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The XIX Olympic Winter Games
February 9 to February 24, 2002, Salt Lake City, USA
There were competitions in 15 sports events and 78 sports disciplines. ... The largest teams arriving at the XIX Winter Olympic Games were the teams of the USA – 211 athletes, Russia – 161 athletes, and Germany – 158 athletes.
The Russian team won 16 Olympic medals, including 6 gold, 6 silver and 4 bronze.
The XXVII Olympic Games (Sydney, 2000)
The Olympic Games in Sydney were the most representative in the entire history of the contemporary Olympic movement. Nearly 11000 athletes and 5100 officials from 199 countries participated in the Games. ... The most successful Russian athletes were in Olympic gymnastics, catch-style, fencing, Greco-Roman wrestling, rhythmic gymnastics, synchronized swimming, diving, rebound-tumbling, handball (men’s), modern pentathlon and tennis.
Gymnasts Alexey Nemov and Helena Zamolodchikova and masters of synchronized swimming Olga Brusnikina and Mariya Kisileva became double Olympic champions in Sydney.
The XVIII Olympic Winter Games
The XVIII Winter Olympic Games were held in Nagano (Japan) from February 7 to 22, 1998. ... Seventy-two countries (2338 athletes: 1528 men and 810 women) participated in the Games.
Eleven Russian athletes became champions of the XVIII Winter Olympic Games.
The ÕÕVI Olympic Games (Atlanta, 1996)
These Games took place in a memorable date – the centenary of the first Olympic Games of modern times. A team from "Russia" participated in the Olympic Games for the first time in 1912 (408 athletes from 53 territories of the Russian Federation). ... The winners on the Russian team were Oleg Saitov (boxing), Vadim Bogiev, Khadzhimurad Magomedov, Buvaisa Saitiev (catch-style), Alexander Karelin (Greco-Roman wrestling), Zulfiya Zabirova (cycling), Alexei Nemov and Svetlana Khorkina (Olympic gymnastics), Svetlana Masterkova and Elena Nikolaeva (track & field), Alexander Popov and Denis Pankratov (swimming), Dmitri Sautin (diving), Alexi Petrov and Andrei Chemerkin (weight-lifting), Stanislav Pozdnyakov and Alexander Beketov (fencing), Olga Klochneva, Artem Khadzhibekov and Boris Kokarev (shooting).
The XVII Olympic Winter Games
The XVII Winter Olympic Games took place in Lillehammer (Norway) from February 12 to 27, 1994. Lillehammer is the second Norwegian city that has won the right to the winter Olympic Games. In 1952, the Games were in Oslo.
A total of 1923 athletes (including 522 women) from 67 countries participated in the Games and competed for 61 sets of medals. Once again, this was a record setting number of Olympic Winter Games participants. ...
The ÕÕV Olympic Games (Barcelona, 1992)
A total of 9368 athletes from 173 countries participated in the Games. After the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, a united team of independent states participated in the Olympic Games for the first and last time. ... The united Olympic team of the independent states competed successfully. ... All podiums in Olympic gymnastics were occupied by members of the Olympic team of the independent states - - Vitali Shcherbo, Gennadi Misutin and Vladimir Belenki. ...
The XVI Olympic Winter Games
The XVI Winter Olympic Games took place in Albertville (France) from February 8 to 23, 1992. A total of 1804 athletes (including 492 women) arrived to participate in the Games. They represented the National Olympic Committees of 65 countries – the largest number of the participants in the history of the Olympic Winter Games to that time. ...
The ÕÕIV Olympic Games (Seoul, 1988)
The strongest athletes from the USSR, the USA, GDR, Japan and other countries arrived to participate in the Games. ... Unfortunately, the National Olympic Committees of Cuba, North Korea, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua (among others) declined to participate in these Games.
The program of the Olympic Games was once again enlarged: tennis and table tennis, 10000m race for men and women, woman’s sprint in cycling, and 11 other new disciplines. ...
The XV Olympic Winter Games
The XV Winter Olympic Games took place in Calgary (Canada) from February 13 to 28, 1988.
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