INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES DID YOU KNOW? Women took part in ice hockey for the first time in olympic history.Learn more, PHOTO GALLERY Click below to discover all the photos. http://www.sydney.olympic.org/uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1998
Extractions: Choose Sport Baseball M Basketball W Basketball Cross Country Fencing Field Hockey Football M Golf W Golf M Gymnastics W Gymnastics M Ice Hockey W Ice Hockey M Lacrosse W Lacrosse Pistol Rifle Rowing M Soccer W Soccer Softball Synchro Swim M Tennis W Tennis M Volleyball W Volleyball Wrestling Cheerleading Strength/Cond. Releases Sport Camps Kid's Club SASSO Won an Olympic bronze medal at Nagano, Japan in 1998, as a member of Team Finland at 16 years old, was the youngest Olympian to medal for Finland ... Finland also took bronze at the 2000 World Championships and Laaksonen was honored as the best defenseman on her team member of teams that won the gold medal at the Finnish National Championship in 1999 and 2000 and the bronze medal in 1997 and 98 a participant in Team Finland Junior National Camps since 1995 also competed in the Three Nations Cup for Team Finland from 1997-99 in 1998, she was voted her high schools best female athlete, having also played soccer, ringette and Finnish baseball. Personal
Extractions: The small village of Lake Placid is world-famous as the host of the Winter Olympic Games in 1932 and 1980, but its place in the sporting world goes beyond that. Lake Placid attracts world-class athletes for the current world championship events. As well, Olympic athletes currently use Lake Placid as a training facility for many Olympic sports. In 1932, the world focused on a small village in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. The world was in the midst of the Great Depression and Franklin D. Roosevelt was Governor of the State of New York. Lake Placid, with a population of 2,930, was host of the III Olympic Winter Games. In 1929, Godfrey Dewey, winter sports enthusiast and son of Dr. Melvil Dewey, founder of the Dewey Decimal System, successfully presented the village's bid for the 1932 Games to the International Olympic Committee.
Canadian Olympic Committee - Basic Facts & History Nearly 3,000 years of olympic history. Country Skiing 5. Curling 6. Figure Skating7. Freestyle skiing 8. ice hockey 9. Luge 10 Women in the early olympic Games. http://www.coa.ca/youth/CoolFactsandHistory
Extractions: The Olympics first started nearly 3,000 years ago in Ancient Greece . The ancient Greek civilization enjoyed many sportsincluding running, boxing and wrestlingbecause they believed physical activity and competition were very important. Every Greek boy was expected to participate in sports , because the Greeks believed the skills they learned in sports would make them better warriors. The ancient Greeks also believed religion was very important. Zeus was their greatest god. The ancient Greeks built a shrine to honour Zeus in the Valley of Olympia. Greeks gathered at the shrine to play their favourite sports as part of their religious ceremonies. In 776 B.C. the ancient Greeks first recorded the results from their sporting events held in honour of Zeus. Every four years after that these Games were held, and because they took place in the Valley of Olympia , they became known as the Olympic Games Sports in the ancient Games usually included: At the Games, olive wreaths were given to the winners. Winners became heroes in their hometowns, and
ChannelOklahoma.com - Olympics olympic history. silver, and 69 bronze, Norway has won more olympic medals than Luge/SkeletonCurling Figure Skating Freestyle Skiing ice hockey Nordic Combined http://www.channeloklahoma.com/olympics/?z=smap
NZ Ice Hockey Federation years. From 1992 onwards IIHF World Championships have also been heldon olympic years. history of ice hockey in New Zealand. The http://www.nzicehockey.co.nz/about.htm
Extractions: History of the Game The game was first played on frozen lakes and waterways in Canada, players using crude sticks to hit a piece of wood into the goals. In 1893 Lord Stanley gave the Stanley Cup for amateur competition. In 1910 the Stanley Cup became the award for the winners of the professional league play-offs. History of Ice Hockey in New Zealand The sport has been played in New Zealand for over 60 years and started in the South Island high country where farmers and farm workers played on frozen ponds and lakes. The first organised ice hockey tournament was played at Opawa, near Albury in South Canterbury in 1937 when Wyndham Barker gave a trophy called the Erewhon Cup. A meeting was held afterwards and the New Zealand Ice Skating Association formed. Ice hockey was always the poor relation in the NZISA and it wasn't until 1986 when the New Zealand Ice Hockey Federation was formed at a meeting at Lake Tekapo that ice hockey began to flourish. New Zealand's international debut was at the IIHF D Pool World Championships in Perth, West Australia in 1987 where the team won the Bronze medal. New Zealand Senior teams have competed at World Championships regularly since 1995, but success has been elusive and the standard of competition very high. Junior teams began competing in the IIHF Asian/ Oceania Junior Championships in 1998. In 1999 a Bronze medal was achieved in Division 2 of these Championships, and in 2000 the New Zealand Juniors won the Gold Medal in Thailand.
GoGreece.com: Other Sports world, which is held on the original and first modern olympic course (1896 Learn allabout the Greek ice hockey Championship, the history behind ice http://www.gogreece.com/sports_recreation/other_sports.html
Extractions: Athens Classic Marathon In the pages of this site you will find useful information about the only Marathon race in the world, which is held on the original and first modern Olympic course (1896). Some of the topics that you will be able to find in the official site of the Athens Classic Marathon (ACM) are: -The Historical roots of the Marathon race. -A detailed interactive map of the course including an altitude diagram. -Information about other Championships that will be hosted in ACM. -Results and statistics of previous years . -The latest news about the organization of ACM. -Useful advice for all participants.
INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES s ice hockey was introduced to the olympic programme. For the first time, the mensice hockey tournament was in an individual event in the history of the http://www.atlanta.olympic.org/uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1998
CANOE 2002 Games - Men's Hockey States and one of the biggest upsets in olympic history. embedded a lucky loonie atcentre ice at the E the Canadian women's and men's hockey teams successfully http://www.canoe.ca/2002GamesHockey/home.html
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Online NewsHour: Olympic Mettle -- February 9, 1998 This year, ice hockey officially includes a womans event. professional playersfrom the National hockey League make in the history of the olympic games snow http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/sports/jan-june98/olympics_2-9a.html
Extractions: The NewsHour's panel of historians examine the history of the Olympics Browse the NewsHour's sports coverage. OUTSIDE LINKS: The official homepage for of the 1998 Winter Games. Yahoo! 's coverage of the winter games. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: The great bell at Zenkoji Temple in Nagano opened this years Winter Olympics. The temple is more than 1300 years old. According to legend, it was built to house the first image of Buddha brought to Japan. This town and its jagged mountain peaks form one of the largest ski areas in Japan. Close to 3,000 athletes from 72 countries are here for this years games. The Winter Olympics have brought together some of the worlds finest athletes since 1924, when the first official games were held in Chamonix, France. The games have survived two world wars, terrorism, and political boycotts. The triumphs and losses have become part of each participating nations collective history. Olympic Memories.
Onegoal1 The first ever documentary about women's ice hockey in the United States. Highlights include training footage and game footage from 1998 and 2002 olympic Winter Games. Interviews with Cammi Granato, Karyn Bye, Katie King, Shelley Looney, Sarah Tueting and Ben Smith. http://www.onegoalatatime.com
Extractions: WOMEN'S ICE HOCKEY . . . One Goal at a Time is the first ever documentary style video on U.S. Women's Ice Hockey and the U.S. Women's National and Olympic team members. This film was produced by Earth on Fire Productions , a company owned and operated by two former collegiate women ice hockey players. Owners, Bree Cheatham and Courtney King both played four years of Division I college hockey at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts between 1993 and 1997. In 1997 they ended their college careers with an ECAC championship title. Both girls played hockey since they were very young and participated in both development camps and in USA Hockey tryouts for the U.S. Women's National and Olympic Teams since the program began in 1990.
Olympic Regional Development Authority Lake Placid, New York. Site of the famous Miracle on ice hockey game in 1980, the olympic Center houses four ice surfaces, convention space and the 1932 and 1980 Winter olympic Museum. http://www.orda.org/
Extractions: U.S. players rejoice after their 4-3 victory over the Soviets. It was 20 years ago Tuesday when the U.S. Olympic hockey team made us believe in miracles. The young Americans' upset of the mighty Soviets in the 1980 Winter Olympics remains one of the great moments in sports history. ESPN.com's Ray Ratto says it wasn't just the game that it made it the Miracle on Ice; it was the timing and context of it. The Cold War was at one of its peaks, and the Russians seemed invincible , especially on the ice. All that changed Feb. 22, 1980.
Extractions: Goalie Martin Brodeur (front center) poses with the rest of Team Canada after receiving their gold medals. AP WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) The Maple Leaf dollar buried in America's home ice turned out to be a golden omen for Canada. The Canadians finally ended an agonizing 50-year wait for the Olympic gold medal in their national sport, beating the United States as Jarome Iginla and Joe Sakic each scored twice in a historic 5-2 victory Sunday. "We're a hockey power in the world," goaltender Martin Brodeur said. "Winning the gold kind of reassures Canada." The loss ended U.S. coach Herb Brooks' quest to lead a second gold-medal winning team 22 years after the famous "Miracle on Ice" with a group of college players. "Our attitude coming into this game was we're the better team, we've got to go out there and prove it," U.S. captain Chris Chelios said. "But today, Canada was better." Maybe it was because the Americans really didn't have the home-ice advantage.
The Pettit National Ice Center An olympic training facility that providing skating classes for all everyone. Includes information on skating classes, figure skating, hockey and public skating periods. http://www.thepettit.com/
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Extractions: Tommy Salo gave up a soft goal for the game-winner with 2:24 to play. AP WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) The shot couldn't possibly go in, but it did. Sweden couldn't possibly lose, but it did. And the kind of upset that couldn't possibly happen with NHL players now dominating the Olympics is a reality. Vladimir Kopat scored on a 70-foot shot that bounced wildly off goalie Tommy Salo's head with only 2:24 remaining and Belarus scored one of the greatest upsets in Olympic history Wednesday, beating Sweden 4-3 in the hockey quarterfinals. Yes, Belarus believes in miracles, too. "For sure, it is a miracle for us," Belarus goalie Andrei Mezin said. "But sometimes a gun without bullets can shoot, and that was us. We've made our place in history." Belarus-Sweden Breakdown How better to describe Belarus' stunning 4-3 upset of Sweden than Exhibit A as to why you play the game? In competition, anything can happen. Especially in single-elimination events. And that is what this game turned into an event. And one in which Belarus found a way to slow up the high-flying Swedes between the blue lines.
USA Women's Ice Hockey Team Tribute Site Fan site dedicated to the USA Women's ice hockey Team that features pictures of present and past players, photos of past tournaments including the olympic Games, Four Nations Cup, World Championships and photos from player families and friends. Also includes web polls, team news, announcements and links. http://www.usa-womens-icehockey.com
World Almanac For Kids Basketball Hall of Fame was founded in 1959 to honor great basketball players, coaches,referees, and others important to the history of the game. ice hockey. http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/sports.html
