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	1908 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1908 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the IV Olympiad, were held in 1908 in London, England.
		However, these have since been retroactively downgraded by the International Olympic Committee and thus the 1908 Games are seen as the start of the Fourth Olympiad, in keeping with the now-accepted four-year cycle.
		The 1908 Olympics also prompted the establishment of standard rules for sports, and the selection of judges from different countries, rather than just the host.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1908_Summer_Olympics (724 words)

	1908 Summer Olympics: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		White city stadium was a stadium in london, england that was built for the 1908 summer olympics....
		The international olympic committee is an organisation based in lausanne, switzerland, created by pierre de coubertin in 1894 to reinstate the ancient...
		Archery at the 1908 Summer Olympics[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject]
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1908_summer_olympics.htm (1554 words)

	Olympic Games - MSN Encarta
		The modern Olympic Games began in Athens, Greece, in 1896, two years after French educator Pierre de Coubertin proposed that the Olympic Games of ancient Greece be revived to promote a more peaceful world.
		Although the Olympic Charter, the official constitution of the Olympic movement, proclaims that the Olympics are contests among individuals and not among nations, the IOC assigns to the various NOCs the task of selecting national Olympic teams.
		Women’s Olympic sports have grown significantly since then, and currently women account for approximately half of the members of teams, except in teams from Islamic nations, where the level of female participation is generally lower.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761562380 (1334 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		The winter Olympics were begun in 1924 and were held in the same year as the summer games until the 1994 winter games in Lillehammer, Norway, when the alternating cycles began.
		The 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, reflected a changed political landscape: the 172 participating nations and territories included the Unified Team (with athletes from 12 former Soviet republics), a reunited Germany, and South Africa, which was allowed to compete for the first time since 1960.
		The Olympic games are competitions of individual athletes, not of nations, and the IOC does not keep national scores; however, the media of all nations report national standings according to one of two scoring systems.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/sports/olympics.html (1093 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics
		These were the first celebration of the Olympic Games since the recreation of the ancient Greek Olympics with the founding of the International Olympic Committee in 1894.
		This is remarkable, as the Olympics did not, for a long time, allow professional athletes to compete, with the sole exception of fencing.
		The weightlifting contests are also conducted in the Olympic stadium, with Launceston Elliot of Great Britain and Viggo Jensen of Denmark taking a first and a second place each in the single-hand and double-hand contests.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ga/Games_of_the_I_Olympiad.html (876 words)

	Wikinfo \| Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The ancient Olympic Games were abandoned in AD 394 by the Roman emperor Theodosius I, who considered the Games to be a savage celebration.
		Olympic is also the name the public sometimes uses for the Greek national airline, Olympic Airways.
		Olympic uses varous types or airplanes, like the Boeing 747 and Airbus A340 for international routes, and the Boeing 727 and Boeing 737 for domestic routes.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Olympic_Games (1155 words)

	1908 Summer Olympics - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Funds that were to have gone to the Olympics were diverted to the reconstruction of Naples, so a new venue was required and London was selected.
		On opening day, it was the first time the various countries marched around an Olympic stadium behind their national flags.
		The 1908 race was 42.195 km but the next two Olympics in 1912 and 1920 used different distances.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /1/19/1908_summer_olympics.html (448 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The 1908 Olympics were originally awarded to Rome, but were reassigned to London.
		Lighting the Olympic Flame by: The Olympic flame was first lit during the opening ceremony of the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam.
		Olympic Oath by: The first athletes' oath was sworn at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1908 (355 words)

	1960 Summer Olympics: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Rome had been awarded the organisation of the 1908 Summer Olympics (1908 Summer Olympics: more facts about this subject), but had to decline and pass the honours to London (London: The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center).
		Olympic Torch (Olympic Torch: thumb250pxthe olympic flame at the athens 2004 summer olympicsthe olympic flame or...
		It was the second time an athlete died in competition at the Olympics, after the death of Portuguese (Portuguese: The Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil) marathon runner Francisco Lazaro at the 1912 Summer Olympics (1912 Summer Olympics: more facts about this subject).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/1960_summer_olympics (910 words)

	London - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Thames Barrier was constructed across the Thames at Woolwich in the 1970s to deal with this threat, but in early 2005 it was suggested that a ten-mile long barrier further downstream might be required to deal with the flood risk in the future [1] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4162905.stm).
		The East End of London is closest to the original Port of London, and tended for that reason to be the area of the city where immigrants arriving into the port would settle first.
		In the summer opera is performed in a temporary pavilion by Opera Holland Park, and there are occasional performances by visiting opera companies and small freelance professional opera companies.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/London (8108 words)

	2012 Summer Olympics: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Athlete's Oath (Athlete's Oath: the olympic oath is taken by an athlete and a judge at the opening ceremonies of the olympic...
		Judge's Oath (Judge's Oath: the olympic oath is taken by an athlete and a judge at the opening ceremonies of the olympic...
		Some commentators have suggested that its bid may be hampered by the fact that Spain recently hosted the 1992 Summer Olympics (1992 Summer Olympics: more facts about this subject)); although those Games were held in Barcelona and were praised by the IOC for their excellent organization, and by 2012 they will be twenty years behind.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/2012_summer_olympics (1883 words)

	CANOE - 2006 GAMES TURIN ITALY - Results
		Figure skating was the first winter sport included in the Olympic Games when it appeared at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.
		The past two Olympic figure skating competitions have been dominated by the Russians, who won six of the possible eight gold medals and 10 in total.
		Olympic figure skating consists of four medal events or disciplines: ladies' singles, men's singles, pairs and ice dancing.
	scoreboards.canoe.ca /merge/tsnform.aspx?c=canoe&page=olymp/2006/history.aspx?s=FIGURESKATING (647 words)

	Bobby Kerr - TheBestLinks.com - Canada, Enniskillen, Hamilton, Ontario, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He won the gold medal in the 200 m at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
		Louis and compete in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
		At the 1908 Summer Olympics, also held in Britain, Kerr was considered to be somewhat of a home favourite by the crowd, as they saw him as a representative of the British Empire.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Bobby_Kerr.html (384 words)

	Winter Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This decision caused the Swiss and Austrian skiers to boycott the Olympics.
		The 1940 Winter Olympics had originally been awarded to Japan, and were supposed to be held in Sapporo, but the IOC voted to take back the Games from Japan because of their involvement in the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)war in China.
		Figure skating was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympics, appearing in the programme of the Summer Olympics in 1908 and 1920.
	www.infothis.com /find/Winter_Olympic_Games (6345 words)

	Bobby Kerr - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He won the gold medal in the 200 metres and the bronze medal in the 100 metres at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
		At the 1908 Summer Olympics, held in London, Kerr was considered to be somewhat of a home favourite by the crowd, as they saw him as a representative of the British Empire.
		He coached the athletics and football teams of Hamilton, and was an official at the 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Bobby_Kerr (434 words)

	Summer Olympic Games - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Summer Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event held every four years, organised by the International Olympic Committee.
		The Olympics are the most prestigious such event in the world, with a larger range of sports than other such events, and most of those considering Olympic victory the most prestigious achievement in their field.
		On the bright side it did, however, seem that the drug testing and regulation authorities were at last catching up with the cheating that had been widely to be endemic in athletics for some years, and it was generally held that the 1992 Barcelona Games were cleaner, although not without incident.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Summer_Olympic_Games (1980 words)

	Bidding for the 2012 Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Some commentators have suggested that its bid may be hampered by the fact that Spain recently hosted the 1992 Summer Olympics); although those Games were held in Barcelona and were praised by the IOC for their excellent organization, and by 2012 they will be twenty years behind.
		Their bid may be hampered by the fact that the 2010 Winter Olympics are being held in Vancouver and organizers are believed to be eager to avoid having consecutive Olympics on the same continent.
		Additionally, the Summer Olympics have been held in the United States as recently as 1996 and 1984.
	www.juiceenewsdaily.com /0505/news/oly_bid.html (772 words)

	2020 Summer Olympics - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The 2020 Summer Olympics, what will be officially known as the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, is an international athletic event that has yet to be organized by the International Olympic Committee.
		Nonetheless, Olympic officials are urging Brisbane not to be too eager in pursuing the idea so soon, because the 2000 Olympics were held in southern Australian counterpart Sydney.
		In 1985, Brisbane failed to win the bid for the 1992 Summer Olympics, which was held in Barcelona.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/2020_Summer_Olympics (1239 words)

	Olympics - EnchantedLearning.com
		The Greeks held the first Olympic games in the year 776 BC (over 2700 years ago), and had only one event, a sprint (a short run that was called the "stade").
		For each Olympics, a new flame is started in the ancient Olympic stadium in Olympia, Elis, Greece, using a parabolic mirror to focus the rays of the Sun.
		The events in the Summer Olympics include: archery, badminton, baseball, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, diving, equestrian, fencing, football (soccer), gymnastics, handball, hockey, judo, kayaking, marathon, pentathlon, ping pong, rowing, sailing, shooting, swimming, taekwando, tennis, track and field (many running, jumping, and throwing events), triathlon, volleyball, water polo, weightlifting, wrestling (freestyle and Greco-Roman).
	www.enchantedlearning.com /olympics (1311 words)

	1908 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar).
		April 27 - The 1908 Summer Olympics open in London.
		The Irish Universities Act, 1908 is passed and creates the National University of Ireland at Dublin and the Queen's University of Belfast.
	www.worldslastchance.com /encyclopedia/index.php/1908 (1647 words)

	ABC Sport Online - Winter Olympics 2006 - History
		Figure skating was included in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and, with ice hockey, at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.
		The abiding memory of the second Japanese Winter Olympics after Sapporo in 1972 was the spectacular "human-cannonball" fall sustained by Austrian giant Hermann Maier in the men's downhill.
		Everyone had a great time in one of the best-organised and most popular Olympics ever which were held only two years after Albertville because in 1986 the IOC had voted to change the Olympic schedule so that the Summer and Winter Games could be held in different years.
	www.abc.net.au /winterolympics/2006/history.htm (4179 words)

	Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Olympic Games are a multi-sport event taking place every fourth year.
		The first written accounts of the Olympic Games date from 776 BC, although it is sure that these Games were not the first ones to be held.
		The Olympic Games were part of the Panhellenic Games, four separate games held at two- or four-year intervals but arranged so that there was one set of games every year.
	usapedia.com /o/olympic-games.html (1114 words)

	Sporting Life - Winter Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The first modern Olympic games were held in 1896 but it was not until 1924 that the first Winter Games were held.
		But initially these events were included in the Summer Games the 1908 London Summer Olympics had figure skating and by the 1920 Antwerp games ice hockey was also included.
		The US Olympic Association (USOC) and the Amateur Hockey Association both sent teams representing America and the ICO threatened to cancel the event unless the dispute was resolved.
	www.sportinglife.com /winterolympics/history (2087 words)

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