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The Winter Olympics, the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and the FIS World Cup events ( including the Holmenkollen and the Tour de Ski, a grueling 9 race series completed in eleven days ) have long been a showcase for the world's fastest cross country skiers.
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In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France ; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
It was here that the 1984 Winter Olympics were held.
Bombardier also manufactured the Olympic Torch for the 2010 Winter Olympics Torch Relay
Curling has been an official sport in the Winter Olympic Games since the 1998 Winter Olympics.
In February 2002, the International Olympic Committee retroactively decided that the curling competition from the 1924 Winter Olympics ( originally called Semaine des Sports d ' Hiver, or International Winter Sports Week ) would be considered official Olympic events and no longer be considered demonstration events.
The Olympic torch relay for the 2002 Winter Olympics passed through the arch.
Dick Durrance and Tim Caldwell competed for the United States in skiing in the 1936 and 1976 Winter Olympics, respectively.
Earlier in the year the band had performed at one of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics victory concerts at Whistler Medals Plaza and donated a collection of objects to the Ohio Historical Society including an energy dome, jumpsuit, stickers, and t-shirts.
El Niño warmed Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics, such that the area experienced a subtropical-like winter during the games.
* 1998 – American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
The four disciplines of men's singles, ladies ' singles, pair skating and ice dancing will also appear as part of a team event for the first time at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Winter and FIS
When the event debuted in the 1980s, the event was a 3 x 10 km team event, but that changed following Japan's successes at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1993 in Falun and the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer where the country won by almost four minutes and almost five minutes respectively.
FIS also decided to submit a proposal to the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) to allow women to compete at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships is a major event of these sports and happens in winter of odd-number years between Winter Olympics.
Below is a list of Nordic skiiers that have won at the Winter Olympics, FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and Holmenkollen events.
It has also hosted the 1952 Winter Olympics and the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in 1930, 1966, 1982 and 2011.
# The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1980 consisted of a women's 20 km cross-country event because it was not included in the program of the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid.
# The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1984 consisted of team events in both ski jumping and Nordic combined held at separate locations because neither event was included in the program of the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
Wehling is currently FIS Race Director for the Nordic combined, a role he also did for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo.
Through a career lasting from the 1954 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun to the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, he won four World Championships gold medals and nine Olympic medals.
The 1985 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships also took place here as well as the 1st Winter Youth Olympic Games in January 2012.
Winter and Nordic
Stockholm also hosted all but one of the Nordic Games, a winter multi-sport event that predated the Winter Olympics.
Nordic combined at the 2002 Winter Olympics, consisted of three events held over ten days, from 9 February to 22 February.
* Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics
The Nordic Games were last held in 1926, after which the 1924 Winter Sports Week in Chamonix was declared the first Olympic Winter Games.
Winter depression is a common slump in the mood of some inhabitants of most of the Nordic countries.
The upland part of the district includes a network of remote mountain villages ( auls ), the Estonian colony at Estosadok, and the ski resort of Krasnaya Polyana which will host the events ( Alpine and Nordic ) of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
But during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake ( about to the southeast ), Sun Valley was used as a training site for many nations ' alpine and Nordic ski teams.
The Games were the second hosted in Norway, and the second Winter Olympics in the Nordic Countries, after the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo.
Winter activities include snowmobile festivals, Nordic ( cross country ) skiing, ice fishing, downhill skiing in nearby hills, snow tubing, sleigh rides, and snowmobiling.
In 1903, Oslo hosted its only version of the Nordic Games, dubbed the Winter Sports Week.
Holmenkollen was the venue of the Nordic skiing during the 1952 Winter Olympics.
The theme of the competition was " Bright Nordic Winter Nights ".
* 2004 – Holly Brooks, BA Sociology, Environmental Studies, Winter Olympian in Nordic skiing.
* Nordic skiing stages its first international competitions at the inaugural Winter Olympics in Chamonix.
* Kenji Ogiwara ( Nordic combined, 1992 / 1994 Winter Olympics gold medalist )
* Middlebury alumni have competed in downhill or Nordic skiing events in every Winter Olympic Games since World War II
* In 2010, two Middlebury Alumni, Garrott Kuzzy ' 06 and Simi Hamilton ' 09, represented the United States in Nordic Skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Winter and World
During World II the winter games were canceled but after that time the Winter Games have been held in St. Moritz ( 1948 ), Innsbruck, Austria ( 1964 and 1976 ), Grenoble, France, ( 1968 ), Albertville, France, ( 1992 ), and Torino, Italy, ( 2006 ).
The World Financial Center's ground floor and portions of the second floor are occupied by a mall ; its center point is a steel-and-glass atrium known as the Winter Garden.
The Winter Garden and other portions of the World Financial Center were severely damaged.
Matthew Gibson has shown that LeFanu used Dom Augustin Calmet's Treatise on Vampires and Revenants, translated into English in 1850 as The Phantom World, the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould's The Book of Were-wolves ( 1863 ), and his account of Elizabeth Bathory, Coleridge's Christabel, and Captain Basil Hall's Schloss Hainfeld ; or a Winter in Lower Styria ( London and Edinburgh, 1836 ).
* During World War II, the secret protocol in Molotov-Ribbentrop pact enabled Winter War ( 1939 – 40 ), a Soviet attack on Finland.
Finland fought the Winter War and the Continuation War against the Soviet Union in World War II.
These include the Winter Olympic Games, the World Championships, the World Junior Championships, the European Championships, the Four Continents Championships, and the Grand Prix series ( senior and junior ).
As well, the IFF hopes that floorball will be included as a demonstration sport at the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games.
There is a strong possibility that it will be played at the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games.
* Tinkov, S., Bekeredjian, R., Winter, G., Coester, C., Polyplex-conjugated microbubbles for enhanced ultrasound targeted gene therapy, 2008 AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition, 16 – 20 November, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA, USA, < http :// www. aapsj. org / abstracts / AM_2008 / AAPS2008-000838. PDF >
She was the daughter of citrus fruit magnate John A. Snively, who held extensive properties both in Winter Haven and in Waycross ; Parsons ' father was a famous World War II flying ace, decorated with the Air Medal, who was present at the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
* 1944 – World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four battles with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105, 000 Allied casualties.
Billy Kidd, part Abenaki from Vermont, became the first American male to medal in alpine skiing in the Olympics, taking silver at age 20 in the slalom in the 1964 Winter Olympics at Innsbruck, Austria. Six years later at the 1970 World Championships, Kidd won the gold medal in the combined event and took the bronze medal in the slalom.
Typical examples are The Winter of the World and The People of the Wind.
While Hitler conquered Poland, France and other countries acting on single front at the start of World War II, the USSR was able to build up its military and regain some of the former territories of the Russian Empire during the Soviet invasion of Poland and the Winter War.
Syriana, or The Godfather, Part I, World Policy Journal, Karl E. Meyer, Volume XXIII, No 1, Winter 2006.
* The Winter Solstice in World Religion and Mythology
* The Spirit World ( Winter Solstice, Part 1 ) and Avatar Roku ( Winter Solstice, Part 2 )-Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes
In 1979, the first ever World Snurfing Championship was held at Pando Winter Sports Park near Grand Rapids, Michigan.
It was first competed at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, but did not become a Winter Olympic Games medal sport until 1976.
At the Olympic Winter Games and World Championships, all competitions ( for both men and women ) consist of four heats.
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