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	1988 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were held in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea.
		After boycotts of the Olympics in 1976, 1980 and 1984, the Seoul Games were again boycotted, led by North Korea and followed by Cuba; the basis of the boycott was South Korea's refusal to co-host the Olympics with North Korea, which rejected all compromise.
		Tennis returns to the Olympics after a 64-year absence, and Steffi Graf adds to her four Grand Slam victories in the year by also winning the Olympic title, beating Chris Evert in the final.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1988_Summer_Olympics (820 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)

	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)

	Learn more about 1936 Summer Olympics in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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)

	1984 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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 (990 words)

	STORM: Bird’s Olympics Dreams Become Reality
		Bird was seven in 1988, when a U.S. squad which included her future coach, Anne Donovan, and a handful of future opponents like Teresa Edwards and Teresa Weatherspoon beat the Soviet Union for the first time in Olympics competition and went 5-0 en route to a second straight gold medal.
		Only then did professional women's basketball flourish in the U.S. As a result, when the young Bird dreamed of basketball greatness, it was the Olympics she dreamed of, not any professional league.
		In 2000, the same summer the USA Basketball Senior Women's National Team was claiming another gold in Sydney, Bird played for the red, white and blue for the first time, joining a team of college stars in the R. William Jones Cup.
	www.wnba.com /storm/news/Birds_Olympics_Dreams_B-115729-221.html (916 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)

	2000 Summer Olympics
		The ceremonies concluded with the lighting of the Olympic Flame.
		Former Australian Olympic champions brought the torch through the stadium, handing it over to Cathy Freeman, who lit the flame in the cauldron.
		IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch, at his last Olympics, had to leave for home, as his wife was severely ill. Upon arrival, his wife had already passed away.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/2/20/2000_summer_olympics.shtml (670 words)

	Prospecting for Gold - NCAA Sports.com
		Since basketball was officially introduced as an Olympic sport at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany, the USA men's hoop teams have been hauling in more Olympic gold than any other country in any other Olympic sport.
		Gold medalists in 12 of the 14 Olympics in which they have played, the USA men have owned a virtual monopoly on the Olympic hoop gold market while compiling a 109-2 record.
		Since NBA players were made eligible in 1989 for the Olympics by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), USA teams featuring NBA players are 24-0 and have won the past three Olympic gold medals (1992, 1996, 2000).
	www.ncaasports.com /basketball/mens/story/7220030 (1248 words)

	ohiostatebuckeyes.com - Ohio State University Official Athletic Site
		The eight former OSU tracksters are led by Butch Reynolds (1986-87; 400-meter dash), an Olympic silver medalist at the Seoul Olympics in 1988.
		No country has chosen its Olympic teams yet, but Koves and Smith both play for their countries' Davis Cup teams, which is where most of the Olympic teams are picked from.
		From their research, the equestrian event in the Olympics has been modified to ensure the safety of the equine and human athletes.
	ohiostatebuckeyes.cstv.com /trads/olympics.html (1756 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Chief: Five athletes failed tests in 1988
		He said that in 1988, five U.S. athletes tested positive before the Seoul Olympics "and were enlisted at the games.
		The U.S. Olympic Committee said the cases had been publicized 12 years ago and the athletes involved were cleared because they used the drug, ephedrine, accidentally.
		Pre-games samples in 1988 found eight track athletes with traces of Mahuang, a trade name for ephedrine, contained in a nutritional supplement called Super Charge, according to USOC spokesman Mike Moran.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/news/2000/0924/775264.html (614 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.
		A graduate of Gordon Bell High School and Westminster Church basketball, Carl became one of the most outstanding basketball players in Manitoba through the late 1940's and the 1950's.
		The team finished third at the Pre Olympic Tournament in Augsburg, Germany, narrowly missing a trip to the 1972 Munich Olympics.
	www.frozenhoops.com /id17.html (1360 words)

	Summer Olympics
		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)

	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 Olympic relay, another well-known symbol of the games, in which the torch is lit in Olympia and run to the host city, was introduced in 1936.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~leannajf/olympics.html (1072 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports > 2004 Summer Olympics > Basketball
		Yours is not the sole face of frustration at an Olympic basketball tournament that's shaping up as the most compelling since 1988.
		Puerto Rico, which shocked the basketball world in a rout of the United States in the opening game of the Olympic tournament, had to hold on until the buzzer for an 83-80 victory over Angola on Thursday.
		The U.S. Olympic basketball coach said Sunday that the suspension of Allen Iverson, LeBron James and Amare Stoudemire is forgotten.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/olympics/basketball/index.html (2093 words)

	Olympics: Olympics notebook
		The cumulative rating for NBC's coverage through Saturday was a 14, the worst for an Olympics since 1968, when ABC paid $7-million for both the Summer and Winter Games.
		The 16-night cumulative rating is 35 percent below what the 1996 Atlanta Games averaged and 21 percent below the 1988 Seoul Games -- the last time the Summer Olympics were this late in the year.
		Olympic rules demand that athletes with international experience must wait three years after changing nationality before competing in the Olympics, or get permission of the country they left.
	www.sptimes.com /News/100200/Olympics/Olympics_notebook.shtml (404 words)

	1988 Olympics — FactMonster.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		For the first time since Munich in 1972, there was no organized boycott of the Summer Olympics.
		Otherwise, Steffi Graf added an Olympic gold medal to her Grand Slam sweep in tennis, Greg Louganis won both men's diving events for the second straight time, and the U.S. men's basketball team had to settle for third place after losing to the gold medal-winning Soviets, 82-76, in the semifinals.
		1988 Olympics - 1988 Olympics Calgary A record 1,750 athletes from 57 nations came to western Canada for the first...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0114845.html (384 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)

	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).
	www.usabasketball.com /seniormen/2004/04_moly1.html (1127 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1980 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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)

	History of the Modern Summer and Winter Olympics from Fanbay.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Summer and Winter Olympics of 1932 were both held in the United States, in Los Angeles, CA and Lake Placid, NY, respectively.
		The U.S.A. won 30% of the Summer Olympic medals—their highest percentage over the years—not counting Saint Louis, where the U.S. won 84% of the medals because the attendance was even more skewed toward Americans.
		The Olympic facilities were as impressive as the cutting edge facilities that brought the Summer Olympics to a new level in Munich (1972).
	www.fanbay.net /olympics/modern_history.htm (2739 words)

	EdGate Summer Games
		This event was contested for the second time in an Olympic Summer Games, having appeared first at Atlanta in 1996.
		This event was contested for the second time in an Olympic Summer Games, having made its debut at the Atlanta Games in 1996.
		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/shooting.php (1203 words)

	EdGate Summer Games
		To qualify as an Olympic sport, that sport must be widely practiced by men in at least 75 countries and on four continents, and by women in at least 40 countries and on three continents.
		For example, tennis and baseball were demonstration sports before becoming medal sports in the 1988 and 1992 Games, respectively.
		The Olympic sport of team handball is not to be confused with the game played against a wall with a small rubber ball.
	www2.edgate.com /summergames/spotlight_sport (384 words)

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