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	Baseball - BaseballWiki - a Wikia wiki
		Baseball on both the professional and amateur levels is popular in North America, Central America, parts of South America, parts of the Caribbean, and East Asia.
		Baseball is played between two teams of nine players each on a baseball field, under the authority of one or more officials, called umpires.
		Baseball's history is full of heroes and goats—men who in the heat of the moment (the "clutch") distinguished themselves with a timely hit or catch, or an untimely strikeout or error.
	baseball.wikia.com /wiki/Baseball (10552 words)

	Olympics - BR Bullpen
		Baseball and softball were voted out of the 2012 Olympics in London, however both remain eligible to be re-added for the 2016 Olympics.
		Baseball was first appeared as part of the Olympics in 1912 in Stockholm, Sweden.
		The 2008 Olympics are to be held in Beijing, China.
	www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Olympics (380 words)

	1956 Summer Olympics - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were held in 1956 in Melbourne, Australia, although the equestrian events could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations.
		Inspired by Australian teenager John Wing, an Olympic tradition began 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 Olympic Flame was lit at the stadium by Ron Clarke.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/1956_Summer_Olympics (1809 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.
		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)

	Olympics
		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.
		Comaneci had done what no other Olympic gymnast had ever done: scored a perfect "10" - the board had been built to accommodate a high core of 9.9 (soon after, competitions around the world had to replace or remodel their scoring systems to include a perfect 10).
		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)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS
		Baseball is a sport which was primarily developed in the United States in the early 19th century.
		American baseball was contested in the Olympics as a demonstration sport in 1912, 1936, 1956, 1964, 1984 and 1988.
		American baseball became a full medal sport in Barcelona in 1992, while the similar sport of softball was added to the Olympic programme in 1996.
	www.olympic.org /uk/sports/programme/history_uk.asp?DiscCode=BB&sportCode=BB (264 words)

	Chad - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Chad
		Following a Franco-African summit in 1984, a ceasefire was agreed, with latitude 16°N dividing the opposing forces.
		By December 1984 all French troops had left, but Libya's withdrawal was doubtful.
		Habré dissolved the military arm of Frolinat in 1984 and formed a new party, the National Union for Independence and Revolution (UNIR), but opposition to his regime grew.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Chad (967 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)

	Baseball America: Baseball Eliminated From Olympics After 2008
		The International Olympic Committee, following the lead of its president, had secret-ballot voting on all 28 sports on the Olympic program Thursday, and baseball and softball were the only two that failed to receive the majority of votes needed to stay in the Games.
		Baseball is far from the only sport, though, that does not have its top professionals in the Olympics, with soccer being the most obvious example.
		The World Baseball Classic will be a World Cup-style tournament with 16 nations likely using their best players, and because it will be in the spring and has MLB’s backing, major league players should be on most rosters.
	www.baseballamerica.com /today/news/050708olympics.html (855 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)

	Baseball to return for 2008 Beijing Olympics
		All 28 federations whose sports currently make up the Olympic program will be represented at the 2008 Summer Olympics, provided they sign an agreement with the World Anti-Doping Agency, IOC President Jacques Rogge said.
		The International Baseball Federation unanimously adopted the World Anti-Doping Code in October 2003, and the IBAF's anti-doping rules implementing provisions of the code took effect May 1.
		Baseball has been recognized as a medal sport since 1992 after being held as a demonstration event in both the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics.
	www.canoe.ca /BaseballCanadaNews04/0517.html (214 words)

	ESPN.com - Without U.S., Olympic baseball in trouble
		For the first time since the sport became part of the Olympics in 1984, the U.S. will not be represented in baseball at the Games.
		Last weekend's loss is the most embarrassing moment for U.S. baseball since Roseanne mangled the "Star-Spangled Banner." Far worse, it also might spell the end of baseball in the Olympics.
		I don't know why the International Olympic Committee cares about baseball ratings when it obviously doesn't care about ratings for synchronized swimming, rhythmic gymnastics or race-walking, but the important thing is that it does.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1659191&type=story (1736 words)

	1988 Summer Olympics
		South Korea's government became a democracy under the pressure of organising the Olympics.
		After boycotts of the Olympics in 1976, 1980 and 1984, the Games were again boycotted, but only by four nations: North Korea, Cuba, Ethiopia and Nicaragua.
		Table tennis is introduced at the Olympics, with China and the host nation both winning two titles.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1988_summer_olympics.shtml (329 words)

	Baseball and softball chased by the IOC - Roanoke.com
		The two sports were kicked out of the Olympics, unwanted by international sports officials who felt they were too American for the world sports stage.
		Baseball was a demonstration sport at the 1984 Los Angeles Games and 1988 Seoul Games and became a medal sport in 1992 at Barcelona, where Cuba won the gold.
		Major league baseball and the players' association plan to start their own 16-nation tournament, the World Baseball Classic, next March and have a launch announcement scheduled for Monday in suburban Detroit.
	www.roanoke.com /sports/baseball/wb/xp-27126 (829 words)

	Boston.com / Sports / US baseball is stunned, fails to make Olympics
		In perhaps the biggest upset in international baseball history, the US was kept out of next summer's Olympics by winless Mexico yesterday afternoon, losing, 2-1, on a ninth-inning home run in the quarterfinals of the regional qualifying tournament in Panama City.
		The defeat was a humiliating blow for the US, which had never failed to qualify for the Games since baseball was added as a demonstration sport in 1984 at Los Angeles and which had won medals at the last two tournaments.
		The defeat was also a brushback for Major League Baseball, which was hoping to showcase the US team (and stars like Yankee pitcher Roger Clemens) in Athens as part of its campaign to broaden the game's international appeal.
	www.boston.com /sports/articles/2003/11/08/us_baseball_is_stunned_fails_to_make_olympics (592 words)

	1800-Olympics.com -- Summer Olympics: Olympic Sports: Baseball
		However, the Americans don't always have the upper hand in the world of baseball stats: Baseball's all-time home-run champion, Sadaharu Oh, hit 868 during a renowned career in baseball-mad Japan; and the national team of Cuba subdued the Baltimore Orioles 12-6, in a 1999 exhibition match.
		Baseball is played between two teams taking turns at batting and fielding, with the object being to score the most runs in nine innings.
		The Olympic sport of baseball is only open to men, women compete in softball.
	1800-olympics.com /SummerOlympics/OlympicSports/Baseball.htm (651 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Shooting Fan Guide
		Individual events for women debuted in 1984 at Los Angeles.
		Events: The 2000 Olympics will feature 17 medal events: men's and women's air pistol, men's free pistol, men's rapid-fire pistol, women's sport pistol, men's small-bore free rifle prone, men's and women's three-position, men's and women's air rifle, men's running target, men's and women's trap, men's and women's skeet and men's and women's double trap.
		Olympic debut: Two events have been added for women: skeet and trap.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/shooting/s/viewers.html (238 words)

	The Official Site of Major League Baseball: News: Major League Baseball News
		Baseball was ousted by a 54-50 vote, but baseball officials are hoping to push for another vote in February when the Winter Olympics are scheduled for Turin, Italy.
		Baseball is the national sport in 14 different countries and everyone wants a chance to continue to participate in the Olympics.
		The Chinese, who earn an automatic berth in the eight-team Olympic tournament because they are the host country, used that as the impetus to develop a professional league and national team for the first time since baseball was banned during the cultural revolution of the 1960s.
	mlb.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20051025&content_id=1259194&vkey=ps2005news&fext=.jsp (924 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.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1984_summer_olympics.shtml (289 words)

	1976 Summer Olympics - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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.tvwiki.tv /wiki/1976_Summer_Olympics (1212 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- New meaning for moneyball
		As soon as the torch is extinguished in Beijing, baseball and softball will become the first full-fledged sports to be dropped from the Summer Olympics program since polo in 1936, not to be given a chance at re-entry until 2016 at the soonest.
		Baseball's growth internationally was spurred by the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the first time a tournament format was used in the Games.
		Baseball's history on foreign soil is far steeper than basketball's, dating back to barnstorming tours of Japan that starred Babe Ruth, but the NBA began sending its franchises abroad to play games against China's national team as far back as '79.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/baseball/20060318-9999-lz1x18moneyba.html (2702 words)

	Lasorda has blues over baseball's Olympics ouster
		British delegates hinted one reason baseball was dropped was because the IOC demands the highest-caliber athletes in each sport and that could never happen as long as Major League Baseball refused to let its players abandon their regular season to compete.
		Baseball was played as a demonstration sport at the 1984 and '88 Games, then added to medal competition in 1992.
		Baseball made its debut in the Olympics at the 1912 Games in Stockholm, where it was an exhibition sport.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/sports/articles/0710bbinscolumn0710.html (1240 words)

	Baseball America - Alan Schwarz: Rocket would like to suit up in red, white and blue
		But it's hard to imagine that a pitcher with his prestige and talent-he had an 11-7, 3.68 record for the Yankees and was leading the American League with 154 strikeouts-would not make the team, even after a half-season away from the majors.
		As it was in 2000 when the United States beat Cuba to win the gold medal in Sydney, Team USA will be composed of mostly 40-man roster players on option to the minors or others not on 40-mans.
		In 1991, he was the only major leaguer, when asked by Baseball America if he would leave his team in midseason to play in an Olympics, who said that he would; several years later, he suggested that he might want to play for the 2000 Olympic team and then retire.
	www.baseballamerica.com /today/columnists/030818schwarz.html (789 words)

	1800-Olympics.com -- Summer Olympics: Olympic Sports: Athletics
		Olympic events run on the road are the marathons (men's and women's), the men's 20km and 50km race walks and the women's 10km race walk.
		was born on the island of Guadeloupe and represented France at the Olympics.
		The German was 16 when she won her first gold in Munich 1972 and returned 12 years later to pick up her second gold medal in Los Angeles.
	1800-olympics.com /SummerOlympics/OlympicSports/Athletics.htm (953 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)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1984 Los Angeles
		Like its predecessor in 1980, the 1984 Olympics may be remembered more for who didn't show up than for who did.
		Los Angeles was the only city to bid for the Olympics, and for the first time since 1896, no government funding was needed.
		Canada did have one of its strongest teams in history, but the absence of the Eastern Bloc countries no doubt inflated its medal haul, although the Canadian world-record performances in the swimming pool, in particular, suggest that this was indeed a team that could take on the world.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1984.html (1592 words)

	The History of the Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		They were held in the same year as the summer Olympics until 1994, when they began to be held on separate 4-year cycles that were staggered by two years.
		Small, local festivals were being called “Olympics” as early as the 17th century in places like England and France, but the discovery of the ruins of Olympia in the 19th century sparked interest in the games once again on an international scale.
		The Olympic relay, another well-known symbol of the games, in which the torch is lit in Olympia and run to the host city, was introduced in 1936.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~leannajf/olympics.html (1072 words)

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