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	1960 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rome had been awarded the organisation of the 1908 Summer Olympics, but had to decline and pass the honours to London.
		Danish sailer Paul Elvstrøm won his fourth straight gold medal in the Finn class, the first athlete to achieve this feat in an individual event.
		It was the second time an athlete had died in competition at the Olympics, after the death of Portuguese marathon runner Francisco Lazaro at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1960_Summer_Olympics (357 words)

	2000 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first medals of the Games were awarded in the women's 10 meter air rifle competition, which was won by Nancy Johnson of the United States.
		The Olympic flag was flown at half-staff during the period as a sign of respect to Samaranch's wife.
		Organisation of the 2000 Summer Paralympics was the responsibility of SPOC the Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee.
	hallencyclopedia.com /2000_Summer_Olympics (1731 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was the first Olympics since NBC had merged with Vivendi Universal Entertainment; the merger 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.
		Before, the medal ceremony for the last event of the Olympiad, the Men's Marathon, was conducted, with Stefano Baldini from Italy as the winner.
		The Mayor of Athens, Dora Bakoyianni, passed the Olympic Flag to the Mayor of Beijing, Wang Qishan.
	hallencyclopedia.com /2004_Summer_Olympics (1855 words)

	1960 Summer Olympics: Just the facts... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rome had been awarded the organisation of the 1908 Summer Olympics (additional info and facts about 1908 Summer Olympics), but had to decline and pass the honours to London (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center).
		Danish (A Scandinavian language that is the official language of Denmark) sailer Paul Elvstrøm wins his fourth straight gold medal in the Finn class, the first athlete to achieve this feat in an individual event.
		It was the second time an athlete died in competition at the Olympics, after the death of Portuguese (The Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil) marathon runner Francisco Lazaro at the 1912 Summer Olympics (additional info and facts about 1912 Summer Olympics).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1960_summer_olympics.htm (791 words)

	Highlights of individual Olympic Games
		The 1916 Olympics were scheduled to be held in Berlin, but were canceled because of what came to be known as World War I. The 1920 Games were awarded to Antwerp to honor the suffering that had been inflicted on the Belgian people during the war.
		The 1932 Olympic Games saw the introduction of automatic timing to one hundredth of a second and of the photo finish, as well as the appearance of the national anthems and the raising of flags in honour of the victors during the medal ceremonies.
		The International Olympic Committee had a great political success in managing to bring together the two Germanys (East and West) within a combined team (EUA) competing under a fl, red and yellow flag with the Olympic rings and with "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's IX Symphony as their anthem.
	www.mapsofworld.com /olympic-trivia/olympic-games-highlights.html (5109 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 (896 words)

	Learn more about 1936 Summer Olympics in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The tale of Hitler snubbing Owens at the ensuing medal ceremony is, however, apocryphal.
		Rower Jack Beresford won his fifth Olympic medal in the sport, and his third gold medal.
		For the first time the Olympic Flame was brought to the Olympic Town by a torch relay, with the starting point in Olympia, Greece.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /1/19/1936_summer_olympics.html (481 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.
		During the fiercest decades of the cold war, Olympic amateurism was almost as volatile an issue in the East-West conflict as political ideology.
	www.time.com /time/international/1996/960527/olympics.history.html (6130 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports > 2004 Summer Olympics
		NBC and its family of cable networks flooded American households with nearly nonstop coverage of the Athens Olympics, and the strategy – along with strong performances by the U.S. teams in swimming and gymnastics – produced not only a ratings increase, but an estimated profit of at least $60 million.
		The United States finished atop the medal charts for the third straight Summer Olympics, with Russia the overall runner-up and China second in gold medals – its best showing ever and leading a surge by Asian teams.
		It was predicted before the Olympics that prostitution, which is legal and heavily regulated in Athens, would enjoy a boom economy.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/olympics (1589 words)

	Egypt in the 2004 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The original Olympics were held every four years for a span that lasted for almost eight centuries.
		In fact, she is the only Egyptian athlete to be picked for any medal by SI at the summer event.
		Medals unlikely, but perhaps it will prove their time to be spotted by athletic talent-seeking scouts.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/egypt2004olympics.htm (1359 words)

	1964 Summer Olympics
		Tokyo had already been awarded with the organisation of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honour had been passed to Helsinki because of Japan's involvement in China.
		The 1940 Olympics were eventually cancelled because of the outbreak of World War II.
		Yoshinori Sakai[?], who lit the Olympic Flame, was born in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day the atomic bomb exploded there.
	www.fastload.org /19/1964_Summer_Olympics.html (251 words)

	Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life Chapter 4 -- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The games of the XXVII Olympiad (more commonly known as the Summer Olympics) were held in Sydney, Australia in late September of the year 2000.
		Certainly if the medal counts were the hypothetical ones above you would say the US performance was most definitely better than in 2000 even though the medal count is the same.
		so even though the total number of medals is the same in both cases the point score is higher in the hypothetical case where the performance should be considered better.
	occawlonline.pearsoned.com /bookbind/pubbooks/bbt_awl/chapter4/essay1/deluxe-content.html (1369 words)

	1972 Summer Olympics
		In the bid to organise the Olympics, Detroit, Madrid and Montreal were beaten.
		Lasse Virén of Finland won the 5000 and 10000 m (the latter after a fall), a feat he would repeat in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
		For the first time, the Olympic Oath is also taken by a representative of the referees.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1972_summer_olympics.shtml (395 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1968 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		US discus thrower Al Oerter, wins his fourth consecutive gold medal in the event to become only the second athlete to achieve this in an individual event.
		Dick Fosbury wins the gold medal in the high jump using the radical Fosbury flop technique, which quickly became the dominant technique in the event.
		In the medal award ceremony, fl American athletes Tommy Smith and John Carlos raise their fl-gloved fists as a symbol of "Black Power".
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1968_Summer_Olympics (303 words)

	Olympics 2004 - Athens: The Events
		MEDALS: Eleven sailing events in nine classes: the 49er double-handed skiff; Europe (women), Finn (men) and Laser (men) single-handed dinghies; 470 men's and women's double-handed dinghy; men's and women's windsurfing; Tornado double-handed catamaran; Star double-handed men's keelboat; and the Yngling triple-handed women's keelboat that replaces the men's Soling.
		MEDALS: Men compete in 50 meter, 100m, 200m, 400m and 1500m freestyle, 100m and 200m backstroke, 100m and 200m breaststroke, 100m and 200m butterfly, 200m and 400m individual medley, 400m and 800m freestyle relay and 400m medley relay.
		Only three Olympic athletes have won four golds in same event, but neither is a favorite.; Dimas is 32, Kakiasvilis is 35; and both are coming off medal-less performances in the European championships last spring.
	www.newspress.com /olympics/events2.htm (2117 words)

	The Sports Network - Olympics
		Sebrle improved on his silver medal performance at the decathlon four years ago and he currently holds the world record in the event with 9,026 points, set at a meet in Austria three years ago.
		Fischer first competed in the sport of kayaking at the Olympics in 1980, and at the age of 18 she became the youngest canoeing champion in Games history by winning the singles event.
		She is the only woman to have won Olympic medals 20 years apart and the only canoeist to have won 10 medals.
	sports.canada.com /?c=sportsnetwork&page=olymp/misc/2004/summary_082404.htm (6281 words)

	The Sports Network - Olympics
		Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - Egypt had been shut out of the medal table at the 2004 Olympics, but on Thursday the country won a bronze in taekwondo and a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling.
		Karam Ibrahim won the gold medal in the men's 96kg class of Greco-Roman wrestling, as he beat Ramaz Nozadze of Georgia in the final.
		It was the first Olympic wrestling medal for Egypt since 1960 and the first gold in wrestling since 1928.
	www.sportsnetwork.com /?c=sportsnetwork&page=olymp/news/bon3455715.htm (267 words)

	1980 Summer Olympics
		Soviet gymnast Aleksandr Dityatin wins a medal in each of the eight gymnastics events, including three titles.
		Women's field hockey is Olympic for the first time, but all major nations boycott the tournament.
		The team of Zimbabwe is invited just a week before the start of the Games, but it wins the nation's first gold medal.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1980_summer_olympics.shtml (273 words)

	The Modern Persian Weddings, Cuisine, Culture & Community Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Iran's chances at any medals at the Olympics are slowly declining with the onset of Weightlifting, which has classically been a forte.
		Iran's first Olympic medal was won by Jaffar Salmassi, lifting 312.5 kg in the weightlifting featherweights (56-60 kg division).
		Iran's best Olympic year to date was the summer Olympic games at Helsinki in 1952, where the country received a total of 7 olypmic medals and placed 15th among all the participating nations.
	www.persianmirror.com /community/articles/2004olympics.cfm (5164 words)

	1994 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1986 the IOC voted to change the schedule of the Olympic Games so that the summer and winter games would be arranged in alternating even-numbered years.
		Lillehammer won the right to host the event in September 1988 in Seoul before the opening ceremony of the 1988 Summer Olympics, the Lillehammer Games were held in 1994, the only time the winter games have been staged two years after the preceding games.
		The Olympic flame was brought into the stadium by a ski jumper.
	www.vacilando.org /_cliextra/baghdadmuseumorg/includepage.php?title=1994_Winter_Olympics&action=edit (392 words)

	TSN.ca - Olympics - Canada's Sports Leader
		"I would not be surprised if China leads the medals count in 2008 Olympics in Beijing," he was quoted by China's official Xinhua News Agency.
		China was second at Athens with 32 gold and a total of 63 medals, behind the U.S. with 35 gold and an overall tally of 103.
		Chinese athletes and sports officials have repeatedly expressed hopes of topping the medal count, and China signed an agreement with Russia this year for co-operation in training each other's athletes in sports in which they excel.
	www.tsn.ca /olympics/news_story.asp?ID=139595 (216 words)

	Americans top medal count
		ATHENS - The United States finished atop the medal charts for the third straight Summer Olympics, with Russia the overall runner-up and China second in gold medals - its best showing ever and the leading edge of a surge by Asian teams.
		U.S. Olympic Committee chief executive Jim Scherr, who set his team's medal target, said surpassing it was "an exceptional accomplishment" in light of the stiffening competition from Asia and the former Soviet republics.
		Yet the U.S. gold medal total of 35 was the lowest since the Montreal Olympics in 1976.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2004/08/30/spt_oly1medals.html (841 words)

	azcentral.com sports \| Summer Olympics: 2004 Summer Olympic event capsules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Americans, who have not won a medal in fencing since 1984, have their best chance in women's saber, where sisters Sada and Emily Jacobson and Mariel Zagunis are all ranked in the top 10.
		Jimmy Pedro, whose bronze in 1996 was the last American medal, retired in 2000 but returned in 2003 and qualified in 73 kg.
		Argentina is left as the favorite in the 16-team field, although the Olympic tournament is tough to gauge because rules restrict teams to players under 23, with three exemptions.
	www.azcentral.com /sports/azetc/04olympics/0808olycaps0808.html (2229 words)

	Canada at the Olympics
		The Summer and Winter Olympic games were held during the same year up to and including 1992, after which the same-year format was dropped.
		They captured the GOLD medal in the 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932 (they are the only team ever to win 4 Gold medals in 4 successive Games - 1920 to 1932), 1948, 1952, and (exactly 50 years later), won the Gold medal by defeatiing the USA in the 2002 Winter Games.
		She is the only person in Olympic history to be awarded all 3 medals in the same single event.
	www.members.shaw.ca /kcic1/olympics.html (1215 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1952 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		To the enjoyment of the Finnish crowd, the Olympic Flame was lit by two heroes, runners Paavo Nurmi and Hannes Kolehmainen.
		For the first time in history, a team from the Soviet Union participated in the Olympics.
		Lis Hartel of Denmark became the first woman in the sport to win a medal.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1952_Summer_Olympics (235 words)

	Salon.com News \| The Olympics: Friday
		For those unfamiliar with Hall's exploits on dry land, he was suspended in 1998 for testing positive for marijuana, and more recently he failed a public relations test by promising to "smash the Australians like guitars" in the 4-by-100-meter relay.
		Though this is the first Olympic outing for trampoline, the sport has been recognized in other venues for decades; the first competitions were held in 1960.
		Another former Olympic champ, high jumper Charles Austin, also lost the chance to repeat when he couldn't go higher than 2.20 meters in the qualifying round of his event.
	www.salon.com /news/sports/olympics/2000/09/22/update (987 words)

	1900 Summer Olympics - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alvin Kraenzlein won 60m, 110 and 220m hurdles, and the long jump; as of 2003, these four gold medals are still record for a track&field athlete.
		For his victory in long jump, he was allegedly punched in the face by his rival Meyer Prinstein, who had refused to take the final run due to his religious beliefs, as that run was scheduled for a Sunday.
		Charlotte Cooper (tennis) was the first woman to become Olympic champion.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/1900_Summer_Olympics (171 words)

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