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	1972 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, were held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972.
		The 1972 Summer Olympics were the second Summer Olympics held in Germany, after the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
		In basketball, the United States' Olympic winning streak, which started in 1936, was ended by the Soviet team's victory in the gold medal game, which USA Basketball calls "the most controversial game in international basketball history" [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1972_Summer_Olympics (1328 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)

	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 first, and so far only 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.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/1/19/1956_summer_olympics.html (276 words)

	Athens Olympics 2004. ABC Sport.
		But while every Olympic city has a fabulous stadium, nowhere else in the world could events be held at Ancient Olympia - the home of the ancient Games - and the magnificent Panathinaiko Stadium, home of the first Games of the modern era back in 1896.
		After a behind-closed-doors tongue-lashing by Australian Olympic Committee chief John Coates, the team emerged united, but there were plenty of commentators who saw this as simply papering over some pretty obvious cracks.
		Through the prism of history, the Athens Olympics may come to be seen as the Games at which two major trends emerged - the rise of Asian nations as Olympic powers and the time the war on drugs became serious.
	www.abc.net.au /olympics (2755 words)

	1996 Summer Olympics
		Also during the games, the Centennial Olympic Park bombing took place on July 27, 1996 killing Alice Hawthorne and wounded 111 others, and causing the death of Melih Uzunyol by heart attack.
		Michelle Smith[?] of Ireland wins three gold medals and a bronze, but her victories are overshadowed by doping allegations, which are later reinforced as she is banned after failing a test in 1999.
		Amy Van Dyken[?] wins four gold medals in the Olympic swimming pool, the first American woman to win four titles in a single Olympics.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/19/1996_Olympics.html (364 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)

	Special: Athens Olympics 2004 \| The Christian Science Monitor
		The 1972 gold medal basketball game between the United States and the Soviet Union was a real squeaker, but it looked as if the Americans had pulled it out.
		Here the Olympic victor was received with full honor; the king rose from his seat and congratulated him most warmly on his success.
		In fact, the Olympic Stadium in which many new memories will be created over the next two weeks is named after the "longest of longshots" who won glory for the home of the Olympics.
	www.csmonitor.com /specials/oly2004/docs/unforgettable.html (1908 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)

	1972 Olympics
		The United States also lost an Olympic basketball game for the first time ever (they were 62-0) when the Soviets were given three chances to convert a last-second inbound pass and finally won, 51-50.
		Memorable Olympic Moments: Mark Spitz - Ambitious Mark Spitz claims seven golds and an Olympic record by Mike Morrison Mark Spitz swims for...
		Olympic tragedy: 1972 Revisited: the shadow of terrorism still haunts the Olympics almost 30 years after Israeli athletes were massacred in Munich.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114715.html (538 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.
		You'll be able to send postcards from some of the Olympic cities while you and your students learn about the geography, history and culture of the host metropolitan areas.
		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.
	ali.apple.com /features/s_olympics.shtml (1852 words)

	Timeline 1972
		1972 May 22, The island nation of Ceylon became the republic of Sri Lanka, which is Sinhala for resplendent land, with the adopting of a new constitution Under prime minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
		Olympic Committee banned Vince Matthews and Wayne Collett from further competition for talking to each other on the victory stand in Munich during the playing of the "Star-Spangled Banner" after winning the gold and silver medals in the 400-meter run.
		1972 In Mexico after guerrillas ambushed and killed 18 troops, the army detained at least 90 men in the village of El Quemado and took many of them to 3 different military bases that served as "concentration camps." A 2006 government report on Mexico’s “dirty war” said 7 of the men died from being tortured.
	timelines.ws /20thcent/1972.HTML (12102 words)

	USATODAY.com - Bidding for the Olympics on TV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		And while Olympic TV tonnage is steadily expanding — NBC's outlets plan virtually round-the-clock coverage of next year's Summer Games in Athens — the new deal will likely give viewers even more access to the thousands of hours of competition in an Olympics.
		For next year's Summer Olympics in Athens, General Electric's NBC and four other GE-owned channels will carry about 807 hours of coverage — nearly quadrupling the total TV hours for the Atlanta Summer Games on NBC seven years ago.
		That would be a 33% increase from the last Olympic TV deal, when NBC paid $1.5 billion for rights to the 2006 and 2008 Games in what were 12% increases over previous rights deals.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/2003-04-21-tv-rights_x.htm (1501 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)

	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)

	1948 Summer Olympics
		After a hiatus of 12 years caused by the outbreak of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
		With World War II in recent memory, Germany and Japan were not invited for the Games, although Italy was.
		For the first time, Olympic diplomas were awarded to the 6th highest placed athletes.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1948_summer_olympics.shtml (161 words)

	Summer Olympics: Aquatics
		In the Olympics Swimming has 26 individual events and six relay or team events for both men and women.
		In the 1972 Olympics US swimmer Mark Spitz won seven gold medals.
		Swimming was one of the sports at the first modern Olympic games in 1896.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/aquatics.htm (280 words)

	Summer Basketball Camp
		Basketball at the Legion Athletic Camp has featured a Who's Who of Canadian talent both in the coaching and players ranks.
		In 1972, he started the women's intercollegiate program; that team won the Provincial Senior championship and, because all of the young women on the team were eligible to play Junior, the team entered and won the National Junior Championship.
		In 1972, Ross was a member of the Canadian National Team that played in Mexico, Italy, and Germany.
	www.frozenhoops.com /id17.html (1482 words)

	Seventies Almanac - 1972
		She began her hit career in 1971 with a ballad she wrote, "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be." A Top 10 smash, it was followed by "Anticipation," a tune later reworked into an ad jingle for ketchup.
		As she said, "I was tired of self-pity." What came from that feeling was "You're So Vain," an accusative song that caused much speculation about the identity of the central character (actually, it was a composite of men in her life, but most notably actor Warren Beatty).
		Arabs massacre 11 Israeli athletes at the Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.
	www.superseventies.com /1972.html (957 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Olympics 2004 \| History
		This was the first official Olympics to see athletes marched into the stadium behind their respective national flags.
		Female athletes competed in the Olympics for the first time in Paris in 1900.
		The first of the modern Olympic Games was staged in Athens, Greece.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/low/olympics_2004/history/default.stm (411 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The 1996 Games were given a dramatic start when the cauldron was lit by Muhammad Ali.
		On 27 July during a concert held in the Centennial Olympic Park, a terrorist bomb killed one person and injured a further 110 people, but the Atlanta Games are best remembered for their sporting achievements.
		For the first time in Olympic history, all 197 recognized National Olympic Committees were represented at the Games.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1996 (246 words)

	NPR : Summer Olympics '04
		September 22, 2004 ·; Martha Bebinger of member station WBUR in Boston, Mass., reports on how cyclist Tyler Hamilton could be stripped of his Olympic gold medal for alleged "blood doping" -- a blood transfusion to artificially increase the amount of oxygen-transporting red blood cells.
		The loss means that for the second time ever, the U.S. team will not have a chance to win a gold medal in basketball.
		Another athlete was expelled from the games for alleged doping, and Athenians wonder what to do with several new stadiums and a huge new debt for building the world-class facilities.
	www.npr.org /templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=1071&startNum=16 (700 words)

	Summer Olympics: Archery
		Archery became part of the Olympic competition in 1900.
		After the 1920 games archery was not an Olympic sport.
		In the Olympics there are individual events and team events for men and women.
	www.pocanticohills.org /olympics/archery.htm (205 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Olympics 2004 \| Olympics controversy timeline
		No fl athletes took part in the first Modern Olympics in Athens and instead contested separate events on designated Anthology Days and were only allowed to compete properly in 1904 in St Louis.
		The Melbourne Olympics hosted a hugely volatile water polo match between Hungary and the Soviet Union which came a matter of weeks after Soviet tanks rolled into Hungary to suppress an uprising.
		Australia's basketball team refused to play against the USA after NBA legend Earvin 'Magic' Johnson announced he was HIV positive.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/olympics_2004/3824087.stm (762 words)

	Presidential Commission on the Status of Women - Northern Illinois University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		If Jennifer Metz, a high school basketball star and '92-'96 point guard for LoyolaUniversity and now a graduate assistant, had been born 10 years earlier, shewould not have had a chance to excel on the court.
		The establishment of professional women basketball teams-the current AmericanBasketball League and the Women's NBA, which begins in June- has often been referred to asa product of Title IX, as has the success of women in the 1996 Summer Olympics.
		Men's football, basketball, and baseball, have been offered since the 1899-1900 season, while women's basketball and swimming only been available for the last 40 years.
	www.niu.edu /women/PCSW/joun98.shtml (1268 words)

	1972 Olympics
		Munich was also where 17-year-old Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut and 16-year-old swimmer Shane Gould of Australia won three gold medals each and Britain's 33-year-old Mary Peters won the pentathlon.
		1972 Olympics - The biggest controversy in the 48–year history of the Winter Games erupted just three days...
		Frank Shorter - Frank Shorter Born: Oct. 31, 1947 Track and Field won gold medal in marathon at 1972 Olympics,...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0114715.html (390 words)

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