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	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.
		Female swimming and diving were added to the 1912 Games, and female gymnastics and track-and-field events were first held at the 1928 Games.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562380/Olympic_Games_(modern).html (1341 words)

	Stockholm 1912
		On the 28th of May 1909, the IOC unanimously decided that the 1912 Olympics were to be held in Stockholm.
		No, since the Olympic Games were financed through lotteries, which were handled by the government alone, it was possible to go around the Riksdag.
		Back to 1912, which was not only an Olympic year, but also the year of the largest ship catastrophe in history when the Titanic hit an iceberg and 1,500 people lost their lives.
	www.sok.se /inenglish/stockholm1912.4.18ea16851076df63622800011250.html (2819 words)

	sociology - Olympic Games
		The Olympics were of fundamental religious importance, contests alternating with sacrifices and ceremonies honouring both Zeus (whose colossal statue stood at Olympia), and Pelops, divine hero and mythical king of Olympia famous for his legendary chariot race, in whose honor the games were held.
		1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon champion Jim Thorpe was disqualified when it was discovered that he played semi-professional baseball prior to winning his medals (he was restored by the IOC in 1983).
		Olympic Information Center by the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles – Includes a primer on the Olympic Games, and many historical documents on the Olympic Games are presented in digital form.
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Olympic_Games (4461 words)

	OLYMPIC GAMES : Encyclopedia Entry
		The date of the Games' inception based on the count of years in Olympiads is reconstructed as 776 BC, although scholars' opinions diverge between dates as early as 884 BC and as late as 704 BC.
		The Olympics were of fundamental religious importance, contests alternating with sacrifices and ceremonies honouring both Zeus (whose colossal statue stood at Olympia), and Pelops, divine hero and mythical king of Olympia famous for his legendary chariot race, in whose honour the games were held.
		The 1956 Melbourne Olympics were boycotted by the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland, because of the repression of the Hungarian Uprising by the Soviet Union; additionally, Cambodia, Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon, boycotted the games due to the Suez Crisis.
	bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Olympic_Games (7064 words)

	THE OLYMPIC GAMES IOC HISTORY \| OLYMPICS WORLD RECORD LINKS \| SOLAR NAVIGATOR WORLD ELECTRIC NAVIGATION CHALLENGE.
		Although the ancient Olympic games were first recorded in 776 BC, they originated at least a century before that and possibly as early as the 13th century BC.
		Even after the glory that was Greece vanished, the Olympics lived on, but in a debased form under the Romans, who replaced the traditional games with their own gladiatorial contests, in which slaves replaced free-born Greeks as the competitors.
		Its primary responsibility is to supervise the organisation of the summer and winter Olympic Games.
	www.solarnavigator.net /olympic_games.htm (2733 words)

	HISTORY of DIVING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In the 1908 Olympic Games, a top-rated diver failed a front double somersault, and the official report suggested that this dive be eliminated from future Olympics because multiple spins could not be controlled without serious risk of injury.
		In both the 1908 and 1912 Olympic Games, Swedish men divers won the bronze, silver and gold medals in the Plain High Diving, and in the first Fancy High Diving event in the 1912 Games, they won the gold and bronze with Germany taking the silver.
		The Olympic Games diving events were all held outdoors until 1948 when they were for the first time held indoors at the Wembley Empire Pool, London.
	www.metroatlantadivers.com /history_of_diving (3673 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1912 Stockholm
		The 1912 Olympic games in Stockholm, Sweden, marked a genuine coming of age for the Olympic movement.
		The overriding sentiment at the Stockholm Games was one of peace and harmony.
		The 1912 Games were the largest yet and were also the first games to enjoy major attention from the world's media, with events making front-page headlines in U.S. newspapers.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1912.html (1468 words)

	olympic games summer and winter locations and history of the games
		The Olympic Games took their name from the Greek city of Olympia and though there were important athletic competitions held in other Greek cities in ancient times, the Olympic Games were regarded as the most prestigious.
		Participation in the Olympic Games was originally limited to free born Greeks, but as Greek civilization was spread by the conquests of Alexander the Great, the Games drew entrants from as far away as Antioch, Sidon and Alexandria.
		Coubertin and his colleagues of the newly formed International Olympic Committee eventually prevailed, and the first Olympic Games of the modern era were inaugurated by the King of Greece in the first week of April 1896.
	worldatlas.com /aatlas/infopage/olympic.htm (1007 words)

	Olympic Summer Games
		As the emblem for China’s journey toward the 2008 Olympic Games, Dancing Beijing reveals the heart of an ancient culture embracing the modern world, the spirit of a people moving toward a new destiny.
		For the world’s largest nation, the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games are the ultimate gesture of friendship, a global expression of hope that the community of nations will dance with Beijing and join its dream of a world united in peace through sport.
		It was at the Montreal 1976 Games that, for the first time in the history of the Games, technology played a role in the torch relay.
	www.swim2000.org /Olympics/olympic_summer_games.htm (879 words)

	EdGate Summer Games
		These games and contests came be known as the Olympic Games, with their first recorded date being 776 B.C. The Games were held every four years until A.D. The first Olympic Games featured only one event–a foot race.
		Eventually, the Olympic Games became a five-day festival that was deeply rooted in the religion of the people.
		These games were known as the Herannic Games in honor of Hera, the wife of Zeus.
	www2.edgate.com /summergames/olympic_facts (1352 words)

	GBROLYMPICS.COM / LONDON-OLYMPICS.COM - Olympic Games Medallists
		The Games are held every 4 years (this period is known as an Olympiad) although an additional "intercalated" event, not officially recognised by the International Olympic Committee, was introduced in 1906.
		The 1910 "intercalated" Games were cancelled and the idea dropped.
		For instance several professional, domestic and/or handicap events were held in conjunction with the Paris and Louisiana Purchase Expositions, which co-incided with the two games in question, and were initially given Olympic status.
	www.gbrathletics.com /olympic (336 words)

	Olympic Games Posters since 1924 - Athens Info Guide
		It was not until the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, that an official poster was planned for and executed.
		Since 1912, host cities have been in charge of organizing the promotion and advertising of each edition of the Games.
		For the 1952 Helsinki Games, the poster design that had been chosen for the cancelled Games of 1940 was revived.
	www.athensinfoguide.com /olympicposters.htm (345 words)

	1912 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1912 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad, were held in 1912 in Stockholm, Sweden.
		A winter sports week for the 1912 Games featuring figure skating were rejected by organizers because they wanted to promote the Nordic Games, a quadrennial sporting event, instead.
		They were the representatives of Kingdom of Serbia and were sent by the Serbian Olympic Club: sprinter Dušan Milošević, who ranked third in the 100m qualification group and marathon runner Dragutin Tomašević, who finished in 37th position.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1912_Summer_Olympics (369 words)

	Australian Olympic Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		They ensured the Games were a stand-alone event and the schedule was shortened to two months.
		Chalk was used instead of cord to outline the lanes for races in the main stadium.
		The most popular hero of the Games was Jim Thorpe, a native American, who won the pentathlon and set a world record in the decathlon.
	www.olympics.com.au /games.cfm?GamesID=464 (467 words)

	Jim Thorpe
		In the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm Jim won both the pentathlon and the decathlon.
		Part of the reason that it took so long for Thorpe's medals to be restored was that a man who lost to Thorpe in both the pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Olympics, Avery Brundage went on to become the head of the United States Olympic Committee and then the International Olympic Committee for decades.
		When he entered the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, he was probably this country's most famous college football player, enrolled at the Carlisle School, an Indian trade school in Pennsylvania.
	www.the-surfs-up.com /sports/jimthorpe.html (1221 words)

	Olympic Games Winner Medals 1912 - 1920
		After the Swedish Olympic Committee had come to the resolution, in May 1910, that the prize medals should bear the same obverse as that adopted for the London Games, and that Mr.
		Reverse: the figure of a herald, proclaiming the Olympic Games and standing close to a bust of Ling, the founder of the Swedish system of gymnastics.
		A miniature of the winner`s medal was made for the members of the National Olympic Committees an served as a badge.
	olympic-museum.de /w_medals/wmed1912.htm (456 words)

	Olympic Games Badges 1912 Stockholm
		On the 14 November, 1910, the Swedish Olympic Committee accepted for the badge to be given to the officials and competitors present at the Games, a design by Erik Lindberg, representing the head of Pallas Athene, as the principal figure, resting on a four-sided plinth adorned with the Three Crowns of Sweden.
		The same badge, unmounted, was distributed to the members of the International Olympic Committee, and conferred the same privileges as were attached to that worn by the Swedish Olympic Committee.
		The competitor’s badge, attached to a small yellow cockade, and accompanied by a yellow identification-card, admitted the higher officials and the assistant leaders of the various nations to the Committeebox at the Stadium, and to the northern slope of the Stadium.
	olympic-museum.de /badges/badges1912.htm (438 words)

	Athens Olympic Games 2004 - 1912 Stockholm
		In 1912 the Swedes introduced the modern Pentathlon and it was no surprise that they dominated the event.
		In this era produced some colourful swimming champions, in the 1912 Olympics Duke Paoa Kahanamoku won the blue riband event - 100m freestyle.
		He did not just win the 1912 Olympic Pentathlon and Decathlon but he annihilated the opposition.
	guy-sports.com /olympics/athens_olympics_2004_1912.htm (228 words)

	Olympic Co-ordination Authority (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In February 1912, she broke the world 100 yards record and in March she trimmed it to 66 seconds.
		In the 1912 Stockholm Games, Fanny triumphed winning the gold medal in the 100 metres freestyle and Mina Wylie was second.
		Fanny Durack continued to break records and was preparing to swim in the 1920 Antwerp Olympics when, a week before the team’s departure, she had an appendectomy followed by typhoid fever and pneumonia.
	www.gamesinfo.com.au /ocaweb2/text/329.html (411 words)

	page2
		After the Games ended in Stockholm, Sweden, the 1916 Olympic Games were announced to be held in Germany and Berlin would be the city hosing the Games.
		This would be the VIth Olympic Games since the time the Games had been restored by Coubertin.
		Latour threatens to take the Games away from Germany, because the Games were supposed to be led by a Democracy and not a Fascist Group.
	home.sandiego.edu /~shepherd-06/page2.html (1588 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Sports \| Small contributions to the show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In 1910, Egypt became the 14th country to join the International Olympic Committee (IOC), opening the way for its participation in the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm.
		In 1932, Egypt refused to participate in the 10th Olympic Games in Los Angeles in protest against the appointment of Angolo Polanski, a Greek, as Egypt's representative to the IOC.
		By all accounts, Egypt's greatest Olympic triumph was in 1936, in Berlin, when five medals were won, all in weightlifting.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2000/499/sp1.htm (756 words)

	The Decathlon in Olympic History - DECA, The Decathlon Association
		When the Olympic Games were renewed in 1896, in Athens, a multi-event contest was overlooked as it was in Paris four years later.
		The Berlin Olympic Games, scheduled for 1916, were canceled by World War I. In 1920 Norwegian soldier Helge Lövland edged Brutus Hamilton of the University of Missouri by smallest margin, before or since, in Olympic decathlon history.
		In 1984, when the Summer Olympic Games returned to the United States for the first time in 52 years, it was the Eastern Block nations, led by the Soviets, who stayed at home.
	www.decathlonusa.org /history.html (4482 words)

	Society of Olympic Collectors Library
		An attempt to reproduce all of the known photographs of the 1896, Athens Olympic Games.
		The Olympic Games in Athens 1896 - 1906.
		The Olympic postmarks, Cortina 1956 and Rome 1960.
	www.societyofolympiccollectors.org /library/stock.html (1153 words)

	USA Boxing - USOC LOOKING FOR ATHLETES FOR THE ATHENS OLYMPIC YOUTH CAMP
		The OYC, organized and funded by the Athens Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (ATHOC), is a cross-cultural exchange that will bring together young people from around the world.
		The first Olympic Youth Camp was as the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden, when King Gustav V invited 1,500 Boy Scouts from five countries to pitch their tents next to the Olympic Stadium to provide help for the V Olympiad.
		The camps have been a regular feature of Olympic Games since 1952 in Helsinki, Finland, with Melbourne and Los Angeles being the exceptions.
	www.usaboxing.org /559.htm (305 words)

	History
		It was twelve years before the next games were staged and she was 30 years old and had two children.
		She was one of four female athletes to carry the torch in the Olympic Stadium in Sydney at the start of the 2000 games.
		The first woman to light the Olympic flame was a 400m runner, Enriqueta Basilio, in Mexico in 1968.
	homepage.eircom.net /~mdgprimary/olympicwomen.htm (426 words)

	Czech Olympic Committee (1912)
		I'm creating a website about the Olympic Games since 1896 and I need the flag of Bohemia before World War I. I only found in your big collection bohemias flag as the German protectorate during Word War II.
		As far as I know there was no "Bohemian flag" in 1896, so athletes from Bohemia probably participated in the first Olympic games under the Austro-Hungarian flag.
		When Olympic Games in Stockholm 1912 were prepared, Austria has threatened with boycott, if Czechs started as separate team (under name Bohemia, of course).
	flagspot.net /flags/cz_bh12.html (815 words)

	Summer Olympics: Modern Pentathlon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		There was a Pentathlon in the ancient Olympic games.
		The choice of sports was based on a warrior having to carry a message to the troops during a battle.
		The Modern Pentathlon was first included in the 1912 Olympic Games.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/modernpentathlon.htm (424 words)

	Celebrating 35 years in the Olympic Movement
		They will participate with their peers in learning about other nations and their customs and to share the experience of the Olympic Games.
		Youth applicants between the ages 16-18 were required to submit information about their sport and academic achievements, their leadership activities and an essay on “Olympic Spirit” and to be interviewed by the VIOC Executive Board..
		The camps have been a regular feature of the Olympic Games since 1952 in Helenski, Finland, with Melbourne and Los Angeles being the exceptions.
	www.virginislandsolympics.com /viocnews.html (409 words)

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