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Topic: Boxing at the 1932 Summer Olympics

	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)

	Mormon Olympics
		The Olympic motto, “Citius, Altius, Fortius,” (Swifter, Higher, Stronger) was introduced along with the tradition during the Closing Ceremony of hoisting the flags of the IOC, the current hosting country, and the following host.
		The Olympic Flame was lit by Yoshinori Sakai, a student who had been born in Hiroshima on the very day the atomic bomb struck.
		A tragic act of terrorism occurred when a bomb exploded in the Centennial Olympic Park, an open area that was not officially part of the Games and therefore not under the scrutiny of the Olympic security system; one person was killed and 110 were injured.
	www.mormonolympians.org /mormon_olympians/summer_olympics.html (2464 words)

	olympic games summer and winter locations and history of the games
		The Olympic Games took their name from the Greek city of Olympia and though there were important athletic competitions held in other Greek cities in ancient times, the Olympic Games were regarded as the most prestigious.
		Participation in the Olympic Games was originally limited to free born Greeks, but as Greek civilization was spread by the conquests of Alexander the Great, the Games drew entrants from as far away as Antioch, Sidon and Alexandria.
		The organizers had planned the first modern Olympics for 1900 in Paris, but later decided to move the date forward to 1896 and to change the venue to Athens, though the local government of the Greek capital was initially hostile to the idea.
	worldatlas.com /aatlas/infopage/olympic.htm (1007 words)

	Anecdotage.com - Olympics anecdotes. Anecdotes From Yeats to Gates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Among the competitors in the single-scull rowing event at the 1928 Olympics was...
		Adolf Hitler staged the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin as a showcase for the sup...
		At the 2004 summer Olympics in Athens, Paula Radcliffe failed to finish both the...
	www.anecdotage.com /browse.php?term=Olympics (881 words)

	1976 Summer Olympics: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		In the bid to organise the Olympics, Montreal defeated Moscow and Los Angeles, which would organise the 1980 and 1984 Olympics.
		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.
		This has been often called the greatest Olympic boxing team the United States ever had, and, out of the five American gold medalists in boxing, all but Davis went on to become professional world champions.
	www.encyclopedian.com /19/1976-Summer-Olympics.html (372 words)

	Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		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)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS
		The Olympic champions were as follows: 1900: a combined Swedish/Danish team; 1904: an American club team representing the Milwaukee Athletic Club; 1906: Germany/Switzerland; 1908: a British team from the City of London Police Club; 1912: Sweden; and 1920: Great Britain.
		Rugby union football was held at the Olympics in 1900, 1908, 1920 and 1924.
		Polo was on the Olympic programme in 1900, 1908, 1920, 1924 and 1936.
	www.olympic.org /uk/sports/past/index_uk.asp (349 words)

	Los Angeles 1932 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		There was some hesitation, but the IOC (International Olympic Committee) said in 1923 in Rome; "Los Angeles organize the Olympics of 1932." The hesitation came through the Olympics of 1904, which were organized through Sint Louis (the only city that organized the Olympics outside Europe!), and didn't were organized very well.
		The countries which joined the Olympics didn't like the idea to bring their athletes to the west coast of America, but when Los Angeles promised that the transportation, food and homes would be subsidized, the countries liked the idea.
		For the first time was the rostrum at the Olympics (podium for the three who finished as first, second and third), and were the medals given at the end of each day.
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	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)

	1932 Summer Olympics
		The Games of the X Olympiad were held in 1932 in Los Angeles, United States.
		Babe Didrikson wins two gold medals in the javelin throw and the hurdles event, and only loses a third in the high jump because her jumping technique is ruled inferior and is placed second.
		Finnish star Paavo Nurmi is barred from competing in the Olympic for being a professional.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1932_summer_olympics.shtml (196 words)

	Olympics
		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).
		In 1932, Babe single-handedly won the AAU championships, which served as Olympic qualifying, in Evanston, Ill. The sole representative of Employers Casualty, she scored 30 points, eight more than the runner-up team, which had 22 athletes.
		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)

	1932 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An Olympic Village was built for the first time, occupied by the male athletes.
		The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was known in 1932 as Olympic Stadium.
		After her death in 1980, it was discovered that she was intersex and would have been ineligible to participate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1932_Summer_Olympics (549 words)

	The Summer Olympics, an Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It is still disputed which events exactly were Olympic, since few or maybe even none of the events were advertised as such at the time.
		This distance was chosen to ensure that the race finished in front of the box occupied by the British royal family.
		This was in stark contrast to 1932 when the Los Angeles games were affected by the Great Depression, which contributed to the fewest competitors since the St. Louis games.
	www.juiceenewsdaily.com /0605/sports/olympics.html (2073 words)

	1932 Olympics — Infoplease.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Despite a world-wide economic depression and predictions that the 1932 Summer Olympics were doomed to failure, 37 countries sent over 1,300 athletes to southern California and the Games were a huge success.
		Energized by perfect weather and the buoyant atmosphere of the first Olympic Village, the competition was fierce.
		Environmental factors in the summer Olympics in historical perspective.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114502.html (416 words)

	1984 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		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 (989 words)

	The Olympics
		Throughout the thousands of years that the Greeks competed every four years in the Olympics, there was war only 75% of the time among the various city states, including the famous pelopponesian war (Kids: Go here for some great information about this fantastic war that changed the world!) of 845BC.
		It was not until the Olympics of 662AD that the athletes finally agreed to wear clothes, as the local shoe company finally agreed to pay rights fees in the amount of 16 drachma per athlete.
		Since the Olympics were first televised in 1824, there have been 4100 sports attempted and rejected, including horse racing along the beach, indoor mountaineering, synchronized golfing, shuffleboard, chess, rhythmic gymnastics, and pizza toss, the favorite sport of the Italians.
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	Learn more about 1936 Summer Olympics in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		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.
		Rower Jack Beresford won his fifth Olympic medal in the sport, and his third gold medal.
		For the first time the Olympic Flame was brought to the Olympic Town by a torch relay, with the starting point in Olympia, Greece.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /1/19/1936_summer_olympics.html (481 words)

	Olympics Timeline: Ancient Greece - 1940s
		The Olympic flag is introduced, as is the Olympic oath.
		In what may be the most famous incident in Olympic history, Jesse Owens wins four gold medals, showing up German claims of Aryan superiority.
		The American Olympic Committee sends a hockey team, as does the American Hockey Association; the IOC bars either from being considered for a medal.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/olympicstimeline.html (1345 words)

	All Olympic Sports - Boxing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		At the old Olympics was boxing already at the program.
		In 1904 was boxing for the first time at the program, all titles went to the USA.
		In the time that boxing was at the program, were there many changes in the weightclasses, and many classes have been added.
	library.thinkquest.org /25114/eng/sporten/boksen.html (307 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Lake Placid 1932
		Lake Placid was a ski station among the Adirondacks in the State of New York.
		During the opening ceremony, the British contingent's flag was carried by a woman, an Olympic first.
		Canada was declared the winner on the basis of a better goal average throughout the Olympics.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w03lakeplacid.html (359 words)

	Graduate & Adult Studies Local Sponsor of Summer Olympics
		Helen Stephens, "The Fulton Flash," (pictured here with Jesse Owens) was enrolled at William Woods when she won her gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin; one for the women's 100 meters and another as part of the 4 x 100 meter relay.
		William Woods continues the tradition by being a local sponsor of the The Summer Olympics.
		Summer Olympic Events include: track and field, soccer, swimming, baseball, equestrian, sailing, greco-roman wresting and gymnastics.
	www.williamwoods.edu /gradadult/olympic.html (139 words)

	San Diego Metropolitan - The World’s First Binational Olympics Proposed For Tijuana And San Diego - December 2003
		The summer Olympics offer competition in 28 sports, with multiple venues for some, including aquatics, archery, athletics (track and field), badminton, baseball, basketball, boxing, canoeing and kayaking, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football (soccer), gymnastics, handball, hockey, judo, modern pentathlon, rowing, sailing, shooting, softball, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon, volleyball, weightlifting and wrestling.
		The 2010 winter Olympics have been awarded to Vancouver, Canada, and because the International Olympic Committee often rotates hemispheres, the U.S. bid for a summer Olympics in New York City in 2012 may be jeopardized by the Canadian winter location.
		The last U.S.-hosted summer Olympics were held in Atlanta in 1996, preceded by Los Angeles in 1984 and 1932 and by St. Louis in 1904, the first Olympic games in the U.S. While based on ancient Greek games, the modern Olympics were established in Athens in 1896.
	www.sandiegometro.com /2003/dec/coverstory2.html (1246 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1932 Los Angeles
		It was a wise move that became the Olympic standard.
		As well, there was a 10,000-seat swimming stadium; boxing, wrestling and weightlifting were held in the Olympic auditorium, and the famous Rose Bowl in Pasadena was outfitted with a wooden cycling track.
		But Nurmi, the greatest distance runner in Olympic history, was not allowed to compete on the grounds that he had been paid to compete in Europe, tainting his amateur status.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1932.html (1279 words)

	Metroactive Features \| Little Miss Knock You Out
		Hildebrandt, who is 62, was at the meeting in 1993 when the USA Boxing president made the announcement that "well, we have no choice; we have to make women's boxing a sport," she recalls.
		USA Boxing now has 2,000 women registered to fight in the United States, and the number of women in the ring is growing by leaps around the world.
		Women's boxing needed to be added as of last year to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/12.19.02/boxing-0251.html (2785 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)

	The Nazi Olympics
		The Olympics were a perfect arena for the Nazi propaganda machine, which was unsurpassed at staging elaborate public spectacles and rallies.
		In August 1936 Olympic flags and swastikas bedecked the monuments and houses of a festive, crowded Berlin.
		Two weeks before the Olympics began, German officials informed Gretel Bergmann, a Jewish athlete who had equaled the German women's record in the high jump, that she was denied a place on the team.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/olympics.html (2956 words)

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