Ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics - Ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics 2002 Winter Olympic Games Ice hockey Men Fourteen countries played in the tournament. Six countries, hockey powers Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden and the United States of America were admitted to the final eight. The other eight countries, Austria, Belarus, France, Germany, Latvia, Slovakia, Switzerland and Ukraine played in a preliminary round in two pools. The winners of those pools, Belarus and Germany, advanced to the final round with the other six. The biggest surprise of the tournament was Belarus, 0-3-0 in Group D play, knocking off 3-0-0 Sweden in quarterfinal play. Canada won the gold medal, defeating the USA in a game that was very close until a couple of late goals gave Canada its final.
2002 Winter Olympics - 2002 Winter Olympics See also: 2002 Winter Paralympics The 2002 Winter Olympic Games were held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Opening ceremonies held: February 8, 2002 Closing ceremonies held: February 24, 2002 Number of nations participating: 78 Number of athletes participating: 2,527 Athlete who took the Athlete's Oath: Jim Shea, USA Judge who took the Judge's Oath: Allen Church Person who lit the Olympic Torch: Members of the 1980 USA men's ice hockey team, led by team captain Mike Eruzione Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Highlights 2 Medals awarded 3 Medal count 3.1.
Ice hockey - Ice hockey Ice hockey, known simply as "hockey" in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Game 2 Penalties 3 Tactics 4 Periods and overtime 5 History 6 External Links Game The objective of the game is to score by playing a hard rubber disc, the puck, into one of the nets placed at opposite ends of the rink (the playfield). The players may control the puck using a long stick with a curved blade at one end. Players may also redirect the puck with a skate (but not kick at it) or with the hand (without closing the hand). A player scoring three goals in a single game is said to.
International Ice Hockey Federation World Championships - International Ice Hockey Federation World Championships The Ice Hockey World Championships are an event put together by the IIHF, the International Ice Hockey Federation, since 1930. Originally, in Olympic Years, the Championships were decided at the Winter Olympics, except for 1972 and 1976. The last World Championships decided at an Olympiad were in Sarajevo in 1984. In the early days of the Championships, teams from Canada dominated. Between 1930 and 1939, Canadian teams won 8 world championships. This was in spite of Canada's sending a different team every year, as in those days Senior A amateur teams typically represented Canada. The World War II years caused the championships to be delayed, and it wasn't until 1947, 8 years after the last one, that they were hosted again..
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.
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.
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.
Miracle on Ice - Miracle on Ice The "Miracle on Ice" is the popular nickname for the ice hockey competition in the 1980 Olympic Winter Games, in which a team of amateur and collegiate players from the United States improbably captured the Gold Medal. In particular, the nickname refers to the semi-final game between the United States and the Soviet Union on February 22, 1980 in Lake Placid, New York. Finland received the Silver Medal in the competition, and the Soviets received the Bronze. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Prelude and Group Play 2 U.S. vs. USSR, Semi-final Match 3 U.S. vs. Finland, Gold Medal Match 4 Aftermath 4.1 The Miracle on Ice in Fiction 5 External Link Prelude and Group Play The United States entered the competition without a great.
January 25 - Prince of Prussia). 1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. 1890 - The United Mine Workers of America is founded. 1890 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days. 1917 - The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million. 1919 - The League of Nations is founded. 1924 - The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games. 1942 - Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom. 1946 - The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor. 1949 - At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented. 1949 - The first Israeli election -- David Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister. 1960 - The.
Hayley Wickenheiser - Saskatchewan, Canada) is one of the best players of the female Canadian ice hockey team. She has been a member of the Canadian National team since 1995, winning the silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games, and the gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. In the gold medal game in 2002, she scored Canada's winning goal in a 3-2 victory over the United States team. In January 2003, she joined the Kirkkonummi Salamat, a men's team in Finland making history by becoming the first female to ever score a point in a male professional hockey league. She played her last game in their ranks in the Suomi-sarja league on November 12 2003, and returned to Calgary awaiting new challenges. A versatile athlete, at the 2000 Summer Olympics, she.
Herb Brooks - 5, 1937- August 11, 2003) was an American ice hockey coach, best known for coaching the US hockey team to a gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics. Born in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, Brooks played hockey at the University of Minnesota and was a member of the 1964 and 1968 United States Olympic teams. Later, he coached the University of Minnesota's hockey team to three NCAA championships (1974, 1976 and 1978). He coached St. Cloud State University in the mid 1980s. He was coach of the United States hockey team at the 1980 Winter Olympics that won the gold medal. The team, made up of college age players, defeated Finland in the final match of the round robin group, after beating the Soviet Union in the previous game. The Soviet.
Figure skating - Figure skating Figure skating is an ice skating sporting event where individuals and mixed couples compete to try to perform the most spectacular and accurately-performed elements while skating to music. Figure skaters use skates which differ slightly from hockey skates, to perform spins, jumps, and other "moves" on the ice, often to music. There are international competitions for figure skating, such as the World Championships and figure skating is also an official event in the Winter Olympics. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Jumps 2 Spins 3 Ice Dancing 4 Pairs 5 Competition format and scoring 6 Notable figure skaters 6.1 Men 6.2 Women 6.3 Pairs 6.4 Ice Dancing 7 See also: Jumps There are six major jumps in figure skating. All six are landed on a right back outside edge,.
1936 - 20 - Edward VIII becomes King of the United Kingdom. January 31 - The Green Hornet radio show debuts. February 4 - Radium E. becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically. February 6 - The 1936 Winter Olympic Games opens in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. March 1 - Hoover Dam is completed. March 7 - World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland. March 8 - The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida. April 3 - Richard Bruno Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, the baby son of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles Lindbergh. May 9 - Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5..
Alexei Yashin - Alexei Yashin Alexei Yashin is a hockey player, born in Sverdlovsk, Russia in 1973. He gained fame after being the first ever draft pick of the expansion Ottawa Senators (2nd overall in the 1992 entry draft). After remaining in Russia for the 1992-1993 season with the Moscow Dynamo, Yashin arrived in Ottawa for the 1993-94 season, the same year as Ottawa's other touted young phenom, Alexandre Daigle. Yashin soon eclipsed Daigle as Ottawa's brightest young star, scoring 79 points in his rookie season and earning himself a nomination for the Calder Trophy. Subsequent seasons in Ottawa saw him emerge as an NHL superstar, helping Ottawa to make the playoffs for the first time in 1997. In 1998, he scored a key overtime goal for the franchise that helped secure their.
Wayne Gretzky - January 26, 1961) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He was born in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. Often known simply as "The Great One", Gretzky is considered by many to be the best hockey player of all time. As of 2002, he was a Managing Partner of the Phoenix Coyotes National Hockey League team. Gretzky had a remarkable career in children's leagues in Ontario. He scored 378 goals in 85 games at the age of 10. He played one year in the Ontario Hockey League at the age of 16, with the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds. The next year, he signed with the Indianapolis Racers of the World Hockey Association, then a major professional league in North America. Eight games into the season, his contract was bought by Peter Pocklington, owner.
Olympic Flame - Games. The flame is lit in ancient Olympia, Greece and is then transported, by foot where possible, to the site where the next Olympics are held. Each runner carries the torch with the Olympic Flame for a short distance before handing it over to another runner. This relay ends at the day of the opening ceremony in the central stadium of the Games. The final carrier of the torch, usually a sports celebrity of the host country, runs towards the cauldron or urn usually (but not always) at the top of a grand staircase, who then uses the torch to start the flame in the stadium which burns throughout the celebration of the Olympics. It is extinguished at the closing ceremony. History The Olympic Flame in the ancient Olympic Games held.
List of Canadians - Harris - group of seven, early Canadian abstraction A.Y. Jackson - last member of Group of Seven Karen Kain - ballerina Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002), photographer Cornelius Krieghoff (1815-1872), painter Robert Markle (1936-1990, painter Norval Morrisseau - founded 'Woodland' school of art Jack Reid Jean-Paul Riopelle, (1923-2002), painter Tom Thomson - ill fated wilderness painter Jeff Wall - photographer See also List of Canadian painters Astronauts Roberta Bondar - first Canadian woman in space Marc Garneau, (born 1949), first Canadian in space Chris Hadfield, (born 1959), first Canadian to walk in space Steven MacLean, astronaut Julie Payette, (born 1963), astronaut Robert Thirsk, astronaut Bjarni Tryggvason, astronaut Authors Milton Acorn, (1923-1986), poet, has published 18 volumes of poetry Gilles Archambault - novelist, essayist, critic Margaret Atwood, (born 1939), poet, novelist, essayist Margaret Avison,.
List of sports events - - 1910s - 1900s - 1890s - 1880s - 1870s - 1860s - 1850s - Pre 1850s 2000s 2004 in sports - 2003 in sports - Michael Schumacher wins record sixth Formula One Championship 2002 in sports - Canada wins double gold in ice hockey at the olympics 2001 in sports - Tiger Woods becomes first golfer to hold all four major titles 2000 in sports - 1990s 1999 in sports - Death of Joe DiMaggio 1998 in sports - NHL players compete in Winter Olympic Games for the first time 1997 in sports - Mike Tyson banned from boxing after biting a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear 1996 in sports - Professional cyclists compete at Summer Olympic Games for the first time 1995 in sports - Miguel Induraín wins fifth.
Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics - Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics 2002 Winter Olympic Games Figure skating Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Pairs 2 Men 3 Ice Dancing 4 Women Pairs Medals awarded February 11, 2002; second award ceremony February 17. Gold medal: Yelena Berezhnaya/Anton Sikharulidze (RUS) and Jamie Salé/David Pelletier (CAN) Bronze: Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo (CHN) A controversial decision which extended the Russian dominance of pairs skating at the Olympics. Salé/Pelletier were the crowd favorites and skated a flawless program, while Berezhnaya/Sikharulidze stumbled during their double axel. Minutes before the Canadians went on, Salé accidentally collided with Sikharulidze and was rather shaken. Judges from Russia, the People's Republic of China, Poland, Ukraine, and France placed the Russians first; judges from the United States, Canada, Germany, and Japan gave the nod to.
Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics - Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics 2002 Winter Olympic Games Short track speed skating: 500 m Men: Gagnon (CAN) Guilmette (CAN) Smith (USA) 1000 m Men: Steven Bradbury (AUS) Apolo Anton Ohno (USA) Mathieu Turcotte (CAN) Bradbury was way behind in 5th place, but all the other finalists collided and fell while turning the last corner. He crossed the line first to win Australia's first Olympic winter gold medal. Favorite Ohno, who led before getting hit, suffered a cut in his thigh in the fall but scrambled across the ice to cross the line second. Turcotte, felled at the same time, likewise recovered to take third. Bradbury returned to Australia to several endorsement opportunities, including a "drive-slow auto safety" campaign. 1500 m Men: Ohno (USA) Li (CHN).
