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The Winter Olympic Gemmes are a winter multi-sport event held every fower years. Thay featur winter sports held on snow or ice, such as Alpine skiin, cross-kintra skiin, figur skatin, bobsleddin an ice hockey. Cross-kintra skiin, figur skatin, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumpin, an speed skatin hae been competit at every Winter Olympics syne 1924. Ither athletic events hae been added as the Gemmes hae progressed. Some o these events, such as luge, short track speed skatin, an freestyle skiin hae earned a permanent spot on the Olympic programme. Ithers, lik speed skiin, bandy, an skijörin hae been demonstration sports but never incorporatit offeecially as an Olympic sport.
Openin ceremonies climax wi the lixhtin o the Olympic Flame. For lichtin the torch, modern gemmes featur elaborate mechanisms such as this spiral cauldron arrangement lit bi the 1980 U.S. Olympic ice hockey team at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Eleonora "Ellen" van Dijk is a Dutch professional road an track racin cyclist ridin for Velocio–SRAM Pro Cycling. Van Dijk is a time trial specialist an acame 2008 World Track Champion in the scratch race an 2012 Road Warld Champion in team time trial.
Van Dijk stairted as a speed skater an as part o her skatin training she unnerteuk cyclin as part o cross-trainin in simmer. She excelled at both, competin naitionally at junior level. Efter acomin a naitional cyclin champion for the fift time in 2007, she quit speed skatin an acame a full-time cyclist. Alang wi her warld title successes, Van Dijk has an aa twice been European track champion, twice European time trial champion an haes wan five warld cup races. In 2012 she competit in three disciplines at the 2012 Olympic Gemmes in Lunnon, whaur she helped Marianne Vos win the gowd medal in the road race, finished aicht in the time trial an sixt in the team pursuit.
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