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	1944 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The anticipated 1944 Summer Olympics, what were to be officially known as the Games of the XIII Olympiad, were cancelled due to World War II.
		London eventually held the Olympics in the next Olympiad, the 1948 Summer Olympics.
		From 17 June to 19 June 1944 the International Olympic Committee celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation with conferences, called by Carl Diem the "The Jubilee Celebrations of IOC".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1944_Summer_Olympics (250 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)

	Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Until 1994, the Winter and Summer Olympics were held in the same year, but in 1986 the International Olympic Committee, which organises the Olympics, decided to separate them, so as to spread costs for all involved parties.
		The fire was reintroduced at the Olympics in 1928.
		As with the Ancient Olympics, once the flame has been lit, it is kept burning throughout the celebration of the Olympics, and is extinguished at end of the closing ceremony of the Games.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /olympics/Olympics.htm (1089 words)

	Winter Olympics - MSN Encarta
		The Olympics organization is headed by a president, elected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) members for an initial period of eight years.
		Alpine skiing, for men and women, has been part of the Olympic programme since 1948: the events are the downhill, the slalom, the giant slalom (since 1952), the super giant slalom or super-G (since 1988), and the combined event (downhill and slalom), which has been staged intermittently since 1936.
		Lugeing entered the Olympic repertoire in 1964 and has been dominated by German participants; men compete for singles and doubles events, while women vie for singles only.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572547/winter_olympics.html (1241 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Athens was chosen as the host city during the 106th IOC Session held in Lausanne in 05 September 1997,(date of the 25th anniversary of the Munich Massacre after surprisingly losing the bid to organize the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta nearly seven years before, on 18 September 1990, during the 96th IOC Session in Tokyo.
		It was the first Olympics since NBC had merged with Vivendi Universal Entertainment; the merger, along with the acquisitions of the Bravo and Telemundo networks, made it possible for the network to broadcast over 1200 hours of coverage during the games, triple what was broadcast in the U.S. four years earlier.
		The Mayor of Athens, Dora Bakoyianni, passed the Olympic Flag to the Mayor of Beijing, Wang Qishan.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/2/0/0/2004_Summer_Olympics_330c.html (2001 words)

	Olympic Routes - Issue 5
		Five circles, a blue, a yellow, a fl, a green and a red one in a white background represented the unity among the athletes of all the five continents.
		IOC decided to award London the 1944 XIII Summer Olympics, at a meeting in 1939, while Italian city Cortina di Ampezzo was agreed to host the 1944 Winter Olympics.
		Swedish IOC President Sigfrid Edstrom in response to de Coubertin's request and in cooperation with the Swiss Olympic Committee organized the official celebration of the modern Olympics revival in Lausanne.
	www.hoc.gr /EN/info/periodika/5o/5.asp (858 words)

	The Summer Olympics, an Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It is still disputed which events exactly were Olympic, since few or maybe even none of the events were advertised as such at the time.
		Of the six Olympic games between 1900 and 1920, there were six different distances for the marathon.
		The tale of Hitler snubbing Owens at the ensuing medal ceremony is a fabrication.
	www.juiceenewsdaily.com /0605/sports/olympics.html (2073 words)

	kiat.net: History of the Olympic Games
		The first Modern Olympics were held two years later in Athens, Greece, where 245 (all men) athletes from 14 nations competed in the ancient Panathinaikon Stadium to large and ardent crowds.
		The Olympic Movement has survived wars, boycotts and terrorism to become a symbol of the ability of the people of all nations to come together in peace and friendship.
		Over the years, the Olympic Games traveled to different countries and continents, and in 2004, they returned to the country of their birth and the city of their revival for the hosting of the XXVIII Modern Olympic Games.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history (1538 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia
		The 1896 Summer Olympics, formally called the Games of the I Olympiad, were the first modern Summer Olympic Games and the first Games since Roman emperor Theodosius I banned the Ancient Olympic Games in AD 393 as part of the Christian campaign against paganism.
		However, the 1900 Summer Olympics were already planned for Paris and, barring the so-called Intercalated Games of 1906, the Olympics did not return to Greece until the 2004 Summer Olympics.
		The true origin of the modern Olympics was acknowledged by De Coubertin as being in Much Wenlock, a rural market town in the English county of Shropshire.
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/1896_Summer_Olympics (3849 words)

	OLYMPICS: 100 Years Of Change
		Perhaps the most blatant of Olympic hypocrisies upheld over the past 100 years was the nonnegotiable rule that each athlete had to swear that he was an amateur before he could compete.
		The first women's athletics event in Olympic history, the discus throw, was won by the brawny Pole Halina Konopacka, who shattered her own world record by 45 cm and beat the runner-up by 2.53 m.
		Though drug tests had been part of the Olympics for 16 years, actually catching guilty athletes was extremely difficult because of masking agents, natural hormones that didn't show up in tests and careful timing of illicit dosages so no traces were left when urine samples were taken.
	www.time.com /time/international/1996/960527/olympics.history.html (6130 words)

	Winter Olympic Games
		The First Olympic Winter Games were inaugurated on January 25, 1924 in Chamonix, France, although at the time they were not yet called Olympic Winter Games.
		Since 1994, the Winter Games are no longer held in the same year as the Games of the Olympiad (or Summer Olympics).
		The most recent Winter Games were the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wi/Winter_Olympics.html (264 words)

	Special: Athens Olympics 2004 \| The Christian Science Monitor
		In early February of 1980, the Olympic news at Lake Placid, N.Y. was that US President Jimmy Carter was asking the International Olympic Committee to move the summer games from Moscow.
		The USSR refused to attend the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
		The official reason was "alleged violations of the Olympic Charter by US authorities," but Monitor correspondent Gary Thatcher paints a picture of plain-old politics: "Although the Soviet authorities will never officially admit it, they are exacting belated retribution for the US boycott of the Moscow Olympics of 1980." PDF.
	www.csmonitor.com /specials/oly2004/docs/oly_politics.html (719 words)

	Olympics Timeline: Ancient Greece - 1940s
		The Olympic flag is introduced, as is the Olympic oath.
		In what may be the most famous incident in Olympic history, Jesse Owens wins four gold medals, showing up German claims of Aryan superiority.
		The American Olympic Committee sends a hockey team, as does the American Hockey Association; the IOC bars either from being considered for a medal.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/olympicstimeline.html (1345 words)

	The History of the Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		They were held in the same year as the summer Olympics until 1994, when they began to be held on separate 4-year cycles that were staggered by two years.
		Small, local festivals were being called “Olympics” as early as the 17th century in places like England and France, but the discovery of the ruins of Olympia in the 19th century sparked interest in the games once again on an international scale.
		The Olympic relay, another well-known symbol of the games, in which the torch is lit in Olympia and run to the host city, was introduced in 1936.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~leannajf/olympics.html (1072 words)

	The Holocaust Chronicle PROLOGUE: Roots of the Holocaust, page 97
		Hence, the manipulative Hitler had achieved his goal for the Olympics: to give the illusion that the Nazis weren't as villainous as they were often portrayed abroad.
		Berlin was to be the venue for the summer competition, while the Winter Olympics would be held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria.
		During the training period prior to the 1936 Summer Olympics, Gretl Bergmann, a world-class high jumper (and a Jew), matched the German women's record--five feet, three inches.
	www.holocaustchronicle.org /StaticPages/97.html (396 words)

	1924 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The 1924 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VIII Olympiad, were held in 1924 in Paris, France.
		The marathon distance was fixed at 42.195 km, from the distance run at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.
		Ireland was given formal recognition as an independent nation in the Olympic Movement in Paris in 1924 and it was at these games that Ireland made its first appearance in an Olympic Games as an independent nation.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1924_Summer_Olympics (427 words)

	The Olympics
		Throughout the thousands of years that the Greeks competed every four years in the Olympics, there was war only 75% of the time among the various city states, including the famous pelopponesian war (Kids: Go here for some great information about this fantastic war that changed the world!) of 845BC.
		It was not until the Olympics of 662AD that the athletes finally agreed to wear clothes, as the local shoe company finally agreed to pay rights fees in the amount of 16 drachma per athlete.
		Since the Olympics were first televised in 1824, there have been 4100 sports attempted and rejected, including horse racing along the beach, indoor mountaineering, synchronized golfing, shuffleboard, chess, rhythmic gymnastics, and pizza toss, the favorite sport of the Italians.
	home.earthlink.net /~bobdavisknowledgebase/page04.html (938 words)

	Ivy League Sports - Ivies in Athens 2004
		The 1924 Summer Olympics were held in Paris; the Winter Games were in Chamonix, France.
		The year of the Olympics, Proctor was also captain of the team at Dartmouth and a collegiate champion.
		Official Olympic Posters appear with permission and are the property of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
	www.iviesinathens.com /olympic/games.aspx?ID=202 (442 words)

	1932 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, were held in 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
		Fewer than half the number of participants from the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam competed in 1932.
		An Olympic Village was built for the first time, occupied by the male athletes.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1932_Summer_Olympics (382 words)

	facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Olympic ceremonies when the teams enter, the Greek team is always first and the hosting team is always last?
		The 1916 Berlin, Germany, Summer Olympics were canceled because of World War I, and the 1940 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, and the 1944 summer Olympics in London, England, were canceled because of WWII.
		The Winter Olympics of 1940 in Sapporo, Japan, and the 1944 Winter Olympics in Cortina d' Ampezzo, Italy, were also canceled because of WWII.
	library.thinkquest.org /J002435/facts.htm (310 words)

	AmericaJR.com [ OLYMPICS: Coming to Detroit in 2020? ]
		Governor Granholm and Mayor Kilpatrick are working to get the Summer Olympics to come to Detroit and Windsor in the year 2020.
		If the 2016 Olympics are not in the U.S.A, it is pretty much a guarantee that they will be somewhere in the U.S. in the year 2020.
		The winning bid for the 2020 Olympics will be made in the year 2013.
	americajr.com /news/detroit-olympics.html (599 words)

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		At the 1948 Olympics in London, Beyaert won a bronze medal in the team time trial for France as well as his gold in road racing.
		Cynthia Thompson was a hint of what was to come in the 1948 Olympics, with a 25.6 world record in a 200m heat.
		As the city chosen to host the 1944 Summer Games before they were cancelled, London was a natural choice for 1948.
	www.lycos.com /info/1948--tokyo-olympics.html (324 words)

	Olympiads Page
		The last Winter Olympics Games were held in Salt Lake City, USA.
		The Last Summer Olympics Games were held in Sydney, Australia.
		In 1944 the Olympics were canceled, because of World War II.
	www.angelfire.com /fl/geder/olympic/olympics.html (57 words)

	Lincoln City Libraries - Reference - In the News: 2004 Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Since 1896, the summer Olympic Games have been held every 4 years, with the exceptions of 1940 and 1944 during the waging of World War II.
		At the last summer Olympics (2000 in Sydney, Australia), 199 countries were represented by 10,651 athletes (4,069 women, 6,582 men), who competed in 300 separate events.
		The following are a sampling of videos featuring footage from past Olympics, plus the soundtrack CD including music used during the Olympics television coverage of the past 20 years.
	www.lcl.lib.ne.us /depts/ref/inthenews-olympics2004.htm (885 words)

	2002 Winter Olympics - Winter Olympics History
		The earliest recorded Olympic Games were held in ancient Greece at Olympia in 776 BC - a four-year tradition that continued for a thousand years.
		The modern Olympic movement started in 1894 when French educator Pierre de Coubertin assembled a group of sport and philosophy leaders from around the world for the International Athletics Congress.
		From 1928, the Olympic Winter Games were held every four years in the same calendar year as the Olympic Games.
	www.utah.com /olympics/history.htm (941 words)

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