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	2000 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Olympic flag was flown at half-staff during the period as a sign of respect to Samaranch's wife.
		People in Canada that wanted to see the Olympics between then and the closing ceremonies had to turn to TSN because the CBC was broadcasing news coverage related to the passing and state funeral of the former prime minister.
		Organisation of the 2000 Summer Paralympics was the responsibility of the Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/2000_Summer_Olympics (1690 words)

	Austria at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Austria sent 101 athletes to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
		It was the 24th time the country had participated in the Summer Olympics, previous times being 1896, 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, and 2000.
		Austria entered one competitor in each of the men's and women's divisions of the individual kayak slalom event.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Austria_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics (351 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.
		This is remarkable, as the Olympics did not, for a long time, allow professional athletes to compete, with the sole exception of fencing.
		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)

	1984 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Los Angeles was selected on May 18 1978 on the 80th IOC session without voting, because it was the only city to bid to host the 1984 Summer Olympics.
		In the wake of the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, most of the Eastern Bloc, including the Soviet Union, East Germany and Cuba, boycotted these Olympics (the USSR announced its 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.
	sterlingheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1984_Summer_Olympics (488 words)

	1992 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Paralympic archer Antonio Rebollo lights the Olympic Flame by shooting an arrow into the cauldron.
		Five of the six golds were in individual events, tying Eric Heiden's record for individual gold medals at a single Olympics.
		Badminton and women's judo become part of the Olympic programme, while slalom canoeing returns to the Games after a 20-year absence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1992_Summer_Olympics (395 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.
		For the first time the Olympic Flame was brought to the Olympic Town by a torch relay, with the starting point in Olympia, Greece.
		In the quarter-finals of the football tournament, Peru beat Austria by 4 to 2 in over-time, but a replay was ordered as Peruvian fans stormed the pitch during the match.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/1936_Summer_Olympics (468 words)

	1980 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The yachting events were held in Tallinn; preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament were held, besides Moscow, at the stadiums of Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk.
		Although approximately a half of the countries, which boycotted 1976 Summer Olympics, participated in these ones, the Games were disrupted by another, even larger, boycott led by the United States in a protest to the 1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
		In response to the U.S.-boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, NBC, which was slated to provide coverage of the games, canceled its coverage, but the network did air highlights and recaps of the games on a regular basis.
	sterlingheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1980_Summer_Olympics (427 words)

	Olympic Games Summer and Winter locations and history of the games
		The Olympic Games took their name from the Greek city of Olympia and though there were important athletic competitions held in other Greek cities in ancient times, the Olympic Games were regarded as the most prestigious.
		Participation in the Olympic Games was originally limited to free born Greeks, but as Greek civilization was spread by the conquests of Alexander the Great, the Games drew entrants from as far away as Antioch, Sidon and Alexandria.
		The organizers had planned the first modern Olympics for 1900 in Paris, but later decided to move the date forward to 1896 and to change the venue to Athens, though the local government of the Greek capital was initially hostile to the idea.
	worldatlas.com /aatlas/infopage/olympic.htm (1007 words)

	Articles - 1896 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.
		Other elements, such as the parade of nations, the lighting of the Olympic Flame and the Olympic Oath were initiated later.
		Austria - Austria was part of Austria-Hungary at the time, though the results of Austrian athletes are typically reported separately.
	www.outship.com /articles/1896_Summer_Olympics (3130 words)

	1976 Summer Olympics - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.grohol.com /psypsych/1976_Summer_Olympics (1091 words)

	1964 summer olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Olympic Oath - Quick Summary not found for this subject1964 Summer Olympics, Takashi Ono, -.
		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 (884 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 (1136 words)

	2000 Summer Olympics Information - TextSheet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Although the country-to-be had no National Olympic Committee yet, they were allowed to compete under the Olympic Flag.
		Former Australian Olympic champions brought the torch through the stadium, handing it over to Cathy Freeman, who lit the flame in the cauldron.
		The first medals of the Games were awarded in the women's air rifle shooting event, which was won by Nancy Johnson of the United States.
	www.jaxx.sferahost.com /encyclopedia/2/20/2000_summer_olympics.html (695 words)

	1924 Summer Olympics Information - TextSheet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The marathon distance was fixed at 42 km and 195 m, from the distance run at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.
		The Olympic motto "Citius, Altius, Fortius" (Faster, Higher, Stronger), was used for the first time.
		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.
	station811.sferahost.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1924_summer_olympics.html (276 words)

	1904 Summer Olympics Information - TextSheet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.
		Louis as part of the Boer War exhibit at the World?s Fair, became the first Africans to compete in the Olympics.
	thegamedunge.sferahost.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1904_summer_olympics.html (214 words)

	ESPN.com: OLY - New York City gets U.S. nod for 2012 Summer Games
		The International Olympic Committee will choose the 2012 site in three years, pitting New York against such possible rivals as Paris, Moscow, Toronto, Budapest, Rome, Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid or Seville in Spain, and a city in Germany, perhaps Berlin.
		However, there were three consecutive Olympics in Europe in the 1990s -- Albertville, France, in the winter, Barcelona in the summer of 1992, and Lillehammer, Norway, in the winter of 1994.
		Comedian Robin Williams appeared in a videotape as a weatherman, touting the Bay Area's perfect weather compared with the heat and humidity of a New York summer.
	espn.go.com /oly/news/2002/1102/1454873.html (1058 words)

	History of the Modern Summer and Winter Olympics from Fanbay.net
		The Summer and Winter Olympics of 1932 were both held in the United States, in Los Angeles, CA and Lake Placid, NY, respectively.
		The Olympic facilities were as impressive as the cutting edge facilities that brought the Summer Olympics to a new level in Munich (1972).
		The Winter Olympics of 2002 were overshadowed by the terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001.
	www.fanbay.net /olympics/modern_history.htm (2739 words)

	Articles - Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This is situated in the city of MarkÃ³poulo, in the east of the Attica region in Greece.
		In the last Olympic competition in running target before it was taken off the program, Manfred Kurzer set a new World record with 590 in the qualification round and though he did not perform a perfect final, he was never threatened.
		Ralf Schumann has dominated this event since the late 1980s, and won the Olympic gold medals in 1992 and 1996, but failed to achieve his historic third gold in Sydney.
	www.sidepoint.com /articles/Shooting_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics (665 words)

	azcentral.com sports \| Summer Olympics: S. Korean archer strikes gold with her final arrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Vezzali won her fourth Olympic fencing gold, equaling the most won by a woman.
		The silver was Trillini's seventh Olympic medal, tying her for tops among women's fencers.
		Rhode won the 1996 gold when double trap was introduced at the Atlanta Olympics, and she now owns the 2004 medal in the event, which is being eliminated.
	www.azcentral.com /sports/azetc/04olympics/0819olycaps0819.html (959 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics Information - TextSheet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.
		A long-distance running event, the marathon, had been conceived by Frenchman Bréal.
		The second runner to arrive is also from Greece: Kharilaos Vasilakos, the winner of the very first marathon race ever, the Greek selection race for the Olympics.
	www.medbuster.com /encyclopedia/1/18/1896_summer_olympics.html (911 words)

	Detroit Free Press \| Summer Olympics 2000
		The U.S. Olympic swimming team, still feeling the sting of its opening-night loss to the Aussies in the 4x100-meter men's freestyle relay, got even with the host country in a big-time way Sunday night at the Sydney Aquatic Center.
		With the whole Olympic tournament in front of her, Sheryl Swoopes has more important things to deal with than to make some big announcement about her future in basketball.
		But there's a slew of new events in sports that were already on the Olympic agenda, such as trampoline in gymnastics and women's hammer throw and women's pole vault in track.
	www.freep.com /index/olympics2000.htm (8350 words)

	1900 Summer Olympics Information - TextSheet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Games of the II Olympiad were held in 1900 in Paris, France.
		For his victory in long jump, he was allegedly punched in the face by his rival Meyer Prinstein, 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.
	jaded.sferahost.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1900_summer_olympics.html (174 words)

	LOGOs & MASCOTs
		Executives of the Japanese Olympic committee and national sports federations on 13th August 1997 by 29-17 in a secret ballot chose Osaka to become the country's candidate to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
		The U.S. Olympic Committee on 27th August 2002 selected New York and San Francisco as the U.S. finalists to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, while Houston and Washington, D.C., were eliminated as contenders.
		The Austrian Olympic committee on 2nd December 1997 chose Klagenfurt, capital of the Carinthia region (joint bid with Italy and Slovenia), to become the country's candidate to host the 2006 Olympic Winter Games.
	www.aldaver.com (2459 words)

	All-Time Medal Standings, 1896-2000
		Athletes from the USSR participated in the Summer Games from 1952-88, returned as the Unified Team in 1992 after the breakup of the Soviet Union (in 1991) and have competed as independent republics since the 1994 Winter Games.
		Yugoslavia was not invited to the 1992 games (though Serbian and Montenegrin athletes were allowed to compete as independent athletes) but returned in 1996 and competed under the name Serbia and Montenegro starting in 2004.
		South Africa was banned from 1964-88 for using the apartheid policy in the selection of its teams.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0115108.html (205 words)

	Sites of the Summer and Winter Olympics - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		In reviving the Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin fought all attempts to permanently locate the Games in any one place.
		When the Winter Olympics joined the Summer Olympics, organizers attempted to have both the Summer and Winter Games in the same calendar year and in the same region, if not the same nation.
		Starting in 1994, the Summer Games and Winter Games alternated every two years, rather than both being in the same year.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,25000018,00.html (121 words)

	Articles - Judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall and featured 368 players competing for 14 gold medals with seven different weight categories in both the men's and women's competitions.
		Gold and silver medals in each weight class were determined by a single-elimination bracket.
		Until this stage, the repechage has been segregated into two distinct halves, with each successive competitor facing another one from the same half of the original bracket; but each of the two judokas who emerge from the repechage challenged the loser of the other bracket's semifinal.
	oldion.com /articles/Judo_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics (267 words)

	Price List for Olympics - Winter or Summer - Olympic Related (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There are additional S/S in both the Olympics and Soccer sets.
		Olympic Overprint in English and Russian on "18A" (the Imperf Sheet).
		Although Scott has listed 3 stamps in the Olympic Issue above, there are actually 4 stamps in the set.
	www.worldstamps.com /pricelist.php?topic=78 (366 words)

	TSN.ca - Olympics - Canada's Sports Leader
		Alanna Kraus and Eric Bedard assured their nominations to Turin with victories in 500-metre races at the Canadian short-track speed skating trials Saturday night.
		Mathieu Turcotte and Amanda Overland earned spots on the Olympic team at the Canadian short track speed skating trials.
		The Brazilian runner who was grabbed by a spectator while leading the Olympic marathon lost his bid Thursday to be awarded a duplicate gold medal.
	www.tsn.ca /olympics (238 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Results -- Day 4
		Results Tuesday from the swimming event at the Summer Olympics (Q-qualified for next round):
		200m Individual Medley Final 1, Yana Klochkova, Ukraine, 2:10.68 (Olympic record.
		Old record, Li Lin, China, 2:11.65, July 30, 1992).
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/results/swimming4.html (703 words)

	Articles - Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Articles - Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics
		Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Olympic Aquatic Centre with the athletes competing in 32 events.
		Medal Summary - 32 events out of 32 completed
	www.sidepoint.com /articles/Swimming_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics (68 words)

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