ICal calendars displaying in iCloud

I subscribed to an iCal calendar on a high school sports schedule website. I have iCloud for iCal tunred on. The events showed up in iCal on my Mac, iPhone,and Ipad as they should. However, when I logged into iCloud they were not displayed. Obviously iCloud is workng and knows about the events. However, subscribed calendars are not listed with the rest of the calendars on the selection list in iCloud, so I can't check them and have them displayed in the iCloud calendar. Do I have that right? Why not?

Sounds like I have the same or a similar problem. Since I migrated to iCloud, all is well with my contacts, calendars, etc. on my Mac, my iPod Touch, my MacBook, etc. --- but when I went to the iCloud site today, and chose "calendar", everything there is blank. And yes, in iCal preferences, all my calendars show as "iCloud" calendars --- but in iCloud (the site) itself, there is nothing there that can be seen. To add to the mystery, I do not have this problem with contacts: all of them are visible when I go to the iCal site.
Any advice will be appreciated.
Thanks,
John

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4.     Still in iCloud.com, change the names and colors of any of the other calendars you wish to change. Delete any empty calendars that mysteriously appeared without your wanting them. Take note of all the calendars, names, and colors that are on the final list of calendars.
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6.   One at a time on each device, go back to Settings and then "iCloud" and check again the box for "Calendars." You will be asked whether you want to "MERGE" your data with iCloud. I selected MERGE to ensure I didn't lose anything. Link each device again into iCloud one at a time.
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