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	Olympics - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
		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.
		In the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, both Spanish and Catalan were official languages of the games, but due to politics surrounding the use of Catalan, the nations entered in French alphabetical order.
		The Oslo flag: Was presented to the IOC at the 1952 Winter Olympics by the city of Oslo, Norway, and is passed on to the next organising city of the Winter Olympics.
	www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Olympics (6551 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: 2007-10-21)
		For many years the Olympics consisted of only one race, a sprint of 192 metres (210 yards, the length of the stadium) called the "stadion." A second race of 400 metres was added 50 years later.
		Olympic medals since 1928 have featured the same design on the front: a Greek goddess, the Olympic Rings, the coliseum of ancient Athens, a Greek vase known as an amphora, a horse-drawn chariot, and the year, number of the Olympiad, and host city.
		The modern Olympics is the brainchild of Baron Pierre de Coubertin of France.
	www.didyouknow.cd /sport/olympics.htm (593 words)

	Paavo Nurmi Summary
		At the 1920 Summer Olympics, Nurmi won three gold medals: the 10,000 m, the cross country event and the cross country team event, also finishing second in the 5000 m.
		He continued to run after the Olympics at Amsterdam with every intent to compete in the 1932 Summer Olympics but he was branded a professional and barred from running at Los Angeles.
		A Finnish national hero, Paavo Nurmi was the lighter of the Olympic Flame at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
	www.bookrags.com /Paavo_Nurmi (2175 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His name is coupled with 21 titles including six Olympic individual and team gold, five silver and two bronze medals from 1936 to 1960.
		At the 1948 London Olympics, Mangiarotti finished with a bronze medal in the individual epee and two team silver medals.
		By the Melbourne Olympics, Edoardo was a fraction past his best but he refused to leave the international arena without a fight.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Edoardo_Mangiarotti (1219 words)

	Olympic Sports by Sportspool.com
		The 1956 Melbourne Olympics were boycotted by the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland, because of the repression of the Hungarian Uprising by the Warsaw Pact; additionally, Cambodia, Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon, boycotted the games due to the Suez Crisis.
		Environmental groups have also called for a boycott of the 2008 Summer Olympics after it was discovered that the Chinese government had placed an order of $1 billion (USD) on 800,000 cubic meters of hardwood from the endangered rainforests of Indonesia's Papua province to be used in construction for the games.
		The Seoul flag: Was presented to the IOC at the 1988 Summer Olympics by the city of Seoul, South Korea, and is passed on to the next organising city of the Summer Olympics.
	www.sportspool.com /olympics (6293 words)

	Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		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.
		The Olympic fire is then extinguished, and the Olympic flag is lowered, folded, and presented to the mayor of the host city of the next Olympic Games.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /olympics/Olympics.htm (1089 words)

	directopedia : Directory : Sports : Events : Olympics
		Traditionally (starting at the 1928 Summer Olympics) Greece marches first, because of their historical status as the origin of the Olympics, while the host nation marches last.
		The growth of the Olympics also means that some less popular (modern pentathlon) or expensive (white water canoeing) sports have to fear for their place on the Olympic program.
		The recent 2000 Summer Olympics and 2002 Winter Olympics have shown that this battle is not nearly over, as several medallists in weightlifting and cross-country skiing were disqualified due to doping offences.
	www.directopedia.org /directory/Sports-Events/Olympics.shtml (5812 words)

	1952 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Helsinki had been elected as the host city over rival bids from Amsterdam and five American cities June 21 1947 on the 40th IOC session.
		For the first time in history, a team from the USSR participated in the Olympics.
		The first gold medal for the USSR was won by Nina Romashkova in women's Discus Throwing Event.
	www.cypress.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1952_Summer_Olympics (304 words)

	Summer Olympic Games
		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.
		The 1952 Games, in Helsinki made a legend of an amiable Czech army lieutenant named Emil Zátopek, who was intent on improving on his single gold and silver medals from 1948.
		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.gamesinathens.com /olympics/s/su/summer_olympic_games.shtml (1962 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.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/18/1896_summer_olympics.shtml (886 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)

	Bob Mathias Summary
		Bob Mathias (born 1930) was the youngest person ever to win the gold medal in the Olympic decathlon, a feat he accomplished in 1948 at the age of 17.
		At the 1952 Olympics, the veteran Mathias was favored to win, and he did.
		During the summer, he qualified for the United States Olympic team for the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London.
	www.bookrags.com /Bob_Mathias (2181 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1952 Helsinki
		They built an Olympic Village in Helsinki specifically for the Communist Bloc countries and erected a prominent scoreboard focused on the Soviets' new rivalry with the United States.
		The Germans were not invited to the 1948 London Olympics, but made the trip to Helsinki, ostensibly as a single team unifying West and East Germany, although virtually all the athletes were West German.
		As an encore, Takacs returned to the Olympics in 1952 and became the first rapid-fire pistol champion to defend his gold medal.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1952.html (1286 words)

	TSN : OLYMPICS - Canada's Sports Leader
		Following an aborted attempt to stage the Olympics in Helsinki in 1940, the Finnish city finally plays host to the Games becoming only the second Scandanavian city to host the Olympics in 40 years.
		In fact, the 1952 Games were so well organized and run that some suggested the Olympics be permanently staged in Scandinavia.
		The 1952 Olympics also saw an American athlete by the name of Frank Havens win the gold medal in the 10,000 metre canoeing event.
	www.tsn.ca /olympics/feature/?fid=9376 (310 words)

	NBCOlympics.com - Countries - Finland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Located in northern Europe, Finland is bordered by Norway to the north, Sweden to the west and Russia to the east.
		Janne Lahtela is the defending Olympic champion in men's moguls (and a 1998 silver medalist), and he continued his fine skiing in 2003-04, when he won his fourth World Cup title.
		He already has two Olympic medals from the team event (one gold, one silver) and claimed overall World Cup titles in 2002-03 and 2003-04.
	www.nbcolympics.com /countries/5056747/detail.html (751 words)

	1952 Olympics — FactMonster.com
		The Soviet Union returned to the Olympic fold in 1952 after a 40-year absence, a period of time that included a revolution and two world wars.
		Zátopek's unique triple was wildly applauded by the distance-minded Finns, but their greatest outburst came in the opening ceremonies when legendary countryman Paavo Nurmi, now 56, ran into the stadium with the Olympic torch and handed it off to another native legend Hannes Kolehmainen, now 62, who lit the flame to start the Games.
		1952 Olympics - 1952 Olympics Oslo Dick Button, who had revolutionized figure skating with his athletic jumps and...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0114572.html (376 words)

	1952 winter olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Olympics: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, is where the year 2002 Winter Olympics were held.
		1952 winter olympics (1) 1968 winter olympics (1) bobsleigh at the 2002 winter olympics (1)...
		In 1952, the Olympics were finally held in Norway, the birthplace of modern skiing...
	www.111-olympics.com /11/1952-winter-olympics.html (558 words)

	If there hadn't been a World War II, where did the Olympic...
		The anticipated 1940 Summer Olympics, which were to be officially known as Games of the XII Olympiad and originally programmed to be celebrated between September 21 and October 6, 1940 in Tokyo, Empire of Japan, were cancelled due to World War II.
		Helsinki eventually held the 1952 Summer Olympics and Tokyo the 1964 Summer Olympics.
		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.
	www.answerbag.com /q_view/22316 (767 words)

	1952 Olympics — Infoplease.com
		Olympic Preview: Equestrian - Equestrian First Olympic Appearance: 1900 by John Gettings Along with sailing, equestrian is the...
		Meredith Gourdine 1998 Deaths - Meredith Gourdine Age: 69 won the long jump silver medal at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki; of a...
		Environmental factors in the summer Olympics in historical perspective.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114572.html (466 words)

	1952
		At the 1952 Summer Games in Helsinki, Finland, the Soviet Union fielded its first Olympic team, earning medals in nine different sports.
		The women's team would go on to win every Olympics in which it competed for the next forty years.
		He remains the only runner in the history of the Games to win all three events at one Olympics.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /2008Olympics/2006-08/25/content_674638.htm (142 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki started in spectacular fashion with Pavvo Nurmi, then aged 55, entering the stadium with the Olympic flame and lighting the cauldron on the ground.
		It seemed appropriate that the most impressive achievements in Helsinki should be those of another long-distance runner, Emil Zatopek of Czechoslovakia, who became the only person in Olympic history to win the 5,000, 10,000 and marathon at the same Olympics.
		Interior view of the Olympic Stadium during the Opening Ceremony in front of the witnesses.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1952 (398 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 1940 the Olympics were canceled, because of World War II.
	www.angelfire.com /fl/geder/olympic/olympics.html (57 words)

	Egypt in the 2004 Summer Olympics
		The original Olympics were held every four years for a span that lasted for almost eight centuries.
		At Minsk in May of 2004, Nahla was the biggest star in the field of 262 competitors in both men's and women's weightlifting, and so not surprisingly, even Sport's Illustrated has picked her for Gold in the Women's 75 kg (165 lbs) event at Athens.
		Egypt's best results in the Olympic pool came in 2000 in Sydney when Egypt's retired golden fish Ranya Elwany reached the final B and clinched the 11th spot.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/egypt2004olympics.htm (1359 words)

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