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unusual facts about Winter Olympic



Bobsleigh

Jill Bakken power up in the push zone for their 80-mile-an-hour ride down the Winter Olympic bobsledding track.

Dietmar Schauerhammer

Dietmar Schauerhammer (born 12 August 1955; Neustadt an der Orla, Thuringia) is an East German two-time Winter Olympic champion, pentathlete, decathlete and bob pusher for six-time World champion, two-time Olympic champion, four-time European champion, two-time German champion and five-time GDR champion Wolfgang Hoppe who competed during the 1980s.

FIL European Luge Championships 2008

The tie for the bronze was the first in a Winter Olympic, world championship, or European championship event since they started timing luge in the 1/1000ths of a second following the tie between Italy and East Germany in the men's doubles event at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo.


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1948 Winter Olympics

Chile, Denmark, Iceland, Korea, and Lebanon all made their Winter Olympic debut at these Games.

1992 Winter Olympics medal table

South Korea won the country's first Winter Olympic medal—a gold—when Kim Ki-hoon came first in the newly introduced Olympic sport of short track speed skating.

Ahuja

Neha Ahuja (born 1980), first Indian woman to qualify for the Winter Olympic Games and participate in the 2006 Olympics.

Alpine skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Similarly, Annelise Coberger's silver medal in the women's slalom was New Zealand's first, and of 2010, only Winter Olympic medal.

Andrew Murtha

His training colleagues included Hansen and Winter Olympic figure skaters Steven and Danielle Carr.

Camille Muffat

She thus equalled Laure Manaudou's 2004 Olympics achievement of one gold, one silver and one bronze and also became only the third Frenchwoman after Micheline Ostermeyer and Manaudou to win three medals in a single summer or winter Olympic Games.

Claude C. Robinson

He managed the Canadian team at the 1932 Winter Olympic games, which were played at Lake Placid, New York.

Gostun, Bulgaria

Gostun is the birthplace of Ivan Lebanov - the first Bulgarian to win a Winter Olympic medal in 1980.

Greg Drummond

February 2014 sees Greg make his Team GB Winter Olympic debut at the Sochi 2014 games alongside David Murdoch, Michael Goodfellow, Scott Andrews and Tom Brewster.

Gutta på tur

Gutta på tur (roughly translates as "The Boys on a Trip") was a Norwegian travel-TV show starring Arne Hjeltnes, Arne Brimi (famous chef), and professional cross-country skiers Vegard Ulvang and Bjørn Dæhlie, the most-winning athlete in the history of the Winter Olympic Games.

Hong Kong at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Hong Kong's Winter Olympic team consisted of a single athlete; Han Yueshuang competed in the 500, 1000 and 1500 metre short track speed skating but did not advance beyond the heats in any of her events.

Kieran Hansen

His training colleagues included Murtha and Winter Olympic figure skaters Steven and Danielle Carr.

Kira Ivanova

While she had won numerous medals at international events, such as World Junior Championships, Enia Challenge Cup, and Moscow News Trophy, her true breakthrough on the international skating scene came with a bronze medal at the 1984 Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Kraushaar

Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, a German luger who won medals in three consecutive Winter Olympic games

MLX

MLX Skates, a brand of high performance ice hockey skates introduced at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games

Morillon

Morillon is also the home ski area of the 2006 Winter Olympic's Downhill Gold Medalist Antoine Dénériaz.

Own the Podium

Tabloid columnist Martin Samuel blamed the program for the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili, a luge athlete from Georgia who died on the opening day of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

Plans for Olympic Winter Games held in Barcelona

Jordi Hereu i Boher, the Mayor of Barcelona, announced on January 13, 2010 the intention of nominating Barcelona as organizer of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

RBC Olympians

Steven Elm, Speedskating, Silver Medal (Team Pursuit): 2006 Winter Olympic Games (Torino), Former World Record Holder: Team Pursuit (2005/2006) and 3000m (2000–2001)

Dominique Maltais, Snowboarding (Snowboard Cross), Bronze Medal: 2006 Winter Olympic Games (Torino), Gold Medal: 2006 World Cup (Austria)

Jayna Hefford, Ice Hockey, Gold Medal: 2006 Winter Olympic Games (Torino), Gold Medal: 2002 Winter Olympic Games (Salt Lake City)

Jennifer Botterill, Ice Hockey, Gold Medal: 2006 Winter Olympic Games (Torino), Gold Medal: 2002 Winter Olympic Games (Salt Lake City), Silver Medal: 1998 Winter Olympic Games (Nagano)

Remsen, New York

Erin Hamlin-- Represented Team USA in women's singles luge at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy.

Rice-Eccles Stadium

The park contains a 2002 Winter Olympic museum, the Olympic cauldron, Hoberman Arch, and other memorabilia from the games.

San Diego Figure Skating Club

Longtime coach Yuri Ovchinnikov is on a four-year assignment with the Russian Olympic Committee in preparation for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games.

Ski jumping at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Yukio Kasaya, winner of the normal hill event, was the first ever Winter Olympic gold medalist for Japan, while Wojciech Fortuna was the first ever Winter gold medalist for Poland.

Sport in North Korea

Another North Korean Winter Olympic medal was a bronze in 1992 at the Albertville Games when Hwang Ok-Sil took third place in the women's 500 meters of short-track speed skating.

The United States Army Field Band

The Kennedy Center Honors, the 1995 Presidential Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of V-J Day, the 40th Anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, the National Memorial Day Concert, the state funerals of Presidents Reagan and Ford, and the 2002 Winter Olympic Games are some examples of high-profile appearances by the Army Field Band.

Yonsei–Korea rivalry

2010 Winter Olympic four-time gold medalist short track speed skater Chun Lee-Kyung is a graduate of Yonsei University, and gold medalist figure skater Kim Yu-Na is enrolled at KU.