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Points from the four races were combined and counted towards the all-round event, which was dropped following the 1924 Olympics. Speed skating events for women were first held at the 1932 Winter Olympics, as part of the demonstration program. The organizing committee of those Games advocated for the full inclusion of the women's events, but the ...
Sheila Grace Young-Ochowicz (born October 14, 1950) is a retired American speed skater and track cyclist.She won three world titles in each of these sports, twice in the same year (in 1973 and 1976).
The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in The New York Times Magazine, is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be a "Wednesday or Thursday" in difficulty. [7] The standard daily crossword is 15 by 15 squares, while the Sunday crossword measures 21 by 21 squares.
As a speed skater, she competed in the 1972 Winter Olympics, where she finished 7th in the 1500m. She was fourteen years old at the time, making her the youngest American female Winter Olympian. [1] Carpenter-Phinney trained with Norwegian coach Finn Halvorsen as part of the US National speed skating team that competed in the 1972 Olympics.
Koss made his Olympic debut at the 1992 Winter Olympics, finishing seventh on the 5,000 m, five days after undergoing surgery because of an inflamed pancreas. He would recover to win gold on the 1,500 m (by only 0.04 seconds over his countryman Ådne Søndrål ) and silver on the 10,000 m (behind Dutch skater Bart Veldkamp ).
The race would later be known by the name "Championship of Champions" [22] before settling on "Race of Champions". [5] As World War II and the advent of conscription prevented the gathering of current regional champions, the entry list reverted to a selection of past winners, often slanted towards New York area participants.
Wilhelm Henie (7 September 1872 – 10 May 1937) [1] was a Norwegian sportsman and furrier. He was track cycling World Champion in 1894, [2] [3] and competed at the European Speed Skating Championships in 1896. [4]
Graeme Obree (born 11 September 1965 [1]), nicknamed "the Flying Scotsman", after the famous steam train, is a Scottish racing cyclist who twice broke the world hour record, in July 1993 and April 1994, and was the individual pursuit world champion in 1993 and 1995.