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Topic: Basketball at the 1956 Summer Olympics

	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)

	1956 Summer Olympics
		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.
		Therefore, these events were held in Stockholm, Sweden, marking the second, and so far last time, that events of the same Olympics were held in different countries.
		Because Melbourne is situated in the southern hemisphere, the Olympics are held late in the year.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/19/1956_Summer_Olympics.html (263 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for olympics
		San Diego, Calif. He won gold medals in springboard diving and platform diving in the 1984 Olympics and repeated in both categories in 1988 despite a head injury incurred during the competition.
		The competition, held every four years, follows the organization and eligibility rules of the Olympic games and is held in the year before the Olympics in different host cities.
		Special Olympics Global Messenger to Serve as Honorary Pit Crew Member At NASCAR Winston Cup Race in Daytona.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?q=olympics (592 words)

	Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		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)

	Learn more about 1936 Summer Olympics in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		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)

	USA Basketball: USA Basketball History
		Although the AAU established a Basketball Committee, beginning with the 1936 Olympics, the first Olympic Games to feature men's basketball as an official medal sport, the selection of the USA Olympic teams and coaching staffs was handled by the U.S. Olympic Basketball Games Committee (originally known as the American Olympic Committee Basketball Committee).
		In 1972, the Olympic Trials were still controlled by the Olympic Basketball Games Committee, however, the Trials format was changed and 66 athletes were invited to tryout, 28 from the NCAA, eight from the AAU, junior college, NAIA and U.S. Armed Forces ranks, and six at-large.
		Women's basketball became a medal sport at the 1976 Olympics and the Olympic Women's Basketball Committee, chaired by Mildred Barnes, was responsible for selecting team members.
	www.usabasketball.com /history/usab_history.html (2109 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/1956 Summer Olympics
		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.
		The Olympic Flame was relayed to Melbourne after being lit at Olympia on 2 November 1956.
		The Olympic Flame was lit at the stadium by Ron Clarke.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/1956_Summer_Olympics (1699 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Kerri stuck her landing in people's memories
		The strongest image I have from past Olympics is of the terrorist standing on the balcony of the Israeli athlete's quarters in Munich, 1972.
		The Olympics is at its best when the celebration of athletic excellence allows us all, competitors and watchers alike, to celebrate the joy and unity of humanity.
		Sadly, the Olympic moment from the 2000 Sydney games that will always stand out in my mind is the IOC stripping an innocent 16 year old Romanian gymnast of an all-around gold medal in the gymnastics competition.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/s/timeline/usercomments.html (3884 words)

	GBROLYMPICS.COM / LONDON-OLYMPICS.COM - Olympic Games Medallists
		The modern Olympics were first held in 1896.
		Nevertheless all those competitions reported, at one time or another, as Olympic medal events have been included here for the record, with those no longer regarded as official footnoted.
		Nationalities given are those of the countries the medallists were representing at the time of the event.
	www.london-olympics.com /olympic (336 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").
		At the end of an Olympics, the mayor of the host-city presents the flag to the mayor of the next host-city.
		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)

	1956 Olympics — Infoplease.com
		Armed conflicts in Egypt and Hungary threatened to disrupt the 1956 Games, which were scheduled to begin on Nov. 22 (during the summer Down Under).
		The Barcelona Olympics and the perception of foreign nations: a panel study of Japanese university students.
		Environmental factors in the summer Olympics in historical perspective.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114595.html (487 words)

	1976 Summer Olympics - Glasgledius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		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.glasglow.com /E2/19/1976_Summer_Olympics.html (314 words)

	USA Basketball: Men's Olympic History - 1956
		Because the seasons are reversed in Australia, the 1956 summer Olympics were held during the USA's winter time.
		Behind the play of 6'10" Bill Russell and 6'1" K. Jones, two key players on the University of San Francisco's 1956 NCAA national championship team, the USA proved that it was still far ahead of the rest of the world in the American-originated sport.
		Closing the 1956 Olympic competition against the Soviet Union, the Americans won even easier than they had in the first meeting.
	www.usabasketball.com /history/moly_1956.html (469 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1956 Melbourne
		The 18-year-old was the marquee member of the dominant women's sprint team in 1956, winning gold medals in the 100 metres, 200m and 4X100m relay.
		It was a team that also featured Marlene Mathews, the bronze medallist in both the 100m and 200m, and the late Shirley Strickland de la Hunty, who was part of the relay team and defended her gold medal in the 80m hurdles.
		She was a sentimental favourite at the 2000 Opening Ceremonies in Sydney, appearing in a wheelchair as she carried the Olympic Torch.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1956.html (1327 words)

	EdGate Summer Games
		Freestyle is where the competitor may swim any stroke he or she prefers, usually the Australian crawl, where the arms alternately come out of the water and the legs flutter kick.
		In 1956, this new technique was officially recognized as the fourth Olympic swimming style and given its own set of competitions, separate from the breaststroke.
		The International Olympic Committee site is the official site of the Olympics and a super source for swimming facts and figures.
	www.edgate.com /summergames/spotlight_sport/swimming.php (962 words)

	1980 Summer Olympics
		The boycott severely affects a great number of events, and even in events where the top athletes are present, the fields are small.
		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.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1980_summer_olympics.shtml (273 words)

	Graduate & Adult Studies Local Sponsor of Summer Olympics
		Helen Stephens, "The Fulton Flash," (pictured here with Jesse Owens) was enrolled at William Woods when she won her gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin; one for the women's 100 meters and another as part of the 4 x 100 meter relay.
		William Woods continues the tradition by being a local sponsor of the The Summer Olympics.
		Summer Olympic Events include: track and field, soccer, swimming, baseball, equestrian, sailing, greco-roman wresting and gymnastics.
	www.williamwoods.edu /gradadult/olympic.html (139 words)

	Science Fair Projects - 1956 Summer Olympics
		Melbourne had been elected as the host city over rival bids from Buenos Aires, Mexico and six American cities April 28 1949 on the 43rd IOC session.
		A third boycott came from the People's Republic of China, which protested against presence of the Republic of China (under the name Formosa).
		Inspired by Australian teenager John Wing, an Olympic tradition begins 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...
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/1956_Summer_Olympics (549 words)

	Welcome to the ultimate China Sports Website - CHINA-SPORTS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Now with the Olympics, WTO and opening to new ideas, the general population is being exposed to new ideas and techniques.
		Originally these were held in the same year as the Summer Olympics, but starting with 1994 the Winter Games are in between, two years after the Games of the Olympiad.
		The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, will be held in Beijing in the People's Republic of China from August 8, 2008 to August 24, 2008, with the opening ceremony to take place at 8 p.m.
	www.china-sports.com /en/basketball.htm (369 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The U.S. basketball team, led by Bill Russell and K.C. Jones, put on the most dominant performance in Olympic history, scoring more than twice as much as their opponents and winning each of their games by at least 30 points.
		Prior to 1956, the athletes in the Closing Ceremony marched by nation, as they did in the Opening Ceremony.
		Upon the suggestion of John Ian Wing, a Chinese apprentice carpenter living in Australia, it was decided to let all the athletes parade together, rather than by country, as a symbol of world unity.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1956 (406 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)

	BASKETBALL AT THE 1956 SUMMER OLYMPICS : Encyclopedia Entry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Basketball at the 1956 Summer Olympics was the fourth appearance of the sport in Olympic competition.
		15 nations, an unusually low number for the basketball tournament, competed in the event.
		In all, 56 games of basketball were played.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Basketball_at_the_1956_Summer_Olympics (161 words)

	Inwit Publishing, Inc. and Inwit, LLC -- Writings, Links and Software Demonstrations - The Science of the Summer Games ...
		Today in Olympic competition men and women swim four strokes: the freestyle (which in practice means "the crawl"), the butterfly, the backstroke, and the breaststroke.
		In the summer of 1949, at a meet in the U. S., the Japanese sprint swimmer Hironashin Furuhashi unleashed what seemed to be a minor refinement of the kick in the crawl stroke, but it led him and the other Japanese to sweeping victories.
		The newest of the strokes, the butterfly, was not separated from the breaststroke until the 1956 Olympics.
	www.inwit.com /inwit/writings/scienceofthesummergames.html (5160 words)

	Don Troutman had a shot at qualifying for the Olympics in 1956 :: He was the top teenage jumper in America back then
		In the coming summer almost 51 years ago, he had a legitimate shot at earning a spot on the United States team for the 1956 Olympics.
		It was between his junior and senior years that he was invited to the Olympic trials in Los Angeles.
		In college he never regained that summer of 1956 when he was the best teenage jumper in the nation.
	mcneesesports.cstv.com /sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/011607aaa.html (1103 words)

	USA participation at the modern Games
		He returned to Olympic competition at the 1948 Olympics to compete in the yachting competition.
		In 1956, the gold medal winning hammer thrower from America, Hal Connolly, won despite a physical disability - his left arm was inches shorter and much less developed that his right.
		In 1972, the U.S. basketball team loses a game for the first time, falling to the Soviet Union, but refuses to accept the silver medal, claiming that the clock had been improperly restarted in the final moments.
	www.topendsports.com /events/summer/countries/usa.htm (668 words)

	1968 Summer Olympics Summary
		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.
		This was the first of three Olympic participations by Jacques Rogge.
	www.bookrags.com /1968_Summer_Olympics (1108 words)

	The Official Site of the USA Basketball Men's Senior National Team / USA Notes
		Men's basketball was first introduced internationally at the 1936 Olympics and the United States won 63 consecutive Olympic games before seeing the streak come to a halt with the controversial loss to the Soviet Union in the 1972.
		A third Olympics would not just tie Malone with future Hall of Famer David Robinson for most Olympic appearances by a US men’s basketball player, but if a third gold medal was to be realized, he would become the only male basketball player to have earned three Olympic golds.
		Named a member of the 2000 U.S. Olympic Team, he was forced to withdraw on Aug. 19, 2000, because of a knee injury (torn cartilage in his left knee) suffered against Sacramento on April 11 which also forced him to miss the Spurs final four regular season games and all four playoff games.
	www.usabasketball.com /seniormen/2004/04_moly_notes.html (3544 words)

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