Winter Olympics

PRIOR TO THE 2002 Winter Olympic Games held in Salt Lake City, Utah, ten highly regarded Olympic historians presented a series of lectures on the politics, history, and controversies surrounding the winter games. Those lectures are collected in "The Winter Olympics, offering readers fascinating insights into issues of gender, amateurism, commercialism, ceremony, and much more over the one hundred years of Winter Olympic's history. It also includes a survey of the Salt Lake Winter Games and the role of the LDS Church in those Games. The only volume available that explores the winter games as a whole, "The Winter Olympics is invaluable reading for understanding the movement's roots as well as the contemporary issues surrounding the Games.

The Olympic Games are the most well-known of the various sports festivals of the ancient and modern world. They have set a precedent that is followed by many lesser known--and virtually unknown--international games intended to engage specific portions of the population. This work is an encyclopedia of 175 international games that follow a format similar to that of the modern Olympics. It begins coverage with the year 1896, the year the very first modern Olympics were held, and ends with the year 2000. Here is a sampling: The African Games, Asian Games, Deaf Games (summer and winter), European Special Olympics, Firefighters World Games, Gay Games, Goodwill Games, Huntsman World Senior Games, International Womens Games, Paralympics (summer and winter), Special Olympics (summer and winter), World Transplant Games, World Medical Games, and the X Games (summer and winter). This is an exhaustive work. Information includes host city and nation, event dates, the number of participating nations and athletes, the number of sports played, lists of the participating nations (and in which sports), medal results, venue information, significant highlights, and various other facts about the games. Only partial information is provided for some games, because of the lack of records.

Australia at the 1952 Winter Olympics - Australia's second Winter Olympics was in 1952 at Oslo, Norway. It was 16 years since Australia's last Winter Olympics, as the 1940 and 1944 Winter Olympics were cancelled, and Australia did not compete in the 1948 Winter Olympics.

USSR at the Winter Olympics - USSR (IOC country code:URS) participated at the Winter Olympics eight times. At six Winter Olympics USSR was on the first place by total number of gold medals won, at two Winter Olympics it was second by this count.

Denmark at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Denmark will participate at the 2006 Winter Olympics, though as of 22 January 2006 the Danish Olympic Committee have only selected five athletes, who will compete in women's curling. Denmark's only medal at the Winter Olympics came at the women's curling in 1998, and the Danes will be aiming to repeat that performance and win their second Winter Olympic medal.

Sweden at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Sweden will participate at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino trying to win their first gold medal since the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer. Despite the lack of success in recent Olympics, Sweden are seventh on the all-time ranking of gold medals in the Olympics, with 39 golds, and the Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport have cited Swedish athletes and teams as among the favorites in twelve events "Quindici sport in cerca di podio" (10 January 2006), La Gazzetta dello ...

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