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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: 2004 Summer Paralympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Paralympics was staged at the Helliniko Fencing Hall from September 21-27.
Wheelchair Rugby at the 2004 Summer Paralympics is being staged at the Helliniko Indoor Arena from September 19-25.
Wheelchair Tennis at the 2004 Summer Paralympics was staged at the Olympic Tennis Centre from September 19-26.
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 Encyclopedia: 2004 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre for the flatwater events and the Olympic Canoe/Kayak Slalom Centre at the Helliniko Olympic Complex for the canoe and kayak slalom disciplines.
Softball at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the Olympic Softball Stadium in the Helliniko Olympic Complex from August 14 to 23.
Weightlifting at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held in the Nikaia Olympic Weightlifting Hall.
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 2004 Summer Paralympics - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The twelfth Paralympic Games, an estimated 4,000 athletes took part in the Athens programme, with ages ranging from 11 to 66.
Exhibition matches for these categories were featured in the Games in basketball and table tennis, and the Special Olympics remains the major sporting event specifically designed for athletes with learning difficulties.
The Greek gods would be pleased--the 2004 Summer Paralympics revisited.
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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   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Games were officially declared opened by Greek president Costis Stephanopoulos and, the president of the International Paralympic Committee.
The traditional cultural display was removed from the ceremony as a mark of respect for the deaths of 37 teenagers and 4 teachers from, travelling to Athens, whose bus collided with a lorry near the town of.
A procession of young people then made their way to join the athletes in the centre of the stadium carrying paper lanterns, before the was extinguished, the final moment of the Paralympic Games.
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 Encyclopedia: Paralympic Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The new Paralympic logo consists of three elements in red, blue and green—the three colours that are most widely represented in national flags around the world.
Stoke Mandeville is a village to the south of Aylesbury in the county of Buckinghamshire.
Paralympics Deaflympics (previously called Deaf World Games) the Games are for deaf people to compete at an elite level.
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 Archery at the 1976 Summer Olympics - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Archery at the 1976 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Archery at the 1976 Summer Olympics - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Archery at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
It was the second iteration of the modern archery competition in the Olympics, following the same format as in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Japan and Italy claimed their first archery medals in the men's competition.
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 archery - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about archery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Outdoor target archery, of which the Olympic competition is a part, involves shooting at a variety of fixed distances on an open, flat field.
Indoor target archery is shot indoors at targets 18 m/59 ft. Field archery is also shot outdoors, but along a marked course or path in the woods or fields.
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.
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 2004 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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 - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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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 PARALYMPICS 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
PARALYMPICS 2004 RISK OF TERRORISM Any high profile event on the world stage is vulnerable to a terrorist attack.
PARALYMPICS 2004 Spot Poll What has been the shock result of the event so far?Kay Forshaw (GBR) d.
PARALYMPICS 2004 Further information and advice on facilities for the disabled can be obtained from the following.
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 1972 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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.
Olga Korbut, a tiny Soviet gymnast, became a star after failing to win the individual all-around after a fall, but winning two gold medals in the apparatus events.
Handball (last held in 1936) and Archery (last held in 1920) return as Olympic sports after a long absence.
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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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 1984 Summer Olympics Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com
The Games of the XXIII Olympiad were held in 1984 in Los Angeles, United States.
Los Angeles was the only city to bid to host the 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).
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 United States Olympic Committee - ARCHERY: 2005 Summer World University Games Preview
Anderson won the U.S. Intercollegiate Indoor Archery Championship in 2005 and 2004 and is coached by two-time Olympian Lloyd Brown.
She finished second at the 2004 Outdoor National Championship and third at the 2004 U.S. Intercollegiate Championship.
Archery competition begins on August 13 with individual preliminaries in both recurve and compound.
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 Paralympic Games
The Paralympic Games are a special Olympics for disabled athletes.
Sir Ludwig Guttmann organized a sports competition in 1948 which became known as the Stoke Mandeville Games, involving World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries; in 1952 competitors from the Netherlands took part.
The first Olympic Style games for disabled athletes were held in Rome in 1960 which became the Paralympics.
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 2004 Summer Olympics biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, commonly known as the 2004 Summer Olympics were 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.
In the event the 2004 games were described as a 'dream' games by IOC president and Greece was congratulated for her organisation.
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 Summer Olympics 2004 :: Information on the Olympic Games - Bowtech Archery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Our Summer Olympics 2004 pages feature Olympics articles, information on bowtech archery, Olympics reviews, and resources on the Olympic Games, Olympic history and Summer and Winter Olympics topics.
If you are searching for more bowtech archery links you will find great information on the Olympic Games, Olympic history and Summer and Winter Olympics and hundreds of links to bowtech archery information below.
Search the Internet or Summer Olympics 2004 for more the Olympic Games, Olympic history and Summer and Winter Olympics information if you don't find what you are looking for at Summer Olympics 2004.
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 1988 Summer Olympics: Definition and links.
Sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner wins three gold medals and a silver on the track.
Christa Rothenburger[?] becomes the first (and last) athlete to win Olympic medals at the Winter Olympics and Summer Olympics in the same year.
She adds a cycling silver to the speed skating gold she won earlier in the year in Calgary.
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 1972 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Joseph Rotblat, 96, Dies; Resisted Nuclear Weapons: Sir Joseph Rotblat was the only scientist to quit working on developing the atomic bomb for moral reasons.
County's SAT Scores Barely Vary From 2004 : The average SAT score of Montgomery County public students was down by one point from last year, to 1101, because of a single-point drop on the math section of the college entrance exam, but the school system remained above the state and national averages.
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 Future Summer Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The 2004 Summer Olympic Games will be held from August 13 to August 29 in Athens, Greece.
Greece is the country where the Olympics originated from, and Athens is the city where the first modern-day Olympics took place in 1896.
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 2004 Summer Paralympics - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Paralympic events had already taken place during the 2004 Summer Olympics as demonstration sports - women's 800 m and men's 1500 m wheelchair races.
4 Sports featured in the 2004 Summer Paralympics
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 Summer Olympics 2004 :: Information on the Olympic Games - Archery Lesson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This is the archery lesson page of the Summer Olympics 2004 directory.
Our Summer Olympics 2004 pages feature Olympics articles, information on archery lesson, Olympics reviews, and resources on the Olympic Games, Olympic history and Summer and Winter Olympics topics.
If you are searching for more archery lesson links you will find great information on the Olympic Games, Olympic history and Summer and Winter Olympics and hundreds of links to archery lesson information below.
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 Paralympics 2004 >>> News and Information from the Paralympics in Athens
The Paralympics 2004 in Athens has closed as the most successful Paralympic Games ever.
Nearly 4000 disabled athletes from 136 countries around the globe competed for 525 Gold medals in 19 sports.
China with a total of 141 medals (63 Golds) were clear winners on the 2004 Paralympic medals table.
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 ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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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Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metre Freestyle
Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 4 x 400 metres relay
Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 50 metre Freestyle
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 1972_Summer_Olympics : Essential Information, explanation, and relevant links.
The Olympic games : the olympiads : a complete guide to summer olympic sports, current olympic records, gold, silver, bronze medal winners from 1896 to 1972 by Simon and Schuster of Canada
The Guinness book of Olympic records : complete roll of Olympic medal winners (1896-1972, including 1906) for the 28 sports (7 winter and 21 summer) to be contested in the 1976 celebrations and other u by Penguin
Guinness book of Olympic records : complete roll of Olympic medal winners (1896-1972, including 1906) for the 28 sports (7 winter and 21 summer) to be contested in the 1976 celebr by Sterling Pub.
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