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For more information about the Winter Games Archive or use of any newspaper images on the site, contact Stephen Carr
Research Specialist
scarr@newspaperarchive.com
319.390.9442 x40
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For Immediate Release
February 24, 2006
WinterGamesArchive.com chronicles the history of the
Winter Olympics with historic newspaper articles
NewspaperARCHIVE.com releases site as 2006 Olympics come to a close
February 24 - NewspaperARCHIVE.com, the largest online newspaper database, has just released WinterGamesArchive.com. From the Games' debut in Chamonix, France, in 1924 to Salt Lake City in 2002, Winter Games Archive provides historic newspaper articles about timeless heroes like skater Peggy Fleming and lesser known athletes such as speed skater Charles Jewtraw. The site is the latest in a series of free archives containing thousands of original newspapers that include AbrahamLincolnArchive.com and MartinLutherKingJrArchive.com.
Some of the greatest athletic stories ever told can be found in the history of the Winter Olympics, including the "Miracle" victory of the 1980 U.S. Men's Hockey Team and the triumph of speed skater Dan Jansen. Yet, stories of deceit, greed and jealousy, as in the case of ice skaters Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, are also detailed in the historic newspaper collection.
"Researchers looking for background information on the Winter Olympics will be amazed at the content," said Jeff Kiley, Director of Sales and Marketing for NewspaperARCHIVE.com. "For example, articles about Austrian Nordic coach Walter Mayer, who was banned from the Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, can be found from when he was involved in the blood doping scandal during the Salt Lake games in 2002."
Whether a researcher is looking for articles about more recent Olympians such as Peggy Fleming, Bode Miller, Katarina Witt, Kristi Yamaguchi, Eric Heiden, Bonnie Blair, Scott Hamilton, Sarah Hughes, Tara Lipinsky, Sasha Cohen or older newspapers accounts from the 1920's and 1930's, the archive can easily be searched for any topic in the history of the modern Winter Olympics.
Along with the archive, the website contains a brief timeline on the Winter Games that is told through newspaper accounts. For example, an article from April 24, 1940, tells of Finland's announcement to cancel the 1940 Winter Games due to World War II.
Researchers interested in finding more information about the Winter Games can also go to NewspaperARCHIVE.com where there are more than 250,000 newspaper pages about the Winter Olympics. NewspaperARCHIVE.com, the largest newspaper database available online, is owned by Heritage Microfilm and began in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1999.
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