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	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)

	1936 Summer Olympics
		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.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/19/1936_Summer_Olympics.html (367 words)

	1980 winter olympics - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		The XIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, United States of America.
		Although they didn't get any medals, the People's Republic of China returned to the Olympics Games after the IOC agreed to designate the ROC "Chinese Taipei".
		Their defeat of the Soviet team in the medal round became known as the "Miracle on Ice" in the US press.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/1980-Winter-Olympics (233 words)

	1980 Summer Olympics information - Search.com
		The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, were held in Moscow, USSR.
		Although approximately half of the 24 countries which boycotted the 1976 Summer Olympics participated in these, the Games were disrupted by another, even larger, boycott led by the United States followed by 64 other countries in protest at the 1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
		NBC, which was thought to be another major one, cancelled its coverage in response to the U.S.-boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, and became a minor broadcaster as the network did air highlights and recaps of the games on a regular basis.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/1980_Summer_Olympics (624 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		She was also the first to introduce the Olympic torch to the ceremonies.
		The tale of Hitler snubbing Owens at the ensuing medal ceremony is, however, untrue.
		The Canadian Olympic Team was the only team from a non-fascist country to salute Hitler (in a gesture of friendship) during opening ceremonies.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/1/9/3/1936_Summer_Olympics_a11e.html (852 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.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/19/1980_Winter_Olympics.html (157 words)

	1980 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, were held in Moscow in the Soviet Union.
		NBC, which had intended to be another major broadcaster, cancelled its coverage in response to the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, and became a minor broadcaster as the network did air highlights and recaps of the games on a regular basis.
		He won Olympic champion titles in "Finn" and "Tempest" classes before, and as of 2005 remains the only sailor in Olympic history to win gold medals in three different classes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1980_Summer_Olympics (781 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)

	1896 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		These were the first celebration of Olympic Games since the recreation of the ancient Olympics with the founding of the International Olympic Committee in 1894.
		This is remarkable as the Olympics not for a long time allow professional to compete with the sole exception of The final of the amateur foil event a French battle won by Eugène-Henri Gravelotte.
		The weightlifting contests are also conducted in Olympic stadium with Launceston Elliot of Britain and Viggo Jensen of Denmark taking a first and a second each in the single-hand and double-hand contests.
	www.freeglossary.com /1896_Summer_Olympics (968 words)

	2000 Summer Olympics
		The ceremonies concluded with the lighting of the Olympic Flame.
		The first medals of the Games were awarded in the women's air rifle shooting event, which was won by Nancy Johnson of the United States.
		China wins the gold medal in the men's team all-around gymnastics competition, after being the runner-up in the previous two Olympics.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/2/20/2000_summer_olympics.shtml (670 words)

	1976 Summer Olympics Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In the bid to organise the Olympics, Montreal defeated Moscow and Los Angeles, which would organise the 1980 and 1984 Olympics.
		In a protest to a tour of South Africa by the New Zealand rugby team, Tanzania led a boycott of 22 African nations as the IOC refused to not admit the New Zealand team.
		The Olympic Stadium, a daring design of French architect Roger Taillibert, remains a lasting monument to the huge deficit, as it never had an effective retractable roof, and the tower was only completed after the Olympics.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/1/19/1976_summer_olympics.html (353 words)

	Learn more about 2002 Winter Olympics in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Prior to these Olympics, a number of I.O.C members were forced to resign after it was uncovered that they had accepted inappropriately valuable gifts in return for voting for Salt Lake City to hold the Games.
		Skeleton returned as a medal sport in these Olympics for the first time since 1948.
		A feature of this Olympics has been the emergence of the so-called "extreme" sports, such as snowboarding, moguls and aerials, which appeared in previous Olympics but have captured greater public attention this year.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /2/20/2002_winter_olympics.html (513 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1980 Summer Olympics
		The Games of the XXII Olympiad were held in 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union.
		On March 21, 1980, following the 1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, American president Jimmy Carter announced a boycott of the Moscow Olympics.
		Women's field hockey is Olympic for the first time, but all major nations boycott the tournament.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1980_Summer_Olympics (332 words)

	ipedia.com: 1968 Summer Olympics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		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)

	Belo Interactive - Olympics
		True, that has something to do with the fact that the Olympics will be played 16 times zones away, but NBC, which is paying $705 million in rights fees, has the clout to "request" events be scheduled in Australia for its live prime-time convenience in the United States.
		She was too young for the 1976 Olympics, forced to miss the 1980 Games because of the boycott, and too old by 1984.
		Will be working his seventh Olympics in the booth after finishing 12th in the 1500 meters in Mexico City Ranked No. 1 in the world in 1969 and 1971.
	olympics.belointeractive.com /general/169309_13horn.html (1522 words)

	1980 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIII Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, United States of America.
		Although they did not get any medals, the People's Republic of China returned to the Olympics Games after the IOC agreed to designate the ROC "Chinese Taipei".
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	enc.qba73.com /link-1980_Winter_Olympics (674 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: A Curtain Call in Atlanta
		ATLANTA, Aug. 4— Tonight, the Closing Ceremonies for the 1996 Summer Olympics began with the traditional awarding of the medals in the men’s marathon, and it was a fitting moment for an Olympics that provided a bigger world stage for a far more diverse collection of athletes than any in history.
		And, early this evening, the final gold medal of these Games was won by the U.S. women’s basketball team, capping an Olympics in which the Americans—led by a long parade of successful women—finished with 101 medals, the most of any of the record 197 nations in attendance.
		An American—Michael Johnson—carried the Olympic flag onto the infield for the close of the Olympics tonight, but it was the parade of flags from the 197 participatory nations that brought home the scope of these Games.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/olympics/daily/aug/05/close5.htm (1104 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 (2338 words)

	KnoxNews: Olympics
		The most efficient sports in terms of medals won per medal opportunity were the team sports: baseball, softball and basketball.
		To be fair, the Olympics are not the only goal for many sports — not even the main one — for sports like tennis and soccer.
		USA Gymnastics stumbled in Sydney in terms of dollars spent to medals won — going home without an Olympic medal for the first time since 1972 (not counting the 1980 boycott year) — but over the years U.S. gymnasts have provided some of the most riveting Olympic moments.
	www.knoxnews.com /kns/olympics/article/0,1406,KNS_937_2847959,00.html (1178 words)

	Timeline 1980
		1980 Jan 10, George Meany (b.1894), former plumber and president of the AFL-CIO, died in Washington, D.C. Meany, president of the AFL-CIO from 1955 to 1979, was a NYC plumber before becoming a labor leader.
		1980 Apr 21, At the Boston Marathon, Rosie Ruiz was the first woman to cross the finish line; but she was disqualified as a fraud when officials discovered she had jumped into the race about a mile from the finish.
		1980 Louis Alvarez proposed that the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago at the Tertiary - Cretaceous boundary was due to a large meteor impact based on a thin line of sediment of dark clay containing unusually high levels of iridium at the boundary.
	timelines.ws /20thcent/1980.HTML (11766 words)

	1980 Summer Olympics
		The Games of the XXII Olympiad were held in 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union.
		On March 21, 1980, following the 1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, American president Jimmy Carter announced a boycott of the Moscow Olympics.
		Women's field hockey is Olympic for the first time, but all major nations boycott the tournament.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1980_summer_olympics.shtml (273 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)

	American Track and Field -- Feature Article
		Several years of confusion ensued between the two Chinas and the International Olympic Committee, and after Taiwan was recognized as "China" during the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, the country known as the People's Republic of China disappeared from the Olympic movement entirely.
		The Seoul haul in 1988 was a commendable 28 medals, for eleventh overall in the medal count.
		They've won 50 or more medals in the four summer Olympics since then, and in 2004, their 63 medals brought them to second overall in the medal count behind the United States.
	www.american-trackandfield.com /features/beijingjournal05nazzaro2.html (860 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)

	Ice Hockey: Canada Is Team To Beat - Olympics 2006
		Canada's gold medal in 2002 sparked its resurgence as the dominant force in international ice hockey.
		Overall, ice hockey in the Olympic Games dates back to 1920, when the tournament was part of the Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.
		The last team to win successive Olympic titles was the Soviet Union/Unified Team, which won in 1984, 1988 (as Soviet Union) and 1992 (as Unified Team).
	www.wptz.com /olympics2006/6207547/detail.html (1476 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		American-Soviet relations were as chilly as ever at the start of the 1980s when the Winter Olympics returned to this small New York town nestled in the Adirondacks.
		These were the Winter Games that featured the "Miracle on Ice," when the United States won the gold medal in hockey, defeating the highly favoured Soviets, then cruising to the gold by defeating Finland in the final.
		The Americans’ gold medal victory over Finland in the final round remains almost a footnote in hockey history, but it managed to further obscure the historic five-gold performance of U.S. speed skater Eric Heiden.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/history/1980lakeplacid.shtml (1167 words)

	1956 Winter Olympics Encyclopedia Article @ Endured.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The 1956 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VII Olympic Winter Games, were held in
		They immediately showed their strength by winning more medals than any other nation.
		USSR won the Games with 16 medals, 7 of them being gold, 3 silver and 6 bronze.
	www.endured.net /encyclopedia/1956_Winter_Olympics (316 words)

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