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The retired figure skater was a 2010 Olympic champion. He was also a 2009 World champion, a two-time Four Continents champion and a 2009 Grand Prix Final champion. He was also a celebrity contestant for the 10th season of “Dancing with the Stars.”

In 1927 and 1948, St. Moritz hosted the Winter Olympics. This site is known for being a luxurious alpine resort town. It has also hosted polo, cricket and horse races on ice in its frozen lake, too.

She was known for running barefoot, but she became infamous after reportedly tripping Mary Decker during the 3,000-meter final at the 1984 Summer Olympics. But the athlete maintained that it was only an accident.

The United States men’s ice hockey team won the gold medal 4 to 3 in Lake Placid, which ticked off the Soviet Union. Lake Placid is also known as a venue for the Winter Olympics as well as a nexus for various snow sports.

When U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced that they wouldn’t participate in the Summer Olympics, other nations followed in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

The event and the site became famous for a bombing that resulted in the injuries of over 100 people and the deaths of two people. It was caused by a 40-pound pipe bomb full of screws and nails that went off in Centennial Olympic Park.

This was the second Italian city to host the Winter Olympics so far. Turin is also the capital city of Piedmont in northern Italy. It’s known to tourists for its old cafes and Mole Antonelliana, a 19th-century tower that's home to the National Cinema Museum.

Yugoslavia was a Southeastern and Central European country from 1918 to 1992. It came into being in 1918 after World War I. And eight years before it broke apart, the country hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics.

Kristi Yamaguchi became the fifth American figure skater to win the ladies’ singles gold medal at the Winter Olympics. She is also the 1988 World Junior champion and a two-time national champion.

Lindsey Vonn dated professional golfer Tiger Woods from 2013 to 2015. Sadly, their love was not meant to be, and on Facebook, Vonn broke the news that they had mutually decided to end their relationship.

Karl Schranz claimed a course patrolman ran out in front of him so he was allowed to have a do-over. On his second run of the slalom course, he beat Jean-Claude Killy and won two gold medals. But his win was voided because he missed the first two gates.

In 2014, Meryl Davis and Charlie White were the first Americans to win a gold medal for ice dancing. White is also a five-time Grand Prix Final champion, and three-time Four Continents champion.

The American Winter Olympian won a gold medal in the men’s 1,000 meters during the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. This was a huge achievement as he was the first Black athlete to do so.

Both she and Weir have worked together as figure skating commentators for NBC. Lipinski is also an actress who has appeared on the original “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” series and in films like “Ice Angel” and “Metro Chase.”

Mancuso earned a gold, a bronze and two silver medals for alpine skiing. She has since retired, but has continued to remain a part of the world of ski racing as a podcast host.

Inline speed skater Joey Cheek won a bronze medal during the 2002 Winter Games. Then he won a silver and gold medal during the 2006 Winter Games. But he retired from the sport that same year.

The Palestinian group Black September allied themselves with a West German terrorist organization to hold 11 Israeli team members hostage in exchange for the release of 234 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli custody. In the end, the 11 hostages, a West German police officer, and five of the terrorists passed away.

The figure skater became the fifth American to win the men’s singles figure skating Olympic gold medal so far. He became a professional figure skater during the 1988 season.

While Vancouver hosted the 2010 Winter Olympics, it was Calgary that hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics two decades earlier. Besides the Winter Olympics, this city is known for its mountains, music and art scenes.

The track star was a customer of BALCO (Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative), which gave athletes steroids. Once Jones admitted to using steroids, she spent some time in prison for check fraud and for lying to federal investigators.

The double-leg amputee was a rare gem in the event as he was one of a few athletes to compete in both the Olympics and Paralympics. He was known as Blade Runner. But he became infamous after being convicted of his girlfriend’s murder.

The long-haired athlete won gold medals twice during the Winter Olympics’ men’s halfpipe event. For those who aren’t familiar with the game, it’s essentially snowboarding.

The Soviet fencer cheated by altering his weapon so it would register touches with his opponent. His disqualification brought so much shame to the Soviet team, that the volleyball team of the same country reportedly tried throwing him out a window.

In 1952, the Winter Olympics were hosted in Oslo. Then, decades later in 1994, the Winter Olympics were hosted in Lillehammer. Both sites are located in Norway.

Dong Fangxiao led China towards a big win. But she was forced to give up her bronze medal when it was discovered that she was not 16. This bumped the United States from 4th to 3rd place.

Hannah Teter earned two Winter Olympic medals in her career. The first was during the Winter Games in Torino, Italy, and in 2010 in Vancouver when she won a silver medal.

He was the third American skater to earn a gold medal in 1994 for the same event. His victory also broke what was considered a ten-year Olympic jinx. Jansen is a multiple world champion in sprinting and perennial favorite.

The Winter Olympics was hosted in Squaw Valley, California back in the 1960s. But the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics were both hosted in the beautiful city of Los Angeles, California.

Four women’s badminton pairs from Indonesia, South Korea and China were disqualified for “not using one’s best efforts to win.” Although they claimed that this was not the case, they were accused of trying to throw the early round to get easier match-ups in the knockout rounds.

Peggy Fleming won the gold medal in ladies’ singles at the 1968 Winter Olympics held in Grenoble, France. She was also a three-time World Champion and claims that her Olympic win changed her life forever.

Despite being clubbed in the knee by a hitman hired by rival skater Tonya Harding’s ex-husband, Nancy Kerrigan recovered enough to compete. Unfortunately, she came second to Ukrainian skater Oksana Baiul.

Although Jones had landed 50 punches more than Park Si-hun, Jones lost by decision at the 1988 games in Seoul. And to this day, sports fans claim the match was completely fixed.

In 2002, she won the gold medal in ladies’ singles figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics held in Salt Lake City. But a year earlier, she had won a World bronze in ladies’ singles.

The U.S. women’s ice hockey team beat Canada 3-1 and won the gold medal. This was a big accomplishment for the team as well as for Granato, who years later became one of the first women to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2010.

It was the first Winter Olympics event to take place outside of North America or Europe. Sapporo is a city in Japan that’s famous for skiing and their annual Sapporo Snow Festival which has impressive ice sculptures.

Bonnie Blair also won a bronze medal during her career. Although she has since retired, she is still considered one of the top skaters of her time and also one of the most highly decorated participants in the Olympics.

Sochi hosted the Winter Olympics in 2014. This Russian city is considered a summer beach resort and has 20th-century neoclassical buildings. Tourists are known to frequent the Forested Sochi National Park and the Krasnaya Polyana, which is a popular ski resort.

This was the first Canadian city to host the Winter Olympics. It’s known for its various impressive skyscrapers and owes much of its growth for being the heart of Canada’s oil industry.

The United States’ team suffered a weird basketball loss after the final three seconds of the game was played three times until the Soviet team finally won. This became a source of controversy and scandal in 1972.

Fred Lorz was so winded that he had a friend come get him and give him a ride in his car. When the car stopped working, Lorz was forced to finish the race on foot. When the rumors about this surfaced, he was forced to admit what he had done.

While most people remember him as the infamous leader, many of them don’t realize that he had once opened the Winter Olympics when it was hosted in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Mike Eruzione scored the goal that won the game over the Soviet Union 4-3. Eruzione became known as the captain of the 1980 Winter Olympics as a result of this amazing win.

While Scott Hamilton was the fourth American to win the gold medal in this category, other American skaters won gold medals at the Winter Olympics, too. Some of these winners included Dick Button, Brian Boitano, and David Jenkins.

Officials discovered that the vault was set too low which made it difficult for the gymnasts to perform their routines successfully. After the problem was fixed, the gymnasts got a second chance to try again.

The city hosted the Winter Olympics in 1964 and again in 1976. Innsbruck is located in Austria and is well known for its alps, which make it a preferred site for winter sports.

The Independent Olympic Athletes team has included athletes who have no national team to compete with for a number of reasons, like when Russian got banned temporarily in 2016 and 2018. For this team, the team flag has Olympic rings on a white background.

Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson had his gold medal stripped after officials learned he had used steroids before performing in the men’s 100-meter final at the 1988 Summer Olympics. His world record-breaking time was also revoked.

In 2002, Salt Lake City hosted the Winter Olympics. The city is the core of the metropolitan area and has an approximate population of 1,222,540.

The event was known as PyeongChang 2018 because it was hosted in PyeongChang, South Korea. It was an international multi-sport spectacular event that included 1,680 male and 1,242 female competitors.

When Madeline de Jesus hurt herself during the long jump, she got her twin sister, Margaret, to run the 4 x 400 qualifying heat for her. When the coach learned of the switcheroo, he was forced to yank the entire team from the Summer Olympics.