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Salt Lake City 2002

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.

Salt Lake City 2002 Opening ceremony on 08 February 2002 and Closing date 24 February 2002. Salt Lake City 2002 were included 77 Nations, 2,399 athletes, 886 women, 1,513 men, and 78 events 22,000 volunteers 8,730 media with 2,661 written press, 6,069 broadcasters. Salt Lake City 2002 arranged in the Country of the host city United States of America for 2002. Candidate cities were Oestersund, Quebec City and Sion. In these Olympic sports contains Bobsleigh, Curling, Ice Hockey, Skating, Skiing, Biathlon, and Luge.

Salt Lake City 2002 official opening of the games by President George W. Bush. Lighting the Olympic Flame by The American ice hockey team, gold medal winners in Lake Placid, 1980, Olympic Oath by Jim Shea, official Oath by Allen Church.

The Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games saw the expansion of the Olympic program to 78 events, including the return of skeleton and the introduction of women's bobsleigh. Athletes from a record 18 nations earned gold medals. Canadian teams won both the men's and women's ice hockey tournaments. Ole Einar Bjoerndalen earned gold medals in all four biathlon events and Samppa Lajunen in all three Nordic combined competitions. Alpine skier Janica Kostelic won three gold medals and one silver. Simon Ammann scored unexpected victories in both individual ski jump events. Speedskater Claudia Pechstein earned her third straight gold medal in the 5,000m race and also won at 3,000m.

Short track speedskater Yang Yang became the first Chinese athlete to win a gold medal at the Winter Games. Competing in the women’s bobsleigh, Vonetta Flowers became the first black athlete to earn winter gold, while ice hockey player Jarome Iginla as the first black male winner. In that Salt Lake City 2002 year Norway achieved good position with hard working. They got 13, 5, 7 medals respectively Gold, Silver, Bronze in that specific year.

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