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ice hockey: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (6973 words) |
 | Ice hockey is played on a rectangular rink with curved corners whose length may vary from 184 to 200 ft (56–61 m), its width from 85 to 98 ft (26–30 m). |
| Ice hockey is one of the fastest growing women's sports in the world, with the number of participants increasing 400 percent in the last 10 years. |
| Hockey also frequently shows up in American television, particularly in shows set in the colder regions of the US such as the Northeast where the sport is on an almost equal footing to basketball. |
| Winter Olympics - ninemsn Encarta (1241 words) |
| The Olympics organization is headed by a president, elected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) members for an initial period of eight years. |
| Previously there had been winter events held, at random, at the Summer Games, most notably the figure skating and ice hockey competitions that were associated with the 1920 Summer Games at Antwerp, Belgium. |
| Alpine skiing, for men and women, has been part of the Olympic programme since 1948: the events are the downhill, the slalom, the giant slalom (since 1952), the super giant slalom or super-G (since 1988), and the combined event (downhill and slalom), which has been staged intermittently since 1936. |
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