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The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XI Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated from February 3 to February 13, 1972 in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. It was the first Winter Olympics to be held outside Europe and North America, and only the 3rd games (summer or winter) held outside those regions over all, after Melbourne (1956 Summer Olympics) and Tokyo (1964 Summer Olympics). Sapporo was the largest city to host a Winter Games at the time.

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I think you can trace Japan's interest in figure skating, directly back to this performance. Transcendant skating!!
3.48 min. | 4.95 user rating		 Janet Lynn 1972 Olympics. She won the freeskater (of course!), and the bronze medal overall.
4.97 min. | 5.0 user rating		 This is the theme song of the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics written by John Denver and Bill Danoff. The audio is digitally reworked. I wish the sound quality could be better. I hope everybody can get inspired from this song and enjoy this year's Winter Olympics. Thanks for watching. Across the seas we chase the sun To light the true Olympic flame And pass it on to everyone To stand beside my friend All the people of the world And to seek the victory in peace And in the end, the victory is peace...
5.50 min. | 4.90 user rating		 A great allround skier, Othmar Schneider's greatest success came at the 1952 Olympics, where he won the slalom and placed second. He might have won a third medal in the combined, but that event had been discontinued after 1948 and replaced by the giant slalom. It was held as a World Championship event in subsequent Olympics, but not in Oslo. While not managing to win any additional medals in international championships (Schneider ranked fourth in the 1954 World Championship giant slalom), he did win various honours in major races in Europe and North America. In 1951, he won the famous Arlberg-Kandahar slalom (held in Sestriere that year), while winning the Wengen downhill and combined two years in a row (1951-1952). After the 1956 Winter Olympics, Schneider switched to the pros, competing in two Professional World Championships. In the meanwhile, he switched focus to a second sport, pistol shooting. A 34-fold Austrian champion (17 individual titles), he won a World Championships team bronze in the free pistol (1974) and a European Championship team bronze in the center-fire pistol (1975). A third Olympic appearance in the sport was impossible because of Schneider's past, having been a pro and a skiing teacher in the US and Chile. Schneider, who was course manager at the 1966 World Championships in Chile, later managed his own hotel in Lech, and owned and managed Huber, a manufacturor of skiing apparel and accessories.
0.83 min. | 5.0 user rating		 Home movie footage of the rarely seen Winter Olympics opening ceremony.
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0.97 min. | 5.0 user rating		 oLYMPIC FINAL 1960 Central Divison Northwest Division Pacific Division Chicago Blackhawks Columbus Blue Jackets Detroit Red Wings Nashville Predators St. Louis Blues Calgary Flames Colorado Avalanche Edmonton Oilers Minnesota Wild Vancouver Canucks Anaheim Ducks Dallas Stars...
0.87 min. | 4.2 user rating		 Optimum conditions for a little slide action on a Vintage Ski- Doo. Cleats and carbide runners work well with an ice layer covered by fresh snow... :) Took her out to 75mph after this monkey business. Of all the vehicles I have ever ridden, owned,or do own, or even just seen or heard of - this machine is my third favorite only to my 142mph 66 Fury (driven faster in the frigid novel Seven Skins) and my one of a kind 4x4 van camper van "Geode". My 57 Ply 4drhtp "Finesse" would be fourth..
1.70 min. | 4.66 user rating		 Amateuraufnahmen
2.45 min. | 5.0 user rating		 Teil 7/22 einer Amateurdokumentation über die XX. Olympischen Spiele München 1972 (Amateuraufnahmen)
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Preceded by
Grenoble		Winter Olympics
Sapporo
XI Olympic Winter Games (1972)		Succeeded by
Innsbruck

IOC voting
City Country Round 1
Sapporo Japan 32
Banff Canada 16
Lahti Finland 7
Salt Lake City United States 7


1 URS 8 5 3 16
2 GDR 4 3 7 14
3 CH 4 3 3 10
4 NL 4 3 2 9
5 US 3 2 3 8
6 FRG 3 1 1 5
7 NO 2 5 5 12
8 IT 2 2 1 5
9 AT 1 2 2 5
10 SE 1 1 2 4
11 JP 1 1 1 3

Events at the 1972 Winter Olympics (Sapporo)

Alpine skiing * Biathlon * Bobsleigh * Cross‑country skiing * Figure skating * Ice hockey * Luge * Nordic combined * Ski jumping * Speed skating



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