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	Olympic Games - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Although the Olympic Charter, the official constitution of the Olympic movement, proclaims that the Olympics are contests among individuals and not among nations, the IOC assigns to the various NOCs the task of selecting national Olympic teams.
		Women’s Olympic sports have grown significantly since then, and currently women account for approximately half of the members of teams, except in teams from Islamic nations, where the level of female participation is generally lower.
		She won gold medals in the 80-meter hurdles race and the javelin event—establishing new world records in both events—and captured a silver medal in the high jump event.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761562380__1/Olympic_Games.html (7124 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		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 main Olympic Stadium, the designated facility for the opening and closing ceremonies, was completed only two months before the games opened, with the sliding over of a futuristic glass roof designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
		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)

	1964 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, were held in 1964 in Tokyo, Japan.
		The 1964 Summer games marked the first time the Olympics were held in Asia [1].
		Olympic Stadium, now known as "National Stadium," was the venue for the opening and closing ceremonies, and for track and field events.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1964_Summer_Olympics (663 words)

	Learn more about 1936 Summer Olympics in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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)

	1932 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, were held in 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
		Babe Didrikson won two gold medals in the javelin and the hurdles event, and competed in a jump-off for a third in the high jump.
		Poland's Stanisława Walasiewicz won the gold medal in the women's 100 meters; she would also win the silver medal in the event four years later.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1932_Summer_Olympics (382 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)

	ipedia.com: 1968 Summer Olympics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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 athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos (USA) raise their fl-gloved fists as a symbol of "Black Power".
	www.ipedia.com /1968_summer_olympics.html (321 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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)

	1924 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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)

	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.
		The Summer and Winter Paralympic games were held during the same year up to and including 1992, after which the same-year format was dropped.
	members.shaw.ca /kcic1/olympics.html (714 words)

	Olympics Timeline: 1950s to the 1980s
		The Olympic torch is lit in the fireplace of skiing pioneer Sondre Norheim, and relayed by 94 skiers to the Games in Oslo.
		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).
		In the overall medal count, the rankings are U.S.S.R. (132), East Germany (102), U.S.A. The IOC votes to disallow unofficial demonstration events at Olympics, starting with the 1996 Games.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/olympicstimeline2.html (2335 words)

	© 2004, Gannett News Service
		The hopes for a set of Olympic medals ended Wednesday for the two-man kayak team of Andrew Bussey and Jeffrey Smoke, who competed in the semifinal round of the K-2 1,000 meter flatwater race.
		As in Atlanta and Sydney, beach volleyball finally became the place to be at the Olympics on Tuesday night, with a packed house, celebrities and a party atmosphere, Misty May and Kerri Walsh put an exclamation point on their total domination of the sport.
		American Ellen Wilson entered her second Olympics with lofty hopes of a top-seven finish, perhaps even a medal, in judo; instead, she was thrown for a loss, dropping both of her matches.
	pressconnects.gannettonline.com /gns/olympics/west-index.html (1897 words)

	Winter Games Facts - TheGoal.com
		Although the first modern Olympic Games took place in the Summer of 1896 in Athens, Greece, it was not until 1924 that the first Winter Olympic Greece were held.
		But since women's speed skating was excluded from this Olympics, she decided to compete instead in the combined downhill, which she won.
		The underdog 1960 U.S. Olympic hockey team in Squaw Valley, California, beat both Canada and the Soviet Union to clinch a tie for the gold medal.
	www.thegoal.com /events/mtgwinter2002/facts.html (571 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Judo/Taekwondo Fan Guide
		Sport that has existed for 2,000 years debuts as a medal event at Sydney after being a demonstration in 1992 and 1996.
		In case of a tie, the referee decides on the winner unless it is a gold medal round.
		Gold medal rounds go into sudden death with the winner being the first to score.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/judo/s/viewers.html (494 words)

	1964 Summer Olympics
		Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser won the 100 m freestyle event for the third time in a row, a feat matched by Vyacheslav Ivanov in rowing's skiff event.
		New Zealand's Peter Snell wins a gold medal in both the 800 m and 1500 m.
		Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina ends her Olympic career with a record 18 medals, of which 9 gold.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1964_summer_olympics.shtml (231 words)

	1968 Summer Olympics Summary
		The 1968 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were held in Mexico City in 1968.
		Dick Fosbury won the gold medal in the high jump using the radical Fosbury flop technique, which quickly became the dominant technique in the event.
		In the 200 m medal award ceremony, two African-American athletes Tommie Smith (gold) and John Carlos (bronze) raised their fl-gloved fists as a symbol of Black Power.
	www.bookrags.com /1968_Summer_Olympics (1108 words)

	1980 Winter Olympics
		The Games of the XIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, United States of America.
		An unfancied amateur United States ice hockey team win the gold medal, defeating Finland in the final.
		Their extraordinary upset victory over the heavy favourite Soviet team in the semifinal becomes known as the "Miracle On Ice" in the US press.
	www.knowallabout.com /1/19/1980_winter_olympics.html (170 words)

	CNN Cold War - Spotlight: Olympic boycotts
		If they won medals, those athletes were greeted on the medal stand by the Olympic hymn and flag, rather than their national anthem and flag.
		The '84 Olympics were a bonanza for the United States in the medal count as well.
		Buerkle accepts that politics is part of the Olympics -- "It's the way they've always been," he says -- and believes that the games can be a positive political force, as with a 28-year ban against the apartheid regime in South Africa.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/20/spotlight (815 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		Albertville closed a chapter in Olympic history — 1992 was the last year the Winter and Summer Games would be hosted in the same year.
		Frederic Blackburn won two medals, a silver as a member of the relay team and another silver in the 1,000 event.
		Canada’s last medal, a silver, came on the final day of competition, courtesy of the men’s hockey team, which lost to the Unified Team in the final.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/history/1992albertville.shtml (1174 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 (833 words)

	Wariner reopens age old question - Athletics -
		Fair enough, particularly at an Olympic Games where the colors of primary importance should be bronze, silver and gold.
		Later in these Olympics, they will be united to go for a gold medal in the 4x400 relay.
		Therefore, for whatever it is worth, the last time a Caucasian male representing the United States won a 100, 200 or 400 at a Summer Olympics came in 1964.
	www.theage.com.au /olympics/articles/2004/08/25/1093246545878.html (691 words)

	ipedia.com: 1992 Summer Olympics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Yugoslav athletes are not allowed to participate with their own team, but may compete under the Olympic flag as Independent Olympic Participants.
		Five of the six golds were in individual events, tying Eric Heiden's record for individual gold medals at a single Olympics.
		Badminton and women's judo become part of the Olympic programme, while white water canoeing returns to the Games after a 20-year absence.
	www.ipedia.com /1992_summer_olympics.html (412 words)

	Fall Ski Training: Improve recovery from a variety of workouts
		Introduced to the Olympics in 1964, the luge is a small one- or two-person sled where the riders lay flat on their backs with feet pointed forward as they speed down a long and winding icy track.
		It was hoped that the Turin Olympic Regional Organizing Committee would include a demonstration snowshoe race at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
		Even though there won't be Olympic medals for them to pursue in the foreseeable future, American snowshoers still have national titles to chase down.
	www.silentsports.net /why_the_winter_olympics_exclud.html (1542 words)

	Luge: Mark Grimmette And Brian Martin - Olympics 2006
		No U.S. Winter Olympic male athlete has ever won three consecutive medals in as many Games, but this year, luge competitors Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin will try to become the first duo to break that mold.
		Only figure skater Beatrix Loughran and speedskater Bonnie Blair have won medals in three straight Olympics, but Grimmette and Martin have their eye on history.
		Some of the underlying themes of the Olympics are supposed to be good sportsmanship, honesty and striving to compete clean instead of with performance-enhancing substances.
	www.ktvu.com /olympics2006/6207738/detail.html (657 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		The Norwegians were the powerhouse in winter sports, leading the medal count in four of the previous five Winter Games, yet Oslo was denied the Games in 1940 and 1944
		Eigil Nansen, grandson of the famous explorer Fridtjof Nansen, lights the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Oslo.
		While Anderson breezed through the 5,000 and 10,000m — he won those events by the largest margin in Olympic history — it was Andersen’s performance in the 1,500m that surprised and impressed even his most ardent supporters.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/history/1952oslo.shtml (1001 words)

	China thinks big for 2008 Summer Games - Olympics news - MSNBC.com
		Major players, from the International Olympic Committee to the corporate sponsors who help fund the games, anticipate that the first ever Olympics in China will generate more attention and more money and lend new energy to the 110-year-old movement.
		For the IOC and Olympic sponsors, that means the opportunity to tap a new, increasingly affluent market of avid sports fans and consumers.
		Past Olympics have been billed as coming-out parties — think 1964 in Tokyo or 2000 for Australia — to announce the host’s arrival on the world stage.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/11501734/from/RSS (573 words)

	1952 Summer Olympics medal count - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is the full table of the medal count of the 1952 Summer Olympics.
		These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country.
		The number of silvers is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1952_Summer_Olympics_medal_count (187 words)

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