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	1904 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1904 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the III Olympiad, were held in St.
		Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement, gave in.
		Considered the lesser of two evils by de Coubertin, St. Louis repeated the mistakes made at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1904_Summer_Olympics (1165 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)

	directopedia : Directory : Sports : Basketball
		Basketball is a sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points by throwing a ball through a hoop (the basket) under organized rules.
		Basketball is unique in that it was invented by one person, rather than evolving from a different sport.
		Basketball was first included in the Olympic Games in 1936, although a demonstration tournament was held back in 1904.
	www.directopedia.org /directory/Sports-Basketball.shtml (4267 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		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 main Olympic Stadium, the designated facility for the opening and closing ceremonies, was completed only two months before the games opened, with the sliding over of a futuristic glass roof designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
		The Mayor of Athens, Dora Bakoyianni, passed the Olympic Flag to the Mayor of Beijing, Wang Qishan.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/2/0/0/2004_Summer_Olympics_330c.html (2001 words)

	Anecdotage.com - Olympics anecdotes. Anecdotes From Yeats to Gates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Among the competitors in the single-scull rowing event at the 1928 Olympics was...
		Adolf Hitler staged the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin as a showcase for the sup...
		At the 2004 summer Olympics in Athens, Paula Radcliffe failed to finish both the...
	www.anecdotage.com /browse.php?term=Olympics (881 words)

	Basketball information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Basketball is a sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points on one other by shooting a ball through a hoop (the basket) under organized rules.
		Basketball eventually became a professional sport and is one of the few women's sports which developed in tandem with men's.
		Basketball was first included in the Olympic Games in 1936, although a demonstration tournament was held in 1904.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Basketball (4827 words)

	1976 Summer Olympics: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		In the bid to organise the Olympics, Montreal defeated Moscow and Los Angeles, which would organise the 1980 and 1984 Olympics.
		In a protest to a tour of South Africa by the New Zealand rugby team, Tanzania lead a boycott of 22 African nations as the IOC refused not to admit the New Zealand team.
		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.
	www.encyclopedian.com /19/1976-Summer-Olympics.html (369 words)

	Learn more about 1936 Summer Olympics in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		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.
		Basketball and handball made their debut at the Olympics, both as outdoor sports.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /1/19/1936_summer_olympics.html (481 words)

	Olympics Timeline: Ancient Greece - 1940s
		The Olympic flag is introduced, as is the Olympic oath.
		Basketball is admitted as an Olympic sport for the first time.
		The American Olympic Committee sends a hockey team, as does the American Hockey Association; the IOC bars either from being considered for a medal.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/olympicstimeline.html (1345 words)

	OLYMPICS: 100 Years Of Change
		Perhaps the most blatant of Olympic hypocrisies upheld over the past 100 years was the nonnegotiable rule that each athlete had to swear that he was an amateur before he could compete.
		The first women's athletics event in Olympic history, the discus throw, was won by the brawny Pole Halina Konopacka, who shattered her own world record by 45 cm and beat the runner-up by 2.53 m.
		During the fiercest decades of the cold war, Olympic amateurism was almost as volatile an issue in the East-West conflict as political ideology.
	www.time.com /time/international/1996/960527/olympics.history.html (6130 words)

	1984 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, were held in 1984 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
		In the wake of the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, 14 Eastern Bloc countries and allies including the Soviet Union, Cuba and East Germany (but not Romania), boycotted these Olympics.
		Olympic soccer was unexpectedly played before massive crowds throughout America, with several sell-outs at the 100,000+ seat Rose Bowl.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1984_Summer_Olympics (989 words)

	The Summer Olympics, an Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It is still disputed which events exactly were Olympic, since few or maybe even none of the events were advertised as such at the time.
		Numbers declined again for the 1904 Games in St. Louis, USA, due in part to the lengthy transatlantic boat trip required of the European competitors, and the integration with the Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's fair, which again spread the event out over an extended period.
		Of the six Olympic games between 1900 and 1920, there were six different distances for the marathon.
	www.juiceenewsdaily.com /0605/sports/olympics.html (2073 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS
		The Olympic champions were as follows: 1900: a combined Swedish/Danish team; 1904: an American club team representing the Milwaukee Athletic Club; 1906: Germany/Switzerland; 1908: a British team from the City of London Police Club; 1912: Sweden; and 1920: Great Britain.
		Rugby union football was held at the Olympics in 1900, 1908, 1920 and 1924.
		Polo was on the Olympic programme in 1900, 1908, 1920, 1924 and 1936.
	www.olympic.org /uk/sports/past/index_uk.asp (349 words)

	Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		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.
		The Olympic fire is then extinguished, and the Olympic flag is lowered, folded, and presented to the mayor of the host city of the next Olympic Games.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /olympics/Olympics.htm (1089 words)

	Welcome to myfoodcount.com - Measure Your Health - Living Library - Summer Olympics
		The Summer Olympic Games or the Games of the Olympiad are an international multi-sport event held every four years, organized by the International Olympic Committee.
		Olympic victory is widely considered to be the most prestigious achievement in sports.
		Olympic achievements are highlighted at the back of the book, bringing to life the great rivalries and honoring those competitors who battled adversity to shine on the world"s stage.
	www.myfoodcount.com /healthylife/livinglibrary/oly-summer.html (1247 words)

	The History of the Olympic Games
		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 next two games in 1900 in Paris and 1904 in St. Louis were not as successful, however, due largely to the fact that they were included in the celebration of the World’s Fair in the same year as well as the lack of large-scale international representation.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~leannajf/olympics.html (1072 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Americans still humble about medal hopes
		As in previous Olympics, the U.S. cyclists watched a steady parade of Europeans march to the podium in Sydney.
		Armstrong, riding in his third Olympics, finally got the medal that had eluded him.
		Perhaps U.S. Cycling will have Witty again after she competes in the Salt Lake Olympics, and team leaders are optimistic about many younger riders.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/news/2000/1001/796013.html (678 words)

	Posts tagged with olympics \| MetaFilter
		The Israeli Response to the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre and the Development of Independent Covert Action Teams is a very interesting 1995 military paper for background and analysis of the Israeli response to the slaughter of Jewish Olympians in 1972.
		Smith and Carlos were (in)famous for their raised fist protest on the medal podium at the 1968 Olympics, for which they paid a heavy price.
		The current silver medallist, Larissa Lazutina, who later tested positive for darbopoetin after the 30-km classic and was stripped of her gold medal in that event, also tested positive for darbopoetin in a test administered in December 2001, which would nullify all of Lazutina's results since then.
	www.metafilter.com /tags/olympics (1464 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)

	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)

	Wikinfo \| 1980 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Moscow won the bid to organise the Games by defeating Los Angeles, which would host the next Olympics.
		Women's field hockey is Olympic for the first time, but all major nations boycott the tournament.
		The team of Zimbabwe is invited just a week before the start of the Games, but it wins the nation's first gold medal.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1980_Summer_Olympics (332 words)

	Olympic
		Olympic hopeful Mary Saxer of Lancaster set an American junior pole vault record at the Nike Indoor National Championships in Landover, Md. Sunday 3-13-5.
		Steve Mesler, an Olympic hopeful in the four man bobsled, and his team mates finished 5th at the world championships in Calgary, Alberta.
		Olympic silver medalist Travis Mayer no longer has the yellow bib worn by the points leader in Moguls skiing.
	members.tripod.com /~laxman36/olympics.html (2417 words)

	Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		After basketball entered the Olympic Games for 36 years, it was a sport for men.
		Olympic racing is now conducted with boats categorised into one-design classes based on similar weights and dimensions.
		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)

	2004 Olympics - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		The U.S. Olympic women's soccer team readies itself for the last go-round with the core of players that brought world-wide notoriety for the women's team.
		The NBC Olympics site has a schedule page and coverage grid that provide information about what portions of the Olympics can be viewed on each network.
		The ancient Olympic Games were primarily a part of a religious festival in honor of Zeus and began in the year 776 BC.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/webspecials/s_207936.html (1070 words)

	1984 Summer Olympics
		Los Angeles was the only city to bid to host the 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).
		The People's Republic of China returns to the Olympics after a long absence and wins 15 gold medals.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1984_summer_olympics.shtml (289 words)

	Summer Olympics: Aquatics
		In the Olympics Swimming has 26 individual events and six relay or team events for both men and women.
		Swimming was one of the sports at the first modern Olympic games in 1896.
		Water polo was included in 1900, Diving in 1904, and Synchronised swimming was added in 1984.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/aquatics.htm (280 words)

	Basketball at the 1904 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Basketball appeared at the 1904 Summer Olympics for the first time, as a demonstration sport.
		There were four different events in Saint Louis for basketball competition.
		See also: List of Olympic medalists in basketball
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Basketball_at_the_1904_Summer_Olympics (128 words)

	1968 Summer Olympics Summary
		Smith and Carlos, in stocking feet, wearing fl beads and fl scarves, with their fl-gloved fists raised over their heads as the American national anthem was played, used the biggest stage in sports to air grievances about racial injustice in the United States.
		The 1968 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were held in Mexico City in 1968.
		Bob Beamon jumped 8.90 m in the long jump, a 55 cm improvement of the world record that would stand until 1991; it is still the Olympic record.
	www.bookrags.com /1968_Summer_Olympics (1108 words)

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