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	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)

	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: 2007-10-12)
		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 (361 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").
		At the end of an Olympics, the mayor of the host-city presents the flag to the mayor of the next host-city.
		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.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /olympics (1311 words)

	Olympics: Ancient Greece Vs. Present Day
		Now, two years after the Summer Olympics are held, the Winter Olympics are held, and two years after that are the Summer Olympics, and so on.
		It seems almost like boxing and wrestling combined because just like boxing, the end of the match occurs when the looser admits defeat or is disabled.
		In modern Olympics, women are allowed to watch and/or compete Between 1940 and 1948, there was a large increase of women competitors in the Olympic games.
	period8dolzall.tripod.com /olympics.html (1778 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)

	Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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)

	The Summer Olympics, an Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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.
		Of the six Olympic games between 1900 and 1920, there were six different distances for the marathon.
	www.juiceenewsdaily.com /0605/sports/olympics.html (2073 words)

	Learn more about 1936 Summer Olympics in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1952 Helsinki
		They built an Olympic Village in Helsinki specifically for the Communist Bloc countries and erected a prominent scoreboard focused on the Soviets' new rivalry with the United States.
		A host of countries from Bahamas to Vietnam made their Olympic debuts, as well, but the highest-profile return, aside from the reconstituted Russians, was Germany's.
		The Germans were not invited to the 1948 London Olympics, but made the trip to Helsinki, ostensibly as a single team unifying West and East Germany, although virtually all the athletes were West German.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1952.html (1286 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)

	Egypt in the 2004 Summer Olympics
		The original Olympics were held every four years for a span that lasted for almost eight centuries.
		At Minsk in May of 2004, Nahla was the biggest star in the field of 262 competitors in both men's and women's weightlifting, and so not surprisingly, even Sport's Illustrated has picked her for Gold in the Women's 75 kg (165 lbs) event at Athens.
		In fact, she is the only Egyptian athlete to be picked for any medal by SI at the summer event.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/egypt2004olympics.htm (1359 words)

	Athens 2004 Summer Olympics : Modern Olympics, Paralympci Games
		The Olympic torch is first lit in Ancient Olympia and then passed on to the stadium of the city hosting the Opening Ceremony of the Games.
		The Modern Olympics were seen as an instrument to promote understanding and friendship among nations and uphold the true spirit of sportsmanship.
		An Olympic sport is one that should be widely practiced by men in at least 75 countries on 4 continents and by women in at least 40 countries on 3 continents.
	www.clearleadinc.com /site/sports.html (1301 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)

	1932 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, were held in 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
		Fewer than half the number of participants from the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam competed in 1932.
		An Olympic Village was built for the first time, occupied by the male athletes.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1932_Summer_Olympics (389 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)

	2004 Athens Olympics - A site dedicated to Athens 2004 and Past Olympics
		Lighting ceremony of the Olympic Flame in Ancient Olympia to start on the 25th of March 2004
		This web site is not affiliated with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), Athens Olympic Committee (ATHOC) or the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of any country.
		The word olympic is a trademark of IOC.
	www.gamesinathens.com (115 words)

	1924 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The 1924 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VIII Olympiad, were held in 1924 in Paris, France.
		The marathon distance was fixed at 42.195 km, from the distance run at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.
		Ireland was given formal recognition as an independent nation in the Olympic Movement in Paris in 1924 and it was at these games that Ireland made its first appearance in an Olympic Games as an independent nation.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1924_Summer_Olympics (431 words)

	City Mayors: 2012 Summer Olympics
		Boxing in Madison Square Garden and triathlon in Central Park is certainly alluring, and as the Olympics have become more commercialised this would certainly make them more marketable.
		The 1980 Olympics in Moscow, boycotted by the United States and some other countries over the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, are still remembered by some in the Olympic movement.
		The Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) left their candidature until the last minute, but in the end Rio de Janeiro was selected ahead of Sao Paulo, the country’s biggest city, to be Brazil’s representative.
	www.citymayors.com /features/2012olympics.html (4831 words)

	CANOE -- SLAM! 2004 Games News: OLYMPICS NOTE
		Last summer in the Dominican Republic, he defeated Cuba's Michael Lopez to become the first non-Cuban to win a gold in the super heavyweight division at the Pan Am Games.
		The Cuban has real boxing skills - the best I've ever faced - but I'd rather be in against a boxer like him than a puncher with less sills who makes the bout sloppy.
		A year ago, Warren was in the junior Olympic program fighting against 15- and 16-year-olds but peaked in an Olympic year.
	slam.canoe.ca /StatsOLY/BC-OLY-PRVW-BOXING-R.html (1099 words)

	The Olympic Dream
		The Summer Games (which Billy would have participated in), were rescheduled for Helsinki but were cancelled when Soviet troops invaded Finland.
		A FUN FACT: While many people believe Esther Williams was an Olympic medallist (she was actually billed as such on many occasions) the truth is that she never did win an Olympic medal for swimming or for diving.
		Billy Speary, national amateur boxing flyweight and bantamweight champion for the last three years and holder of practically every amateur title available in the United States, is headed for the professional ring.
	www.speary.com /olymdrem.htm (840 words)

	SI.com - Olympics Sports - Factbox: Applicants to host the 2012 Games - Wednesday July 16, 2003 09:46 AM
		Spain was the venue of one of the most successful Olympics of recent times in 1992 when Barcelona won widespread praise for its organization and handling of the Games.
		The United States last hosted a Summer Olympics in Atlanta in 1996 where a bomb killed one person and injured 110.
		Rio, which made a failed bid to host the 2004 Olympics, will now be making a new jab at bringing the summer Games to South America for the first time in its 107-year history.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/news/2003/07/16/2012_factbox (1095 words)

	FIFA.com The Official web site of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association
		Most consecutive medals: By Yugoslavia, which was the bridesmaid in three consecutive Olympics, winning the silver in 1948, 1952 and 1956 before securing the gold in 1960.
		Goals, goals, goals: Since 1948, the average number of goals per match steadily dropped from an all-time high of 5.66 per match to a low of 2.56 at Moscow in 1980.
		Combine the American thirst for international football and the special thrill the Olympics generate, and we are on course for an incredible 16 days.
	www.fifa.com /en/print/article/0,4039,9641,00.html (2179 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1980 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The United States are joined by some 50 other countries - including Japan, West Germany and Canada - and many individual athletes from participating nations.
		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)

	Inwit Publishing, Inc. and Inwit, LLC -- Writings, Links and Software Demonstrations - The Science of the Summer Games ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Today in Olympic competition men and women swim four strokes: the freestyle (which in practice means "the crawl"), the butterfly, the backstroke, and the breaststroke.
		In the summer of 1949, at a meet in the U. S., the Japanese sprint swimmer Hironashin Furuhashi unleashed what seemed to be a minor refinement of the kick in the crawl stroke, but it led him and the other Japanese to sweeping victories.
		The breaststroke is the most rigidly defined of the Olympic styles; athletes must adhere to six rules, specifying everything from the permissible kick (the frog "backward and out") to the position of the shoulders ("in line with the water").
	www.algorithm.com /inwit/writings/scienceofthesummergames.html (5160 words)

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