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Nagano 1998
The Olympic Games, or Olympics, are an international multi-sport event taking place every four years which comprises of summer and winter games. Though the first ancient games were held in 776 B.C, the modern games started from 1896.The unity of the 5 continents is shown on the Olympic flag by five colorful intertwined rings of red, blue, green, yellow, and black, created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin to represent atleast one color of the participating country’s national flag.
Nagano 1998 Opening ceremony on 07 February 1998 and Closing date 22 February 1998. The 1988 Winter Olympics, held in Nagano were included 72 Nations, 2,176 athletes, 787 women, 1,389 men, and 68 events 32,000 volunteers 8,329 media with 2,586 written press, 5,743 broadcasters and arranged in the country of the host city Japan for 1998. Candidate cities were Aoste, Jaca, Oestersund and Salt Lake City. In these Olympic sports contains Bobsleigh, Curling, Ice Hockey, Skating, Skiing, Biathlon, and Luge.
In 1998 the Winter Olympic Games returned to Japan after 26 years. Snowboarding debuted as an official discipline. Curling was returned to the Olympic Winter programme this time with a tournament for both men and women. For the first time, the men's ice hockey tournament was opened to all professionals and women’s ice hockey was introduced to the Olympic programme. The inspired team from the Czech Republic scored a surprise victory. Bjorn Dahlie won three gold medals in Nordic skiing to become the first winter athlete to earn eight career Olympic gold medals and twelve total medals.
Tara Lipinski won the women’s figure skating title to become, at 15, the youngest champion in an individual event in the history of the Winter Olympics. The spirit of the Games was exemplified by Alpine skier Hermann Maier. Maier survived a spectacular fall in the downhill, recovered and earned gold medals in both the super -G and the giant slalom.
During the downhill, Hermann Maier took a spectacular fall and he lost his grip at 120km/h and eventually landed after three and a half seconds in the air. Three days later he raced in the super -G and won the gold medal. He then earned a second gold medal in the giant slalom. In that Nagano 1998 year Germany achieved good position with hard working. They got 12, 9, 8 medals respectively Gold, Silver, Bronze in that specific year.
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