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Cross-country skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Women's 10 kilometre

cross-country skiing at the Olympics

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ1221850 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Women's 10 kilometre cross-country skiing event was part of the cross-country skiing programme at the 1968 Winter Olympics, in Grenoble, France. It was the fifth appearance of the event. The competition was held on 9 February 1968, at Autrans.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Cross-country skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Women's 10 kilometre” as cross-country skiing at the Olympics. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Cross-country, skiing and Winter can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as cross-country skiing at the Olympics. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1221850. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1968.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cross-country skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Women's 10 kilometre” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.