1998 Winter Olympics

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Highlights

• Women's ice hockey
  Ice hockey
  
  Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover such as Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia and Russia, though with the advent of indoor artificial ice r...
   was contested at the Olympic Games
  Olympic Games
  
  The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
   for the first time ever, and the U.S.
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
   beat the Canadians
  Canada
  
  Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
   3-1 for the gold medal. U.S.
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
   went undefeated in the women's tournament, while the men had just a single win over Belarus
  Belarus
  
  Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north....
   and lost every other game. Czech Republic
  Czech Republic
  
  The Czech Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east....
   faced Russia
  Russia
  
  Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
   for the men's gold medal, while Finland
  Finland
  
  Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
   won both the men's and women's bronze medals for ice hockey.
• Cross-country skier
  Cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympics
  
  Cross-country skiing has been contested at the Winter Olympic Games since the first Winter Games in 1924 Winter Olympics. The women's events were first contested at the 1952 Winter Olympics....
   Bjørn Dæhlie
  Bjørn Dæhlie
  
  Bj?rn D?hlie is a retired Norway cross-country skiing. He has won eight Olympic Games titles and nine FIS Nordic World Ski Championships titles....
   of Norway
  Norway
  
  Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
   won three gold medals in Nordic skiing to become the first winter Olympian to earn eight career gold medals and twelve total medals.
• Also, after Bjorn finished 1st in the 10km Cross Country classic event, waited over 20 minutes for the last place finished, Philip Boit of Kenya, and met him at the finish line with a hug and congratulations, in a great display of sportsmanship
• Curling
  Curling at the Winter Olympics
  
  Curling was included in the program of the inaugural Winter Olympic Games in 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix. The results of that competition were not considered official by the International Olympic Committee until 2006....
   returned as an official sport, after having been demoted to a demonstration event after the inaugural Winter Games in Chamonix
  Chamonix
  
  Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a town and Communes of France in eastern France, in the Haute-Savoie d?partement in France, at the foot of Mont Blanc....
   in 1924
• Snowboarding
  Snowboarding at the Winter Olympics
  
  Snowboarding has been contested at the Winter Olympic Games since the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan....
   debuted as an official sport.
• Players from the NHL
  National Hockey League
  
  The National Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America. It is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the North American Major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada....
   were able to compete in men's ice hockey due to a three week suspension of the NHL season.
• Tara Lipinski
  Tara Lipinski
  
  Tara Kristen Lipinski is an American figure skating. At the age of 15, she won the Olympic Games gold medal in Figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics at the 1998 Winter Olympics, and remains the youngest individual gold medalist in the history of the Olympic Winter Games....
  , 15, narrowly beat Michelle Kwan
  Michelle Kwan
  
  Michelle Wingshan Kwan is an American figure skating. She has won nine United States Figure Skating Championships, five World Figure Skating Championships, and two Figure skating at the Olympics....
   in women's figure skating to become the youngest champion in an individual event in the history of the Winter Olympics.
• Alpine skier
  Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics
  
  Alpine skiing has been contested at every Winter Olympic Games since 1936 Winter Olympics, when a Alpine skiing combined event was held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany....
   Hermann Maier
  Hermann Maier
  
  Hermann Maier is an Austrian Alpine skiing.Maier has won four overall Alpine Skiing World Cup titles , two Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics gold medals , three FIS Alpine World Ski Championships titles and 54 races on the Alpine Skiing World Cup circuit....
   (Austria
  Austria
  
  Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
  ) survived a fall in the downhill and went on to gold in the super-g and giant slalom.
• Speed skaters
  Speed skating at the Winter Olympics
  
  Speed skating has been featured as a sport in the Winter Olympics since the 1924 Winter Olympics in 1924. Women's events were added to the Olympic program for the first time in 1960 Winter Olympics....
   Gianni Romme
  Gianni Romme
  
  Gianni Petrus Cornelis Romme is a Netherlands marathon and a former long track speed skating. He is also a coach since the 2006-07 speed skating season....
   and Marianne Timmer
  Marianne Timmer
  
  Maria Aaltje Timmer is a Netherlands speed skater specializing in the middle distances . At the 1998 Winter Olympics Timmer won a gold medal in both these events....
   won two gold medals each for the Netherlands
  Netherlands
  
  The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
  ; 5 out of 10 titles in speed skating went to the Netherlands.
• Snowboarder Ross Rebagliati
  Ross Rebagliati
  
  Ross Rebagliati is a Canada professional snowboarding. He turned pro in 1991. He was the first ever to win an Olympic Games gold medal for this sport at the 1998 Winter Olympics....
   (Canada
  Canada
  
  Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
  ) won the gold medal, after initially being disqualified for testing positive for marijuana
  Cannabis (drug)
  
  Cannabis, also known as Marijuana or marihuana, or ganja , is a psychoactive drug extracted from the plant Cannabis sativa, or more often, Cannabis sativa subsp....
  .
• Azerbaijan
  Azerbaijan
  
  Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan , is the largest and most populous country in the South Caucasus, located partially in Eastern Europe and partially in Western Asia....
  , Kenya
  Kenya
  
  The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border....
  , the Republic of Macedonia
  Republic of Macedonia
  
  The Republic of Macedonia , , often referred to simply as Macedonia, is a landlocked country on the Balkans in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Serbia to the north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south and Albania to the west....
  , Uruguay
  Uruguay
  
  Uruguay is a country located in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to 3.46 million people, of whom 1.7 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area....
  , and Venezuela
  Venezuela
  
  Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
   made their first appearance at these Olympic Winter Games.
• Denmark
  Denmark
  
  Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
   won their first winter Olympic medal in these games and only one as of 2006, when they won a silver medal in the women's curling event
• Japanese ski jumper Masahiko Harada
  Masahiko Harada
  
  is a Japanese ski jumper. He is best remembered for a meltdown at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer and his subsequent redemption at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano....
   had a very poor jump in the first round, but in the second round jumped a record setting 137 meters.

Medals awarded

Venues

• Hakuba Ski Jumping Stadium
  Hakuba Ski Jumping Stadium
  
  Hakuba Ski Jumping Stadium is a ski jump hill in Hakuba, Nagano, Japan. It was used as arena for ski jumping and Nordic combination for the 1998 Winter Olympics....
  : Ski Jumping
  Ski jumping
  
  Ski jumping is a sport in which skiers go down an "inrun" with a take-off ramp , attempting to go as far as possible. In addition to the length that skiers jump, judges give points for style....
  
• Happo'one Resort: Alpine Skiing
  Alpine skiing
  
  Alpine skiing is a recreational activity and sport involving sliding down snow-covered hills with long skis attached to each foot. Alpine skiing takes place at specially developed ski resorts where trees are cut, slopes are manipulated, snow is groomed & avalanches controlled to facilitate the activity....
   (Downhill
  Downhill
  
  The downhill is an alpine skiing discipline. The rules for the downhill were originally developed by Sir Arnold Lunn for the 1921 British National Ski Championships....
   and Super G)
• Snow Harp, Kamishiro: Cross-Country Skiing
  Cross-country skiing
  
  Cross-country skiing is a winter sport in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles. It is popular in many countries with large snowfields, primarily Northern Europe, Canada, Alaska and the Upper Midwest....
  

• Iizuna Kogen Resort: Freestyle Skiing
  Freestyle skiing
  
  Freestyle skiing began in the 1930s, when Norway skiers began performing acrobatics during alpine skiing and cross country skiing training. Later, non-competitive professional skiing exhibitions in the United States featured performances of what would later be called freestyle....
  
• The Spiral
  Spiral (bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton)
  
  The Spiral is a bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track located in Iizuna, Nagano village, located north of Nagano City, Japan. Used for the bobsleigh and luge competitions for the 1998 Winter Olympics, it is the only permanent bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in Asia and the only one of its type in the world with two uphill sections....
  , Asakawa: Bobsled and Luge
  Luge
  
  A luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds Supine position and feet-first. Steering is done by flexing the sled's runners with the calf of each leg or exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the seat....
  

• Kazakoshi Park Arena: Curling
  Curling
  
  Curling is a team sport with similarities to bowls and shuffleboard, played by two teams of four players each on a rectangular sheet of carefully prepared ice....
  

• Nagano Olympic Stadium
  Nagano Olympic Stadium
  
  is a baseball-use stadium in Nagano, Japan. It was used for the opening and closing ceremonies for the 1998 Winter Olympics. The stadium holds 30,000 people....
  : Opening and Closing Ceremonies
• Aqua Wing Arena
  Aqua Wing Arena
  
  Aqua Wing Arena was an indoor ice hockey arena in Nagano, Japan. It was built in 1997 and holds 5,000 people. Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics and sledge hockey games at the 1998 Winter Paralympics were held at this arena....
  : Ice Hockey
  Ice hockey
  
  Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover such as Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia and Russia, though with the advent of indoor artificial ice r...
  
• Big Hat: Ice Hockey
  Ice hockey
  
  Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover such as Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia and Russia, though with the advent of indoor artificial ice r...
  
• M-Wave
  M-Wave
  
  is an indoor arena located in Nagano, Nagano, Japan.Opened in 1996, the arena has a capacity of 10,000. It hosted the speed skating events of the 1998 Winter Olympics....
  : Speed Skating
  Speed skating
  
  Speed skating or speedskating is a competition form of skating in which the competitors racing each other in travelling a certain distance on skating....
  
• White Ring: Figure Skating
  Figure skating
  
  Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform figure skating spins, figure skating jumps, moves in the field and other intricate and challenging moves on ice....
   and Short Track Speed Skating
  Short track speed skating
  
  Short track speed skating is a form of competitive ice skating speed skating. In competitions, multiple skaters skate on an oval ice track with a circumference of 111.12 m....
  

• Nozawa Onsen Resort: Biathlon
  Biathlon
  
  Biathlon is a term used to describe any sporting event made up of two disciplines. However, biathlon usually refers specifically to the winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle....
  

• Mt. Yakebitai, Shiga Kogen Resort: Snowboarding
  Snowboarding
  
  Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is either partially or fully covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set into a mounted binding....
   and Alpine Skiing
  Alpine skiing
  
  Alpine skiing is a recreational activity and sport involving sliding down snow-covered hills with long skis attached to each foot. Alpine skiing takes place at specially developed ski resorts where trees are cut, slopes are manipulated, snow is groomed & avalanches controlled to facilitate the activity....
   (Slalom
  Slalom skiing
  
  Slalom is an alpine skiing discipline, involving skiing between poles spaced much closer together than in Giant Slalom skiing, Super Giant Slalom skiing or Downhill, thereby causing quicker and shorter turns....
   and Giant Slalom)
• Kanbayashi Sports Park: Snowboarding
  Snowboarding
  
  Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is either partially or fully covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set into a mounted binding....
   Half-Pipe
  Half-pipe
  
  A half-pipe is a structure used in gravity extreme sports such as snowboarding, skateboarding, skiing, Freestyle_BMX and inline skating. The structure is usually wood, although sometimes the surface is made of another material such as concrete, metal, dirt or snow....
  

Medal count

Participating NOCs

Media coverage

• NHK
  NHK
  
  , or Japan Broadcasting Corporation, is Japan's public broadcaster. The NHK is financed by a television licence. This Japanese public corporation has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, NHK....
  , NTV
  Nippon Television
  
  is a television network in Shiodome area of Minato, Tokyo, Japan owned by the Yomiuri Shimbun. It is commonly known as , Japanese abbreviated and contracted words to , and abbreviated as "NTV"....
  , TBS
  Tokyo Broadcasting System
  
  or TBS, is a television network in Tokyo, Japan.TBS has a 28-affiliate news network called Japan News Network, as well as a 34-affiliate radio network called Japan Radio Network which TBS Radio & Communications has....
  , Fuji TV
  Fuji Television
  
  is a Japanese television station based in Odaiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, also known as or CX. It is the flagship station of the Fuji News Network and the ....
  , TV Asahi
  TV Asahi
  
  , also known as EX and , is a television Television network headquartered in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The company writes its name in lower-case letters, tv asahi, in its logo and public-image materials....
  , TV Tokyo
  TV Tokyo
  
  is a TV station with headquarters in Minato, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. The network is also known as , a portmanteau of "terebi" and "Tokyo." It is the key station of TXN ....
   (Japan)
• MBC (South Korea)
• CBS
  CBS
  
  CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
  , TNT
  Turner Network Television
  
  TNT is an United States Cable television network created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner....
   (United States)
• BBC (Great Britain)
• CBC (Canada)
• SVT
  Sveriges Television
  
  Sveriges Television AB is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners. The Swedish public broadcasting system is in several respects modeled after the one used in the United Kingdom, and Sveriges Television shares many traits with its British counterpart, the British Broad...
   (Sweden)
• ARD and ZDF
  ZDF
  
  Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television television channel based in Mainz. It is run as an independent non-profit agency established by joint contract between the States of Germany ....
   (Germany)
• NRK
  Norsk Rikskringkasting
  
  The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation , which is usually known as the NRK, is the Norway government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the leading Mass media company of Norway....
   (Norway)
• Seven Network
  Seven Network
  
  The Seven Network is an Australia Television broadcasting in Australia owned by the Seven Media Group. It dates back to 2 December 1956, when the first stations on the Very high frequency frequency were established in Sydney and Melbourne....
   (Australia)
• YLE (Finland)
• RAI
  Raï
  
  Ra? is a form of traditional music that originated in Oran, Algeria, and then in Oujda from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Music of Spain, Music of France, African music and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930s and has been primarily evolved by women in the culture....
   (Italy)
• TVP
  Telewizja Polska
  
  Telewizja Polska Sp?lka Akcyjna is Poland's public broadcasting corporation.About a third of TVP's income comes from a television licence, while the rest is covered by television advertisement and sponsor ships....
   (Poland)

See also

• 1998 Winter Paralympics
  1998 Winter Paralympics
  
  The Seventh Winter Paralympics were held alongside the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan....
  
• Olympic Games
  Olympic Games
  
  The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
  
• Winter Olympic Games
  Winter Olympic Games
  
  The Winter Olympic Games are a winter multi-sport event held every four years. They feature winter sports held on snow or ice, such as Alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, ice skating, bobsledding and ice hockey....
  
• International Olympic Committee
  International Olympic Committee
  
  The International Olympic Committee is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas on June 23, 1894....
  
• IOC country codes

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