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Petra Vaarakallio scored the first-ever goal in women's ice hockey at the Olympics in 1998. She had won bronze at the 1992 World Ringette Championships but stopped playing ringette after receiving a six-month suspension for kicking an opponent who was lying on the ice.
The men's gold medal game: Russia vs Czech Republic. Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics was played at The Big Hat and Aqua Wing Arena in Nagano, Japan. [1] [2] Isao Kataoka served as the chairman of the ice hockey competition committee for the 1998 Winter Olympics, the first Olympics to include active National Hockey League players.
At the 99th IOC Session in July 1992, the IOC voted to approve women's hockey as an Olympic event beginning with the 1998 Winter Olympics as part of their effort to increase the number of female athletes at the Olympics. [116] Women's ice hockey had not been in the programme when Nagano, Japan had won the right to host the Olympics in June 1991 ...
We look at one of the seminal moments in women's hockey history, chronicled in the book, "A Miracle of Their Own," written by Keith Gave. USA-Canada hockey 1998 Olympic final helped lift women's ...
Picture of the gold medal-winning Winnipeg Falcons (representing Canada) taken en route to the 1920 Summer Olympics. Ice hockey is a sport that is contested at the Winter Olympic Games. A men's ice hockey tournament has been held every Winter Olympics (starting in 1924); an ice hockey tournament was also held at the 1920 Summer Olympics. [1]
United States Olympic Committee: in Nagano; Competitors: 186 (105 men, 81 women) in 8 sports: Flag bearers : Eric Flaim (Opening) (short track speed skating) Cammi Granato (Closing) (ice hockey) Medals Ranked 5th: Gold 6 Silver 3 Bronze 4 Total 13: Winter Olympics appearances
In July 1992, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to approve women's hockey as an Olympic event to first be held at the 1998 Winter Olympics. [1] [4] Until 1998, international women's hockey had been dominated by Canada's national team. Canadian teams had won every World Championship; by 1997, however, the American team had improved ...
The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVIII Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event held in Nagano, Japan, from 7 to 22 February 1998. [1] Twenty-four nations earned medals at these Games, and fifteen won at least one gold medal; forty-eight countries left the Olympics without winning a medal.