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• Figure skaters complete many triple axels, but what exactly is it, and why is it called that? The axel is a move created in 1882 by a Norwegian figure skater named Axel Paulsen. For the single axel, the skater launches into the air off one foot, spins around 1 _ times, and lands on the opposite foot, going backward. The triple axel is 3 _ rotations. Don’t confuse these with the Lutz, when the skater starts out backward, leaps into the air off the toe pick, spins, and lands on the same foot. • Eddie Eagan was the Olympic champion in boxing’s light-heavyweight division at the 1920 Summer Olympics. Twelve years later at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics, Eagan was a member of the gold medal winning four-man bobsled team, making him the first person to win in both Summer and Winter Olympics. He had taken up bobsledding a mere three weeks before the Olympics. • Bobsled tracks are made of concrete and coated with ice. They are about 4,000 to 4,200 feet (1,200 to 1,300 m) in length and have at least 15 curves. The sleds typically move along about 93 mph (150 km/hr). The very first Winter Olympics featured the four-man bobsled race, and the two-man event was added in 1932.

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WINTER SPORTS (continued): • The East German women’s luge team had a unique strategy for the 1968 Grenoble Olympics. They heated the runners on their sleds, which caused the ice to melt, increasing their speed. No surprise that the women came in first, second, and fourth in the competition! Once their tactics were discovered, they were all disqualified and their medals were revoked. • Anders Haugen of the United States received his bronze medal for ski jumping in 1974. What’s unusual about that? Anders was 86 years old! He had actually competed in Chamonix in 1924, but a calculation error put him in fourth place. Fifty years later, a Norwegian sports historian noticed the blunder and Anders was awarded his medal by the daughter of the actual fourth place finisher, who had taken the bronze home years before. • It might look like Alpine ski jumpers soar miles above the crowd, but in reality, they are rarely more than about 18 feet (5.5 m) above the ground. Jumpers reach speeds of up to 65 mph (104 km/hr). • The biathlon, which combines cross-country skiing and rifle marksmanship, was originally a military training exercise. Over the 12.5-mile (20-km) course, the athlete must switch from arduous skiing with a rifle on his/ her back to the intense focus of shooting. The sport wasn’t an official part of the Olympics until 1960 for men and 1992 for women. • While Alaska’s Iditarod is probably the most famous dog sled race, the 1,049-mile (1,688km) trip from Anchorage to Nome is not the longest. That honor belongs to the Beringia Trail in Russia, where the world’s longest race takes place on the Kamchatka Peninsula. The trail is 1,270 miles (2,044 km) long in an area where 29 active volcanoes dot the landscape.

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