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Slovakia's Olympic Hopes
THE TRADITION - Major winter sporting competitions in the towns of Slovakia's
Tatras region
1909 Strbske Pleso - European Championships, Speed Skating
1925 Stary Smokovec and Strbske Pleso - European Championships,
Ice Hockey
1929 Poprad - The 1st Tatra Cup, Europe's oldest continuing
international ice hockey tournament (1994-95 saw the 47th Tatra Cup)
1935 various venues - FIS World Championships in skiing
1970 Strbske Pleso - World Championships in skiing
1987 various venues - World University Games
1993 Strbske Pleso - World Cup Finals, Cross Country Skiing and
Nordic Combined
1994 Poprad and Spisska Nova Ves - World Championships, Group C,
Ice Hockey
1995 and 1996 Strbske Pleso - World Cup preliminaries, Cross
Country Skiing and Nordic Combined
1997 Brezno - World Cup, Biathlon
1999 4th European Youth Winter Olympic Days
Great Games of young competitors.
200? ....
"I enjoyed the Tatras very much. Interesting people live there, who
have a very close relationship with nature"
- Sir Edmund Hillary, visiting the 1994 Mountain Film Festival in Poprad
Tatry Slovakia
High Tatras Slovakia
Tatry
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