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  2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2004 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, were held in Athens, Greece, over a period of 17 days from August 13 to August 29, 2004.
Athens 2004 marked the first time since the 1996 Summer Olympics that all countries with a National Olympic Committee were in attendance.
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.
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 Category:Nations at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Republic of Macedonia at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Republic of Moldova at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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 2004 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
By late March of 2004 many Olympics projects were severely behind and Greek authorities announced that a roof no longer be constructed over the main swimming venue.
Olympic Stadium the designated facility the opening and closing ceremonies is still under construction with an estimated completion date July 20 some three weeks before the games The current pace of preparation makes the to finish the Athens venues one of tightest in Olympics history.
Since the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble France it has been the tradition to a mascot for the games and this the official mascots are brother and sister Phevos and Athena named after the god of light music and the goddess of wisdom respectively.
www.freeglossary.com /2004_Summer_Olympics   (561 words)

  
 IV. Country Narratives: Europe and Eurasia
In February 2004, the Austrian parliament adopted an amendment to article 217 of the criminal code that expands the definition of trafficking to include exploitation of labor and the trafficking of organs.
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is a country of transit and destination for women and girls trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
As of April 2004, the government had not yet enacted pending legislation to expand the definition of trafficking in persons to include labor exploitation and increase penalties in line with international standards.
www.state.gov /g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2004/33192.htm   (17470 words)

  
 Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 2004 Summer Oly... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
February 26 - Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Authorities suspect suicide attacks by rebels from Chechnya to be the cause of the crashes.
September 17 - 2004 Summer Paralympics commences in Athens, Greece.
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 Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Summers are warm across the greater part of the country, but generally hot in the south.
Rapid economic growth in 2002 - 2004 is largely attributed to a surge in steel exports to China.
The share of students receiving their education in Russian has significantly declined from 41% in 1995 to 24% in 2004, in favour of their Ukrainian counterparts.
www.worldslastchance.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Ukraine   (2858 words)

  
 The Olympics
Taekwondo, baseball, softball and modern pentathlon are facing elimination from the Olympics in 2012; when the International Olympic Committee has a meeting in July in Singapore.
The 2004 Olympics in Athens generated considerable public interest around the world; more so than any previous Olympics.
In the Olympic Games 2000 there were 301 gold medals, 299 silver medals and 328 bronze medals awarded.
olympics2004.blogspot.com /2005_06_26_olympics2004_archive.html   (773 words)

  
 Timeline Bosnia
Bosnia’s combatants agreed to a 60-day cease-fire and new talks on ending their three and a-half years of battle.
2004 Jun 11, A commission of the government of the Republika Srpska, the Serbian part of Bosnia, finally admitted that Serbian forces were responsible for the 1995 Muslim massacre at Srebrenica.
Bralo was a member of an infamous unit, known as "the Jokers," responsible for attacks on Bosnian Muslim villages in the Lasva Valley of central Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1993.
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 Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bosnia and Herzegovina was represented at the 2004 Summer Olympics by the Olympic Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH OK).
National Olympic Committees at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece
Categories: Nations at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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 EdGate Summer Games
In 1984, the Olympic Games were held in the city of Sarajevo, then the capital city of Yugoslavia.
Most of the farmland is found to the south of the country, in the Herzegovina region.
Bosnia is a more mountainous region and is heavily forested.
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 Portsmouth Herald Business News: 2004 Olympics offer business opportunities
PORTSMOUTH - The 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, may sound like a long way away in terms of both time and distance, but in reality, says a state international trade official, the Games represent real opportunities for N.H. businesses.
Athens, said Ouellette, is undergoing major work in preparation to host the 2004 Summer Games, including infrastructure overhauls that could mean business for N.H. companies specializing in environmental work, water treatment, recycling and waste disposal.
Separate from the Olympics, companies in fields like medical supplies and equipment (Greece imports 90 percent of such products), defense and telecommunications are likely to find opportunity in Greece, Ouellette said.
www.seacoastonline.com /2002news/10172002/business/29904.htm   (541 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - 2004 - Calendar Encyclopedia
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.
February 29 - The film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King directed by Peter Jackson wins Academy Awards in every category it was nominated, with 11 wins in total.
July 4 - The Euro 2004 final between Portugal and Greece takes place in Lisbon, Portugal.
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 Canada at the 2004 Summer Olympics
The main network for Olympic coverage in Canada is the CBC which covers events live, and then replays highlights in prime time.
Most disappointing was the men's eights who had been undefeated for two years before the Olympics, but to the surprise of many finished fifth in their event.
There were a few bright spots, including Rick Say making it to the finals of the 200 m freestlye, considerd by many to be the premier event of the 2004 Olympics, and a number of Canadian records were set.
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 Olympics 2004: On Final Day, IOC Chairman Praises 'Superb' Olympic Games - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
He said the athletes' Olympic village in Athens was the best ever built, and that sporting federations were delighted with the efforts of the Greek organizers.
As a warning to athletes in the future, he said thousands of samples from drug tests on those who competed in Athens will be stored in deep freeze and re-examined at a later date as anti-doping technology develops further.
Rogge also said the 2004 summer games marked the emergence of Asian countries as major Olympic powers.
www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2004/08/18318fee-175e-4746-b413-27ebc6d1e8b2.html   (643 words)

  
 SFOR Stabilisation Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Media Summary
In Operation Summer Harvest 2004 SFOR’s combat units will provide assistance by using their equipment to detect hidden weapons, including armoured combat vehicles, radar equipment and helicopters, which should not upset citizens, as the operation will be carried out with the aim of creating safer living conditions.
In spite of the many difficulties that the BiH sportsmen have encountered during their preparations for the Olympics, the atmosphere prior to departure was excellent as the majority of the sportsmen were optimistic about their performance at the Games.
The Vice-Chairman of the BiH Olympic Committee, Marijan Kvesic, stated that the RS Government had paid 50,000 KM, or half of the promised sum earmarked for the BiH Olympic Delegation, while the FBiH Government had not made any payments yet, but promised to do so after the Olympic Games were finished.
www.nato.int /sfor/media/2004/ms040810.htm   (3298 words)

  
 Olympics 2004: After Medal-Winning Glory, What Next For Former Soviet Athletes? - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
For many of them, their appearance at the Summer Games is the culmination of a lifetime of training.
Twenty-four years after he won Kyrgyzstan's first-ever Olympic gold medal, in weightlifting, at the 1980 Moscow Games, Kanybek Osmonaliyev is the deputy head of his country's Committee for Tourism, Sport, and Youth Politics.
Former Olympic champions sometimes manage to use their fame to start a whole new life.
www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2004/08/f6ea0f78-cccd-4266-918e-3ccec433c38c.html   (845 words)

  
 Bosnia News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA: EU: BiH Police Reforms Are Key Condition for SAA
Bosnia Pero Bukejlovic (Prime Minister of Republika Srpska) News
Bosnia Sulejman Tihic (Chairman of the Presidency) News
www.einnews.com /bosnia   (539 words)

  
 Category:Nations at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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Articles in category "Nations at the 2004 Summer Olympics"
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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 Great Britain at the 2004 Summer Olympics
The delegation started the Olympics slowly, the silver its divers won on August 14 being the first of only a few opening-week medals.
The main rights to Olympic coverage in the UK are held by the BBC, under the ITC Code on Sports and Other Listed Events.
2004 marked the first year that digital television and webcasts were used to cover an Olympic Games.
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 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ORGANISATION
The Olympic Movement includes the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Organising Committees of the Olympic Games (OCOGs), the National Olympic Committees (NOCs), the International Federations (IFs), the national associations, clubs and, of course, the athletes.
According to the Olympic Charter, established by Pierre de Coubertin, the goal of the Olympic Movement is to contribute to building a peaceful and better world by educating youth through sport practised without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.
The National Olympic Committees (NOCs) propagate the fundamental principles of Olympism at a national level within the framework of sports activity.
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 2004 North American Olympic Doubles Trials   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
I don’t have to show it to prove it.” She said the loss of her grandmother, who died that same year, was a much greater loss than losing the medal.
The other U.S. player with an Olympic table tennis medal is Ilija Lupulesku, ranked 109 in the world.
A competitor in the past four Olympics, Lupulesku qualified to play doubles with Mark Hazinski of Mishawaka, Ind., at the Atlanta Trials.
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 Australia at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Australia at the 2004 Summer Olympics was represented by Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) and abbreviated AUS.
Australia first competed in the Olympics in 1896, and is one of only two countries to have sent athletes to every Summer Olympic Games.
Australia entered the Athens Games having won a total of 58 medals, including 16 gold, as the host of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
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 Mongolia at the 2004 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Mongolia's 10th participation at the Summer Olympics was in 2004.
Mongolia sent one lightweight boxer to the 2004 Olympics.
He won his first bout, but was defeated in the second.
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 Winter Olympics 2002 | Salt Lake City   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Biathlon - The biathlon event of the XX Olympic Winter Games will be held at San Sicario,a locality that is part of the Town of Cesana Torinese.
The International Olympic Committee announced the list of candidates February 5, 2002, a day after the deadline for officially submitting bids.
Sarajevo staged a successful Winter Games, but most of its Olympic facilities were destroyed in the war that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia.
web.knoxnews.com /web/kns/sports/olympics/thefuture.shtml   (818 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Wonder Land
Saudi Arabia had no women in its Olympic delegation, but it just might at the Beijing Olympics if the political process struggling to take root in Iraq spreads there--or to Syria, Yemen or Jordan.
In the meantime, perhaps the athletes from Bosnia, Afghanistan and Ceausescu's Romania will find their way to the Iraqi pavilion to hear familiar stories about living in a land of exterminations--of Shiite peoples murdered in southern Iraq and Kurds in the north.
We thrill to see Olympic athletes strain across the ground or through the air and water to free themselves from limits set by nature on physical human effort.
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 Urban Dictionary: Bosnia
The wars were caused by serbs and croats that decided to clean bosnia of all of he muslims(which is the majority of the population).
Bosnia is filled with the coolest fucking people in the world.
but was a republik of bosnia and herzegovina since 1943 as well as the area of bosnia was recognised 970AD.
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 Travel Video Television News
Nationwide in the USA, 2004 has been a year of recovery and growth for the travel and tourism industry and Georgia has benefited from this trend recording growth in all travel regions.
Passenger movements for the four months to 31 October 2004 were up an average of 9.4 per cent on the previous year (an increase of 11.2 per cent international and 7 per cent domestic).
The arrival statistics for the first half of 2004 are now available from the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, which sources the data from CAA, airline manifests and immigration records at the border posts.
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 Ashdown forced Srebrenica Confession
Most of the recruitment had gone on through one of the main mujahedin commanders in Bosnia, known as Emir el-Aziz, who is headquartered in the town of Maoca, near Brcko.
Maoca is one of 15 major towns in Bosnia totally controlled by mujahedin and which are essentially off-limits to non-Islamist outsiders.
One SFOR source told GIS: “Ashdown’s attempts to pretend that Islamist terrorism does not exist in Bosnia, and that it was not related to the September 11 [2001] attacks on the US, or the Madrid attacks, or Iraq, or the Olympics, has made the war on terrorism extremely difficult.
www.slobodan-milosevic.org /news/dfad062104.htm   (1166 words)

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