Albertville

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Albertville

(älbĕrvēl`), town (1990 est. pop. 18,121), Savoie dept., E France in the Rhone-Alps region, close to the French-Italian border. Located in the AlpsAlps,
great mountain system of S central Europe, c.500 mi (800 km) long and c.100 mi (160 km) wide, curving in a great arc from the Riviera coast on the Mediterranean Sea, along the borders of N Italy and adjacent regions of SE France, Switzerland, SW Germany, and Austria, and
..... Click the link for more information. on the Arly River just above its influx into the Isère, Albertville is a transportation and commercial center in a winter sports region. The town was the central site for the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Albertville,

Congo (Kinshasa): see KalemieKalemie
, formerly Albertville
, city (1984 pop. 73,528), Tanganyika prov., SE Congo (Kinshasa), on Lake Tanganyika at the mouth of the Lukuga River. It is a commercial center and a rail-steamer transfer point, handling goods moving between the Congo and Tanzania.
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Annelise Coberger won New Zealands first ever Winter Olympic medal in ski slalom at the XVI Olympic Winter Games in Albertville, France in 1992.

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But Devon, who went on to compete and captain in two more Winter Olympics - in 1992 in Albertville, France, and 1998 in Nagano, Japan, actually started off as an aspiring track and field star.

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In 1992 in Albertville, France, Nicholas Bochatay of Switzerland, training for the demonstration sport of speed skiing, crashed into a snow-grooming machine on a public trail and died.

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teams: Albertville, France, 1992; Lillehammer, Norway, 1994; Nagano, Japan.

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He won gold medals in the downhill and the Super G races at the 1992 Paralympic Games in Albertville, France.

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Donato and Heinze, who were linemates on the 1992 team that finished fourth in Albertville, France, and Johnson, who played in 1994, all participated in the Olympics before countries were allowed to include NHL players on their rosters.