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		At the 2004 Summer Olympics Brazil was represented by the Brazilian Olympic Committee (abbreviated COB).
		Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics were held at the Athens Olympic Stadium, except for the Marathons (which were r...
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	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1904 St. Louis
		In 1904 it was the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Purchase, that nearly killed the fledgling Olympic movement.
		The 1904 Games were originally scheduled for Chicago, but Exhibition organizers in St. Louis worried the Olympics would detract from their event's attendance and threatened to hold separate sporting competitions of their own.
		Perhaps the most remarkable performance in athletics competition was by Ray Ewry, who successfully defended all three of his gold medals from the 1900 Olympics, in the three standing jump events: high jump, long jump and triple jump.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1904.html (1130 words)

	1904 Summer Olympics
		The Games of the III Olympiad were held in 1904 in St.
		The Olympic competitions, spread out over four and a half months, were lost in the chaos of a World?s Fair.
		Of the 94 events generally considered to have been part of the Olympic program, only 42 included athletes who were not from the United States.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/19/1904_Summer_Olympics.html (170 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		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.
		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.
		The Mayor of Athens, Dora Bakoyianni, passed the Olympic Flag to the Mayor of Beijing, Wang Qishan.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/2/0/0/2004_Summer_Olympics_330c.html (2001 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1906 Athens
		The modern Olympic founder, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, figured that the best medicine for the flagging Olympics would be to return them to their roots in Athens.
		Rome had already been slated to host the next scheduled Olympics in 1908, but de Coubertin arranged with the Greek government and IOC to hold an interim or so-called "intercalated" Olympics in 1906 to mark the 10th anniversary of the Olympic revival.
		Their legacy is that the Olympic movement regained its footing and sense of purpose, and the world actually looked forward to the next official Olympics of 1908 with some excitement.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1906.html (558 words)

	1976 Summer Olympics: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		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 lead a boycott of 22 African nations as the IOC refused not to 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.encyclopedian.com /19/1976-Summer-Olympics.html (369 words)

	GBROLYMPICS.COM / LONDON-OLYMPICS.COM - Olympic Games Medallists
		The modern Olympics were first held in 1896.
		The status of many events held in 1900 and 1904 is questionable.
		In addition in 1904 the majority of team events were limited to clubs only with national teams denied entry.
	www.gbrathletics.com /olympic (336 words)

	Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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)

	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)

	OLYMPICS: 100 Years Of Change
		Perhaps the most blatant of Olympic hypocrisies upheld over the past 100 years was the nonnegotiable rule that each athlete had to swear that he was an amateur before he could compete.
		The first women's athletics event in Olympic history, the discus throw, was won by the brawny Pole Halina Konopacka, who shattered her own world record by 45 cm and beat the runner-up by 2.53 m.
		During the fiercest decades of the cold war, Olympic amateurism was almost as volatile an issue in the East-West conflict as political ideology.
	www.time.com /time/international/1996/960527/olympics.history.html (6130 words)

	Olympics Timeline: Ancient Greece - 1940s
		Athletic contests are held at Olympia every four years, between August 6 and September 19.
		The Olympic flag is introduced, as is the Olympic oath.
		The American Olympic Committee sends a hockey team, as does the American Hockey Association; the IOC bars either from being considered for a medal.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/olympicstimeline.html (1345 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics
		These were the first celebration of the Olympic Games since the recreation of the ancient Greek Olympics with the founding of the International Olympic Committee in 1894.
		In the stadium, the Americans continue their dominance in athletics, winning the long jump (through Ellery Clark), the shot put (Garrett, winning his second title) and the 400 m (Tom Burke).
		The weightlifting contests are also conducted in the Olympic stadium, with Launceston Elliot of Great Britain and Viggo Jensen of Denmark taking a first and a second place each in the single-hand and double-hand contests.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/18/1896_summer_olympics.shtml (886 words)

	Washington University Athletics
		The Athletics Complex consists of several facilities: the Field House, Francis Gymnasium, Francis Field, and the Tao Tennis Center.
		Francis Field and Francis Gymnasium were used for the 1904 Olympics, the third Olympic games of the modern era and the first to be held in the Western Hemisphere.
		Athletic facilities include a recreational gym with adaptable basketball, tennis, and volleyball courts; an eight-lane, 25-meter swimming pool with diving well; eight handball/racquetball courts; two squash courts; indoor and outdoor tracks; a full weight room and sauna; and the McWilliams Fitness Center.
	bearsports.wustl.edu /facilities/athleticcomplex.html (122 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia
		However, the 1900 Summer Olympics were already planned for Paris and, barring the so-called Intercalated Games of 1906, the Olympics did not return to Greece until the 2004 Summer Olympics.
		The true origin of the modern Olympics was acknowledged by De Coubertin as being in Much Wenlock, a rural market town in the English county of Shropshire.
		The athletics events (commonly known today as "track and field" in the United States), which were held in the Panathenaic Stadium, had the most international field of any of the sports.
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/1896_Summer_Olympics (3849 words)

	Athletics at the Summer Olympics - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Athletics has been contested at every Summer Olympics since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics.
		No new events have been added to the men's athletics programme since the 1952 addition of the short racewalk.
		The athletic triathlon and pentathlon multi-discipline events were phased out in favor of the decathlon, and the medley relay replaced with even-leg relays.
	www.wiki-mirror.us /index.php/Athletics_at_the_Summer_Olympics (198 words)

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		Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics as usual was a part of the Swimming Sport, other two parts were Water Polo and...
		Weightlifting at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by ten events (all â” men's individual), held between July...
		The Olympic Flame, Olympic Fire, Olympic Torch, Olympic Light, Olympic Eye, and Olympic Sun is a symbol of the Oly...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/athlete.html (2688 words)

	Learn more about 1936 Summer Olympics in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Although awarded before the Nazi Party came to power in Germany, the government saw the Olympics as a golden opportunity to promote their fascist ideology.
		Rower Jack Beresford won his fifth Olympic medal in the sport, and his third gold medal.
		For the first time the Olympic Flame was brought to the Olympic Town by a torch relay, with the starting point in Olympia, Greece.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /1/19/1936_summer_olympics.html (481 words)

	Haverford College Athletics: A Century of College Soccer: Haverford College to celebrate sport's humble roots, steady ...
		Athletics historians pinpoint the first football contest between two U.S. colleges as a 25-a-side game played by Princeton at Rutgers November 6, 1869.
		Lalas, a Detroit native and the 1991 Hermann Trophy/Missouri Athletic Club Award winner as the nation's top collegian, was all-region for Rutgers all four years, and led the Scarlet Knights to the 1989 NCAA semifinals and to a scoreless, penalty-kick loss to UCLA in the 1990 final.
		She has appeared twice for the U.S. in the FIFA Women's World Cup (1999 and 2003) and was a gold medal winner for the U.S. in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
	www.haverford.edu /athletics/soccercentennial.htm (1867 words)

	Summer Olympics
		Athletics (or track and field) is about jumping higher, throwing farther, and running faster than the other players.
		Olympic racing is now conducted with boats categorised into one-design classes based on similar weights and dimensions.
		Olympic history abounds with tales of athletes who overcame crippling adversity to win gold medals, but Karoly Takacs' comeback may be the best.
	library.thinkquest.org /CR0214546/solympics.html (1844 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.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1984_summer_olympics.shtml (289 words)

	1932 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, were held in 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
		An Olympic Village was built for the first time, occupied by the male athletes.
		Finnish star Paavo Nurmi was barred from competing in the Olympics for being a professional.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1932_Summer_Olympics (392 words)

	1924 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The 1924 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VIII Olympiad, were held in 1924 in Paris, France.
		The marathon distance was fixed at 42.195 km, from the distance run at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.
		Ireland was given formal recognition as an independent nation in the Olympic Movement in Paris in 1924 and it was at these games that Ireland made its first appearance in an Olympic Games as an independent nation.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1924_Summer_Olympics (425 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)

	Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35.
		At the 1904 Summer Olympics, twenty-four athletics events were contested.
	www.encyclopedian.com /at/Athletics-at-the-1904-Summer-Olympics.html (127 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)

	1896 Summer 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.
		The athletic highlight for the Greeks was the marathon victory by their compatriot Spiridon Louis.
		Alfréd Hajós, the first Olympic champion in swimming, is one of only two Olympians to have won medals in both sport and art competitions, Photograph by A. Meyer, Athens, Benaki Museum.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/NewSport/Olympia1896.html (3549 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The 1904 St. Louis Olympics organizers repeated all of the mistakes of 1900.
		Lighting the Olympic Flame by: The Olympic flame was first lit during the opening ceremony of the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam.
		Olympic Oath by: The first athletes' oath was sworn at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1904 (378 words)

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