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Winter Olympics: A Tale of Two Countries (1579 words) |
 | The flood of medals was quickly reduced to a relative trickle in 1956. |
| It was the most dismal Olympics on record from a Norwegian point of view with not a single gold medal and a meager 5 medals in all. |
| This approach hurts medal counts but may be good for the collective national health in decades to come. |
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2002 Winter Olympics at AllExperts (552 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. |
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