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Swedish Duo Wins 1st Team Sprint Gold Medal - Olympics | Rio ...  Salt Lake CIty 2002 ... Tanja Frieden Wins 1st Snowboard Cross Gold Medal | Video ... Country Skiing Team Sprint Men's Final - Turin 2006 Winter Olympics - SWE, ... The Linger brothers finish their two-run event in 1 minute 34.497 seconds, ... of the German duo, Andr Florschutz and Torsten Wustlich, who settle for silver.
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Andr Lange - Wikipedia  Andr Lange is a retired German bobsledder and the most successful bob pilot of all time who competed at senior level from 1998 to 2010. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he has won four gold medals. He was born in Ilmenau, Thuringia. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, Lange won the four-man event with teammates ... At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Lange also won gold in the four-man event with...
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List of 2006 Winter Olympics medal winners - Wikipedia  The 2006 Winter Olympics were held in Turin, Italy, from 10 February to 26 February 2006. Approximately 2,508 athletes from 80 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in these Games. Overall, 84 events in 15 disciplines were contested; 45 events were opened to men, 37 to women and 2 were mixed pairs events. ... Canadian Duff Gibson won a gold medal in the men's skeleton and, at age...
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Andr Lange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  Lange holding German flag during opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics. ... Gold medal  first place .... At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Lange also won gold in the four-man event with teammates ... At the Bobsleigh World Cup level, he has won three combined men's championships (2000-1, 2002-3, 2003-4), one...
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Andre Lange | German bobsleigh driver | Britannica.com  German bobsled driver who captured more Olympic gold medals (four) than ... He continued to climb in the World Cup overall driver rankings, and for more ... At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, Lange swept the two-man and four-man events. ... Lange won his fourth career Olympic gold medal in the two-man event,...
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Overview | Montenegrin Olympic Committee  The Winter Games are plagued with warm weather, slowing some events ... America's bobsleigh team, led by Billy Fiske, wins the gold; the team .... running barefoot, becomes the first black African to take home a gold medal. ..... Winter 1998 ... himself from his 1994 failures, helping Japan's ski-jumping team win the gold.
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Ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  The men's ice hockey tournament at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, U.S.A., was the 14th Olympic Championship. Twelve teams competed in the tournament, which was held from February 12 to 24. The United States won its second gold medal, including a win over the heavily favored Soviet Union ... The Soviets had won every Winter Olympics ice hockey tournament since...
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WINTER SPORTS AND OLYMPICS IN JAPAN: 1998 WINTER ...  In the Nordic combined event, the Japanese team won consecutive gold medals at .... his pet project an Olympic museum, in return for help of bring the games to Nagano. ... Japan won 10 medals, including five golds (two in ski jumping, one in speed skating, ... Happy Harada and Japanese Ski Jumpers at Nagano in 1998.
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List of Olympic medalists in speed skating - Wikipedia  Speed skating is a sport that has been contested at the Winter Olympic Games since the inaugural Games in 1924. Events held at the first Winter Olympics included the men's 500-metre, 1500-metre, 5000-metre, and 10,000-metre races. Points from the four races were combined and counted towards the all-round event, ... German Claudia Pechstein has won nine medalsfive gold, two silver, and...
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Cross-country Skiing - Winter Olympic Sport - Topend Sports  About Cross-country Skiing at the Winter Olympic Games. ... The most medals won by any athletes at the Winter Olympic Games is 12 by ... the last athlete to win a cross-country skiing event using all-wooden skis. ... In 1992, Vegard Ulvang and Bjorn Daehlie of Norway dominated the Nordic skiing men's cross-country races...
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Bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  Events, 3 (men: 2; women: 1). Games. 1924  1928  1932  1936  1948  1952  1956; 1960; 1964  1968  1972  1976  1980  1984  1988  1992  1994  1998  2002  2006  2010  2014  Medalists  Bobsleigh is an event in the Winter Olympic Games where a two- or four-person team drives a ... and a two-woman event was first contested at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
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Ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  The men's ice hockey tournament at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, U.S.A., was the 14th Olympic Championship. Twelve teams competed in the tournament, which was held from February 12 to 24. The United States won its second gold medal, including a win over the ... The Olympics came at a difficult time for SovietU.S. relations, as they were...
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Winter Olympics Memorable Moments: Dan Jansen - Infoplease  Four years later at the 1992 Games in Albertville, Jansen sought redemption. While no longer the overwhelming favorite as he had been in 1988, he was still the...
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Eric Heiden facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  Speed skater Eric Heiden won five gold medals in the 1980 Winter Olympic Games ... There, he set Olympic records in the 500-, 1,000-, 1,500-, 5,000-, and ... After winning more gold medals than any other athlete in a single Winter Olympics and ... Every day, they attended high school in the morning, did their homework in...
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1994 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1994 Winter Olympics (Norwegian: Olympiske vinterleker 1994), officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games (French: Les XVIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver), was a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 12 to 27 February 1994 in and around Lillehammer, Norway. Lillehammer failed to win the bid for the 1992 event.
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Legendary 41-year-old Powers Japan's Ski Jumping Revival ...  Feb 28, 2014 ... The thrilling competition at the Sochi Winter Olympics has drawn to a close. Japan's Olympic team ended up with one gold, four silver, and three ... gold in the individual event, but I was so happy our team could win ... stellar performance of the Japanese ski jumpers at the 1998 games is ... Harada Masahiko
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Speed Skating at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Games | Olympics at ...  Participants: 128 (74 men and 54 women) from 20 countries ... The 1980 Olympic speed skating competition took place on an outdoor track set up ... It was considered a possibility that Heiden could win five gold medals in the five Olympic events, ... But in the end, he would do just that, winning all five gold medals, finishing it...
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Alberto Tomba - "i Am The New Messiah Of Skiing!" - Slalom ...  He won his first World Cup event, at Sestriere, Italy, in November of 1987, and ... in 1987, where Tomba won a bronze medal in the giant slalom, he earned ... told Bruce Newman of Sports Illustrated shortly before the 1988 Winter Olympics. ... He did indeed win both of themthe giant slalom by the unheard of margin of over...
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List of Olympic medalists in snowboarding - Wikipedia  Snowboarding is a sport that has been contested at the Winter Olympic Games since the 1998 ... In 1998, four events, two for men and two for women, were held in two ... won the men's giant slalom and became the first athlete to win a gold medal in ... Halfpipe  Parallel giant slalom  Snowboard cross  Slopestyle  Parallel...
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Speed Skating - Winter Olympic Sports - Topend Sports  About Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games. ... Track Speed Skating), and has a longer history at the Olympics than the shorter version. ... (Summer and Winter) was American Eric Heiden, when he won all five men's speed skating ... Also in 1994, Bonnie Blair of the USA won two speed skating gold medals, which...
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Shaun White - Male Athletes - Bellazon  Feb 21, 2010 ... At the 2006 Winter Olympics, White won gold in the halfpipe. ... Kevin Pearce had 5 hits in the pipe and all were the same tricks White did in his final run. White ... White was on the cover for The Complete Book of the Winter ... Shaun White: Attack of the Flying Tomato" Rolling Stone (accessed July 12, 2006).