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	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.
		The 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, reflected a changed political landscape: the 172 participating nations and territories included the Unified Team (with athletes from 12 former Soviet republics), a reunited Germany, and South Africa, which was allowed to compete for the first time since 1960.
		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)

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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)

	Athens Olympics 2004
		Fittingly for an Olympic Games that was, more than most, about beginnings and endings, the honour of carrying the Australian flag and leading the team at the closing ceremony was given to veteran swimmer Petria Thomas.
		As is the fate of many Olympic athletes, the members of the men's hockey team who won perhaps the most thrilling of Australia's 17 gold medals will return to relative obscurity once the celebrations have died down.
		Olympic historian Harry Gordon speaks to Roy Masters about his impression of how the Games will be remembered.
	www.smh.com.au /olympics (464 words)

	2000 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The cover for the DVD of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics showing fireworks in the background and the lighting of the Olympic Flame by Cathy Freeman (who subsequently won the 400 m title).
		Therefore, former Australian Olympic Champion swimmer, Dawn Fraser, was seated in the chair next to Juan Antonio Samaranch during the Australian cultural display part of the opening ceremony, so that he would not be alone for the ceremony.
		During the raising of the Olympics Flag, the Olympic Hymn was sung by the Millennium Choir of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2000_Summer_Olympics (2341 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)

	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)

	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)

	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 (1311 words)

	Denyse Julien and Charmaine Reid Ruled off the team for the Summer Olympics
		Following a conference call involving Badminton Canada, the COA, the players and their lawyers Thursday, adjudicator Richard McLaren of London, Ont., ruled the two had not met COA standards.
		Badminton Canada spent $250,000 sending athletes around the world in the last year.
		Canada's badminton contingent for Sydney now consists of: Robbyn Hermitage of Kitchener, Ont., and Milaine Cloutier of Granby, Que., in women's doubles; Mike Beres of Mount Pleasant, Ont., and Kara Solmundson of Winnipeg in mixed doubles; and Brent Olynyk of Vancouver and Bryan Moody of Pointe-Claire, Que., in men's doubles.
	www.caaws.ca /olympics/2000/badminton/badmin_july14.htm (400 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Sports, disciplines and events all part of Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Some sports aren't quite what they may seem — "football" is the international name used in the Olympics for soccer, "hockey" is actually field hockey and "team handball" is considerably different from the court-version cousin to racquetball.
		For example, the Olympic sport of aquatics is comprised of four separate disciplines: diving, swimming, synchronized swimming and water polo.
		The other 12 events are not gender-specific competitions, such as the badminton mixed doubles, the six equestrian events and five "open" sailing races.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,195009761,00.html (447 words)

	BadmintonPlanet.com - Badminton News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		NEW YORK - Champion triathlete Siri Lindley was being interviewed by NBC Olympics honcho David Neal for an announcing job recently when she casually mentioned coaching field hockey at Princeton a decade ago.
		But 51 of the announcers will be working at the Summer Olympics for the first time.
		The three-time Olympic gold medal winner still competes in beach volleyball, and his NBC audition came last summer during a tournament in which he participated.
	www.badmintonplanet.com /cgi-bin/news/0604/2210604.html (758 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Badminton Fan Guide
		Badminton became a full competition sport at Barcelona in 1992.
		Asian countries won 14 of the 15 medals four years ago.
		Hidden inside is a small metal screw that may be adjusted for weight and altitude considerations.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/badminton/s/viewers.html (213 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Marion Jones completed what probably was the most one-sided sweep of the sprints in Olympic history with her runaway victory in the 200 meters.
		Marie-Jose Perec, a three-time Olympic champion sprinter so reclusive she's been dubbed the "Greta Garbo of athletics," was ruled out of the Sydney Games after fleeing Australia the eve before she was to compete.
		U.S. sprinter Inger Miller reiterated Wednesday she had canceled her appearance in the Olympic 100-meter sprint in an effort to keep up her Olympic dream in the 200-meter, where she is the reigning world champion.
	www.active.com /special_events/olympics_2000/track_field.cfm (1379 words)

	The New York Times > Sports > Olympics > Badminton
		The Atlanta Olympics in 1996 not only raised the sport's profile in the United States, but also internationally, as corporations scrambled to tap into markets in Asia, where the sport is wildly popular.
		For the women, Camilla Martin of Denmark, who won silver in Sydney and is one of only two non-Asian women to earn an Olympic medal in the sport, is in line to add to her medal count.
		Badminton appeared in the United States as a New York society game in the 70's.
	www.nytimes.com /top/news/sports/olympics2004/badminton/index.html (408 words)

	The Beaufort Gazette: Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Trevor Graham, a track and field coach of Olympic athletes, was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury for his role in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) steroid distribution case.
		Bob Mathias, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, competing in the sport of decathlon at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Games, passed away Saturday at his home in Fresno, Calif. He was 75.
		DENVER (AP) - The latest spice to the rivalry between Northern and Southern California is a scramble for the Summer Olympics.
	www.beaufortgazette.com /24hour/olympics (904 words)

	The New York Times > Sports > Olympics > Diving
		Platform diving was added to the Olympic program in 1904 and springboard diving in 1908.
		In 2000, synchronized diving was added, with men and women competing off the springboard and platform.
		The United States team is not as strong as it was in the 1980's, when Greg Louganis led the way, and had only one gold medalist in Sydney, Australia, in 2000, when Laura Wilkinson was the surprise champion in the 10-meter platform.
	www.nytimes.com /top/news/sports/olympics2004/diving/index.html (480 words)

	The Summer Olympics — FactMonster.com
		—The 1940 Summer Games are originally scheduled for Tokyo, but Japan resigns as host after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937.
		Olympics 2004: Summer Olympics Biographies, A-Z - Biographies of notable summer athletes
		Modern Olympic Games - Modern Olympic Games The original Olympic Games were celebrated as a religious festival from 776...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0114337.html (417 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Index
		The U.S. boxing team, which arrived in Sydney hoping to reverse its recent Olympic fortunes, wound up without a single gold medal for the first time since London in 1948.
		Armenian lifter Ashot Danielyan was stripped of his bronze medal after a positive test for the steroid nandrolone, becoming the fourth weightlifter to test positive in the Summer Games.
		The Sydney Olympics drew to a close after 17 days, and were donned the "best ever" by IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/index.html (426 words)

	Dr. Alice Christie's Olympics 2000 Page
		Five gardens in colours of five Olympic rings (yellow, blue, fl, red and green) were planted in Sydney, Australia in honor of the Olympics.
		In this online exhibit, you can compare ancient and modern Olympic sports, tour the site of Olympia as it looks today, learn about the context of the Games and the Olympic spirit, or read about the Olympic athletes who were famous in ancient times.
		Ancient Olympics @ University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
	www.west.asu.edu /achristie/DV/VM/olympics.html (445 words)

	Clement excited about assignment (phillyBurbs.com) \| Olympics
		Much of the world plays competitive badminton, but here in the states, it's viewed as more of a recreational sport such as darts or horseshoes.
		No American man or woman badminton player is ranked in the top 10 in the world in singles or doubles.
		He points out that more than a billion people around the world tuned in to watch badminton at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/48-08122004-346865.html (602 words)

	ESPN.com: Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		And despite losing in the final, Gao Ling was the big winner, picking up her third Olympic medal.
		America's hopes for its first badminton medal, the unseeded team of Kevin Han and Howard Bach, wound up in the bottom half of the draw Sunday.
		ESPN.COM'S 2000 SUMMER OLYMPICS: From the opening ceremonies to the final gold medal.
	sports.espn.go.com /oly/summer04/badminton/index (139 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		By all accounts, the Sydney Olympics were as organized, competitive and exciting as they've ever been.
		Going into the final lap of the Olympic road race, Lance Armstrong and George Hincapie thought they were poised for a run at the medals.
		U.S. Olympic triathlete Jennifer Gutierrez has been among the 100,000-plus spectators enjoying the track and field action at Stadium Australia in Sydney.
	www.active.com /special_events/olympics_2000/index.cfm (359 words)

	BadmintonPlanet.com - Badminton News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A baseball enthusiast would score it E-IOC, because the International Olympic Committee definitely dropped the ball last month when it voted to drop baseball and softball from the Summer Games' lineup.
		The IOC's decision to eliminate the sports from the 2012 London Games was a line drive to the gut for the USA National Baseball Team, which is playing exhibition games against the Nicaraguan National Team this week at Coastal Federal Field.
		The secret-ballot vote failed to give baseball and softball a majority nod, eliminating a summer sport for the first time since polo got the ol' heave-ho in 1936.
	www.badmintonplanet.com /cgi-bin/news/0805/0430805.html (647 words)

	Sports: 2000 Summer Olympics
		NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol believes the Olympics is one of the few times the family gathers together around the TV.
		So naturally, when mom, dad and the kids were sharing a bowl of popcorn around 8:30, and the dog was snoozing on the rug, the network gave them...
		Summer fling leaves medal hopes on thin ice
	www.sptimes.com /News/webspecials/olympics2000 (280 words)

	Badminton Canada's Guest Book - 2000 July (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I think the problem is that Badminton Canada named the team prematurely and without authority - in all sports COA names the team and in all sports there are always athletes who make their sport's standards but not the COA standard.
		Perhaps as a rather new sport in the Olympics, we don't quite get the selection process yet and that COA is in charge - check other countries as well and you will see that top badminton teams have been ruled ineligible by their Olympic Associations.
		Until badminton canada actually becomes a proper governing body for this sport and all the atheletes respect one another we are in big trouble.
	www.badminton.ca /guestbook/2000/0007.html (6161 words)

	Badminton Canada's Guest Book - 2000 June (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I have been away from the badminton scenary for a long time, but I still remember in the early 90's, badminton in Toronto is very affordable.
		Badminton is a great game the way it is! There is no need to change the game, none at all.
		I have every faith that badminton would still be the more physically demanding of the two, but the difference would certainly be less than the 1985 example.
	www.badminton.ca /guestbook/2000/0006.html (4478 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Drug cases at Sydney
		SYDNEY, Australia -- Known drug cases related to the Summer Olympics.
		Robin Lyons, Canada, hammer-throw: norandrosterone, a metabolite of nandrolone, at Canadian Olympic trials in August.
		World champion and husband of U.S. runner Marion Jones, he was not entered for Olympics, citing knee injury.
	poll.abc.go.com /oly/summer00/news/2000/0927/784449.html (541 words)

	SignOn San Diego Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics -- Ruiz leaves Olympics without medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		They became the first country to win five diving gold medals, adding five silvers just to drive home their complete dominance over the rest of the world.
		China's acrobatic army captured three of the four individual events, just as it had done at the last two Olympics.
		The medal count reached record numbers because the program was expanded from four to eight events this year.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/olympics/swimming/20000930-991119-oly-dejected.html (731 words)

	USATODAY.com - Bach, Gunawan put U.S. badminton on the map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gunawan, who teamed with Wijaya to win the doubles gold medal for Indonesia at the 2000 Olympics, and Bach have trained together for about three years at the Orange County Badminton Club in Orange, Calif.
		The 26-year-old, whose father dreamed of playing badminton for Vietnam in the Olympics, first began playing badminton at age 5 at a local YMCA.
		Also winning world championships were Olympic gold medalist Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia in men's singles, China's Xie Xingfang in women's singles and Indonesia's mixed-doubles pair of Nova Widianto and Lilyana Natsir.
	usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/2005-08-22-badminton-worlds_x.htm (814 words)

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