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  2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2004 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, were held in Athens, Greece, over a period of 17 days from August 13 to August 29, 2004.
Athens 2004 marked the first time since the 1996 Summer Olympics that all countries with a National Olympic Committee were in attendance.
The Mayor of Athens, Dora Bakoyianni, passed the Olympic Flag to the Mayor of Beijing, Wang Qishan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2004_Summer_Olympics   (2248 words)

  
 Archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at Panathinaiko Stadium (Kallimarmaro).
The three medalists of the 2000 Summer Olympics, Simon Fairweather, Vic Wunderle, and Wietse van Alten, all competed in 2004.
It is not recognized by the International Olympic Committee as an Olympic record, however, as the ranking round took place on 12 August, before the 2004 opening ceremony.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Archery_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics   (1322 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 2004 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Athens was chosen as the host city during the 106th IOC Session held in Lausanne in 05 September 1997,(date of the 25th anniversary of the Munich Massacre 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.
By August 2004, the Olympic Stadium was officially completed and opened, and the Athens Tram and Light Rail became operational.
The 2004 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony was held on August 13.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /2004_Summer_Olympics   (1826 words)

  
 Athens Olympics 2004. ABC Sport.
But while every Olympic city has a fabulous stadium, nowhere else in the world could events be held at Ancient Olympia - the home of the ancient Games - and the magnificent Panathinaiko Stadium, home of the first Games of the modern era back in 1896.
After a behind-closed-doors tongue-lashing by Australian Olympic Committee chief John Coates, the team emerged united, but there were plenty of commentators who saw this as simply papering over some pretty obvious cracks.
Through the prism of history, the Athens Olympics may come to be seen as the Games at which two major trends emerged - the rise of Asian nations as Olympic powers and the time the war on drugs became serious.
www.abc.net.au /olympics/default.htm   (2755 words)

  
 Egypt in the 2004 Summer Olympics
The original Olympics were held every four years for a span that lasted for almost eight centuries.
In 2004, Egypt has high hopes for three medals, and in what seems like the spirit of this year's event, their best chance for a gold comes from the females, specifically Nahla Ramadan.
At Minsk in May of 2004, Nahla was the biggest star in the field of 262 competitors in both men's and women's weightlifting, and so not surprisingly, even Sport's Illustrated has picked her for Gold in the Women's 75 kg (165 lbs) event at Athens.
www.touregypt.net /featurestories/egypt2004olympics.htm   (1359 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 Racquet/Target: Archery, Badminton, Shooting, Table Tennis, Tennis - CBS SportsLine.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In ancient years, the Panathinaiko, or Panathenian Stadium was largely used to host the Panathenean Games, festival events that were held to honor the Greek goddess Athena (the Goddess of wisdom, skills, and warfare in ancient Greece and protector of the City of Athens).
The Olympic Tennis Centre is situated at Maroussi and is part of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex.
The Olympic Shooting Centre in Markopoulo, in the east Attica region, covers an area of 312,000 sq m.
www.daver.com /olympics/summer/target   (474 words)

  
 Athens 2004 Summer Olympics : Modern Olympics, Paralympci Games
The Athens 2004 Olympics torch relay will be the first to travel the globe and return to the country that gave us the Olympics Games.
The torch for the Athens 2004 Olympics has been inspired from an olive leaf and was chosen to enhance the Flame with its upward dynamic shape.
An Olympic sport is one that should be widely practiced by men in at least 75 countries on 4 continents and by women in at least 40 countries on 3 continents.
www.clearleadinc.com /site/sports.html   (1301 words)

  
 Athens Olympics 2004
Fittingly for an Olympic Games that was, more than most, about beginnings and endings, the honour of carrying the Australian flag and leading the team at the closing ceremony was given to veteran swimmer Petria Thomas.
As is the fate of many Olympic athletes, the members of the men's hockey team who won perhaps the most thrilling of Australia's 17 gold medals will return to relative obscurity once the celebrations have died down.
Olympic historian Harry Gordon speaks to Roy Masters about his impression of how the Games will be remembered.
www.smh.com.au /olympics   (464 words)

  
 CANOE -- SLAM! 2004 Games
A vote on the state's commitment to the proposed $2 billion US stadium in Manhattan to be used by the New York Jets and considered crucial for New York's chances of hosting the 2012 Olympics was postponed Monday.
Olympic silver medallist Adam Nelson wants a sponsor so badly, he put himself up for auction.
Jailed IOC vice-president Kim Un-yong, formerly one of the most powerful figures in the Olympic movement, resigned from the organization Friday rather than face expulsion for ethical misconduct.
2004games.canoe.ca   (240 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Archery: Hollywood, history draw new talent to old sport
ATHENS –; The Olympic rings may be about join the Lord of the Rings in fueling a boom in the ancient but hardly fashionable sport of archery.
Hollywood heart-throb Orlando Bloom and the bowman elves who invaded the screen in cinema's version of the Tolkien trilogy has had youngsters all of a quiver; archery clubs around the world are reporting a surge in recruits.
Built to host the Olympics' modern revival in 1896, the site was first developed for sport in the 4th century BC for the Pan-Athenian Games.
signonsandiego.com /sports/olympics/20040810-0756-olympics-archery.html   (443 words)

  
 NBC Names Parker Olympic Archery Analyst
In archery, the men’s and women’s individual gold-medal finals will be shown Aug. 18-19 on MSNBC, and the men’s and women’s team gold-medal finals will be shown Aug. 20-21 on Bravo.
When she qualified for the U.S. archery team at age 13 and then competed at age 14 in the 1988 Seoul, South Korea, Olympics, Parker found herself on the “Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson.
Olympics Archery on TV All times are Eastern.
www.fastestbows.com /press/2004/ATA_NBC_parker.htm   (876 words)

  
 Archery Tickets - Athens Summer Games - 2004 Olympics Schedule
The Archery competition will take place at the Panathinaiko Stadium which is the same site the first modern Olympic Games were held at in 1896.
The categories for 2004 Summer Olympic Archery include Men's and Women's individual events, as well as Men's and Women's team events.
The term Olympics ® is a registered trademark of the USOC and is used at this site for descriptive purposes only.
www.tickco.com /athens2004/archery.htm   (303 words)

  
 2004 Summer Olympics - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
In the last round of voting, Athens defeated Rome, 66 votes to 41.
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.
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www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/2/0/0/2004_Summer_Olympics_330c.html   (2001 words)

  
 OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT
This Wednesday at the Olympic Museum, in honour of a temporary exhibition on fair play, there was a very interesting debate on this subject during an Agora led by journalist Jean-Philippe Rapp.
Olympic Museum: uninterrupted view of the triathlon (1 September 2006)
This Wednesday at the Olympic Museum, in honour of a temporary exhibition on fair play, there was a very interesting debate on this subject...
www.olympic.org /uk/index_uk.asp   (195 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Olympics 2004 | History
This was the first official Olympics to see athletes marched into the stadium behind their respective national flags.
Female athletes competed in the Olympics for the first time in Paris in 1900.
The first of the modern Olympic Games was staged in Athens, Greece.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/low/olympics_2004/history/default.stm   (411 words)

  
 ESPN.com: Olympics
Those who stayed away from the men's archery event on Monday -- and there were many -- missed a banner day for Bhutan.
ESPN.COM'S 2004 SUMMER OLYMPICS: Complete coverage from Athens.
ESPN.COM'S 2000 SUMMER OLYMPICS: From the opening ceremonies to the final gold medal.
sports.espn.go.com /oly/summer04/archery/index   (106 words)

  
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Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 400 metre freestyle
Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 400 metre individual medley
Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 200 metre individual medley
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 2004 Summer Olympics Tickets - Athens Summer Games Tickets
The Athens Summer games will be the most celebrated Olympics ® of our era.
We have access to tickets for nearly every Olympic event from Opening to Closing Ceremonies, Archery to Gymnastics.
For your convenience we have broken down the 2004 Olympic Games by event and by date.
www.tickco.com /athens2004/index_archive.htm   (303 words)

  
 ESPN.com: Olympics
But the '04 Olympics will long be remembered for other reasons.
Allen Iverson might once have been the unwilling pupil of Larry Brown, but his coach should've been studying the lessons AI taught on accountability in Athens.
Some Olympic winners: the volunteers, the venues, the security, Tomato Tom and Yolanda Griffith.
sports.espn.go.com /oly/summer04/index   (324 words)

  
 OLYMPICS - CBS SportsLine.com
Lit at a practice session amid ruined temples on the eve of the official ceremony, the flame will be kept as backup -- to be sent to Italy for the Feb. 10-26 Games -- in case of cloud Sunday.
Bad weather affected the ceremony for the Sydney 2000 Summer Games, and the past two Winter Olympics -- at Salt Lake City in 2002, and Nagano in 1998.
Next to a marble pillar under which the French baron's heart is buried, she will kindle the official flame for the 20th Winter Games, in the presence of Turin organizing chief Valentino Castellani and Greek Olympic Committee President Minos Kyriakou.
cbs.sportsline.com /olympics/story/9063445   (602 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - USATODAY.com - Olympic sports coverage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Relive the action from the Winter Olympics in Utah.
Summer Olympics draw nearly 4 billion viewers worldwide.
U.S. Olympic sprinter cautioned after positive marijuana test.
www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/athens/front.htm   (229 words)

  
 Olympics: Athens 2004
The Olympics draws on traditions of war, religion, economy
The Olympics were held in honor of this Greek god.
Women competed in these games, which may predate the Olympics.
www.factmonster.com /spot/04olympics.html   (228 words)

  
 Innovative Teaching - Olympics 2004
Wonderful comparison of the ancient Olympics and the Centennial Modern Games in Atlanta with plenty of substance provided from the Perseus Project; this is a first rate treatment of the evolution of the Olympic tradition.
Presented by the British Olympic Association, this is a 60 page teaching guide in.pdf format including resources, teaching ideas, and holding an Olympic sport day at your school.
Frequently asked questions about the 2004 US team and individual athletes, great for helping students get a feel for the United States presence in Athens.
www.surfaquarium.com /NEWSLETTER/olympics2004.htm   (1662 words)

  
 Brazil at the 2004 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
At the 2004 Summer Olympics Brazil was represented by the Brazilian Olympic Committee (abbreviated COB).
In Athens 2004 Brazil competed in all but ten events (Archery, Badminton, Canoeing - Slalom, Cycling - Track, Softball, Gymnastics - Trampoline, Baseball, Water Polo, Hockey and Weightlifting).
Nations at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece
www.tocatch.info /en/Brazil_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics.htm   (4568 words)

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