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2002 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (520 words) |
 | The XIX Olympic Winter Games were held in 2002 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. |
| Prior to these Olympic Winter Games, a number of IOC members were forced to resign after it was uncovered that they had accepted inappropriately valuable gifts in return for voting for Salt Lake City to hold the Games. |
| During the opening ceremonies, Rogge, presiding over his first olympics as IOC president, told the athletes of the host country that their nation was overcoming the horrific tragedy and stand with them in their ideals. |
| Encyclopedia: Winter Olympic Games (10570 words) |
| The 1940 Winter Olympics had originally been awarded to Japan, and were supposed to be held in Sapporo, but Japan had to give the Games back in 1938, because of the Japanese invasion of China in the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). |
| In 1952, the Winter Games came to Norway, considered to be the birthplace of modern skiing. |
| The Olympic Flame at the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics The Olympic Flame or Olympic Fire is a symbol of the Olympic Games. |
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