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	Olympic Games
		The ancient Olympic Games were abandoned in AD 394 by the Roman emperor Theodosius I, who considered the Games to be a savage celebration.
		Olympic is also the name the public sometimes uses for the Greek national airline, Olympic Airways.
		Olympic uses varous types or airplanes, like the Boeing 747 and Airbus A340 for international routes, and the Boeing 727 and Boeing 737 for domestic routes.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/o/ol/olympic_games.shtml (1103 words)

	1912 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1912 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad, were held in 1912 in Stockholm, Sweden.
		A winter sports week for the 1912 Games featuring figure skating were rejected by organizers because they wanted to promote the Nordic Games, a quadrennial sporting event, instead.
		Swedish marksman Oscar Swahn became the oldest Olympic gold medalist (up to that time), at the age of 64, in the deer-shooting event.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1912_Summer_Olympics (262 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)

	Olympics
		That was supposed to be the end of Owens' Olympic participation, but on August 9, he and Ralph Metcalf replaced Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller, the only Jews on the U.S. track team, on the 4x100-meter relay.
		Comaneci's performance in her first compulsory exercise - the uneven bars - was unparalleled: the awed crows was hushed as she hit her dismount, and then roared in surprise as a "1.00" flashed on the scoreboard.
		She won the first Olympic women's competition in the javelin (143 feet, 4 inches) and 80-meter hurdles, setting a world record with her time of 11.7 seconds.
	www.baseball-statistics.com /Greats/Century/Olympics.htm (1668 words)

	Athletics : Sports of the modern Olympic Games
		The marathon was originally conceived as a race for the 1896 Olympics in Athens, commemorating the run of the soldier Pheidippides from a battlefield at the site of the town of Marathon, Greece, to Athens in 490 B.C. Legend has it that Pheidippides delivered the momentous message "Niki!" ("victory"), then collapsed and died.
		The Olympic torchbearer for the 1956 Olympics was a virtually unknown 19 year old at the time he carried the torch into the stadium at Melbourne.
		The distance from the Windsor Castle to the Olympic Stadium was 42,195 meters (or 26 miles and 385 yards).
	www.topendsports.com /events/summer/sports/athletics.htm (1190 words)

	SI.com - Facts on Olympic history - Tuesday April 20, 2004 2:38AM
		The "primary" Olympic flag was thus known as "the Antwerp flag." In 1984, Seoul presented a new Olympic flag (as the old was getting quite worn) to the IOC, which was first flown at the 1988 Olympic Games.
		Olympic medals must be at least 66 millimeters in diameter and at least three millimeters thick.
		The flagbearer for the U.S. Olympic Team is normally chosen by the fellow athletes or respective team captains.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/olympics/2004/04/20/olympic.facts/index.html (1213 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.
		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.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/NewSport/Olympia1896.html (3549 words)

	GBROLYMPICS.COM / LONDON-OLYMPICS.COM - Olympic Games Medallists
		The modern Olympics were first held in 1896.
		Nevertheless all those competitions reported, at one time or another, as Olympic medal events have been included here for the record, with those no longer regarded as official footnoted.
		Nationalities given are those of the countries the medallists were representing at the time of the event.
	www.gbrathletics.com /olympic (336 words)

	Wikipedia: 1948 Summer Olympics
		After a hiatus of 12 years caused by the outbreak of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
		With World War II in recent memory, Germany and Japan were not invited for the Games, although Italy was.
		For the first time, Olympic diplomas were awarded to the 6th highest placed athletes.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/1/19/1948_summer_olympics.html (163 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.y2z.org /19/1984_Summer_Olympics.html (411 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		Held in Stockholm, the 1912 Olympics were a model of efficiency.
		Stockholm 1912, Games of the V Olympiad: the Swedish team of women gymnasts parades in the stadium during the Opening Ceremony.
		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=1912 (354 words)

	Sportolysis - The World Sports Blog » Olympics
		At the summer games, Oscar Swahn was the part of the Running Deer shooting team at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics which won gold.
		Neither side seemed aware that they had taken part in the Olympics, and the match was only retrospectively formally recognised as being an Olympic contest in 1912, when the International Olympic Committee met to compile the definitive list of all events in the five modern Olympiads up to that point.
		Olympics will be held for the first time in Britain since 1948 when London host it in 2012.
	www.sportolysis.com /category/olympics (2949 words)

	Ask Us A Question (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Athletics at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Men's 110 metre hurdles
		Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's 110 metre hurdles
		Athletics at the 1896 Summer Olympics - Men's 110 metre hurdles
	www.avoo.com /wiki/Image:Flag_of_Greece_(1828-1978).svg (851 words)

	1976 Summer Olympics
		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.y2z.org /19/1976_Summer_Olympics.html (485 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1928 Summer Olympics
		For the first time, the Olympic Flame was lit during the Olympics.
		The torch relay was however not started until the 1936 Summer Olympics.
		For the first time, the parade of nations started with Greece, which holds the origins of the Olympics, and ended with the host country, a tradition still continued until this day.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1928_Summer_Olympics (293 words)

	ipedia.com: 1932 Summer Olympics Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An Olympic Village was built for the first time, occupied by the male athletes.
		Babe Didrikson wins two gold medals in the javelin throw and the hurdles event, and only loses a third in the high jump because her jumping technique is ruled inferior and is placed second.
		Finnish star Paavo Nurmi is barred from competing in the Olympic for being a professional.
	www.ipedia.com /1932_summer_olympics.html (248 words)

	Olympic Sport Debut Years quiz -- free game
		This quiz is based on 25 sports at the Olympics.
		Fencing is one of the few events that has been featured as a medal event at every Olympics, commening with the first of the modern era in 1896 at Athens?
		At which Olympics was shooting introduced as a medal event?
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=115147 (329 words)

	Posts tagged with Olympics \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Israeli Response to the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre and the Development of Independent Covert Action Teams is a very interesting 1995 military paper for background and analysis of the Israeli response to the slaughter of Jewish Olympians in 1972.
		Smith and Carlos were (in)famous for their raised fist protest on the medal podium at the 1968 Olympics, for which they paid a heavy price.
		The current silver medallist, Larissa Lazutina, who later tested positive for darbopoetin after the 30-km classic and was stripped of her gold medal in that event, also tested positive for darbopoetin in a test administered in December 2001, which would nullify all of Lazutina's results since then.
	www.metafilter.com /tags/Olympics (1407 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Olympics 2004 \| Olympic countdown: 75 days
		Of their summer medals, Spain's first was in 1900 when senors Villota and Amezola won the pelota basque, a cross between tennis and handball.
		But possibly their most famous Olympic champion was 1996 individual cycling time trial winner, Miguel Indurain.
		Only two women have won golds for New Zealand in the summer Games: Yvette Williams in the 1952 women's long jump and Barbara-Anne Kendall in the 1992 sailboard class.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/low/olympics_2004/3754625.stm (273 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1912 Stockholm
		The 1912 Games were the largest yet and were also the first games to enjoy major attention from the world's media, with events making front-page headlines in U.S. newspapers.
		It was the first of three Olympics Kahanamoku would compete in before going on to be a film star and becoming an early surfing icon.
		Kolehmainen set a new world record in the 5,000m, become the first to run it in less than 15 minutes, and in the course of running his leg of the team event, he set a world record for the 3,000m.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1912.html (1468 words)

	Education World® - *Physical Education & Health : Sports : Olympics : Summer Events
		Athletics Canada Scan through profiles of some of Canada's top track and field athletes along with biographies of the national team's coaching staff.
		British Olympic Association: Rowing You can pick up some interesting trivia on competitive rowing, like the fact that oars have to display the team's national colors, and review some of the technical specifications of equipment.
		British Olympic Association: Swimming Read about the growth of Olympic swimming events, from the single 100-meter ocean swim in the 1896 Games to the plethora of races in the current Olympiad.
	db.education-world.com /perl/browse?cat_id=12280 (974 words)

	2000 Summer Olympics
		The ceremonies concluded with the lighting of the Olympic Flame.
		Former Australian Olympic champions brought the torch through the stadium, handing it over to Cathy Freeman, who lit the flame in the cauldron.
		IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch, at his last Olympics, had to leave for home, as his wife was severely ill. Upon arrival, his wife had already passed away.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/2/20/2000_summer_olympics.shtml (670 words)

	Lincoln City Libraries - Reference - In the News: 2004 Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Since 1896, the summer Olympic Games have been held every 4 years, with the exceptions of 1940 and 1944 during the waging of World War II.
		At the last summer Olympics (2000 in Sydney, Australia), 199 countries were represented by 10,651 athletes (4,069 women, 6,582 men), who competed in 300 separate events.
		The following are a sampling of videos featuring footage from past Olympics, plus the soundtrack CD including music used during the Olympics television coverage of the past 20 years.
	www.lcl.lib.ne.us /depts/ref/inthenews-olympics2004.htm (885 words)

	Ivy League Sports - Ivies in Athens 2004
		Track and field is fittingly called 'Athletics' when the Olympics roll around.
		He won the 400-meter hurdle gold in 1924 and followed that with two bronze medals in the same event in 1928 and 1932.
		Official Olympic Posters appear with permission and are the property of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
	www.iviesinathens.com /olympic/sport.aspx (446 words)

	University of Hawai'i - Office of Intercollegiate Athletics
		In the summer of 2001, major renovations were made to the diving facilities.
		Prior to the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, the complex served as a training site for the Olympic teams from the United States, Ireland, Sri Lanka, and Canada.
		He attended the Olympics again in 1932 at the age of 42 with the U.S. water polo team.
	uhathletics.hawaii.edu /Facil/pool.html (568 words)

	JWA - In Focus - Jewish Women In the Olympics
		She was the first woman to win a silver medal for the discus throw and later broke the Olympic and world records to win a gold at the 1932 Olympics.
		The United States participated in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin-the "Nazi Olympics"-sending the largest delegation of any country (312 athletes) to Germany.
		Held in Israel every four years (the year after the Summer Olympic games) these games draw thousands of athletes from dozens of countries.
	www.jwa.org /discover/inthepast/infocus/olympics (916 words)

	FIFA.com The Official web site of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association
		Crashing the Soviet Bloc party: Of the 25 medals awarded between the 1952 Olympics and the 1980 Summer Games, Sweden (bronze in 1952), Denmark (silver in 1960) and Japan (bronze in 1968) were the only non-Eastern European countries to take home medals.
		Double exposure: Not only did Great Britain become the first country to win consecutive gold medals in the 1908 and 1912 Olympics, they were involved in the only consecutive tournaments in which the top three teams were repeated.
		Combine the American thirst for international football and the special thrill the Olympics generate, and we are on course for an incredible 16 days.
	www.fifa.com /en/news/index/0,1464,9641,00.html?articleid=9641 (2205 words)

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