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a winter sporting bonanza spanning 17 days.
The Olympic programme had now grown to 78 events; with the return of
skeleton and the introduction of bobsleigh for women.
There was a first Winter Olympic gold medal for China and Vonetta
Flowers became the first black athlete to earn Winter gold; by coming first in the
women’s bobsleigh.
In ice hockey, Jarome Iginla joined her by becoming the first black
male to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics.
Biathlon
When the German women secured relay gold at the second consectutive
Winter Olympics, Ursula Disl
(who already had four silver and three bronze medals) brought her total to eight; more
medals than anyone else had won in the Olympic biathlon.
Norway's Ole Einar
Bjoerndalen won gold medals in all four biathlon events to take his total to seven.
Bobsleigh
Women competed in bobsleigh for the first time; with the gold medal
going to USA's Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers. German pairs came in second and third.
The skeleton event was only run twice before being reintroduced in
2002; both times in its ancestral home - St. Moritz 1928
and St. Moritz 1948.
Ice Hockey
Canada took gold in both the men's and women's ice hockey.
Luge
A silver medal in singles luge made Germany's Georg Hackl
the first person in Olympic history to earn a medal in the same individual event five
times in a row.
Skating
Germany's Claudia
Pechstein earned her third straight gold medal in the 5,000m speed skating event and
finished first in the 3,000m as well.
Skiing
The Mass Start event was introduced to cross-country skiing and the
Sprint event was added to the Nordic Combined.
Finland's Samppa
Lajunen earned a clean sweep in all three Nordic combined competitions.
In Alpine Skiing, Croatia's Janica
Kostelic won three gold medals and one silver; and Switzerland's Simon Ammann
took two gold medals back to the Alps, from both individual (70m and 90m) ski jump events.
Simon Ammann
surprised even the Swiss when he brought home gold medals from both ski jumping events.
Parallel giant slalom replaced the individual giant slalom in
Snowboarding.
Biathlon, Bobsleigh, Curling,
Ice Hockey, Luge,
Skating, Skiing.
 Salt
Lake 2002:
Official site of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games from Salt Lake City - taken over by
Microsoft enterprises.
IOC -
Salt Lake City 2002:
Behind the scenes of the 2002 Salt Lake City games. The International Olympic Committee
present their Virtual Olympic Village.
Salt
Lake Chamber:
Visitor information for Salt Lake City.
Deer Valley Resort:
Deer Valley Resort was the site of the 2002 Olympic slalom, mogul and aerial events.
Park City
Mountain Resort:
Six days of Olympic events were held at Park City Mountain Resort, including the alpine
giant slalom competition, the snowboarding parallel giant slalom and the snowboarding
halfpipe.
Snowbasin Resort:
Snowbasin was the only Olympic venue where you could cheer on the athletes without an
Olympic ticket. To get good views of the Downhill and Super G slopes, you would have
needed a lift ticket though - and possibly a pair of skis.
Utah Transit Authority:
Utah bus and trax schedules online as well as possible route changes and detours.
Utah Travel
Guide:
More Utah travel information and links @ 1800-UStravel.com.
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