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	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The Paralympic Games are elite sport events for athletes from different disability groups.
		The number of athletes participating in the Summer Paralympic Games has increased from 400 athletes in Rome in 1960 to 3,806 athletes from 136 countries in Athens in 2004.
		The Organising Committees of the Olympic Games (OCOGs) organise the Olympic Games in collaboration with their National Olympic Committee and the host city.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/index_uk.asp (174 words)

	Olympic Games - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		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.
		Politics also interfered with the Olympics on several other occasions, the most well-known of which was the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin; the games were used as propaganda by the German Nazis.
		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Information Center by the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles – Includes a primer on the Olympic Games, and many historical documents on the Olympic Games are presented in digital form.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /olympic_games.htm (4427 words)

	Summer Olympic Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1936 Berlin Games were seen by the German government as a golden opportunity to promote their ideology.
		The games were appreciated for their excellent quality, from the point of view of their organisation, hospitality, the excellence of the competition, and the image transmitted worldwide.
		The 2012 Summer Olympics are to be held in London, United Kingdom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Summer_Olympic_Games (2784 words)

	Summer Olympic Games
		The 1928 Amsterdam Games were notable for being the first games which allowed females to compete at track & field athletics, and benefitted greatly from the general prosperity of the times.
		The 1936 Berlin Games were seen by the German government as a golden opportunity to promote their fascist ideology.
		1896 Summer Olympics, Athens, Greece (Games of the I Olympiad)
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/su/summer_olympic_games.html (2011 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.
		The organizers had planned the first modern Olympics for 1900 in Paris, but later decided to move the date forward to 1896 and to change the venue to Athens, though the local government of the Greek capital was initially hostile to the idea.
	www.worldatlas.com /aatlas/infopage/olympic.htm (1007 words)

	Offcial Website of the Chinaese Olympic Committee
		After the Olympics, the wushu demonstrators went to Denmark, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria and Italy, where they were warmly received as envoys of the Chinese people and highly acclaimed for their performances with bare hands or such ancient weapons as swords, cudgels and spears.
		It immediately decided to participate in the 13th Winter Olympic Games to be held in Lake Placid, USA in February 1980 and the 22nd Olympic Games to be held in Moscow in August of the same year.
		As for the 22nd Olympic Games, China made full preparations for competition in 19 of the 21 sports, indicating the great importance it attached to the occasion after an absence of 28 years from the Olympic Games since Helsinki.
	en.olympic.cn /games/summer/2004-03-27/121663.html (1528 words)

	GERMANY's Victory at the 1936 Summer Olympics
		The Olympic Team from France, impressed by their host, Adolf Hitler, gave the Nazi solute as they entered the Berlin Olympic Stadium in 1936 the first time.
		Presently, there is a street just outside the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, which bears the name of a Black Negro African American athlete who won 4 Gold Medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
		Karl Hein was a true hero of the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany.
	www.stormpages.com /ghutchins/articles/g3 (742 words)

	Summer Olympic Games: Handball
		Handball (also known as team handball, field handball, European handball, or Olympic handball) is a team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team.
		The game is similar to football (soccer), though as the name implies, the basic method of handling the ball involves the player's hands rather than their feet.
		Normal league games are usually allowed to end in a draw, but in knockout tournaments, such as the final stages of the Olympics, two extension periods of 10 minutes are played, and if they also end in a draw another two times five minutes has to be played.
	olympic-spot.blogspot.com /2007/02/handball.html (904 words)

	Olympic Summer Games
		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.
		The sacred Olympic Flame was electronically transmitted from Athens to Ottawa by satellite and from there it was transported by runners to Montreal.
	www.swim2000.org /Olympics/olympic_summer_games.htm (879 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)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The 1936 Olympics, held in Berlin, are best remembered for Adolf Hitler’s failed attempt to use them to prove his theories of Aryan racial superiority.
		1936 saw the introduction of the torch relay, in which a lighted torch is carried from Olympia to the site of the current Games.
		The 1936 Olympics were also the first to be broadcast on a form of television.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1936 (361 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1936 Berlin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Games were televised for the first time, broadcast via closed circuit TV to 150,000 people at 28 special venues around Berlin.
		In 1936, a hard-working team from Windsor, Ont. known as the Ford V-8's cruised through the competition at home and represented Canada at the Olympic Games in Berlin.
		In the heart of the Olympic Village was an open-air, clay basketball court.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1936.html (1477 words)

	The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The ancient Olympic Games were primarily a part of a religious festival in honor of Zeus, the father of the Greek gods and goddesses.
		The marathon is a modern event that was first introduced in the Modern Olympic Games of 1896 in Athens, a race from Marathon northeast of Athens to the Olympic Stadium, a distance of 40 kilometers.
		His original thought was to unveil the modern Games in 1900 in his native Paris, but delegates from 34 countries were so enthralled with the concept that they convinced him to move the Games up to 1896 and have Athens serve as the first host.
	www.museum.upenn.edu /new/Olympics/olympicorigins.shtml (986 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.
		In 1936, the Olympic Games were broadcast by radio for the first time and broadcast to televised theaters in Berlin.
	www.edgate.com /summergames/olympic_facts (1352 words)

	The Nazi Olympics
		Debate over participation in the 1936 Olympics was greatest in the United States, which traditionally sent one of the largest teams to the Games.
		In August 1936 Olympic flags and swastikas bedecked the monuments and houses of a festive, crowded Berlin.
		Two weeks before the Olympics began, German officials informed Gretel Bergmann, a Jewish athlete who had equaled the German women's record in the high jump, that she was denied a place on the team.
	www.us-israel.org /jsource/Holocaust/olympics.html (2956 words)

	Olympic Facts (Reference) - TeacherVision.com
		The early Olympic Games were celebrated as a religious festival from 776 B.C. until 393 A.D., when the games were banned for being a pagan festival (the Olympics celebrated the Greek god Zeus).
		The five Olympic rings represent the five major regions of the world – Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceana, and every national flag in the world includes one of the five colors, which are (from left to right) blue, yellow, fl, green, and red.
		The Summer Olympic sports are archery, badminton, baseball, basketball, beach volleyball, boxing, cycling, diving, equestrian, fencing, field hockey, gymnastics, judo, mountain biking, rowing, sailing, shooting, soccer, softball, swimming, synchronized swimming, table tennis, tennis, track and field, volleyball, water polo, weightlifting and wrestling.
	www.teachervision.fen.com /olympic-games/sports/2260.html (751 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").
		Women were neither allowed to compete in the games nor to watch them, because the games were dedicated to Zeus and were therefore meant for men.
		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.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /olympics (1311 words)

	Olympic Poster, Olympic Games Poster, Summer Games Poster, Athens 1896 Poster, Paris 1900 Poster, St Louis 1904 Poster, ...
		The inscription "776-1896", like the drawing as a whole: the Olympic stadium in a newly designed horseshoe shape, the Acropolis, the girl personifying the goddess Athena and presenting the branch of wild olive intended for the victor, mark the bond between the Games of Antiquity and the first Games of the modern era.
		It recalls the official emblem, composed of the Olympic rings superimposed on the emblem of the Japanese national flag, representing the rising sun.
		In the poster, the five rings symbolising the pure Olympic spirit were rendered in bright figurative form to represent the Olympic ideal illuminating the world in peace forever.
	www.mapsofworld.com /olympic-trivia/olympic-poster.html (1190 words)

	The Nazi Olympics
		Having rejected a proposed boycott of the 1936 Olympics, the United States and other western democracies missed the opportunity to take a stand that — some observers at the time claimed — might have given Hitler pause and bolstered international resistance to Nazi tyranny.
		Debate over participation in the 1936 Olympics was greatest in the United States, which traditionally sent one of the largest teams to the Games.
		In August 1936 Olympic flags and swastikas bedecked the monuments and houses of a festive, crowded Berlin.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/olympics.html (3013 words)

	Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		At the Olympic Games, the horse Over and Over broke a leg in cross country eventing, and had to be euthanized after it was determined that surgery would not be successful.
		Prior to her Olympic and Commonwealth achievements, Ottey won silver medals in the 100 and 200 meters in the 1979 CARIFTA Games (behind 100m winner Raymonde Naigré of Guadeloupe, and 200m winner Oralee Fowler of the Bahamas) and the 1979 Pan American Games 200 meter bronze.
		PanPan, a panda, was the mascot of the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing, a rooster, Dongdong the mascot of the 1993 East Asian Games in Shanghai.
	www.internationalgames.net /olympic.htm (8101 words)

	Handball, Sports in Summer Olympic Games
		The aim of the game is to pass and bounce a ball into the opponent goal.
		After the 1936 Games, the sport was dropped from the Olympic schedule.
		The event reappeared in the Olympics during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games.
	www.mapsofworld.com /olympics/summer-olympic-events/handball.html (457 words)

	1936 Olympic Games in Nazi Germany
		The 1916 Olympic Games, scheduled to be played in Berlin, had been cancelled at the outbreak of World War I. The International Olympic Committee then barred Germany, the accused aggressor in that war, from the Olympics in 1920 and 1924.
		The boycotters argued that the 1936 Olympiad had been bestowed on the Weimar Republic, a democratic state, whereas the nation that woactually host the Olympics was the totalitarian Nazi regime.
		Nevertheless, two weeks before the opening of the Olympic games she received notice that she would not be considered for the German team because of her "mediocre achievements." She was offered two standing-room-only tickets.
	www.jewishmag.com /36mag/olympic/olympic.htm (3595 words)

	The 1936 Olympic Games in Germany
		By awarding the XI 1936 Olympic games to Berlin, one can say that this was the IOC's way of showing the world that Germany was once again a member of good standing in the global community of nations.
		The 1936 Olympic games would be Hitler's opportunity to showcase his vision of a new and powerful Germany to everyone.
		The famous poster of the 1936 Berlin Olympic games, showing an Olympic athlete in the background and the Brandenburg gate in the foreground, was conceived by Max Würbel.
	www.feldgrau.com /1936olymp.html (5497 words)

	USA Basketball: Fiba History
		Although Dr. James Naismith is recognized for inventing the game of basketball in December 1891, it wasn't until June 18, 1932, in Geneva, Switzerland that an international federation concerned with just basketball was formed.
		Two years later during the Games of the IXth Olympiad held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the IAAF invited representatives from various national associations to consider the forming of an independent body to govern all ball games played with hands.
		By the time of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, FIBB's membership had expanded to include 32 nations, 23 of which sent basketball teams to the first Olympic basketball competition in Berlin.
	www.usabasketball.com /history/fiba_history.html (687 words)

	African American Journey: Owens, Jesse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		His performances during the mid-1930's in college and in the Olympic Games made him one of the most famous athletes in sports history.
		Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany.
		He won the 100-meter and 200-meter races and the broad jump (now called the long jump), and he was a member of the winning American 400-meter relay team.
	www.worldbook.com /features/aajourney/html/bh069.html (264 words)

	Athens Olympic Games 2004 - 1936 Munich
		In Berlin, dictator Adolf Hitler and his Nazi followers felt sure that the Olympics would be the ideal venue to demonstrate Germany's oft-stated racial superiority.
		He directed that $25 million be spent on the finest facilities, the cleanest streets and the temporary withdrawal of all outward signs of the state-run anti-Jewish campaign.
		By the time over 4,000 athletes from 49 countries arrived for the Games, the stage was set.
	www.guy-sports.com /olympics/athens_olympics_2004_1936.htm (568 words)

	Civ 20th Century Timeline- 1930-1940
		The 1936 Olympic games were held in Berlin, Germany in a tense political atmosphere.
		In the midst of the Nazi nationalism being displayed, Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games.
		The Spanish Civil War began in 1936 and was a military revolt against the Republican government.
	www.linsly.org /civ/1930.htm (2356 words)

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