, Sweden, which is about 4500 years old. The word ski goes back to two Old Norse roots, both older than 4500 years: saa and suk. Invention There are six possible roots from which skis originally might have developed: The pedal snowshoe, which was.
Slalom skiing - Slalom skiing Slalom is regarded as the most technical of the alpine ski disciplines. A course is constructed by laying out a series of gates. Gates are generally formed from either two red poles or two blue poles. The skier must pass between the two poles forming the gate. (Strictly, the tips of both skis and the skier's feet must pass between the poles.) For slalom the vertical offset between gates is around 9m and the horizontal offset around 2m, although these figures have changed significantly in recent times because of the huge technical developments in ski equipment which have revolutionised the sport. The gates are arranged in a variety of differents configurations to challenge the competitor. The world wide govening body, FIS (Federation Internationale de Ski).
Speed skiing - Speed skiing Speed Skiing is the sport of skiing fastest in a straight line downhill, and is the World's fastest non-motorized sport. Speed skiers wear dense foam fairings on their lower legs and very streamlined helmets to increase streamlining. Their ski suits are made from air-tight latex or have a polyurethane coating to cut wind resistance, with knee and elbow pads to give some protection in the case of a crash. The special skis used must be between 2.2 and 2.4 metres (94.5 inches) long and extra wide, and the ski boots are attached with bindingsss that can be tightened to a very secure setting of DIN 21 (a typical recreational setting being from 6 to 10). The ski poles are bent to shape around the body,.
Winter Olympic Games - Winter Olympic Games The Winter Olympic Games are the cold-weather counterpart to the Summer Olympic Games. They feature outdoor winter sports held on ice or snow, such as skiing and ice skating. The First Olympic Winter Games were inaugurated on January 25, 1924 in Chamonix, France, although at the time they were not yet called Olympic Winter Games. Only in 1926, the Games were called thus. Since then, the Games have been held every four years, with the exception of the 1940 and 1944. Since 1994, the Winter Games are no longer held in the same year as the Games of the Olympiad (or Summer Olympics). The most recent Winter Games were the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Table of.
Jean-Claude Killy - 30, 1943) is a French alpine skier and a triple Olympic champion. Killy won the Triple Crown of Alpine Skiing with 3 gold medals at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, in the slalom, giant slalom and downhill events. Previously, Killy was a World Cup champion in 1967 and 1968. Jean-Claude Killy had also short career as a racing driver between 1967 and 1970. Killy also served as co-president of the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France..
Jimmy Shea - an American skeleton racer, who won the gold medal in the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. After his father Jim Shea, who competed in nordic combined and cross country skiing events in the 1964 Olympics and his grandfather Jack Shea, who won two gold medals in the 1932 Olympics in speed skating, he is the third generation of his family to take part in Winter Games. Although American media repeatedly claimed that he was the first third generation Olympian, this honor in fact belongs to the Norwegian Lunde family who placed their third generation in the Olympics in 1960. He became the first American to win a World Cup race and a World Championship in the sport, and has more World Cup victories than any other American..
Utah - and were pushing for the establishment of the state of Deseret--and the US Government which was reluctant to admit a state the size of the proposed Deseret into the union, opposed the polygamous practices of the Mormons taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and observed that the region lacked the necessary 60,000 voters required for statehood. One of the conditions to granting Utah's statehood was that a ban on polygamy be written into the Utah Constitution. This was a condition required of other western states that were also admitted later into the Union. Another notable fact about Utah is that the continental meeting of the railroads happened at Promontory Point, Utah. Other items of historical interest: Utah native Philo Farnsworth invented the electronic television in 1927. The.
1980 in sports - (Soccer) 8 Football (American) 9 Canadian Football League 10 Golf 11 Thoroughbred Horse Racing 12 Harness Racing 13 Ice Hockey 14 Skiing 15 Tennis 16 General sporting events 17 Births 18 Deaths Auto Racing Stock car racing: Buddy Baker wins the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Dale Earnhardt Indianapolis 500 - Johnny Rutherford CART Racing - Johnny Rutherford won the season championship Formula One Championship - Alan Jones of Australia 24 hours of Le Mans: the team of Jean Rondeau / Jean-Pierre Jaussaud won, driving a Rondeau M379B Rally racing - the team of Walter Rohrl / Christian Geistdorfer won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Fiat 131 Abarth Drag racing - Shirley Muldowney won the NHRA "Top Fuel" championship. Baseball World Series: The Philadelphia Phillies of the National League end.
1998 in sports - (Soccer) 8 Football (American) 9 Canadian Football League 10 Golf 11 Thoroughbred Horse Racing 12 Harness Racing 13 Ice Hockey 14 Skiing 15 Tennis 16 General sporting events 17 Births 18 Deaths Auto Racing Stock car racing: Dale Earnhardt won the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Jeff Gordon Indy Racing League - Indianapolis 500 - Eddie Cheever CART Racing - Alex Zanardi won the season championship Formula One Championship - Mika Häkkinen of Finland 24 hours of Le Mans: won by the team of Laurent Aiello / Allan McNish / Stéphane Ortelli driving a Porsche 911 GT-1 Rally racing - the team of Carlos Sainz / Luis Moya won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Toyota Corolla WRC Drag racing - Gary Scelzi won the NHRA "Top Fuel" championship. Baseball Mark.
