What happened to clapper skates and ski jumping sideways, in the Olyimpics?
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Clapper Skates are used in the Speed Skating but sideways ski jumping? That's a new one on me.
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That's not the sort of information that is usually available at a snap. The only thing I can suggest is that you contact people living in past Winter Olympic host cities who were aged between 5 and 13 when the Games where hosted there and ask what influence it had on them.
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Clas Thunberg won 2 gold on 500m and 1500m but couln't try for a third medal cause the ice was thawing.\nHe was equal by Johan Gröttumsbraate who won the nordic combiend and the 18 km in the cross-country skiing
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Billards & Bowling? What are you smokin' son?\n\nThe events program for the Beijing 2008 Games is similar to that of the Athens Games.The 2008 Olympics will see the return of 28 sports, and will hold 302 events, one more than in Athens.\n\nNine new events are to be held, including the new cycling discipline of BMX (composed of individual events for men and women). Women will compete in 3000m steeplechase. Marathon swimming events for men and women, over the distance of 10 kilometers, will be added to the swimming discipline. Team events (men and women) in table tennis will replace the doubles events. In fencing, women's team foil and women's team sabre will replace men's team foil and women's team epee.\n\nThat's it considering that PHI's last medal was in '96...If the PI is gonna win a gold, you may wanna see if you can get someone to change their citizenship to Filipino.
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Well, if you mean what channel showed the games on Russian TV, 1TV (Pervii Kanal) did the opening ceremony and weekends and Kanal Rossiya did weekdays.  I might add it was lousy coverage, mostly showing target shooting.  Unless, of course, you love seeing people shoot an endless variety of weapons at a target, then I apologize.
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I think the winter olympics were pretty good, not the best I've seen, but still very interesting seeing new countries winning medals. What I was a little disappointed about was the performance of Bode Miller. He was portrayed to be very good by the media, but then screwed up in most of his events.
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"Do you believe in miracles? Yes." That was al michaels saying that in one of the biggest upset set of all time when the us hockey team beat the russian in 1980 winter games in lake placid in the semifinal play, what is now called the Miracle on Ice. This event was almost impossible to think in the begin of the olympics that this was going to happen because the us team was a bunch of college kids agaist the russian team was practacilly professionals that won gold for the last 3 winter olympics and who already beat some pro hockey team the the New York Rangers and the Montele Candians. It was aslo important because america need heros because the iran hostage and other things were happening. This aslo symbolized democry overtaking coummism under turmenous odds. This game was so powerful that people who don't watch hockey or sports remember watching this game.
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INNSBRUCK  1976\n\nXII Olympic Winter Games\n\nDenver was supposed to host them, but the people of Denver didn't want to use public funds, so Innsbruck stepped in and the 1976 Olympics were held in Innsbruck.
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running, boxing, wrestling, discus, javelin, shotput, long jump, and pentathalon/decatholon combinations of such. \n\nyes, they were played naked and women were not allowed.\n\nthey were also much more viscious. People were beaten to a pulp, had thumbs bit off, etc in the boxing games.
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No. He is alive. I heard he broke his back skiing. I cant remember what resort he was at?
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they used to take place the same year.  Up until about 12 years ago.  it was too much Olympics to take (IMHO).
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This is your lucky day!  I used to teach skating lessons back when people skated on 4 wheelers.  I'm assuming they still come equipped with a rubber toe stop on the front.  The first thing to learn is to drag the toe stop behind you while skating forward and slowly bring yourself to a stop.  Once you've mastered this, you'll realize how geeky it is.\n\nThe next thing to do is to learn how to skate backwards.  Starting at a standstill with your toes pointed together, force your feet apart in an outwards motion and then bring them back together again.  Sort of like doing an hourglass over and over.  This will get you going in a backwards motion.  To stop, simply lean forward on both toe stops.  It's fun when you're going fast.\n\nAs you become better, you'll learn how to stop without the toe stops when you're skating forward.  One way is to drag one foot behind the other in a sort of t-shape.  So instead of dragging the toe stop, you're dragging the inner front and rear wheel of the skate that's stopping you.\n\nEventually, you'll learn how to stop much the way skiers do, by turning both skates sideways and catching the inner edge of the right foot and the outer edge of the left foot at the same time.
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the first pair of ice skates date back to 3000 b.c
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Oh... well in the original dance, on a lift towards the end, they fell.  Barbara was very angry and it lasted through to the free dance. The partners arrived seperately and didn't talk until after the free dance in which they skated beautifully.  You see, the Italians were in the lead after the compulsary dance, good medal position for them. Then with the fall in the original dance, they lost the chance at a medal.
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Winter Olympics, last month.  Summer Olympics, 2004
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I was really hoping that Sasha Cohen would take home the gold and Irina Slitskya would take home silver. I guess it was close. Other than that i was a bit dissapionted with pairs ice dancing.
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The rules for some of the cross country skiing events were adjusted due to the technique known as skating.