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	1964 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yoshinori Sakai, who lit the Olympic Flame, was born in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day the atomic bomb exploded there.
		She ends her Olympic career and holds the record for most Olympic medals at 18 (9 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze) since then.
		Olympic Stadium, now known as "National Stadium," was the venue for the opening and closing ceremonies, and for track and field events.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1964_Summer_Olympics (455 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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.
		Since the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France it has been the tradition to have a mascot for the games and this year the official mascots are sister and brother, Athena and Phevos, named after the goddess of wisdom, strategy and war and the god of light and music, respectively.
		An emotional high point of the parade was the entrance of the delegation from Afghanistan which had been absent from the Olympics, and had female competitors for the first time.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/2/20/2004_summer_olympics.html (1174 words)

	1956 Summer Olympics - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Because Melbourne is situated in the southern hemisphere, the Olympics were held later in the year than those held in the northern hemisphere.
		Inspired by Australian teenager John Wing, an Olympic tradition begins when athletes of different nations are allowed to parade together at the closing ceremony, instead of with their national teams, as a symbol of world unity...
		The 1906 Olympic were organised by the IOC, but are currently not officially recognised by the IOC.
	open-encyclopedia.com /1956_Summer_Olympics (405 words)

	1976 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, were held in 1976 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
		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.
		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.
	www.sterlingheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1976_Summer_Olympics (1057 words)

	2012 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moscow, Russia: Moscow is representing Russia in a quest to define a "New Russia" by bidding for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
		Whilst the Olympic Park would undoubtedly leave a strong sporting and environmental legacy for London, the magnitude of the project, including the planned upgrade and expansion of transport infrastructure, would require careful planning to ensure all facilities and rehabilitation projects were completed on time.
		Their bid may be hampered by the fact that the 2010 Winter Olympics are being held in Vancouver and organizers are believed to be eager to avoid having consecutive Olympics on the same continent.
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/2012_Olympics (2499 words)

	1904 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1904 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the III Olympiad, were held in St.
		Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement, gave in.
		The Olympic events were again mixed with other sporting events, but where Paris hardly ever mentioned the Olympics, Sullivan called all his sports events "Olympic".
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1904_Summer_Olympics (775 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 Britain and Viggo Jensen of Denmark taking a first and a second place each in the single-hand and double-hand contests.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/1/18/1896_summer_olympics.html (923 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1936 Summer Olympics
		The Canadian Olympic Team was the only olympic team from a non-fascist country to salute Hitler (in a gesture of friendship) while marching by during opening ceremonies.
		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 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, will be held in Beijing in the Peoples Republic of China from August 8, 2008 to August 24, 2008, with the opening ceremony to take place at 8 p.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1936-Summer-Olympics (3410 words)

	1984 Summer Olympics - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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.
	open-encyclopedia.com /1984_Summer_Olympics (367 words)

	1996 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1996 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and informally known as the Centennial Olympics, were held in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
		Cycling professionals were admitted to the Olympics, with five-time Tour de France winner Miguel Induráin winning the inaugural individual time trial event.
		Michelle Smith of Ireland wins three gold medals and a bronze, but her victories are overshadowed by doping allegations, which are later reinforced as she is banned after failing a test in 1999.
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1996_Summer_Olympics (744 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics. Who is 1936 Summer Olympics? What is 1936 Summer Olympics? Where is 1936 Summer Olympics? ...
		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.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/1936_Summer_Olympics (468 words)

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		Amsterdam had made a bid for the 1920 and 1924 Olympics, but had to give way to war-victim Belgium and De Coubertin's Paris before finally being awarded with the organisation.
		For the first time, the Olympic Flame was lit during the Olympics.
		The torch relay was however not started until the 1936 Summer Olympics.
	www.informationgenius.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1928_summer_olympics.html (215 words)

	NZ Summer Olympic History
		She was placed 5th in the 100 metres freestyle but she could not compete in the final due to illness.
		Paul Kingsman and Anthony Mosse won bronze medals in the pool, in the 200 metres backstroke and the 200 metres butterfly respectively while John Cutler won bronze in yachting's Finn Class, and Rex Sellars and Chris Timms a silver in the Tornado class.
		The 1992 Olympic year kicked off in spectacular fashion for New Zealand as Annelise Coberger won this country's first Winter Olympic medal when she claimed silver in slalom skiing in Albertville.
	www.olympic.org.nz /Article.aspx?ID=343 (1747 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		They clearly emphasise, however, the participants' athletic achievements, not their disability.
		The number of athletes participating in the Summer Paralympic Games has increased from 400 athletes in Rome in 1960 to 3,806 athletes from 136 countries in Athens in 2004.
		The Organising Committees of the Olympic Games (OCOGs) organise the Olympic Games in collaboration with their National Olympic Committee and the host city.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/index_uk.asp (180 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The 1964 Tokyo Games were the first to be held in Asia.
		The Japanese expressed their successful reconstruction after World War II by choosing as the final torchbearer Yoshinori Sakai, who was born in Hiroshima the day that that city was destroyed by an atomic bomb.
		She was the first woman swimmer to win a total of eight medals (four gold and four silver) in three Olympics.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1964 (321 words)

	1900 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Games of the II Olympics were held in 1900 in Paris, France.
		For his victory in the long jump, he was allegedly punched in the face by his rival, who had refused to take the final run due to his religious beliefs, as that run was scheduled for a Sunday.
		Charlotte Cooper (tennis) was the first woman to become Olympic champion.
	www.sterlingheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1900_Summer_Olympics (224 words)

	1972 Summer Olympics Information - TextSheet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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.
	viridian.sferahost.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1972_summer_olympics.html (420 words)

	Graduate & Adult Studies Local Sponsor of Summer Olympics
		Helen Stephens, "The Fulton Flash," (pictured here with Jesse Owens) was enrolled at William Woods when she won her gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin; one for the women's 100 meters and another as part of the 4 x 100 meter relay.
		William Woods continues the tradition by being a local sponsor of the The Summer Olympics.
		Summer Olympic Events include: track and field, soccer, swimming, baseball, equestrian, sailing, greco-roman wresting and gymnastics.
	www.williamwoods.edu /gradadult/olympic.html (139 words)

	CBC.CA - IAAF World Track and Field Championships
		In 1999, he was the athletics commentator at World Track and Field Championships in Seville, Spain, the Pan Am Games in Winnipeg and the Commonwealth Games in Malaysia in 1998.
		A veteran of 12 Olympic broadcasts (five winter and seven summer), the 1964 Winter Games in Innsbruck were Wittman's first.
		Wittman was born in Herbert, Saskatchewan, and attended the University of Saskatchewan.
	www.cbc.ca /sports/iaaf/hosts/wittman_d.html (370 words)

	1964 summer olympics
		1964 Summer Olympics: Information From Answers.com 1964 Summer Olympics The Games of the XVIII Olympiad were held in 1964 in Tokyo, Japan.
		The current comeback of the Olympic games is due in a large measure to the efforts of Pierre, baron de Coubertin, of France.
		The International Olympic Committee (IOC), which sets and enforces Olympic policy, has struggled with the licensing and commercialization of the games, the need to schedule events to accommodate American television networks (whose broadcasting fees help underwrite the games), and the monitoring of athletes who seek illegal competitive advantages, often through the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
	www.olympic-headquarters.net /1964-summer-olympics.htm (894 words)

	1960 Summer Olympics Information - TextSheet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Rome had been awarded the organisation of the 1908 Summer Olympics, but had to decline and pass the honours to London.
		South Africa appears in the Olympic arena for the last time under the apartheid regime.
		It was the second time an athlete died in competition at the Olympics, after the death of Portuguese marathon runner Francisco Lazaro at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
	www.internshipasia.sferahost.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1960_summer_olympics.html (272 words)

	The Sport Journal: Volume 7, Number 1, Winter 2004: Sport in Turkey: the Post-Islamic Republican Period
		Despite the fact that the sports clubs were formed back to back, however, their actual organized athletics were not begun until after the declaration of the second Mesrutiyet (adoption of constitution) in 1908, which granted more personal freedoms to citizens.
		Athletic clubs and associations sprung up all over campuses with a subsequent increase in journalistic coverage of sports, fired by readers interest at a time when sports events made even headlines news.
		The establishment of numerous athletic clubs, the formation of sport leagues such as 'Cuma Ligi', and the development of voluntary sport associations like the United Sports Clubs Association were all efforts of these far-sighted men.
	www.thesportjournal.org /2004Journal/Vol7-No1/yurdadon.asp (5956 words)

	Athletics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Women's events first appeared at the Olympic Games in 1928 and consisted of only 5 track events, plus discus and high jump.
		British women athletes won 12 Silver medals before the first Gold was won by Mary Rand in Tokyo (1964) in the long jump and Ann Packer who won the 800m at the same Games.
		Tessa Sanderson was the first British woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal in a throwing event - she won the javelin at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
	www.olympics.org.uk /sports/summer/athletics.asp (579 words)

	Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		AP reports mentioned that this is the sixth horse to die in Olympic competition, two in 1960 in Rome, two in 1968 in Mexico City and one in Sydney.
		The Olympic gold was the latest in a string of successes for the Chinese star, bound to become an even bigger hero in China, as the gold is China's first ever in Olympic athletics competition.
		The NOC of Rhodesia is suspended for non-compliance with the Olympic Charter.
	www.internationalgames.net /olympic.htm (8101 words)

	1960 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Rome had been awarded the organisation of the 1908 Summer Olympics, but had to decline and pass thehonours to London.
		They would not be allowed to return until 1992, after the abandonment of apartheid and during the transition to a fl-majority government.
		It was thesecond time an athlete died in competition at the Olympics, after the death of Portuguese marathon runner Francisco Lazaro at the 1912 SummerOlympics.
	www.therfcc.org /1960-summer-olympics-67801.html (250 words)

	TSN : OLYMPICS - Canada's Sports Leader
		He won the bronze medal in the 86-kilogram class at the 1992 Games in Barcelona and silver in the 100-kilogram event at 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
		Previous Canadian Winter Olympic flag bearers and how they fared in their respective event at those Games.
		Previous Canadian Summer Olympic flag bearers and how they fared in their respective event at those Games.
	www.tsn.ca /olympics/feature/?fid=9771 (190 words)

	Summer Olympics. Team Canada Olympic Teams beijing 2008
		Of the four medals Canada earned in the Mexico Summer Olympic Games in 1968, three were won by one swimmer.
		Canada won 14 medals in the Sydney Summer Olympic Games in 2000 and 12 medals in the 2004 Athens summer Games, but had fewer athletes competing in 2004.
		The next summer olympics will be in 2008 in Beijing.
	www.canadianolympicteams.ca /summerolympics.htm (420 words)

	Summer Olympics: Judo
		Kano was a member of the International Olympic Committee and an associate of Baron Peirre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic movement.
		Men's judo was not added to the Olympic Games until 1964 and women's judo became an Olympic event in 1992.
		In the Olympics there are seven weight categories for men and seven weight categories for women.
	www2.lhric.org /poCantico/olympics/judo.htm (199 words)

	1964 olympics
		The first successful meet was held in London in 1908; since then the olympics have been held in cities throughout the globe.
		As a visible focus of world energies, the Olympics have been prey to many factors that thwarted their ideals of international cooperation and athletic excellence.
		The International Olympic Committee (IOC), which sets and enforces Olympic policy, has struggled with the licensing and commercialization of the games, the need to schedule events to accommodate American television networks (whose broadcasting fees help underwrite the games), and the monitoring of entrants who seek illegal competitive advantages, often through the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
	www.olympic-headquarters.net /1964-olympics.htm (860 words)

	azcentral.com sports \| Summer Olympics: Wariner leads 400 sweep while destroying stereotypes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		But on the track, Wottle's win in the 800 at the 1972 Munich Games is the only Olympic victory by a White American male since the 1964 Games in Tokyo when Mike Larrabee won the 400 and Robert Schul won the 5,000.
		With Johnson, the Olympic 400 champion in 1996 and 2000, watching from the stands, Wariner continued the Baylor legacy.
		In a race that was almost identical to the one run last month at the U.S. Olympic Trials, Wariner shot into the lead coming out of the last turn and held off Harris and Brew down the stretch.
	www.azcentral.com /sports/azetc/04olympics/0824oly4000824.html (925 words)

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