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	1964 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		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.encyclopedia-online.info /1964_Summer_Olympics (268 words)

	Olympic Games blend political realities with idealism, philosophy and sports
		At the 1964 Summer Olympics, held in Tokyo, a Japanese man who was born in Hiroshima the day the atomic bomb was dropped was the final man to carry the Olympic torch.
		At the 1972 Summer Olympics, held in Munich, eight Palestinian terrorists from a group called Black September stormed into the Olympic Village and eventually killed 11 Israeli athletes.
		At the 2000 Summer Olympics, the nations of North and South Korea marched together behind one flag.
	www.post-gazette.com /olympics/20020203olympics0203p3.asp (1473 words)

	Olympics
		The hosting of the 1964 Summer Olympics (Tokyo) and the 1972 Winter Olympics (Sapporo) were, respectively, the first summer and winter games ever held in Asia.
		However, the Tokyo Olympic Games were canceled because of World War II; the London Olympic Games to be held in 1944 were also suspended for the same reason, being realized at last in 1948.
		For Japan, the hosting of the Eighteenth Olympiad in October 1964 was a historical landmark event that signified the end of the postwar period and underscored Japan's high economic growth.
	www.sg.emb-japan.go.jp /JapanAccess/olympics.htm (1554 words)

	Olympic Games - Glasgledius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The ancient Olympic Games were abandoned in AD 394 by the Roman emperor Theodosius I, who considered the Games to be a savage celebration.
		Olympic is also the name the public sometimes uses for the Greek national airline, Olympic Airways.
		Olympic uses varous types or airplanes, like the Boeing 747 and Airbus A340[?] for international routes, and the Boeing 727 and Boeing 737 for domestic routes.
	www.glasglow.com /E2/ol/Olympics.html (921 words)

	Olympics
		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.
		Olympic medals are awarded to those individuals or teams placing first, second, and third in each event.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /olympics/Olympics.htm (1089 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Japan News - Tokyo to bid for Olympic glory
		While pointing out that Fukuoka had experience in managing international sporting events and a strong will to host the Olympics, the report concluded that the JOC was unconvinced that the city could acquire written consent from about 120 different landowners to sell their properties in a district earmarked for construction of the main arena.
		The 1964 Olympics showed the rest of the world how rapidly Japan had recovered from the ashes of World War II, with its much-vaunted "Shinkansen" bullet train making its debut between Tokyo and Osaka just in time for the opening of the event.
		Nobuyuki Okamoto, a professor at Tokyo's Rikkyo University and supporter of the capital's bid for the Olympics, said in a recent interview that Japanese are now "regaining their confidence once again after overcoming the depression of the 1990s", which followed the burst of the asset-inflated bubble economy of the late 1980s.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/HH31Dh01.html (1452 words)

	Beijing Puts Its Game Face On for the Olympics
		Four of China's 2004 Olympic champions — in gymnastics, volleyball, taekwondo and table tennis — began their sports development at the school, which calls itself "the cradle of world champions" and "the origin of Olympic talents" despite facilities clearly showing their age.
		For China, the world's most populous nation, it should be a giant coming-out party, as the 1964 Summer Olympics was for Japan and the 1988 Summer Games were for South Korea.
		Pinsent, who had criticized the IOC's 2001 decision to award the Olympics to Beijing, said in a BBC report that he'd observed gymnasts in obvious pain and at least one boy who told a translator that he had been beaten by a coach.
	www.chinatownconnection.com /beijing-olympics.htm (1204 words)

	1964 Summer Olympics at AllExperts
		This marked the first time the Olympics were held in Asia.
		She ended her Olympic career and holds the record for most Olympic medals at 18 (9 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze) since then.
		The Olympic Village, a redeveloped United States Army barracks originally called "Washington Heights," is located on the north side of Yoyogi Park.
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/1964_Summer_Olympics.htm (526 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)

	Tokyo Olympiad
		Long before the Berlin Wall was to fall, East and West Germany came together to compete in the summer Olympics of 1964.
		Olympics and other than for war, which is ironic, as it's the antithesis of peace, are held every four years.
		The opening ceremonies are somber and respectful, illustrating the intention of peace and goodwill to all; big and small, rich and poor, the world's best and the ones just proud to be there, knowing they don't have a prayer for a medal, marching side by side providing mutual applause.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /movies20034q/id2012.htm (1187 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The 1964 Tokyo Games were the first to be held in Asia.
		The Japanese expressed their successful reconstruction after World War II by choosing as the final torchbearer Yoshinori Sakai, who was born in Hiroshima the day that that city was destroyed by an atomic bomb.
		In three Olympics, she won nine gold, five silver and four bronze medals, making a total of eighteen.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1964 (317 words)

	Olympic Games
		Over the years, other events were added: boxing, wrestling, pankration (combination of boxing and wrestling), chariot racing, several other running events (the diaulos, hippios, dolichos, and hoplitodromos), as well as a pentathlon, consisting of wrestling, stadion, long jump, javelin throw and discus throw (the latter three were not separate events).
		On the final day, there was a banquet for all of the participants, consisting of 100 oxen that had been sacrificed to Zeus on the first day.
		The Olympic Games were part of the Panhellenic Games, four separate games held at two- or four-year intervals but arranged so that there was one set of games every year.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/o/ol/olympic_games.shtml (1103 words)

	GBROLYMPICS.COM / LONDON-OLYMPICS.COM - Olympic Games Medallists
		The modern Olympics were first held in 1896.
		Nevertheless all those competitions reported, at one time or another, as Olympic medal events have been included here for the record, with those no longer regarded as official footnoted.
		Note Germany, although officially two discrete republics at the time, entered a combined team from 1952 to 1964 whilst the Soviet Union did not compete until 1952.
	www.london-olympics.com /olympic (336 words)

	The History Of Drug Abuse In Sports
		Olympic athletes in ancient Greece were believed to have used herbs and mushromms in an attempt to improve their athletic performance.
		The Winter Olympics held in Oslo in 1952 was marred by heavy usage of stimulants among some partcipating athletes.
		The abuse of anabolic steroids was first reported in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
	www.prn2.usm.my /mainsite/bulletin/sun/1996/sun27.html (1305 words)

	ContraCostaTimes.com \| 11/23/2006 \| 'Mature' Tokyo bids for games
		The Japanese city, host of the 1964 Summer Olympics, likes its chances to be chosen again for 2016
		Ahead of the launch of its official bidding committee Wednesday, the Tokyo metropolitan government presented its plans and philosophy for staging the Summer Olympics to the diplomatic community Monday.
		The bidding committee, jointly set up by the Japanese Olympic Committee and the metropolitan government, will launch a global campaign to promote Tokyo as a host city that could offer "the world's most compact, efficient and safe Olympics," Yoshinobu Kumano, head of the metropolitan government's bid promotion office, said during the briefing.
	www.contracostatimes.com /mld/cctimes/news/local/states/california/16082742.htm (453 words)

	TSN : OLYMPICS - Canada's Sports Leader
		The Olympic Games were staged for the first time in Asia when Tokyo was selected to host in 1964.
		Yoshinori Sakai, a student who was born on August 6, 1945 - the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, was the final torch bearer and lit the flame signifying the start of the Games.
		Al Oerter of the United States won the discus throw for the third time despite a cervical disc injury that forced him to wear a neck harness and torn rib cartilage incurred a week before the competition.
	www.tsn.ca /olympics/feature.asp?fid=9409 (295 words)

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		The first Olympic games brought them together once every four years, and most of the city-states declared truces to allow the athletes and spectators to make their way to the games without being hurt or killed.
		But by far the most horrific Olympic memories happened at the 1972 Munich Games when twelve Israeli athletes and coaches were murdered by Palestinian terrorists, and the 1996 Games in Atlanta when a pipe bomb killed two spectators and injured 111 others in Centennial Park (8).
		His book evaluates, and then rejects, many proposals for Olympic reform saying that it is fruitless to to attempt to minimize the impact of politics on the Olympics because politics are so heavily entrenched in the games (12).
	www.geocities.com /jeribennett (2237 words)

	1970s information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		During the 1970s, the Summer Olympics took place twice, with Munich hosting the games in 1972 and Montreal playing host in 1976.
		The U.S. basketball Olympic winning streak, which started in 1936, was ended by the Soviet Union team's close victory in the final game.
		Among the 1972 Summer Olympic highlights was the performance of swimmer Mark Spitz, who set seven World Records to win a record seven gold medals in one Olympics, bringing his total to nine.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1970s (10052 words)

	NBCOlympics.com - Countries - Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Even though the Olympic games are over, the NBC Universal Store still has your favorite Torino merchandise.
		Japan has been a steady Winter Olympic presence, missing only in 1924 and again in 1948, when it was not invited.
		He is no longer a strong contender in the 1000m, but he took silver in the 500m at the 2005 World Single Distance Championships.
	www.nbcolympics.com /countries/5056764/detail.html (631 words)

	Sports in Cuba
		The Olympic victories were also a source of national pride for the Cuban people.
		In the 1964 Summer Olympics, Cuba won only one gold medal.
		In the 1968 Summer Olympics they won 10 gold medals.
	members.tripod.com /~NALax/noframes (140 words)

	Summer Olympics: Judo
		Kano was a member of the International Olympic Committee and an associate of Baron Peirre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic movement.
		Men's judo was not added to the Olympic Games until 1964 and women's judo became an Olympic event in 1992.
		In the Olympics there are seven weight categories for men and seven weight categories for women.
	www2.lhric.org /poCantico/olympics/judo.htm (199 words)

	Tokyo 1964 Olympics
		Tokyo were to host the 1940 Olympics, however the start of World War II in 1939 forced the cancellation of the 1940 Games.
		He won the event in 1964, in an Olympic record time of 17min 1.7seconds.
		Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina wins six medals for the third time in a row; she remains the Olympic athlete with the most medals (18) and the most medals in individual events (14).
	www.topendsports.com /events/summer/hosts/tokyo.htm (253 words)

	1964 highlights from Pocantico Hills School
		On April 22 the 1964 World's Fair opens in Flushing Meadows, Queens and has a two year run.
		On July 2 the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved.
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	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/century/1960s/1964.htm (892 words)

	Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong News and Business.
		While the Olympic boom is providing a major face-lift for Beijing, it runs the risk of pushing up the country's debt, increasing bad loans for the banks, and bumping the currently red-hot economy into a major slowdown.
		Yet for China's leadership, the 2008 Olympic Games are highly important as they represent a major coming to age of the world's fourth-largest economy.
		Indeed, the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics were the first to be held in Asia.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China_Business/HE19Cb06.html (938 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)

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