The 1998 Olympic Winter Games, officially known as the 18th Olympic Winter Games, are held in Nagano in Japan from 7 to 22 February 1998. The city was already a candidate to host the 1940 Olympic Winter Games (finally Canceled) as well as those of 1972, but it has been eliminated at the level of Japanese selections. Nagano gets the organization of the games at its third candidacy by winning the cities of Aosta, Italy, Jaca, Spain, Östersund in Sweden and Salt Lake City in the United States. This is the third time a Japanese city organizes the Olympic Games (summer and winter confused) after Tokyo in 1964 and Sapporo in 1972. All competition sites are located in Nagano Prefecture. They are funded by municipalities, prefecture and Japanese state. The Organizing Committee, whose revenue is largely derived from broadcasting and sponsors, takes care of all other organizational costs. Games gather 2,176 athletes from 72 countries, which is a record at the time for winter games. They participate in seven sports and fourteen disciplines that include a total of 68 official events, 7 more than in 1994. Two disciplines, curling and snowboarding, enter the Olympic program and a female tournament is added in hockey on ice. Five Nations are debuting the Winter Games: Azerbaijan, Kenya, Macedonia, Uruguay and Venezuela. The most medalist athlete of these games is the Russian Fondness Larisa Lazutina who gets five medals including three gold. The Norwegian founder Bjørn Dæhlie wins four medals including three of gold; It takes its total to twelve medals including eight gold, a record for winter games. In ice hockey, professional players of the North American League (National Hockey League) participate for the first time at the Olympics. The Czech team is however gold medalist at the expense of Canadian and American favorites. In ski jumping, very popular sport in his country, the Japanese Kazuyoshi Funaki wins two gold medals and a silver. Finally, the American Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest Olympic champion of artistic skating at the age of 15 and 255 days. Germany dominates the table of medals with 29 rewards including 12 gold. It is followed by Norway and Russia, who earn respectively 25 and 18. Japan wins ten medals, which represents the country s record for winter games. The bad weather disturb the competitions: nine tests including seven alpine skiing should be postponed. Games also make it possible to improve the transport network and leave several sports sites to the prefecture. However, the economic benefits do not materialize in the short term.
Claudia Pechstein wins as she wants - in Germany. Once again, the ice-fast veteran in the title straps in Inzell of the competition showed only the skating hoes. Titles 40 and 41 with large protrusions were expression of superiority of the most successful winter oolympionic in the country.
The times are amazing for a 49-year-old. But what are you worth in the international scale? For comparison: Holland s master Irene Schouten sat down over 3000 meters in 3: 54.59 minutes, Pechstein won in Inzell in 4: 11.82 minutes. These are worlds of Germany s best, who won five times Olympia gold in their career, from the world s top. In Holland, I would have been pensioner for 15 years, said Pechstein smiling.
The third title of the Berliner in Inzell prevented a fall in the mass start race on Sunday. But Pechstein then brought a round behind a round of residue and was still third. Over 3000 meters, it was almost five seconds before the more than 20 years of younger competitors. Over 5000 meters, their lead was far greater to the Berliner Michelle Michelle, which gained after a bicycle accident and four knee operations. The distance to the young chickens is extremely extreme, says Pechstein. I see that very negative, but I know that from the last few years.
DESG President Great: We can not clone anyone
DESG President Matthias Great, the life companion of Pechstein, still sees hope for hope. We could not expect anything else, I do not want to talk beautiful. But we can not clone anyone. I m glad that the main idea has arrived again and the youth is on all stretches of competition. Even with the previous title fights over 5000 meters had not gone a German opponent for Pechstein on the ice.
The captain, who had missed in the Bundestag election in the Berlin district Köpenick as a party candidate for the CDU the move into the high house, but knows how hard the way to her eighth Olympic winter games. Immediately at the first World Cup in the Polish Tomaszow it is about everything: There she has to be over 3000 meters at least eleventh to reach the starter field for its special route over 5000 meters a week later in Stavanger. Who comes there under the first eight, has secure the ticket for Beijing.
Perpetual motion machine
The Perpetuum Mobile, as the Süddeutsche Zeitung Pechstein described, would be the first woman who participates in winter games for the eighth time. So far, this has only reached the Japanese ski jumper Noriaki Kasai. Afterwards, the Berliner wants to remain true to the skelaway after her expected farewell to the active career after Beijing. At the beginning of the week she had started her training at the coach academy of German Sports in Cologne.
A generational change did not indicate even with the gentlemen. The biggest hopes with views of Olympics carry the double master Joel Duffer from Inzell (500 and 1000 meters) and Patrick Beckert (5000 and 10,000 meters). The three-time World Cup third from Erfurt pushed his championship record on the long distance in 12: 54.43 minutes by ten seconds and got his 24th title.
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