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Topic: Baseball at the 2000 Summer Olympics

	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)

	ESPN.com: Olympics
		Greece won for the first time ever in Olympic baseball Saturday night, getting 14 hits from its Greek-American lineup to beat Italy 12-7 in a showdown between the two weakest teams in the eight-nation tournament.
		The Greek Olympic baseball team has sufficient financial backing to go to Greece after working out next month in the United States, an official of the Baltimore Orioles said Saturday.
		ESPN.COM'S 2000 SUMMER OLYMPICS: From the opening ceremonies to the final gold medal.
	sports.espn.go.com /oly/summer04/baseball/index (159 words)

	2000 Summer Olympics at AllExperts
		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).
		During the raising of the Olympics Flag, the Olympic Hymn was sung by the Millennium Choir of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia.
		Organisation of the 2000 Summer Paralympics was the responsibility of SPOC the Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee.
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/2000_summer_olympics.htm (2644 words)

	NBA.com: Summer Sanders
		Summer Sanders pursues and achieves excellence in all facets of her career, be it in front of the television camera or in the swimming pool.
		Summer also served as an on-site reporter for NBC at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and was also an on-air correspondent for NBC Sports at the Ford Gorge Games in Portland, Oregon in July 2002.
		Summer Sanders is the co-host of NBA Inside Stuff, a position she has held since December 1997.
	www.nba.com /inside_stuff/summer_bio.html (1039 words)

	Baseball, Softball Dropped From the 2012 Olympics
		Each of the 28 existing sports was put to a secret vote by the International Olympic Committee, and baseball and softball failed to receive a majority required to stay on the program.
		Baseball and softball are the first sports cut from the Olympics since water polo in 1936.
		Baseball has been vulnerable because it doesn't bring top major league players to the Olympics.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/08/AR2005070800014_pf.html (242 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 (916 words)

	Olympic Preview: Baseball
		In 2000, professional baseball players were permitted to play in the Olympics.
		Baseball was a "demonstration" sport seven times between 1912 and 1988.
		In the three previous Olympics where baseball was an official sport, the United States has come away with two medals, a bronze in Atlanta in 1996 and a gold in Sydney in 2000.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/ol-baseball.html (289 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)

	Apple Learning Interchange
		From Athens 1896 to Sydney 2000, the modern Summer Olympics have brought together countries from all over the globe to participate in the spirit of competition.
		Using these resources, together with the publicity surrounding the Olympic Games, you'll be ready for wonderful geography lessons related to not only to the Olympic cities, but also to the countries of the world that send teams or individual athletes to the competitions.
		From calculating distances and velocities in track and field to the statistics of baseball to charting medal winners, athletic competition is filled with opportunities for demonstrating the practical applications of mathematics.
	ali.apple.com /features/s_olympics.shtml (1852 words)

	USATODAY.com - Baseball aiming to get back into Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Baseball and softball are pushing for a new vote in a bid for reinstatement in February.
		The IOC is eager for gender equity in the Olympics.
		On another issue, the IOC is due to close the chapter on the protracted Young case by formally stripping the American runner of the gold medal from the 1,600 relay at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/2005-10-25-baseball-reinstatement_x.htm?POE=SPOISVA (1137 words)

	NewsHour Extra: Olympics 2000
		A $3.5 billion extravaganza called the summer Olympics is being held in Australia.
		The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens in April 1896, with 13 nations sending nearly 300 representatives to take part in 42 events and 10 different sports.
		Officials from the IOC and the U.S. Olympic Committee decided the display was counter to the ideals of the Games; both athletes were banned from the Olympic Village and sent home.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/extra/features/july-dec00/olympics.htm (990 words)

	2012 Summer Olympics at AllExperts
		The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad, will be held in London, United Kingdom from 27 July to 12 August 2012.
		London's bid featured 28 sports, in line with other recent Summer Olympics, but the IOC voted to drop baseball and softball from the 2012 Games two days after it selected London as the host city.
		Before the removal of baseball and softball the organisers planned to issue 8 million tickets for the Olympics and 1.6 million for the Paralympics.
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/2012_Summer_Olympics.htm (1923 words)

	RedOrbit - General - IOC Drops Baseball, Softball From Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Baseball and softball, which will remain on the program for the 2008 Beijing Games, are the first sports cut from the Olympics since polo in 1936.
		Baseball, which became a medal sport in 1992, has been vulnerable because it doesn't bring top Major League players to the Olympics.
		Aldo Notari, the Italian president of the international baseball federation, acknowledged that the absence of major leaguers in the Olympics was the crucial factor in the sport's exclusion.
	www.redorbit.com /news/display/?id=167971&source=r_general (998 words)

	UC's Got Game - 2004 Summer Olympics - University of California News Room
		Historically, participants with UC connections have performed well in these international competitions: in Athens, 35 medallists had UC ties – exceeding the number of UC medallists (34) from the 2000 summer games in Sydney.
		This summer, UC Berkeley will send a strong contingent of athletes and coaches to participate in the 2004 Olympic Games.
		Olympic experts at UC Davis, on topics including nutrition, biomechanics, injury prevention, sports psychology, orthopaedic surgery and cycling
	www.universityofcalifornia.edu /news/summerolympics2004.html (567 words)

	BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
		Solomon called the monitoring of a climate’s effects on baseballs, and in turn how the ball performs in games, “an emerging science.” But the eventual goal is to make sure that the baseball in all venues stays at Rawlings’ specifications, presumably with all teams storing them in a standard chamber.
		Posada will be entering his age-35 season this year (baseball ages are usually reckoned by the player’s age on July 1 of the season, so even though Posada has been 35 since last August 17, we consider him to have been 34 last year and 35 this year).
		Last years was good, but (for me-a college baseball nerd) not great because it missed some essential details of college baseball that would not have been hard to incorporate into the game.
	www.baseballthinkfactory.org /files/newsstand/newsblog (4322 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)

	Summer 2000 Olympics - More Coverage
		Less than 24 hours after winning gold in the women's 400 meters, Cathy Freeman was asked about her long-term future but preferred to focus only on her next race.
		The rush to capitalize on Olympic glory is a tricky one, agents say.
		New role, same Overbeck for U.S. Carla Overbeck is hurt and not playing for the U.S. women, but she's still an integral part of the team.
	www.espn.go.com /oly/summer00/more.html (263 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)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Baseball Fan Guide
		Professional players are eligible to take part for the first time in the Olympics, which could affect powerhouse Cuba.
		The Cubans won the first two Olympic gold medals in 1992 and 1996 and have taken every world championship since 1974.
		Olympic debut: Professional players will be allowed to participate for the first time in Olympic history.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/baseball/s/viewers.html (157 words)

	The Seattle Times: Olympics: Olympic Notes: Baseball, softball strike out
		Baseball and softball won't be played at the London summer Olympic Games in 2012 after the International Olympic Committee voted against holding a secret ballot for their readmission.
		A native of Waukesha, Wis., Witty also was in the Summer Olympics, competing in track cycling at the 2000 Sydney Games — becoming the ninth U.S. athlete to compete in both the Summer and Winter Games.
		She is expected to compete in the 500, 1,000 and 1,500 meters in Turin, and is one of the medal favorites in the 1,500.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/olympics/2002795840_olynote10.html?syndication=rss (638 words)

	CNN.com - Technology - Analysis: Internet media banned from the Olympics - August 15, 2000
		The Olympics return to Australia this year and Olympics organizers again are casting a suspicious eye on a new broadcast medium: the Internet.
		The Olympics may still be called the "People's Games," but over the years the IOC, one of the oldest and most powerful bureaucracies in all of sports, has turned the amateur sporting event into a multibillion-dollar business.
		Suddenly, the "Olympic Movement," a term coined in 1894 to describe the need for promoting the unifying nature of a global sports, became synonymous with the big business of staging the most commercialized event in the world.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/TECH/computing/08/15/olympic.ban.idg/index.html (2758 words)

	FOXNews.com - Baseball, Softball Nixed From 2012 Olympics - U.S. & World
		IOC president Jacques Rogge (search) said baseball and softball, two sports invented in America, would be eligible to win their way back into the Olympics for 2016.
		Baseball and softball, which will remain on the program for the 2008 Beijing Games, are the first sports eliminated from the Olympics since polo in 1936.
		Baseball, which became a medal sport in 1992, has been vulnerable because of steroids in the major leagues and the absence of major leaguers from the Olympics.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,161893,00.html (1238 words)

	Olympics Theme Unit
		Olympic ring border, list of words related to bobsledding and luge to use in poem.
		This reading comprehension is a biography of Olympic champion Kerri Strug and the story of her famous gold-medal win in gymnastics at the 1996 Olympics.
		When the Olympics are over, use the results from your chart to answer the questions.
	www.abcteach.com /directory/theme_units/sports/olympics (1216 words)

	USATODAY.com - Baseball, softball bumped from Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		SINGAPORE — Baseball and softball are out of the Olympics as of 2012, in a vote that surprised even longtime International Olympic Committee members.
		The popularity of baseball and softball are limited primarily to the Americas, Canada and Asia.
		Both sports were founded in the U.S. Baseball also suffers from its failure to reach an agreement with Major League Baseball that would send the top players to the Olympics.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/2005-07-08-baseball-softball-dropped_x.htm (1184 words)

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