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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)

	Olympics
		That was supposed to be the end of Owens' Olympic participation, but on August 9, he and Ralph Metcalf replaced Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller, the only Jews on the U.S. track team, on the 4x100-meter relay.
		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)

	U.S. News Online: Sydney 2000 Olympics
		But the first Olympic cereal star was Mildred "Babe" Didrikson, who won golds for the javelin throw and hurdles in 1932 and appeared on the back of a Wheaties box in 1935.
		Good as gold: The Olympics always offer drama, but only in the rarest moments are we privileged to view the exploits of legends.
		Olympic records will be broken as the limits of human performance are tested.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/olympics/first.htm (1092 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.
		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)

	1976 Summer Olympics Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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 led a boycott of 22 African nations as the IOC refused to not 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.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/1/19/1976_summer_olympics.html (353 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The 1936 Olympics, held in Berlin, are best remembered for Adolf Hitler’s failed attempt to use them to prove his theories of Aryan racial superiority.
		Basketball, canoeing and team handball made their first appearances, while polo was included in the Olympic programme for the last time.
		She remains the youngest female gold medalist in the history of the Summer Olympics.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1936 (401 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)

	UJC - The Forgotten Olympians
		At the 1900 Summer Games in Paris, Prinstein qualified for the long jump finals, but was persuaded by his Christian teammates not to take part in the competition on a Sunday, the Christian Sabbath.
		Alain Calmat, a world-class figure skater, won a silver medal at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, but he made his mark in Jewish athletic history four years later at the Games in Grenoble, France, when he was selected to carry the torch and light the Olympic flame during the opening ceremonies.
		A standout at the University of North Carolina, he was a member of the U.S. championship Olympic basketball team in 1964, scaling a fence to watch the swimming finals.
	www.ujc.org /content_display.html?ArticleID=121764 (1255 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1988 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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.
		Christa Rothenburger becomes the first (and last) athlete to win Olympic medals at the Winter Olympics and Summer Olympics in the same year.
		Table tennis is introduced at the Olympics, with China and the host nation both winning two titles.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1988_Summer_Olympics (388 words)

	CNNSI.com - Pro Basketball - Brown to coach 2004 U.S. Olympic team - Tuesday November 26, 2002 06:14 PM
		USA Basketball made Brown's selection as coach of the Olympic team official Tuesday, and selection committee chairman Stu Jackson said Iverson would receive serious consideration to be among the "core group" of eight or nine players to be chosen by early February.
		Brown won a gold medal as a player at the 1964 Olympics and called it his most memorable experience as a player.
		He also was an assistant on the 1980 team that missed the Moscow Olympics because of a boycott, and an assistant on the 2000 team that won a gold in Sydney.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /basketball/news/2002/11/26/brown_olympics_ap (810 words)

	1980 Summer Olympics
		On March 21, 1980, following the 1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, American president Jimmy Carter announced a boycott of the Moscow 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.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1980_summer_olympics.shtml (273 words)

	USATODAY.com - Brown named U.S. Olympic basketball coach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Brown, who won a gold medal as a player at the 1964 Olympics and was an assistant coach on two prior Olympic teams, will guide the team at next summer's Olympic qualifying tournament and the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
		Brown was an assistant on Rudy Tomjanovich's staff at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney when the U.S. team survived a scare from Lithuania in the semifinals and went on to win the gold by defeating France.
		The United States is 109-2 in Olympic history, but the Americans finished a disappointing sixth at last summer's World Championships — losing for the first time when using NBA players in an international competition.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/basketball/nba/sixers/2002-11-25-brown-olympics_x.htm (452 words)

	Basketball
		Basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith, a physical education instructor at Springfield College in Massachusetts, who had been asked to develop a new game that would provide an interlude between the football and baseball seasons more exciting than the gymnastic exercises the students were then grumbling about.
		In the sixties Princeton won seven titles (1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, and 1969), lost the playoff for an eighth one (1968), and finished in the first division the other two seasons (1962 and 1966).
		In the summer of 1964 Bradley was the youngest member, and the captain, of the gold-medal winning United States basketball team at the Olympics in Tokyo.
	etcweb.princeton.edu /CampusWWW/Companion/basketball.html (2432 words)

	CNNSI.com - Pro Basketball - Shaq likely to say no if Brown is coach - Monday November 18, 2002 12:09 AM
		Brown, Jackson, Miami Heat coach Pat Riley and Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan are being considered by the USA Basketball Selection Committee.
		The report in the Post said Brown is the leading candidate because of his ties to American international hoops that date to 1964.
		Inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame in September, Brown was a player on the 1964 U.S. Olympic team that won a gold medal.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /basketball/news/2002/11/17/shaq_olympics (672 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.y2z.org /19/1984_Summer_Olympics.html (411 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Trampoline bounces into Games
		The men and women who will be leaping up to 20-meters (65 feet) in the air prefer to be called bouncers to trampolinists.
		It was not recognized as an international sport until 1964.
		The gold medal favorite in the men's event is Russian Alexandre Moskalenko, a three-time world champion who shed 24 kg (53 lbs) when he came out of retirement to claim a fourth world title in 1999 after learning the sport would become part of the Olympics.
	www.espn.go.com /oly/summer00/s/2000/0921/763715.html (337 words)

	Sports in 1964 quiz -- free game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The World Series in 1964 was won by the St. Louis Cardinals who beat the New York Yankees, four games to three.
		The 1964 Heisman Trophy was won by a quarterback who led Notre Dame back to national prominence.
		The 1964 NFL championship was won by the Cleveland Browns over the favored Baltimore Colts, 27-0.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=213884 (286 words)

	The Official Site of the USA Basketball Men's Senior National Team
		The men's basketball competition at the 28th Summer Olympic Games are now officially a wide open competition after the USA (0-1) was handed a stunning 92-73 loss by Puerto Rico (1-0) Sunday night in in opening preliminary round play at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
		The 2004 Olympic men's basketball competition is being held Aug. 15-28 in Athens.
		USA Olympic teams featuring NBA players are 24-1 since making their first appearance at the 1992 Olympics and the U.S. has won the last three Olympic titles when NBA players have participated (1992, 1996, and 2000).
	usabasketball.com /seniormen/2004/04_moly1.html (1127 words)

	Summer Olympics: Volleyball
		In the Olympics there are two different kinds of volleyball, Volleyball and Beach Volleyball.
		Volleyball became an Olympic sport in 1964 and Beach Volleyball became an Olympic sport in 1996.
		In the Olympics both Volleyball and Beach Volleyball are played by men and women.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/Olympics/volleyball.htm (222 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)

	SignOn San Diego Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics -- History is not their strong suit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		On the day before their quarterfinal game against Russia, players on the U.S. men's basketball team said they would not be trying to avenge the losses to the Soviet Union in 1972 and 1988.
		The 1972 gold medal game is the most famous game in the history of international basketball, and the 1988 semifinal game is what paved the way for professional players to compete at the Olympics.
		At the Olympics in Seoul, the U.S. team lost to the USSR 82-76 in the semifinals – a loss that convinced the American basketball federation that it was time to stop fielding a team of collegians and to start sending NBA players.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/olympics/basketball/20000927-991118-oly-mensbas.html (694 words)

	ESPN Classic - Classic 1972 USA vs. USSR Basketball game
		As the 1972 Summer Olympics commenced, this notion was punctuated with the impressive fact that no American team had ever lost in men's basketball in Olympic play, winning seven gold medals dating back to 1936.
		The youngest squad to ever represent the United States in Olympic competition stepped onto the floor to face their athletic and political enemy, the Soviet Union, for the gold medal in men's basketball.
		Iba led the U.S. to gold in 1964 and 1968, but by 1972, his conservative, defensive style of play was viewed as out of touch with the modern game.
	sports.espn.go.com /classic/s/Classic_1972_usa_ussr_gold_medal_hoop.html (1546 words)

	Lincoln City Libraries - Reference - In the News: 2004 Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Since 1896, the summer Olympic Games have been held every 4 years, with the exceptions of 1940 and 1944 during the waging of World War II.
		At the last summer Olympics (2000 in Sydney, Australia), 199 countries were represented by 10,651 athletes (4,069 women, 6,582 men), who competed in 300 separate events.
		The following are a sampling of videos featuring footage from past Olympics, plus the soundtrack CD including music used during the Olympics television coverage of the past 20 years.
	www.lcl.lib.ne.us /depts/ref/inthenews-olympics2004.htm (885 words)

	Summer Olympics: Judo
		Kano was a member of the International Olympic Committee and an associate of Baron Peirre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic movement.
		Men's judo was not added to the Olympic Games until 1964 and women's judo became an Olympic event in 1992.
		In the Olympics there are seven weight categories for men and seven weight categories for women.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/judo.htm (199 words)

	Sports in Cuba
		The Cuban government started to pay more attention to other sports that were included in the Olympics such as boxing, basketball, and track and field.
		The Olympic victories were also a source of national pride for the Cuban people.
		In the 1964 Summer Olympics, Cuba won only one gold medal.
	members.tripod.com /~NALax/noframes (140 words)

	EdGate Summer Games
		Since 1964 Olympic competitions have begun with a preliminary round of seven dives.
		The International Olympic Committee site is the official site of the Olympic Diving and a super source for diving facts and figures.
		The United States Olympic Committee site includes the rules and history of events as well as athlete bios, diaries, and chats.
	www.edgate.com /summergames/spotlight_sport/diving.php (538 words)

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