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	archery - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about archery
		Outside of the Olympics, competition is divided into various disciplines, which are split further into Classic (or Recurve) and Compound divisions depending on the type of bow used.
		Outdoor target archery, of which the Olympic competition is a part, involves shooting at a variety of fixed distances on an open, flat field.
		Clout archery is long distance shooting in which competitors shoot to a ‘clout’, a flat surface on the ground, at a distance of between 125 m/410 ft and 185 m/607 ft. Flight archery is an exercise in achieving the greatest distance for an arrow.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Archery (659 words)

	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)

	1984 Summer Olympics
		After the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, the Eastern Bloc, including the Soviet Union, East Germany and Cuba boycotts these Olympics (the USSR announced their intention not to participate on May 8, 1984).
		Nawal El Moutawakel of Morocco becomes the first female Olympic champion of an Islamic nation, and the first of her country in the 400 m hurdles.
		A marathon for women is held for the first time at the Olympics, won by Joan Benoit[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/19/1984_Summer_Olympics.html (240 words)

	1972 Summer Olympics
		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.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/19/1972_Summer_Olympics.html (256 words)

	Summer Olympic Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the end of the 1908 marathon the Italian runner Dorando Pietri was first to enter the stadium, but he was clearly in distress, and collapsed of exhaustion before he could complete the event.
		The 2008 Summer Olympics are to be held in Beijing, China.
		The 2012 Summer Olympics are to be held in London, United Kingdom.
	88.208.194.172 /wiki/index.php/Summer_Olympics (2810 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)

	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: 2007-09-22)
		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)

	1900 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		The 1900 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the II Olympiad, were held in 1900 in Paris, France.
		For his victory in the long jump, he was allegedly punched in the face by his rival Meyer Prinstein, who was prevented from competing in the final by officials of Syracuse University, because it was scheduled for a Sunday.
		Gold, silver, and bronze medals were retroactively awarded by the International Olympic Committee to reflect later practice of awarding such medals to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place competitors, respectively.
	enc.qba73.com /link-1900_Summer_Olympics (506 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)

	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)

	Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		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.
		The Olympic fire is then extinguished, and the Olympic flag is lowered, folded, and presented to the mayor of the host city of the next Olympic Games.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /olympics/Olympics.htm (1089 words)

	1976 Summer Olympics Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		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)

	kiat.net: Olympic Games London 1908
		Twenty-two countries competed in the 1908 Olympics, the same number as in 1900, but the number of athletes increased dramatically, from 1,330 to 2,035.
		As a result of the controversy, the IOC decided, after the 1908 Games, that judges would be drawn from an international pool, rather than being furnished by the host country, and that standardized rules would be drawn up for all sports.
		On the brighter side, the overall organization of the 1908 Olympics was nearly impeccable despite an almost constant downpour of rain.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/04london.html (1068 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		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.
		This was seen as a major threat to the future of the Olympic Games, and was not until the financially successful 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles that cities began to line up to be hosts again.
	webshots.search.com /reference/1976_Summer_Olympics (1473 words)

	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)

	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.
		But the 1908 games in London were better organized and attended, and the event has steadily grown since that time, with only three Olympiads having not taken place, and those because of war--the ones in Germany in 1916 were cancelled, and none were scheduled for 1940 and 1944.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~leannajf/olympics.html (1072 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)

	Olympics 2002: Olympic Learning - Homeschooling Articles - Homeschool.com - Your Virtual Homeschool
		Although some evidence exists that Olympic Games were held as early as the tenth century BC, most historians believe that the first organized Olympic contest occurred in 776 BC, nearly 3,000 years ago.
		For 68 years, the Olympic Winter Games and the Games of the Olympiad (the summer Games) were held at different times and in different cities, but during the same year.
		The theme for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games is "Light the Fire Within." In keeping with that theme, we invite you to use the lessons in this unit to light the fire of knowledge within your children.
	www.homeschool.com /articles/Olympics/default.asp (1808 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)

	1908 Summer Olympics (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		On opening day, it was the second time the various countries marched around an Olympic stadium behind their national flags.
		The 1906 Olympic were organised by the IOC, but are currently not officially recognised by the IOC.
		With both these Osmiae, the division of the gallery is the same as plentiful provisions and widely-spaced partitions; in front, small the larger cells supplied me with big cocoons and females; the therefore is exactly the same in the case of all three.
	1908-summer-olympics.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888 (633 words)

	Summer Olympics: Hockey
		Hockey was included for the first time in the competition schedule of the 1908 Olympic games.
		At the Olympics Hockey is played outdoors on a grass or synthetic field with eleven players each on two teams.
		At the Olympics there will be men's teams and women's teams.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/hockey.htm (218 words)

	The History & Sport of Archery
		Humans have used archery since the dawn of history, first for hunting, warfare, and in modern times for sport.
		One of the best known books on Zen Buddhism, “Zen and the Art of Archery” was written in the 1930s by Eugen Herrigel, and describes his experiences with Kyudo.
		It first appeared in the Olympics in 1900 in Paris, but was dropped for many years, as there was no fixed set of international rules.
	www.seed.slb.com /en/scictr/watch/archery/index.htm (859 words)

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