has anyone ever won a medal at both the summer and winter olympic games?
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From www.olympic.org:\n\nEddie Eagan (USA-bobsleigh and boxing) achieved a unique feat by winning gold medals in both summer and winter sports. In 1920, he won the light-heavyweight boxing championship. Twelve years later, he reappeared at the Winter Olympics and won the four-man bobsleigh event.
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Winter Olympics, last month.  Summer Olympics, 2004
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Yes. The dates have been set.\n\nOlympic Winter Games: February 12-28, 2010
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Yes, I think it is wonderful to see ANY olympian win a medal in the olympics, including SHAWN WHITE
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Eddie Eagan, who had been an Olympic champion in boxing in 1920, won the gold in the men's bobsled event during the 1932 Lake Placid Games to become the first and so far only Olympian to have won gold medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympics.
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Some folks aren't READING your question.\n\nThe Record for most MEDALS in one games belongs to Michael Phelps of the US who won 8 medals (6 gold, 2 bronze; 4 individual gold, 2, relay gold, one individual bronze and one relay bronze). This record is lessened a bit by the fact that Phelps swam in the preliminary heat but not the final of the 4x100 m medley relay, yet because of rule changes, is still awarded a medal.)\n\nThis tied the Record of 8 medals by Alexander Dityatin, a gymnast in the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, when he won 3 golds, 4 silver and one bronze medal. But this was a boycotted games, so the impact of that feat was also lessened\n\nMark Spitz won 7 GOLD medals at the 1972 Munich Olympic games (5 individual and 2 relay medals), all in WR time, so I'd still say that Spitz's effort was still superior if no longer the "record"
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According to the site listed as a source, (located in the 'Did you know' near the bottom of the page) Denmark's Lisa Hartle was the first female rider to win an Olympic medal in Dressage.\n\nIt also states an interesting fact: She overcame a polio affliction and managed to win the silver medal in two consecutive Olympic Games, in 1952 and in 1956. :-)
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Summer Games: Moscow, USSR (XXII Olympiad)\n\nWinter Games: Lake Placid, New York, USA (XIII)
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I didn't know if you wanted men or women.  Here is all the alpine skiing results from the 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games, that were held in 1984 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia.\n\n\n\nDownhill\nMedal   Athlete             Time \nGold    Bill Johnson  (USA) 1:45.59 \nSilver  Peter Müller  (SUI) 1:45.86 \nBronze  Anton Steiner (AUT) 1:45.95 \n\n\nGiant Slalom\nMedal   Athlete              Time \nGold    Max Julen      (SUI) 2:41.18 \nSilver  Jure Franko    (YUG) 2:41.41 \nBronze  Andreas Wenzel (LIE) 2:41.75 \n\n\nSlalom\nMedal   Athlete             Time \nGold    Phil Mahre    (USA) 1:39.41 \nSilver  Steve Mahre   (USA) 1:39.62 \nBronze  Didier Bouvet (FRA) 1:40.20 \n\n\nWomen's events\n\nDownhill\nMedal   Athlete               Time \nGold    Michela Figini  (SUI) 1:13.36 \nSilver  Maria Walliser ( SUI) 1:13.41 \nBronze  Olga Charvatová (TCH) 1:13.53 \n\n\nGiant Slalom\nMedal   Athlete                Time \nGold    Debbie Armstrong (USA) 2:20.98 \nSilver  Christin Cooper  (USA) 2:21.38 \nBronze  Perrine Pelen    (FRA) 2:21.40 \n\n\nSlalom\nMedal   Athlete               Time \nGold    Paoletta Magoni (ITA) 1:36.47 \nSilver  Perrine Pelen   (FRA) 1:37.38 \nBronze  Ursula Konzett  (LIE) 1:37.50
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no, the winter olympics contain sports that have to do wih the winter, basketball is a summer event.
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Never. This is a first in the Winter Olympics.
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An Olympic gold medal.
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The 2006 Winter Olympics by the numbers: \n252: Number of medals to be awarded \n\n2,500: Number of athletes participating \n\n85: Number of countries participating \n\n12: Number of countries that have participated in every Winter Games \n\n171: Number of medals won by athletes who work for Home Depot (including summer and Paralympics) \n\n1: Number of U.S. athletes known to have competed as a piece of meat (Chris Witty, who ran costumed as an Italian sausage in a Milwaukee Brewers Sausage Race) \n\n81: Highest mph speed limit on Italian highways \n\n80: Average mph speed of a downhill skier \n\n10,000: Number of credentialed journalists \n\n416: Number of hours of television coverage \n\n7: Number of NBC networks showing coverage \n\n13: Number of medals Italy got in 2002 Salt Lake City Games (four gold, four silver, five bronze) \n\n34: Number of medals U.S. got in 2002 Salt Lake City Games (10 gold, 13 silver, 11 bronze) \n\n42: The average weight, in pounds, of a curling stone \n\n90: Number of medals Italian athletes have won in Winter Games (31 gold, 31 silver, 28 bronze) \n\n191: Number of medals won by U.S. athletes in Winter Games (69 gold, 71 silver, 51 bronze) \n\n56: Number of medals won by the U.S. team in its best event, speed skating \n\n29: Number of medals won by the Italian team in its best event, cross-country skiing \n\n215: Approximate number of U.S. athletes competing at Torino \n\n2.2 million: Number of people who live in Torino, the largest city ever to host a Winter Olympics \n\n6: Events added to the 2006 Winter Games (men's and women's speed skating pursuit, men's and women's snowboard cross, men's and women's biathlon mass start) \n\n263: Medals won by Norway, the top podium-taker in the Winter Olympics (not counting the 300 medals won by East and West Germany when combined with the single Germany's tally or the 275 won by the U.S.S.R./Unified Team/Russia) \n\n1: Number of athletes competing at Torino who have also medaled at Summer Games (Clara Hughes, Canada, bronze in 5,000 meter speed skating, 2002, and bronze in time trial and road race cycling events, 1996) \n\n6: Number of medals won by speed skater Bonnie Blair, top U.S. medal winner at Winter Games (five gold, one bronze) \n\n32: The number of worldwide partners/official sponsors of the 2006 Winter Olympics
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Yes.\n\nFrom an Australian perspective, the three gold medals. The most memorable moment was the performance of Canadian weightlifter Marilou Dozois-Prevost in winning the silver medal in the women's weightlifting. She was a female weightlifter who looked like a woman. The other was the hailstorm interrupting the women's pairs in the lawn bowls between Canada and Swaziland.
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1924 , Chamonix\nhe first Winter Olympic Games were actually called “The International Winter Sports Week” and went on for 11 days in the French Alps, 60 miles northeast of Grenoble.\n\nAs expected, the Scandinavians dominated the 16–nation field. Norway and Finland won 27 of the 43 medals available, including all four Nordic events and four of the five speed skating races. Speed skater Clas Thunberg of Finland and Norwegian Nordic skier and jumper Thorleif Haug each won three gold medals.\n\nAmerican speed skater Charles Jewtraw won the first event of the Games with an upset in the 500 meters. But the most remarkable U.S. medal was the bronze won by Anders Haugen in the ski jump. Due to a scoring error at the time he didn't receive it until 1974 – when he was 83 years old.\n\nIn its first four hockey games, Canada beat Switzerland 33–0, Czechoslovakia 30–0, Sweden 22–0 and Great Britain 19–2, before winning the tournament with a 6–1 victory over the U.S. in the final.
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No.\n\nThe sites for Winter Olympics are:\n1924 - Chamonix, France\n1928 - St Moritz, Switzerland\n1932 - Lake Placid, USA\n1936 - Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany\n1940 - Sapporo, Japan - St Moritz - Garmisch-Partenkirchen - CANCELLED\n1944 - Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy - CANCELLED\n1948 - St Moritz\n1952 - Oslo, Norway\n1956 - Cortina d'Ampezzo\n1960 - Sqaw Valley, USA\n1964 - Innsbrück, Austria\n1968 - Grenoble, France\n1972 - Sapporo\n1976 - Denver - Innsbrück\n1980 - Lake Placid\n1984 - Sarajevo, Yugoslavia\n1988 - Calgary, Canada\n1992 - Haute Savoie, France\n1994 - Lillehammer, Norway\n1998 - Nagano, Japan\n2002 - Salt Lake City, USA\n2006 - Torino, Italy\n2010 - Vancouver, Canada\n2014 - Almaty, Kazakhstan OR Borjomi, Georgia OR Jaca, Spain OR Pyeong Yang, China OR Salzburg, Austria OR Sochi, Russia OR Sofia, Bulgaria (to be announced in 2007)
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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.