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  2004 Summer Olympics
The Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, commonly known as the 2004 Summer Olympics or Athens Olympics, are the 28th Summer Olympic Games.
Athens was chosen as the host city in 1997, after surprisingly losing the bid to organize the 1996 Summer Olympics, the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the modern Olympic Games.
The Opening Ceremony held on August 13, 2004 began with a twenty-eight second countdown — one second for each Olympic Games held since Athens last hosted — paced by the sounds of an amplified heartbeat.
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 2004 Summer Paralympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The exclusion was introduced after the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, the first games with events exclusively for people with learning difficulties, after it was found that the majority of the Spanish basketball team were not disabled.
The International Paralympic Committee stated that the exclusion would continue until there are sufficient tests for the disabilities and a way to measure the effect they have on a sport.
The traditional cultural display was removed from the ceremony as a mark of respect for the deaths of 37 teenagers and 4 teachers from Farkadona, travelling to Athens, whose bus collided with a lorry near the town of Kamena Vourla.
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 2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Athens 2004 marked the first time since the 1996 Summer Olympics that all countries with a National Olympic Committee were in attendance.
The 2004 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony was held on August 13.
The 2004 Summer Paralympics were also held in Athens, from September 17 to 28.
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 Encyclopedia: 1988 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Anthony Nesty of Suriname wins his country's first Olympic medal by winning the 100 m butterfly, scoring an upset victory; he is also the first Black to win a swimming title.
See also: 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Paralympics were the first Paralympics in 24 years that were held concurrently with the Olympics.
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.
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 2004 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Athens was chosen as the host city in 1997, after surprisingly having lost the bid to organize the 1996 Summer Olympics, the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the modern Olympic Games.
In 1997, they had a bid that was not only founded on their tradition, and they defeated Rome, 66 votes to 41, in the last round of voting, after Buenos Aires, Stockholm, Cape Town and San Juan had already received too few votes.
By late March of 2004, many Olympics projects were severely behind schedule, and Greek authorities announced that a roof would no longer be constructed over the main swimming venue.
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 2004 Summer Paralympics medal count - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is the full table of the medal count of the 2004 Summer Paralympics.
These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country (in this context a country is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee).
The number of silvers is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze.
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 Press Box - U.S. Swimmers Looking to Surpass Sydney Medal Count at 2004 Paralympic Games - 9/16/2004
Athens, GREECE – September 16, 2004 – A mix of veteran and first-time Paralympic swimmers look to be on the podium over the 9 days of swimming competition at the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.
Paralympic swimming encompasses athletes with visual impairments, amputations, spinal cord injuries, dwarfism and neuro-muscular impairments.
Popovich, the precocious teen from the Sydney Games who made her Paralympic debut with three gold medals, three silver medals and four world records returns to Athens after completing her first season of collegiate competition with the Colorado State University swimming team.
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 2004 Summer Paralympics - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The 2004 Summer Paralympic Games, the twelfth Paralympics, were held in Athens, Greece from September 17 to 28.
The Paralympic Summer Games are the second-largest sporting event in the world, after the Summer Olympic games.
The 800 m Women's Wheelchair Race and 1500 m Men's Wheelchair Race were the first competitions held for the 2004 Summer Paralympics, and also occurred during the 2004 Summer Olympics as demonstration sports.
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 2004 Summer Olympics biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, commonly known as the 2004 Summer Olympics were the 28th Summer Olympic Games.
In the event the 2004 games were described as a 'dream' games by IOC president and Greece was congratulated for her organisation.
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.
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 Encyclopedia: 2004 Summer Paralympics medal count   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
See also: 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Paralympics were held in Athens, Greece, from September 17 to September 28.
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The blue represents the Turks The red represents modernisation The green represents Islam The crescent and star is the symbol of the Turks, and the eight-pointed star represents the eight Turkish peoples of Azerbaijan.
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 Mettle Counts In Athens Medal Count: Daily Results from the 2004 Summer Paralympic Games Available via The Hartford's ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Summer Paralympics, which take place September 17 through 29, will showcase the talents and skills of 4,000 of the world's most elite athletes with physical disabilities who represent 120 countries.
The Paralympics feature competition in 21 sports, 18 of which are contested in the Olympics.
U.S. Paralympics, a division of the U.S. Olympic Committee, was created in May, 2001 to focus efforts on enhancing programs, funding and opportunities for persons with physical disabilities to participate in Paralympic Sport.
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Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metre Backstroke
Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metre Breaststroke
Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metre Freestyle
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 2004 in sports - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2004 Olympics opened in Athens, Greece on August 13.
July 10 - Marion Jones finishes fourth in the qualifying for the 100 meter dash, and therefore fails to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics in that event.
July 11 - Tim Montgomery, current world record holder in the men's 100 meter run, fails to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics, finishing 7th out of 8 competitors in the trials finals.
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 SLAM! Sports: 2000 Summer Games: Paralympics
 SYDNEY (AP) -- A powerlifter from Azerbaijan was stripped of his gold medal in the Sydney Paralympics on Monday after testing positive for the steroid nandrolone.
 The International Paralympic Committee's Medical and Anti-Doping Commission said Gundus Ismailov would be expelled from the Paralympics until after the 2004 Games.
 The International Paralympic Committee said in a statement Sunday that Frasure, a member of Disabled Sports USA and the world's top 100-metre sprinter for amputees the past three years, had his A and B samples test positive to the steroid during competition testing.
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 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The exclusion was introduced after the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, the first games with events exclusively for people with learning difficulties, after it was found that the majority of the Spain Spanish basketball team were not disabled.
The artistic and entertainment part of the ceremony will not take place."'' (official statement) Flags were flown at half mast and a minute's silence was observed.
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 The Ultimate 1988 Winter Olympics - American History Information Guide and Reference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The 1988 Games were the last games where the Paralympics were not also held in the same city.
For the first time in history the Winter Olympics were extended to 16 days, the speed skating events were held indoors on a covered rink, the alpine events took place on artificial snow, and warm Chinook winds not only threatened to cancel events, but sent a ski jumper flying into a camera tower.
Ever mindful of the financial disaster of the 1976 Summer Olympics, Calgary was financially successful, erasing the spectre of a second Canadian games at a loss.
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Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's Beach Volleyball
Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 10,000 metres
Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 4 x 400 metres relay
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 International Games News August 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
England's women 800 meter runners, not medalling, but it was the first time in history that three British women had broken 2:00 minutes in the same race.
Collins was allowed to keep the medal, though his delegation had technically broken the rules by not filing the required paperwork for substances for medical purposes.
Adesoji Adekunle, who blazed to a gold medal in 100 meter dash for blind athletes at the Commonwealth Games, setting of celebration in Nigeria, was questioned by officials about his status as a blind athlete.
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 ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A grand celebration, the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games, which for 17 days returned to Greece, the country where they were originally born and the city where they revived, is completed.
Read the highlights of the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games and feel again the excitement of the most important events of each competition day.
Send an ATHENS 2004 e-card and spread the message of Olympism to the whole world.
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 United States Olympic Committee - SWIMMING - USA Swimming Medal Count Reaches 13 at Summer World University Games
The USA won its 11th swimming medal of the Games when Mortimer started the evening by capturing the silver in the men’s 400m freestyle.
For Bruckhart, Mortimer and Vanderkaay it was their second medals of the Games, with all previous medals won in individual fashion.
Shooting for her second medal in as many races, USA Olympic gold-medal winner Beth Botsford (Timonium, Md./Univ. of Arizona) came up short in the women’s 100m backstroke, finishing in fourth place with a time of 1:02.55.
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Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 400 metre Freestyle
Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metre Butterfly
Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 200 metre Butterfly
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Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 200 metre Freestyle
Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 800 metre Freestyle
Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 4 x 100 metres relay
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 2004 summer olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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News on the 2004 summer Olympic games collected from diverse sources on the web.
known as the 2004 Summer Olympics or Athens Olympics, are the 28th Summer Olympic Games...
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 World of mrWoot: September 2004 - The daily happenings in the world of mrWoot.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Its next flight, which may win the X Prize, is scheduled for October 4, 2004, the 47th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1.
On April 1, 2004, Scaled Composites received the first license for sub-orbital piloted rocket flights to be issued by the US Department of Transportation.
On June 17, 2004 Mojave Airport reclassified itself (part-time) as the Mojave Spaceport.
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Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 200 metre Backstroke
Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 400 metres Hurdles
Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 3,000 metres Steeplechase
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Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol
Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 25 m Pistol
Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 10 m Air Pistol
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The 2004 Olympics have ended and German sports officials and policy-makers are starting to assess their team’s performance in Greece: Some demand structural changes in the way Olympic hopefuls should be promoted in the future while the EU declared itself the winner.
Host city Athens bid a final farewell to the athletes and guests of the 2004 Summer Games with a spectacular party under a full moon.
The athletes make sure to relish their Olympic experience, even if it didn't turn out the way they had imagined.
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Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metres
Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's Coxless Four
Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's Coxless Pair
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 World of mrWoot: 2004 Summer Paralympics Ended - The daily happenings in the world of mrWoot.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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The 2004 Summer Paralympic Games are the twelfth Paralympics and will be held in Athens, Greece from September 17 to 28.
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