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The men's 50km event has been staged in either freestyle or classical at all 20 editions of the Winter Olympics since the inaugural Games of 1924, and this was the first time the Scandinavians failed to make the podium.
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Salt Lake's ratings are an anomaly, since the audiences for Olympics games have been shrinking for years thanks to increased competition from a growing array of competing channels.
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Both sports were part of the Games programme in the early part of the twentieth century before being dropped, and golf returns to the Games for the first time since the St Louis Olympics of 1904.
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But he added that military deployment during Olympic Games was routine since the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
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Sandusky, who worked on London's bid for the 2012 Olympics, said the two cities' bids were different in their scale, since London's games are aimed at regenerating large swathes of East London, "an area that's been poor since the times of Dickens, " he said.
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By 2024, it will have been nearly 30 years since the United States had hosted a Summer Games (Atlanta, 1996) and 22 years since its last Olympics at all (Salt Lake, 2002).
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The Belgian, bidding for back to back grand slams at the Australian Open later this month, won the first eight games against Molik, who is returning to major tournament action after being sidelined since the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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More athletes were disqualified from the 2004 Olympics in Athens than from any games since drug-testing was introduced in 1968.
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