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Ice hockey at the Olympic Games - Wikipedia  ... since the 1972 Winter Olympics. In the men's tournament, Canada was the most successful team of the first three decades, winning six of seven gold medals.
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1924 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. Originally called Semaine Internationale des Sports d'Hiver ("International ... The first gold medal awarded in the Olympic Winter games was won by Charles Jewtraw of the...
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Chamonix 1924 Winter Olympics - results & video highlights  Chamonix France was host to the first Winter Olympics ever held, 25 Jan-5 Feb 1924. Find videos, photos, news, events, athletes and gold medals. ... In 1921, the International Olympic Committee gave its patronage to a Winter Sports Week to take place ... In ice hockey, the Canadian team managed to score 85 times without...
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First Winter Olympics - Jan 25, 1924 - HISTORY.com  On January 25, 1924, the first Winter Olympics take off in style at Chamonix in the ... ski jump and bobsled as well as 12 other events involving a total of six sports. ... Olympic event, and Canada took home the first of many hockey gold medals. ... and slopes, and Norway won the unofficial team competition with 17 medals.
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1960 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1960 Winter Olympics was a winter multi-sport event held between February 1828, 1960 .... One of the conditions for a unified German team was that the athletes be ... This was the first Olympic gold medal in ice hockey for the United States and it ... Biathlon took its place and was instated as a full Olympic sport in 1960.
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Lost Sports of the Summer Olympics - The Atlantic  Jul 20, 2012 ... Baseball, tug-of-war, and nine other team medal events that were phased out of ... appearing at only five Games of the first 10 (1900, 1908, 1920, 1924, and 1936). ... showed up to St. Louis to represent Canada in the 1904 Olympics. ... 15 players per team) awarded gold medals once to France, twice to the...
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2010 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Vancouver 2010, informally the 21st Winter Olympics, were a major international multi-sport ... For the first time, Canada won gold in an "official" sport at an Olympic Games hosted at home, ... 8.1.1 First Nations opposition.
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Chamonix 1924 Winter Olympics - results & video highlights  Chamonix France was host to the first Winter Olympics ever held, 25 Jan-5 Feb ... won the tournament by scoring 122 goals, with only three scored against them.
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ESPN.com - Sale, Pelletier share gold with Russian pair  SALT LAKE CITY -- The Canadians got their gold after all, not on the ice but in a ... much as figure skating itself after the biggest judging scandal of the Winter Games. ... "During the event review meeting, Marie-Reine Le Gougne informed the...
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1960 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1960 Winter Olympics was a winter multi-sport event held between February 1828, 1960 .... The monies were used to build sports arenas and provide military support during the Games. .... There were six cross-country skiing races at the 1960 Olympics, four for men and two for women, all held at the McKinney Creek...
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1924 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. Originally called Semaine Internationale des Sports d'Hiver ("International Winter Sports Week") and held in association with the 1924 Summer ... The first gold medal awarded in the Olympic Winter games was won by...
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Winter Olympics Firsts - Topend Sports  The FIRST Winter Olympic Games were held in Chamonix, France in 1924. ... The FIRST Winter Games hosted in a national capital city was Oslo in 1952. ... The FIRST Winter Games to be broadcast in color was in Grenoble, France in 1968. ... The FIRST person to win five individual gold medals in one Games (Summer and...
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Canada at the Summer Olympics - Wikipedia  Flag used from 1924-1956. Flag used in 1936. Flag used from 1960-1964. Canada has competed at 23 Summer Olympic Games, missing only the inaugural 1896 .... Canada also won 1 gold medal and 1 silver medal at the 1906 Summer ..... sport was moved to the Winter Olympics program for the first winter games in 1924.
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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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1948 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games German: .... The Swiss two-man teams placed first and second, which is the best possible ... Frenchman Henri Oreiller won a medal in all three Alpine events; gold in the ... He was one of only two athletes to win two gold medals at the 1948 Games,...
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1998 Olympics - Fact Monster  The U.S. won the first women's hockey gold medal, while the U.S. men's ... Curling and snowboarding also made their Olympic debuts in Nagano. ... Italy (10), 2, 6, 2, 20 ... No, Sport, G-S-B .... Halfpipe, Gian Simmen, SWI, 85.2 pts ... the men's event was last held in 1948 while the women's event is making its Olympic debut.
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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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First Winter Olympics - Jan 25, 1924 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, First Winter Olympics on Jan 25, 1924. ... The International Winter Sports Week, as it was known, was a great success, ... Germany planned a Winter Olympics to precede the 1916 Berlin Summer Games, but World War I ... Canada won another hockey gold, scoring 110 goals and allowing just three...
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Dorothy Hamill. Won Gold in 1976 in Innsbruck, and, in the nicest ...  Camel ... Dorothy Hamill won the gold metal in skating at the 1976 Olympics at Innsbruck, Austria. .... Are you watching the drama on (and off) the ice at the Olympics? So is Dorothy Hamill! The 1976 gold medalist is sharing her insider's take on the figure skating .... Kristi Yamaguchi - 1992 Olympic Figure Skating Champion .
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Alpine Skiing - The Canadian Encyclopedia  Jul 7, 2015 ... As skis slowly supplanted snowshoes for social winter sporting ... Initially the popularity of the sport was largely based on ski jumping competitions, featuring such famous ... The victorious British team introduced steel edges (invented in ... world champions or Olympic gold medalists Anne Heggtveit (1960),...
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Ice hockey at the Olympic Games - Wikipedia  Ice hockey tournaments have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1920. The men's tournament was introduced at the 1920 Summer Olympics and was transferred permanently to the Winter Olympic Games program in 1924, in France. The women's tournament was first held at the 1998 Winter Olympics. .... Canada won all three of the team's games in the first round and won the gold...