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  2008 Summer Olympics Encyclopedia Article @ TeamoPrimo.com (Teamo Primo)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, will be held in 7.1 Olympic House, IOC commends preparation for 2008 Games from 08-14, Weightlifting through [1], demonstration sport, with the opening ceremony to take place at 08:08pm and 08 seconds on August 8th.
The centerpiece of the 2008 Summer Olympics is the construction of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, which began on Athens 2004, Snow Wolf Commando Unit.
However, the entrance of Wu Kai Sha (the remaining nation besides Taiwan that were not present at the 2004 Summer Olympics) is an open possibility provided that the country establishes a 2005 prior to IOC deadlines.
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 1984 Summer Olympics - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, were held in 1984 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
In the wake of the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, 14 Eastern Bloc countries and allies including the Soviet Union, Cuba and East Germany (but not Romania), boycotted these Olympics.
Olympic soccer was unexpectedly played before massive crowds throughout America, with several sell-outs at the 100,000+ seat Rose Bowl.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/1984_Summer_Olympics   (1049 words)

  
 World Almanac for Kids
The winter Olympics were begun in 1924 and were held in the same year as the summer games until the 1994 winter games in Lillehammer, Norway, when the alternating cycles began.
The 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, reflected a changed political landscape: the 172 participating nations and territories included the Unified Team (with athletes from 12 former Soviet republics), a reunited Germany, and South Africa, which was allowed to compete for the first time since 1960.
The Olympic games are competitions of individual athletes, not of nations, and the IOC does not keep national scores; however, the media of all nations report national standings according to one of two scoring systems.
www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/sports/olympics.html   (1093 words)

  
 2008 Summer Olympic Games Encyclopedia Article @ Pitched.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, will be held in BOCOG, The Coca-Cola Company from 3.1 List of sports, e through China, Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium, with the opening ceremony to take place at 08:08pm and 08 seconds on August 8th.
The centerpiece of the 2008 Summer Olympics is the construction of the Canada, which began on Workers' Indoor Arena, Gymnastics.
However, the entrance of International Olympic Committee's (the remaining nation besides France that were not present at the 2004 Summer Olympics) is an open possibility provided that the country establishes a [6] prior to IOC deadlines.
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 1972 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
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.
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 Archery, A Sport Event Included in The Summer Olympic Games
Archery: Archery is a sport event which involves shooting a target by means of a bow and arrows.
In the sport, archery, scores are given on the basis of nearness of the shot to the centre of the target.
Archery at the international level is administrated by the International Archery Federation.
www.mapsofworld.com /olympics/summer-olympic-events/archery.html   (851 words)

  
 Archery Olympics
In the Archery Olympics they have to be the best of the best from each country.
They were held in 1904, 1908, 1920 and not again until 1972, when the Federation International de Tir a l’Arc (FITA), the international governing body of sport was founded in 1931 and standardized the rules for all competitions.
Archery is fun and almost anyone can do it, but not everyone can compete in the Archery Olympics.
www.complete-archery-information.com /archery-olympics.html   (1049 words)

  
 1980_Summer_Olympics - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, were held in Moscow in the Soviet Union.
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 of the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
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.
www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=1980_Summer_Olympics   (781 words)

  
 Olympic Events
Archery was first included in the Olympic competition programme in the year 1900, but had fallen out of favour by 1920.
Taekwondo was an Olympic demonstration sport at both the 1988 Games in Seoul and the 1992 Games in Barcelona, and it made its debut as an official Olympic sport at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
The Olympic Games competition schedule is the classic distance triathlon, which is made up of a 1,500m swimming event, a 40 km cycling event, and a 10 km running event.
www.ict.mic.ul.ie /websites/2002/Eilis_Faherty/events.htm   (1364 words)

  
 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS
The Olympic champions were as follows: 1900: a combined Swedish/Danish team; 1904: an American club team representing the Milwaukee Athletic Club; 1906: Germany/Switzerland; 1908: a British team from the City of London Police Club; 1912: Sweden; and 1920: Great Britain.
Rugby union football was held at the Olympics in 1900, 1908, 1920 and 1924.
Polo was on the Olympic programme in 1900, 1908, 1920, 1924 and 1936.
www.olympic.org /uk/sports/past/index_uk.asp   (349 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)

  
 BBC SPORT | OLYMPICS TALK | Ask Audrey - previous questions answered
In 1954 she was Empire and European champion in the same event, and in 1956 she won the silver medal in the Melbourne Olympics with a clearance of 1.67 metres (5 feet, 5 and three-quarter inches).
But I should have thought the Olympics offered all manner of potential learning experiences: the geographical spread of the competitors (197 countries were represented in Atlanta), the history of the Olympic movement and its origins in Ancient Greece, the mathematics of some of the scoring, paintings of the competitors and so on.
The Olympic flame burns for the duration of each Olympics and is extinguished during the closing ceremony.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/olympics2000/olympics_talk/932234.stm   (1416 words)

  
 History House: Olympic Follies
Amateur glory of Olympics in the early twentieth century upheld in wacky marathon.
In 1904, arguably the most classic Olympics ever, the marathon had the potential to be upset by a squirrely little guy who had essentially hitchhiked from Cuba and ran the race in what amounted to dress shoes.
The Anthropology Days of the 1904 Olympics were a "scientific experiment" wherein a variety of "savages", among them Pygmies, Filipinos, Patagonians and various American Indian tribes, competed in such undignified events as mud fighting and greased-pole climbing.
www.historyhouse.com /in_history/olympics   (1568 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)

  
 Archery At The Summer Olympics
Archery was not featured at the 1912 Summer Olympics but reappeared in the 1920 Summer Olympics.
The archery competition that was featured at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich consisted of a double FITA Round competition with two events - men's individual and women's individual.
This form of the archery competition was held until the 1988 Summer Olympics, when team competition was added and the Grand FITA Round format was used.
competitions-guide.com /a/218838/Archery+at+the+Summer+Olympics.html   (1000 words)

  
 1976 Summer Olympics Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
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)

  
 2004 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, were held in Athens, Greece, from August 13 to August 29, 2004.
Athens was chosen as the host city during the 106th IOC Session held in Lausanne in 05 September 1997, after surprisingly losing the bid to organize the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta nearly seven years before, on 18 September 1990, during the 96th IOC Session in Tokyo.
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.
www.cheguevara.co.za /wiki/2004_Summer_Olympics   (2849 words)

  
 1976 Summer Olympics information - Search.com
The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, were held in 1976 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
It has subsequently hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, the largest city in the province of Alberta, and was selected to host the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the largest city in the province of British Columbia, and it will become the largest major city in a country ever to host a Winter Olympics.
The capital of the host province of the Olympics, Quebec City, was a candidate city of the 2002 Winter Olympics.
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 1908 Summer Olympics information - Search.com
The 1908 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the IV Olympiad, were held in 1908 in London, England.
However, these have since been retroactively downgraded by the International Olympic Committee and thus the 1908 Games are seen as the start of the Fourth Olympiad, in keeping with the now-accepted four-year cycle.
The Netherlands was typically referred to in early Olympic competition as "Holland" though the entire nation of the Netherlands was the entity in question rather than the region of the country formally named Holland; the IOC currently refers to all entries from the nation as from "Netherlands".
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 ipedia.com: 1996 Summer Olympics Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Softball, beach volleyball and mountainbiking debut on the Olympic programme, together with women's football (soccer) and lightweight rowing.
Cycling professionals were admitted to the Olympics, with five-time Tour de France winner Miguel Induráin winning the inaugural individual time trial event.
Michelle Smith of Ireland wins three gold medals and a bronze, but her victories are overshadowed by doping allegations, which are later reinforced as she is banned after failing a test in 1999.
www.ipedia.com /1996_summer_olympics.html   (488 words)

  
 San Diego Metropolitan - The World’s First Binational Olympics Proposed For Tijuana And San Diego - December 2003
The summer Olympics offer competition in 28 sports, with multiple venues for some, including aquatics, archery, athletics (track and field), badminton, baseball, basketball, boxing, canoeing and kayaking, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football (soccer), gymnastics, handball, hockey, judo, modern pentathlon, rowing, sailing, shooting, softball, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon, volleyball, weightlifting and wrestling.
The 2010 winter Olympics have been awarded to Vancouver, Canada, and because the International Olympic Committee often rotates hemispheres, the U.S. bid for a summer Olympics in New York City in 2012 may be jeopardized by the Canadian winter location.
The last U.S.-hosted summer Olympics were held in Atlanta in 1996, preceded by Los Angeles in 1984 and 1932 and by St. Louis in 1904, the first Olympic games in the U.S. While based on ancient Greek games, the modern Olympics were established in Athens in 1896.
www.sandiegometro.com /2003/dec/coverstory2.html   (1246 words)

  
 Summer Olympics: Aquatics
In the Olympics Swimming has 26 individual events and six relay or team events for both men and women.
Swimming was one of the sports at the first modern Olympic games in 1896.
Water polo was included in 1900, Diving in 1904, and Synchronised swimming was added in 1984.
www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/aquatics.htm   (280 words)

  
 The History of the Olympic Games
They were held in the same year as the summer Olympics until 1994, when they began to be held on separate 4-year cycles that were staggered by two years.
Small, local festivals were being called “Olympics” as early as the 17th century in places like England and France, but the discovery of the ruins of Olympia in the 19th century sparked interest in the games once again on an international scale.
The next two games in 1900 in Paris and 1904 in St. Louis were not as successful, however, due largely to the fact that they were included in the celebration of the World’s Fair in the same year as well as the lack of large-scale international representation.
www.wam.umd.edu /~leannajf/olympics.html   (1072 words)

  
 Summer Olympic Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The Olympics are the most prestigious of such events in the world, featuring a larger range of sports than others.
Olympic victory is generally considered to be the most prestigious achievement in sports.
The 2008 Summer Olympics are to be held in Beijing, China.
www.info-pedia.net /about/summer_olympic_games   (2808 words)

  
 1920 Summer Olympics - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Template:Olympics infobox The 1920 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad, were held in 1920 in Antwerp, Belgium.
The 1916 Olympics were scheduled to be held in Berlin but were canceled due to the fighting in World War I. Contents
These Olympics were the first in which the Olympic Oath was uttered, the first in which doves were released to symbolize peace, and was the first time the Olympic Flag was flown.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/1920_Summer_Olympics   (286 words)

  
 Summer Olympics 2000 Americans still humble about medal hopes
As in previous Olympics, the U.S. cyclists watched a steady parade of Europeans march to the podium in Sydney.
Armstrong, riding in his third Olympics, finally got the medal that had eluded him.
Perhaps U.S. Cycling will have Witty again after she competes in the Salt Lake Olympics, and team leaders are optimistic about many younger riders.
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 1988 Summer Olympics
South Korea's government became a democracy under the pressure of organising the Olympics.
After boycotts of the Olympics in 1976, 1980 and 1984, the Games were again boycotted, but only by four nations: North Korea, Cuba, Ethiopia and Nicaragua.
Table tennis is introduced at the Olympics, with China and the host nation both winning two titles.
www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1988_summer_olympics.shtml   (329 words)

  
 History of Archery
Archery is one of the most ancient of sports.
In 1878, the book “The Witchery of Archery” was said to have inspired the formation of more than twenty archery clubs in less than a year.
Archery was on the program of the second modern Olympic Games in 1900, 1904, 1908 and 1920.
www.chevroncars.com /learn/sports/history-archery   (321 words)

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