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29th Golden Raspberry Awards
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Nominations were announced on January 21,2009. The Love Guru was the most nominated film of 2008, with seven, Award results were based on votes from approximately 650 journalists, cinema fans and film professionals from 20 countries. Awards were presented by John Wilson, the ceremonys founder, the Love Guru received the most awards, winning Worst Picture, Worst Actor, and Worst Screenplay. Paris Hilton received three awards, including Worst Actress for her work in The Hottie & the Nottie and Worst Supporting Actress for Repo. Hilton matched the number of awards received by an actor in a single year. Pierce Brosnan received Worst Supporting Actor for his role in Mamma Mia, the Movie, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull received the award for Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel. Uwe Boll received the Worst Director award for the films 1968 Tunnel Rats, In the Name of the King and Postal, the most nominated film of 2008 was the box-office bomb The Love Guru, with seven nominations. Paid members of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation voted to determine the winners, Award results were based on votes from approximately 650 journalists, cinema fans and professionals from the film industry. Voters were from 45 states in the United States and 19 other countries, the ceremony opened with a musical number which parodied the song Dancing Queen from Mamma Mia. Awards were presented by John Wilson, the ceremonys founder, awardees received a gold spray-painted raspberry worth $4.97. The Love Guru received three awards, Worst Picture, Worst Actor and Worst Screenplay, Worst Picture was the last award given out at the ceremony. The main thing wrong with it is no one said to Myers that it wasnt funny and he managed to offend the entire Indian population and his investors, said Wilson in a statement in The Guardian. Wilson shredded a copy of The Love Guru at the awards ceremony and she is the 21st century Zsa Zsa Gabor. She is famous for who she hangs out with, shes not famous for any talent she has yet exhibited. She may end up working with Uwe Boll and she could be the head vampire in BloodRayne 3, said Wilson of Hiltons performances. Pierce Brosnan received Worst Supporting Actor for his role in Mamma Mia, Award hosts Chip Dornell and Kelie McIver described Brosnan as an actor who could not sing, should not sing and arguably did not sing, in a role he should not have accepted. The Steven Spielberg film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull received the award for Worst Prequel, Remake, Uwe Boll received the Worst Director award for films 1968 Tunnel Rats, In the Name of the King and Postal. He also received a award for Worst Career Achievement
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40th Daytime Emmy Awards
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The ceremony took place on June 16,2013 at The Beverly Hilton, in Beverly Hills, California beginning at 5,00 p. m. PST /8,00 p. m. EST. The ceremony was televised in the United States by HLN and executive produced by Gabriel Gornell, the evening was hosted by Sam Champion, A. J. Hammer and Robin Meade for the first time and the pre-show ceremony was hosted by Hammer and Christi Paul. The drama pre-nominees were announced on February 27,2013, the acceptance speech format was altered to add live on-stage interviews with recipients directly following their acceptance speeches for the first time in award show history. In related events, the 40th Annual Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony was held at the Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles on June 14,2013. The Bold and the Beautiful won the most awards, with four trophies including for Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team, days of Our Lives won two awards including Outstanding Drama Series. The Ellen DeGeneres Show won its award in the Outstanding Talk Show Entertainment category. The Young and the Restless had received the most nominations, with a total of 23, Steve Harvey received two nominations for hosting duties, one in Outstanding Game Show Host for Family Feud and the other in Outstanding Talk Show Host for Steve Harvey. The Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented to Monty Hall and Bob Stewart, in the lists below, the winner of the category is shown first, with a double-dagger, followed by the other nominees. Monty Hall Bob Stewart The following individuals presented awards or performed musical acts
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50 home run club
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In Major League Baseball, the 50 home run club is the group of batters who have hit 50 or more home runs in a single season. Babe Ruth was the first to achieve this, doing so in 1920, by reaching the milestone, he also became the first player to hit 30 and then 40 home runs in a single-season, breaking his own record of 29 from the 1919 season. Ruth subsequently became the first player to reach the 50 home run club on four occasions, barry Bonds hit the most home runs to join the club, collecting 73 in 2001. The most recent player to reach the milestone is Chris Davis, in total,27 players have reached the 50 home run club in MLB history and nine have done so more than once. Of these, fifteen were right-handed batters, eleven were left-handed, two of these players have played for only one major league team. The New York Yankees are the franchise to have four players reach the milestone while on their roster, Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris. Ten players are members of the 500 home run club. Ten players won the Most Valuable Player Award in the year as their 50 home run season. Mantle is the player to have earned the Major League Triple Crown alongside achieving 50 home runs. Albert Belle is the player to amass 50 or more doubles in addition to attaining 50 home runs. Prince Fielder, at 23 years and 139 days, was the youngest player to reach the milestone while Bonds, at age 37, was the oldest. Due to the infrequent addition of members into the 50 home run club, Baseball Digest called it a restrictive fraternity comprising slugging elite in 1954, of the seventeen members eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame, eight have been elected and three were elected on the first ballot. Some believe the milestone has become less important with the number of new members. Additionally, several of these recent members have had ties to performance-enhancing drugs, List of Major League Baseball home run champions Major League Baseball single-season home run record List of Major League Baseball home run records General Specific
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400-series highways
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The 400-series highways are a network of controlled-access highways throughout the southern portion of the Canadian province of Ontario, forming a special subset of the provincial highway system. Although Ontario had been constructing divided highways for two decades prior, 400-series designations were introduced in 1952, initially only Highways 400,401 and 402 were numbered, other designations followed in the subsequent decades. Modern 400-series highways have high standards, speed limits of 100 kilometres per hour. As a result, they experience the lowest accident and fatality rate comparative to traffic volume in North America. When the 400-series designations were first applied to Ontario freeways in 1952, originally inspired by German Autobahns, Thomas McQuesten planned a network of Dual Highways across the southern half of the province. The Queen Elizabeth Way was first, an upgrade to the partially constructed Middle Road in 1934, the construction boom that followed World War II resulted in a great number of new freeway construction projects in the province. Seeking a new way to distinguish the controlled-access freeways from the two lane Kings Highway networks, the Department of Highways created the 400-series designations in 1952. By the end of the year, Highway 400,401 and 402 were numbered, catharines, Highway 406 south from St. The first sections of freeways were opened in 1963,1977,1963,1965,1997,1974. Highway 420 was designated in Niagara Falls, though it had built as part of the QEW in 1941. Other major works included the skyway bridges along the QEW and the expansion of Highway 401 into twelve lane collector-express systems, by the mid-1980s, the network had more-or-less taken its current shape, with only Highways 407 and 416 not yet built. Instead, emphasis was placed on expanding existing routes to accommodate increasing traffic volumes, however, extensions of Highway 400 towards Parry Sound, Highway 403 between Woodstock and Hamilton, Highway 404 towards Newmarket, and Highway 427 towards Vaughan were underway. By the end of the decade, construction of Highway 407 and Highway 416 had begun, Highways 407 and 416 opened in the late 1990s. Until early 2015, Highways 407 and 416 were the most-recently designated freeways in Ontario and this has changed with the designation of Highways 412 and 418. Of note are the Ontario Tall Wall median barrier and the Parclo A-4 interchange design, the Institute of Traffic Engineers subsequently recommended this design to replace the cloverleaf interchange throughout North America. Highways in Ontario are among the safest in North America, with 0.63 fatalities per 10,000 licensed drivers in 2010, conforming with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, Ontario utilizes green signs for guidance purposes. Generally, blue signage is used to list services and attractions at upcoming exits, however, several exceptions exist, notably blue guidance signage for toll highways like Highway 407 and Highway 412, in addition to the collector lanes of highways. The baseline standard for the construction of or expansion to a freeway in Ontario is a daily traffic count of 10,000 vehicles per day
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1970 NBA draft
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The 1970 NBA draft was the 24th annual draft of the National Basketball Association. The draft was held on March 23,1970, before the 1970–71 season, in this draft,17 NBA teams took turns selecting amateur U. S. college basketball players and other eligible players, including international players. A player who had finished his college eligibility was eligible for selection. If a player left college early, he would not be eligible for selection until his class graduated. The first two picks in the draft belonged to the teams finished last in each division, with the order determined by a coin flip. The Detroit Pistons won the flip and were awarded the first overall pick. The remaining first-round picks and the subsequent rounds were assigned to teams in order of their win–loss record in the previous season. In the first round, the Cavaliers had the pick, while the Blazers and the Braves had the eighth. In the subsequent rounds, the Cavaliers and the Braves exchanged their order of selection, the draft consisted of 19 rounds comprising the selection of 239 players, it holds the record for the most prospects selected in any NBA draft. Bob Lanier from St. Bonaventure University was selected first overall by the Detroit Pistons, rudy Tomjanovich from the University of Michigan and Pete Maravich from Louisiana State University were selected second and third respectively. Six players from this draft, Lanier, Maravich, Cowens, 18th pick Calvin Murphy, 19th pick Nate Archibald, Maravich, Cowens and Archibald were also named to the list of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History announced at the leagues 50th anniversary in 1996. Maravich had four All-NBA Team selections and five All-Star Game selections, Cowens won two NBA championships with the Boston Celtics in 1974 and 1976, one Most Valuable Player Award in 1973, and had three All-NBA Team selections and seven All-Star Game selections. Archibald won one NBA championship with the Celtics in 1981 and had five All-NBA Team selections, Lanier and Murphy were selected to eight and one All-Star Games respectively. Dan Issel initially opted to play in the American Basketball Association with the Kentucky Colonels and he played six seasons in the ABA before finally joining the NBA with the Denver Nuggets when both leagues merged. He was selected to five All-ABA Teams, six ABA All-Star Games and he was selected to both the All-NBA Team and the All-Star Game. Tomjanovich was selected to five All-Star Games during his career, charlie Scott, the 106th pick, initially opted to play in the ABA with the Virginia Squires before joining the NBA in 1972. He was selected to two All-ABA Teams, two ABA All-Star Games and three NBA All-Star Games, three other players from this draft, fifth pick Sam Lacey, seventh pick John Johnson and eighth pick Geoff Petrie, was also selected to at least one All-Star Game. The Rockets first and second picks, Tomjanovich and Murphy spent all of their playing career with the Rockets
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1984 NBA draft
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The 1984 NBA draft was the 37th annual draft of the National Basketball Association. It was held at the Felt Forum at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York, on June 19,1984, the draft was broadcast in the United States on the USA Network. In this draft,23 NBA teams took turns selecting amateur U. S. college basketball players and other eligible players, the remaining first-round picks and the subsequent rounds were assigned to teams in reverse order of their win–loss record in the previous season. The Cleveland Cavaliers were awarded an extra draft pick as compensation for the draft picks traded away by their previous owner. A player who had finished his college eligibility was automatically eligible for selection. Before the draft, five college underclassmen announced that they would leave college early, prior to the draft, the San Diego Clippers relocated to Los Angeles and became the Los Angeles Clippers. The draft consisted of 10 rounds comprising the selection of 228 players and this draft was the last to be held before the creation of the Draft Lottery in 1985. It was also the first NBA Draft to be overseen by David Stern, the draft is generally considered to be one of the greatest in NBA history, with four Hall of Famers being drafted in the first sixteen picks and five overall. The Houston Rockets used their first pick to draft Akeem Olajuwon, the Nigerian-born Olajuwon became the second foreign-born player to be drafted first overall, after Mychal Thompson from the Bahamas in 1978. The Portland Trail Blazers used the second pick to draft Sam Bowie from the University of Kentucky. The Chicago Bulls used the pick to draft Naismith and Wooden College Player of the Year Michael Jordan from the University of North Carolina. Jordan went on to win the Rookie of the Year Award and was selected to the All-NBA Second Team in his rookie season. Jordans teammate at North Carolina, Sam Perkins, was drafted fourth by the Dallas Mavericks, Charles Barkley, a junior forward from Auburn University, was drafted fifth by the Philadelphia 76ers. Olajuwon, Jordan and Barkley, along with the 16th pick John Stockton and they were also named in the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History list announced at the leagues 50th anniversary in 1996. Olajuwon retired as the league leader in total blocked shots with 3,830 blocks. The third pick, Jordan, achieved greater success than Olajuwon. Barkley and Stockton never won an NBA championship, but both received numerous awards and honors. Barkley won the Most Valuable Player in 1993 and was selected to eleven All-NBA Teams, eleven All-Star Games, Jordan, Barkley and Stockton would later play as teammates for the 1992 Dream Team
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1984 Summer Olympics medal table
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The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Los Angeles, California, United States, from 28 July to 12 August 1984. These Games had 6,829 athletes from 140 NOCs participating in a total of 221 events in 23 sports, athletes from 47 NOCs won medals, of which 25 secured at least a gold medal. As a result,93 NOCs were left without any medal, the host NOC, the United States, received 83 gold medals, breaking the previous Summer Olympic record of 78 golds, set at the 1904 Summer Olympics. Even so, the United States still won fewer medals than the overall record. Seventeen NOCs chose not to compete at the 1984 Summer Olympics, four years earlier,61 NOCs – led by the United States – had boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics staged in Moscow. Nonetheless, Romania, China and Yugoslavia – at the time, ruled by Communist governments – decided to compete in Los Angeles, in addition, three countries unrelated to the Soviet boycott decided not to compete. S. A. in Latin America, especially in El Salvador. Angola also boycotted the Games, but made no statement as to their reasons, USA officials believed that Angolas withdrawal was related to Soviet financial and political support of the ruling MPLA. The ranking in this table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee and is consistent with IOC convention in its published medal tables, by default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a National Olympic Committee have won. The number of medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If NOCs are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by IOC country code, the number of bronze medals awarded was greater than either the gold or silver. This was due to a number of heats for third position, including the womens 100 meter hurdles. Also, a bronze medal was awarded for each of the boxing. In the gymnastic events there were several dead heats for gold medals, in the womens uneven bars and balance beam. There was a tie for second place in the mens vault resulting in four silver medals being handed out for a single event. Host country First ever gold medal First ever medal General Byron, Lee, Cox, Amanda, Ericson, Matthew
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1992 Major League Baseball expansion draft
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The 1990 collective bargaining agreement between MLB owners and the MLB Players Association allowed the NL to expand by two members to match the American League. In June 1991, MLB accepted bids of groups from Miami, Florida, the Marlins and Rockies used the expansion draft to build their teams using different strategies. As the Rockies had an operating budget than the Marlins. All three rounds of the draft were televised by ESPN, as opposed to previous expansion drafts, players from both the American League and National League were available to the expansion clubs. Each existing club could protect 15 players on their 40-man roster from being drafted, at the end of each round, NL teams could protect an additional three players and AL teams could protect an additional four. To further protect the AL teams, a maximum of eight AL teams could have three players chosen, all unprotected MLB and minor league players were eligible except those chosen in the amateur drafts of 1991 or 1992 and players who were 18 or younger when signed in 1990. Players who were free agents after the 1992 season were not eligible for selection in the draft, the Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins, however, were not restricted in offering contracts to free agents. The Rockies signed their first free agent, Andrés Galarraga, to a contract the day before the expansion draft. Colorado won the toss and chose to pick first overall, with the first pick, the Rockies chose David Nied, who had a 3–0 win–loss record with a 1.17 earned run average in six MLB appearances with the Atlanta Braves. The Marlins first selection, Nigel Wilson, spent the 1992 season with the Double-A Knoxville Smokies of the Toronto Blue Jays organization, in total, the Rockies and Marlins chose 41 pitchers with their combined 72 selections. Of the 72 players chosen,11 were All-Stars during their careers, the following trades were announced at the conclusion of the expansion draft, The Marlins traded Danny Jackson to the Philadelphia Phillies for Joel Adamson and Matt Whisenant. The Marlins traded Greg Hibbard to the Chicago Cubs for Gary Scott, the Marlins traded Eric Helfand and Scott Baker to the Oakland Athletics for Walt Weiss. The Marlins traded Tom Edens to the Houston Astros for Héctor Carrasco, the Rockies traded Kevin Reimer to the Milwaukee Brewers for Dante Bichette. The Rockies traded Jody Reed to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Rudy Seánez, the Cincinnati Reds traded Norm Charlton to the Seattle Mariners for Kevin Mitchell. Several older star players who were left unprotected, including Danny Tartabull, Jack Morris, based on the results of the expansion draft, the Marlins were projected to have a higher payroll in 1993 than the Rockies. The Rockies payroll appeared to be $4 million, less than what the Marlins would pay Bryan Harvey and they attempted to revoke the assignment of Hayes and Ausmus to the Rockies and Everett to the Marlins. Invoking the best interests of baseball clause, Commissioner Bud Selig, in the 1993 Major League Baseball season, the Marlins and Rockies both finished sixth out of seven teams in their respective divisions. Ritz and Painter, both selected in the draft, started Games 1 and 2 of the 1995 National League Division Series for the Rockies
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1994 College Baseball All-America Team
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Although the honorees generally do not compete as a unit, the term is used in U. S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national media. Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the days of American football in 1889. In 1950, the American Baseball Coaches Association selected its first All-American baseball team and it has since chosen All-American teams and a player of the year for each division. Collegiate Baseball selects All-American, Freshman All-American, and High School All-American teams, Baseball America magazine selects pre-season and post-season All-American teams and College Player of the Year honorees. Various organizations selected All-American lists of the best players for the 1994 NCAA Division I college baseball season, the ABCA, the magazine Baseball America, and Collegiate Baseball were the NCAA-sanctioned selectors. This list only includes players selected to the post-season All-American first team for each selector, however, many All-American selections choose second, third, etc. teams from the remaining eligible candidates. With Nomar Garciaparra, Jason Varitek, Mike Hampton, and Danny Graves, the following is a summary of the collegiate and MLB accomplishments of the players from the team. Dickey remains an active MLB player, five players were selected by all three NCAA-sanctioned selectors, pitcher Danny Graves, catcher Varitek, first baseman Tommy Davis, shortstop Garciaparra, and outfielder Payton. Varitek and Todd Walker had both been selected unanimously to the 1993 College Baseball All-America Team, while Antone Williamson is a repeat All-American according to Baseball America, veritek had also been a unanimous selection to the 1992 College Baseball All-America Team. José Cruz, Jr. would repeat as a selection to the 1995 College Baseball All-America Team by all selectors, Walker won the 1993 College World Series Most Outstanding Player. Varitek swept the Dick Howser Trophy, the Rotary Smith Award, Garciaparra is a two-time American League batting champion, AL Rookie of the Year, six-time All-Star, who led the AL in at bats, hits, doubles, triples, and intentional walks. He led the AL in errors regardless of position in 2002, Varitek is a three-time All-Star, Gold Glove-winner, Silver Slugger-winner, and two-time World Series champion. He called the pitches for a league record four no-hitters. He twice led the NL in home runs per nine innings pitched, Danny Graves, who is a two-time All-Star and won the 2002 Lou Gehrig Memorial Award, is the only Vietnamese-born player in MLB history. Georgia Tech had three selections and Clemson had two, several other players made notable marks as professional players. Paul Wilson became the MLB number one draft pick in 1994. Walker led the NL second basemen in fielding percentage and putouts during the 2002 season. Cruz, who won a Gold Glove in 2003 in the NL, led the NL in putouts as a rightfielder and he accumulated over 1,100 hits and 200 home runs
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1998 Asian Games medal table
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The 1998 Asian Games was a multi-sport event held in Bangkok, Thailand from December 6 to December 20,1998. A total of 6,544 athletes from 41 Asian National Olympic Committees participated in these games, athletes from 33 NOCs won at least one medal, and athletes from 23 of these NOCs secured at least one gold, contingents from eight NOCs did not win any medals. China won the most gold medals and the most medals overall, south Korean athletes claimed 164 medals in total, earning second spot on the table. Japan finished third with a total of 181 medals, including 52 gold, host nation Thailand improved its medal-table rank compared with the last Asian Games held in Hiroshima, where it finished twelfth. In this Games Thailand ranked fourth in the table, with 24 gold and 90 medals overall. The ranking in this table is consistent with International Olympic Committee convention in its published medal tables, by default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won. The number of medals is taken into consideration next. If nations are tied, equal ranking is given, they are listed alphabetically by IOC country code. A total of 1,225 medals were awarded, in athletics, two bronze medals were awarded in the mens high jump event. In wushu, a tie for the position in the mens changquan event resulted in no bronze being awarded. In gymnastics, many shared medals were awarded, a four-way tie for second position in the parallel bars meant that no bronze medal was awarded. Host nation After failing a drug test, Fakhruddin Abdulmajid Taher of the United Arab Emirates was stripped of his medal in the mens kumite event of karate. This disqualification left the UAE with only a bronze medal. The silver medal was not awarded to any other athlete, official Website of the Olympic Council of Asia
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1998 Winter Olympics medal table
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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. A total of 2,176 athletes representing 72 National Olympic Committees participated in 68 events from 14 sports and disciplines. The sport of curling returned after an appearance in the 1928 Olympics, snowboarding was added as a new sport. Twenty-four NOCs earned medals at these Games, and fifteen won at least one gold medal, competitors from Germany earned the highest number of gold medals and the most overall medals. With 10 gold medals and 25 overall medals, Norway finished second in both categories, denmark won its first Winter Olympics medal, while Bulgaria and the Czech Republic won their first Winter Games gold medals. Azerbaijan, Kenya, Macedonia, Uruguay, and Venezuela competed for the first time, the leading medal winner at the Games was Russian skier Larisa Lazutina, who won five medals, including three golds. Nine other athletes won three medals, including three Germans, american figure skater Tara Lipinski became the youngest competitor in Winter Olympics history to earn a gold medal in an individual event. The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee and is consistent with IOC convention in its published medal tables. By default, the table is ordered by the number of medals the athletes from a nation have won. The number of medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If nations are tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically. In the two-man bobsleigh competition, a tie meant that two medals were awarded, so no silver medal was awarded for that event. A tie for second in the mens Super G skiing competition meant that a pair of medals were given out. In the four-man bobsleigh, a tie for third resulted in the awarding of two bronze medals, due to these ties, the number of gold medals awarded was one more than the number of silver or bronze medals. In snowboarding, Canadian Ross Rebagliati won the medal in the mens Giant Slalom. After the Canadian Olympic Association filed an appeal, however, the IOCs decision was overturned, * Host nation General 1998 Medal Count. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011, Olympic Games, Nagano 1998 – Medal Table. Archived from the original on 13 May 2009, archived from the original on 13 May 2009
