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this sport has 3 categories: parallel giant slalom, halfpipe and cross and was first introduced to the Winter Olympic program at Nagano in 1998
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this sport comprises both ski jumping and cross-country skiing; only for men (sorry girls!) this event was first held at the Winter Olympics in 1924
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this is one of the 'ice sports' on the Winter Olympic Games program and is an extreme sport requiring athletes to ride a small sled down a frozen track while lying face down and forward facing thus steering the mechanism by movements of the body; speeds can get up to 130 km/hr or 80 mph!
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this is a fast-paced team sport played on ice; it requires a good level of skill, speed, agility and endurance; it first appeared at the 1924 Winter Olympics and women got to play for the first time in Nagano 1998.
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this is a couple's sport where they are marked on how well they move to the music and the quality of the steps they execute in the compulsory, original, and free events each lasting 4 minutes; first introduced at the Innsbruck Games in 1976 and is played on the ice; it is often compared to a similar 'sport' which takes place in a ballroom
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this is a sport played on ice where athletes skate on a long oval track measuring 400 meters; the contestants are judged on how fast they go.
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This skiing event comprises 12 different events: sprint, pursuit (men and women), mass start (men and women), 10 km (women), 15 km (men), 30 km (women), 50 km. (men) and relay (men and women)
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This skiing event, first introduced in the Winter Olympics of 1936, comprises 10 events for both men and women including: downhill, super g, giant slalom, slalom, and combined events; it's one of the most popular spectator sports at the Winter Olympics.
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This team sport involves riding on a fast snow vehicle down a ice track through tunnels picking up speed in order to be the fastest
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this is a technical sport played by two teams or four players on a rectangular sheet ice with large heavy, polished granite stones; the aim is to get the stone to stop in the 'house', a target at the end of the ice track; the team with the most points in the match wins.
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this is the most popular ice sport and can be executed individually or with a partner; the events include Men's singles, Ladies' singles, and Pairs.
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this is the fastest sport on ice and consequently one of the most dangerous; competitors race down a specially designed track feet first only inches from the ice
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this is a male only event at the Winter Olympics (although there is pressure from women's athletic groups to change this) in which skiiers go very fast down a slope and literally take off at the end in order to go as far as they can
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This is a sport which is very acrobatic and performed on skiis; it includes three events: Aerials, Moguls, and Ski Cross (a new event added to the program for the 2010 games)
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This is a discipline which combines both cross-country skiing and target rifle shooting events. This sport derives from a training exercise for Norwegian soldiers dating back to 1767.