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		The badminton court is 17 by 44 feet for singles, 20 by 44 feet for doubles.
		The invention of Badminton originates back to at least two thousand years ago, where is was a combination of the games battledore and shuttlecock played in ancient Greece, India, and China.
		Badminton was staged as a demonstration sport at the 1972 Olympics and it was added to the Olympic program in 1992 with singles and doubles competition for men and women.
	www-msn.lycos.com /info/badminton.html (390 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		The winter Olympics were begun in 1924 and were held in the same year as the summer games until the 1994 winter games in Lillehammer, Norway, when the alternating cycles began.
		During the 1996 summer games in Atlanta, Ga., a bomb went off at Centennial Olympic Park, killing 2 (1 as a result of a heart attack) and injuring 111 others; the reason for the bombing remains a mystery.
		The Olympic games are competitions of individual athletes, not of nations, and the IOC does not keep national scores; however, the media of all nations report national standings according to one of two scoring systems.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/sports/olympics.html (1093 words)

	badminton - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about badminton
		The sport is named after Badminton House, the seat of the Duke of Beaufort, where the game was played in the 19th century.
		Badminton House, the seat of the Duke of Beaufort, is a mansion in the Palladian style; it has given its name to the game of badminton, and to the Badminton Library.
		An annual three-day equestrian event is held at Badminton, which is often attended by members of the British Royal Family.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /badminton (329 words)

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		The badminton court is 17 by 44 feet for singles, 20 by 44 feet for doubles.
		The invention of Badminton originates back to at least two thousand years ago, where is was a combination of the games battledore and shuttlecock played in ancient Greece, India, and China.
		Badminton was staged as a demonstration sport at the 1972 Olympics and it was added to the Olympic program in 1992 with singles and doubles competition for men and women.
	lycos.cs.cmu.edu /info/badminton.html (390 words)

	rediff.com: Sydney on course for bumper Olympics
		Australia stayed on course for a bumper Olympics on Tuesday with predictions of the biggest ever television audience and a tourist bonanza, but a sober reminder of darker times came from Israel.
		Olympics officials are hopeful that the 17-day summer sporting extravaganza will pass off peacefully after Aboriginal leaders seeking greater justice from white Australia called for protests to remain non-violent.
		China's Olympic team, which hopes for a haul of 20 gold medals despite being depleted by "suspicious" blood tests, arrived on Tuesday but immediately lost another potential winner when top gymnast Lu Yufu pulled out after hurting his neck in training.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2000/sep/13syd.htm (812 words)

	1996 Summer Olympics - tScholars.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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.
		More seriously, the Centennial Olympic Park bombing of July 27, 1996, killed spectator Alice Hawthorne and wounded 111 others, and elicited the death of Melih Uzunyol by heart attack.
		Examples of this are the mid-rise dormitories built for the Olympic village which became the first residential housing for Georgia State University and Turner Field which was a modification of the original Centennial Olympic Stadium.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/1996_Olympics (607 words)

	Olympics
		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.
		Olympic medals are awarded to those individuals or teams placing first, second, and third in each event.
	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.
		Badminton involves the striking of a shuttlecock with a racket.
		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.
	www.ict.mic.ul.ie /websites/2002/Eilis_Faherty/events.htm (1364 words)

	Official Website - UCLA Badminton Club
		The sport of badminton was forever changed when, in June 1985, the International Olympic Committee recognized the sport’s magnitude (the IBF has 129 member countries) and voted unanimously to promote badminton to full-medal Olympic status.
		Badminton’s worldwide popularity was proven during the 1992 Olympics, when an estimated 1.1 billion viewers around the globe watched the eight-day inaugural badminton competition on television.
		Badminton took its name from Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the home of the Duke of Beaufort, where the sport was played in the last century.
	www.studentgroups.ucla.edu /UCLABadminton/USHistory.htm (905 words)

	Summer Olympics
		Badminton is like tennis because players stand across a net from each other and hit something across the net with rackets.
		In badminton the net is lowered, and they use a shuttlecock instead of a tennis ball, and it is never to hit the ground, or the other team gets a point.
		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)

	1996 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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 Indurain winning the inaugural individual time trial event.
		Michelle Smith of Ireland wins three gold medals and a bronze in swimming, but her victories are overshadowed by doping allegations, which are later reinforced as she is banned after failing a test in 1998.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_1996_Olympic_Games (1109 words)

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		The summer games for the world's sporting young are done with for the next 4 years.
		For badminton, the age groups are 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, and 65-over 65.
		Badminton may have 3 divisions - one for national and international-class competitors, a second for state or provincial level athletes and a third for the local, social, and recreational player.
	www.worldbadminton.com /shuttlenws/960805.txt (318 words)

	1996 Summer Olympics Information
		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.
		Examples of this are the mid-rise dormitories built for the Olympic village which became the first residential housing for Georgia State University and Turner Field which was a modification of the original Centennial Olympic Stadium.
		Michelle Smith of Ireland wins three gold medals and a bronze in swimming, but her victories are overshadowed by doping allegations, which are later reinforced as she is banned after failing a test in 1998.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics (966 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 More marketing disaster than success
		Mascots have been intimately connected to the Olympics since 1968 in Grenoble, France, when Schuss, a skier with rings on his head, emerged as the unofficial mascot.
		Olympic mascots had a great run from 1976 to 1984 -- from Schneemann (the mascot of the 1976 winter games at Innsbruck), a snowman whose design was way ahead of his time, to Uncle Sam, a bald eagle that held an Olympic torch (used in the 1984 Summer Games at Los Angeles).
		In the years between Barcelona and the 1996 summer games, designers added some muscle to Izzy, took the stars out of his eyes and added a mouth.
	www.espn.go.com /oly/summer00/s/2000/0915/745509.html (1076 words)

	Sydney 2000: Badminton
		Badminton is familiar to most people as a lazy, backyard activity suitable for barbecues.
		The route to an Olympic medal involves a single-elimination tournament where the top eight players are seeded.
		Asian nations have ruled Olympic badminton, with Indonesia and China the strongest threats.
	www.npr.org /news/specials/olympics2000/badminton.html (596 words)

	Economic Impact of Hosting Olympic Games
		The total economic impact of the 1996 Summer Games therefore is the sum of the direct and indirect impacts and their respective induced impacts.
		The indirect economic impact of the 1996 Summer Olympics is that portion of spending by out-of-state visitors that purchases goods and services produced by Georgia's industries to satisfy the additional demand, as summarized in Table 1.
		As noted previously, impacts created by hosting the Olympics are not limited to direct and indirect spending, but also include the induced (multiplier) effects that are created through sucessive rounds of re-spending the initial dollars within the state.
	www.selig.uga.edu /forecast/olympics/OLYMTEXT.HTM (2662 words)

	1996 Summer Olympics
		Also during the games, the Centennial Olympic Park bombing took place on July 27, 1996 killing Alice Hawthorne and wounding 111 others, and causing the death of Melih Uzunyol by heart attack.
		Cycling professionals were admitted to the Olympics, with five-time Tour de France winner Miguel Indurain 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.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1996_summer_olympics.shtml (430 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)

	Badminton at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Badminton at the 1996 Summer Olympics included the four events held at the previous Games (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles) as well as a fifth event: mixed doubles.
		An additional change to the tournament was the playoff game for the bronze medal rather than the awarding of two bronzes.
		Gil's gold medal in this event completed her set of medals along with the bronze she had won in women's doubles in 1992 and the silver in women's doubles in 1996.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Badminton_at_the_1996_Summer_Olympics (1389 words)

	Summer Olympics: Cycling
		Cycling was part of the first modern Olympic games in 1896 in Athens, Greece.
		In the Olympics there are three different kinds of cycling.
		In the Olympics there are events for women and men in all the Cycling events.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/cycling.htm (250 words)

	The Olympics
		Throughout the thousands of years that the Greeks competed every four years in the Olympics, there was war only 75% of the time among the various city states, including the famous pelopponesian war (Kids: Go here for some great information about this fantastic war that changed the world!) of 845BC.
		It was not until the Olympics of 662AD that the athletes finally agreed to wear clothes, as the local shoe company finally agreed to pay rights fees in the amount of 16 drachma per athlete.
		Since the Olympics were first televised in 1824, there have been 4100 sports attempted and rejected, including horse racing along the beach, indoor mountaineering, synchronized golfing, shuffleboard, chess, rhythmic gymnastics, and pizza toss, the favorite sport of the Italians.
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	Summer Olympics – pictures of Summer Olympic athletes, officials, and events - List of Items - MSN Encarta
		Summer Olympics – pictures of Summer Olympic athletes, officials, and events - List of Items - MSN Encarta
		Badminton is a racket sport played with a shuttlecock, a cork ball fitted with stabilizing feathers.
		Badminton was first played as an Olympic medal...
	encarta.msn.com /refedlist_210066622_25/Olympic_Badminton_Match.html (53 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics at AllExperts
		Athens was chosen as the host city during the 106th IOC Session held in Lausanne in 05 September 1997,(date of the 25th anniversary of the Munich Massacre after surprisingly losing the bid to organize the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta nearly seven years before, on 18 September 1990, during the 96th IOC Session in Tokyo.
		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 Mayor of Athens, Dora Bakoyianni, passed the Olympic Flag to the Mayor of Beijing, Wang Qishan.
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/2004_Summer_Olympics.htm (1880 words)

	Summer Olympics: Volleyball
		In the Olympics there are two different kinds of volleyball, Volleyball and Beach Volleyball.
		Volleyball became an Olympic sport in 1964 and Beach Volleyball became an Olympic sport in 1996.
		In the Olympics both Volleyball and Beach Volleyball are played by men and women.
	www.pocanticohills.org /olympics/volleyball.htm (222 words)

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