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USOC Press Box: Media Guides, Contacts, Records
KEY SITE: A listing of hundreds of helpful links for coverage of the 2002 Games. Rosters by state, press contacts, etc.

Olympic Museum
Great research tools: stories, backgrounders and an audio, video and photo library.

Olympic Museum: Images & Sound Department
Combined audiovisual and photographic library sections. The Audiovisual Archives consist of approximately 15,000 hours of film, while the Photographic Library contains 300,000 photos, from the 1896 Olympic Games in Athens to the 1998 Games in Nagano.

InfoPlease.com: Winter Olympics Through the Years
An archive of bios about each Winter Olympics.

The First Winter Olympics: 1924
From Infopleas.com. Inlcudes medal count, countries, biography, highlights, etc.

Washington Post.com Winter Olympics History
Great quick reference: A timeline of great moments with links to stories back to 1948.

Time.com's Olympics Newsfile
Archived coverage through the 1990s.

The Sporting News: Olympics History
Search Winter and Summer Games by date and host city.

USOC: Winter Olympic Records

Olympics Trivia
Updated every 10 seconds, this site features trivia from the Winter and Summer Games.

Olympic Statistics

Slam! Nagano Winter Olympic Records

Olympic Studies Centre
Directory, studies, research, links, etc.

Atlantic Monthly: The 1896 Games

University of Pennsylvania: Story of the Ancient Olympics

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Olympic Studies International Directory

Centre for Olympic Studies (University of New South Wales)

International Centre for Olympic Studies (Ontario)

Olympic Television Archive Bureau
This site from Ontario Canada offers clips galore.

Library of Congress Olympic Guide

HickokSports.com Winter Olympics History
A great biography dating back to the 1920s, searchable by date and host city. Short summaries of what happened, making it good for some quick overview research.

Yahoo! Olympic History Index

Library of Congress: A General Bibliography to Olympic Research

Excite.com's Winter Olympics Directory
Links of all competitions back to 1924 Games.

The Olympic Almanac

University of South Australia: Olympics Library
A great resource with links to news sites, bibliographies, history and more.

Utah.com Olympics History
Background on Winter Games origin and how Salt Lake City landed the 2002 Olympics.

1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics
A historical site from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

Journale: Olympics History Multimedia Presentation
A cool Flash presentation of Olympic history through photos and biographies. Download may be slow. Better for entertainment than research.

Life Magazine Olympic Covers

Sports Pointers: Olympic Links
Dozens of helpful history and event links.

Olympic History Selected Sites
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2002 Olympics Education
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Olympic Games Primer
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Olympics Through Time
Focuses on ancient history and the Games.

InfoPlease.com Ancient Olympics Background

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A collection of dozens of great sites organized by ancient, modern, etc.

Georgia Tech Research News: Olympics Timeline

Sports Illustrated Special Report: Greed, Corruption Caught up With the IOC
The great 1999 story by E.M. Swift and Lester Munson on the bribery scandal in Salt Lake City. It includes a chronology from 1998-99 detailing what happened.

CNNSI: The Salt Lake Olympic Committee and the Bribery Scandal
Some stories, video and links from early in the investigation.

SaltLakeCity.com: History of the Winter Games

1998 Winter Olympics: Nagano, Japan

Washington Post.com 1998 Winter Olympics
An archive of daily coverage, sport-by-sport.

CBS Sportsline: 1998 Nagano Games
An archive of daily coverage, sport-by-sport.

Salt Lake City Tribune: 1998 Nagano Coverage

The Physician and Sports Medicine: Issues from the 1998 Winter Olympics

1994 Winter Olympics: Lillehammer, Norway

Washington Post: 1994 Winter Olympics Archive
Medal counts, results and stories.

Washington Post: Tanya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan Controversy
A timeline of stories about the figure skating controversy. Some great reporting by Christine Brennan.

Time.com: The 1994 Olympics
Several good stories on Harding-Kerrigan.

1980 Winter Olympics: Lake Placid

The 80s Server: 1980 Winter Olympics

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Salt Lake City Tribune: 1980 Winter Olympics

ESPN: Miracle on Ice -- The 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
Pictures, video, stories, column and a chat with Mike Eruzione.

U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame: 1980 Olympic Team
Roster, highlights and stories about the upsets.

Goalie Jim Craig's Web Site

Where Are They Now? Mike Eruzione

Am I Annoying or Not: The 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
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