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  Learn more about Olympic Games in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Olympic Games were part of the Panhellenic Games, four separate games held at two- or four-year intervals but arranged so that there was one set of games every year.
Olympic is also the name the public sometimes uses for the Greek national airline, Olympic Airways.
Olympic uses varous types or airplanes, like the Boeing 747 and Airbus A340 for international routes, and the Boeing 727 and Boeing 737 for domestic routes.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /o/ol/olympic_games.html   (1183 words)

  
 Olympic Games --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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From July 19 to Aug. 4, 1996, the city of Atlanta, Ga., welcomed the world to join it in celebrating the XXVI Olympiad, 100 years after the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896.
As a result of the United States boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow and the Soviet Union not attending the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, Calif., athletes from these countries were deprived of the opportunity to face one another in sports competition.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9108519   (934 words)

  
 Olympic Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
AP reports mentioned that this is the sixth horse to die in Olympic competition, two in 1960 in Rome, two in 1968 in Mexico City and one in Sydney.
The Olympic gold was the latest in a string of successes for the Chinese star, bound to become an even bigger hero in China, as the gold is China's first ever in Olympic athletics competition.
The promise to take the Olympic Torch to the top of the worlds' highest mountain was made by the Mayor of Beijing, Liu Qi, in the documents that Beijing presented when making their bid for the 2008 games.
www.internationalgames.net /olympic.htm   (8101 words)

  
 May 8 Events in History
May 8, 1996 New York Yankee Dwight Gooden wins his 1st AL game beating Tigers 10-3
May 8, 1984 U.S.S.R. announces it will not participate in LA Summer Olympics
May 8, 1942 German summer offensive opens in Crimea
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