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	1956 Summer Olympics - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Games of the XVI Olympiad were held in 1956 in Melbourne, Australia, although the equestrian events could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations.
		Because Melbourne is situated in the southern hemisphere, the Olympics were held later in the year than those held in the northern hemisphere.
		Inspired by Australian teenager John Wing, an Olympic tradition begins when athletes of different nations are allowed to parade together at the closing ceremony, instead of with their national teams, as a symbol of world unity...
	open-encyclopedia.com /1956_Summer_Olympics (405 words)

	1960 Summer Olympics: Just the facts... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Rome had been awarded the organisation of the 1908 Summer Olympics (additional info and facts about 1908 Summer Olympics), but had to decline and pass the honours to London (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center).
		Danish (A Scandinavian language that is the official language of Denmark) sailer Paul Elvstrøm wins his fourth straight gold medal in the Finn class, the first athlete to achieve this feat in an individual event.
		It was the second time an athlete died in competition at the Olympics, after the death of Portuguese (The Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil) marathon runner Francisco Lazaro at the 1912 Summer Olympics (additional info and facts about 1912 Summer Olympics).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1960_Summer_Olympics.htm (791 words)

	Muhammad Ali - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Clay won a gold medal as a light heavyweight boxer.
		After the 1960 Olympics he turned professional, under the tutelage of boxing legend Angelo Dundee, and quickly became famous for his unorthodox style, his spectacular results, and his tireless self-promotion (the latter inspired in part by professional wrestler Gorgeous George and singer Little Richard).
		From 1960 to 1963, the young fighter amassed a record of 19-0, with 15 knockouts.
	wikipedia.com /wiki/Cassius_Clay (3015 words)

	1960 summer olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics: Information From Answers.com Boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics Cassius Marcellus Clay, aka, Muhammad Ali, won the gold medal in the heavy weight divission for the U. 1960 Summer Olympics: Information From Answers.com 1960 Summer Olympics The Games of the XVII Olympiad were held in 1960 in Rome, Italy.
		Olympic road racing champion Sara Carrigan won the fourth leg of the Bay Cycling Classic in Geelong last night, as Katie Mactier built an almost impregnable lead in the overall standings with one race left.
		The International Olympic Committee (IOC), which sets and enforces Olympic policy, has struggled with the licensing and commercialization of the games, the need to schedule events to accommodate American television networks (whose broadcasting fees help underwrite the games), and the monitoring of athletes who seek illegal competitive advantages, often through the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
	www.olympic-headquarters.net /1960-summer-olympics.htm (1274 words)

	1960 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Summer Olympics - Rome 1960 - August 25, 1960 to September 11, 1960.
		The Summer Olympics of 1960 were held in...
		Olympics - EnchantedLearning.com - Winter Olympics: Turin, Italy, is the locale of the 2006 Winter Olympics.
	www.top-olympics.info /1960-summer-olympics.html (569 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1960 Summer Olympics
		The fifth modern Olympic games, originally scheduled to be held in Rome, were instead held in 1908 in London, England.
		The Olympic Oath is taken by an athlete and a judge at the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games.
		The Olympic Stadium is the name usually given to the big centrepiece sports arena of the Summer Olympic Games.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1960-Summer-Olympics (676 words)

	Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the 1904 Summer Olympics, seven boxing events were contested.
		So Oliver Kirk is the one and only boxer who has won two gold medals in the same Olympics.
		George Finnegan, Harry Spanger and Charles Mayer managed to win one gold and one silver medal and Jack Eagan one silver and one bronze medal.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boxing_at_the_1904_Summer_Olympics (146 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports > 2004 Summer Olympics
		U.S. fighter inspired by late father: Andre Ward wants to see American boxing back where it was in the 1970s and '80s, on the top of the Olympic medal stand.
		NBC and its family of cable networks flooded American households with nearly nonstop coverage of the Athens Olympics, and the strategy – along with strong performances by the U.S. teams in swimming and gymnastics – produced not only a ratings increase, but an estimated profit of at least $60 million.
		It was predicted before the Olympics that prostitution, which is legal and heavily regulated in Athens, would enjoy a boom economy.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/olympics (1599 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 (1129 words)

	1960 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wilma Rudolph, a former polio patient, won three gold medals in the sprint events on the track.
		Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia won the marathon bare-footed to become the first fl African Olympic Champion.
		Cassius Clay, later better known as Muhammad Ali, won boxing's light-heavyweight gold medal.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/1960_Summer_Olympics (366 words)

	1972 Summer Olympics
		In the bid to organise the Olympics, Detroit, Madrid and Montreal were beaten.
		Lasse Virén of Finland won the 5000 and 10000 m (the latter after a fall), a feat he would repeat in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
		For the first time, the Olympic Oath is also taken by a representative of the referees.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1972_summer_olympics.shtml (395 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)

	2004 Summer Olympics - Athens 2004 Olympics - Greece Olympics
		The Modern Olympics were seen as an instrument to promote understanding and friendship among nations and uphold the true spirit of sportsmanship.
		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.
		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 (1294 words)

	Baths of Caracalla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It consisted of a frigidarium (cold room), tepidarium (medium), and caldarium (hot room), as well as two palaestras (gyms where wrestling and boxing was practiced).
		The ruins stand as the backdrop for the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in the summer opera season.
		It has also become a venue for modern cultural events, such as the gymnastics competition during the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baths_of_Caracalla (420 words)

	1992 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For the first time since 1960 South Africa is allowed to participate in the White South African runner Elana Meyer and Ethiopian runner Derartu Tulu fight out a battle in the 10 000 m (won Tulu) and then run their lap of hand in hand.
		As the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991 the Baltic nations of Estonia Latvia and Lithuania participate with their own teams for first time since 1936.
		Badminton and women's judo become part of the Olympic programme white water canoeing returns to the Games a 20-year absence.
	www.freeglossary.com /1992_Summer_Olympics (519 words)

	TSN.ca - Olympics - Canada's Sports Leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Unfortunately, the Montreal Olympics also marked the first time that an athlete from the host nation failed to win a gold medal.
		Twenty African nations decided to boycott the Olympics in protest of New Zealand's national rugby team touring South Africa which robbed the track and field competition of some of its best competitors.
		Clarence Hill of Bermuda earned a bronze medal in boxing’s super-heavyweight division to give Bermuda the honor of being the least populous nation ever to win a medal in the Summer Olympics.
	www.tsn.ca /olympics/feature.asp?fid=9412 (468 words)

	H1910
		1960 Jun 4, The Taiwan island of Quemoy was hit by 500 artillery shells fired from the coast of Communist China.
		1960 Oct 14, The idea of a Peace Corps was first suggested by Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy to an audience of students at the University of Michigan.
		1960 Dec 9, The Laos government fled to Cambodia as the capital city of Vientiane was engulfed in war.
	www.eleggua.com /History/1960.html (3914 words)

	HickokSports.com - History - The 1960 Olympics
		In Rome, where the ancient Olympics had ended more than 1600 years earlier, the 1960 Olympic venues were a curious blend of ancient and modern architecture.
		Near the brand-new Olympic stadium, sports palace and velodrome, wrestling was contested in the Basilica of Maxentius, which had hosted matches 2,000 years before; gymnastics took place in the Baths of Caracalla, and the marathon was run along the Appian Way, finishing at the Arch of Constantine.
		Italian fans cheered wildly at the boxing arena, where six of their countrymen reached the finals and three won gold medals.
	www.hickoksports.com /history/ol1960.shtml (928 words)

	1960 Summer Olympics - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This time, the city beat out Lausanne, Detroit, Budapest, Brussels, Mexico City and Tokyo for the rights to the Games.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about 1960 Summer Olympics contains research on
		1960 Summer Olympics, Highlights, Medals awarded, Medal count, See also, External links and 1960 Summer Olympics.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/1960_Summer_Olympics (360 words)

	1980 Summer Olympics
		The Games of the XXII Olympiad were held in 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union.
		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.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1980_summer_olympics.shtml (273 words)

	ESPN.com: OLY - New York City gets U.S. nod for 2012 Summer Games
		The International Olympic Committee will choose the 2012 site in three years, pitting New York against such possible rivals as Paris, Moscow, Toronto, Budapest, Rome, Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid or Seville in Spain, and a city in Germany, perhaps Berlin.
		The IOC usually prefers to move the Summer and Winter Games around the globe, and it's doubtful North America would get to host two straight Olympics.
		However, there were three consecutive Olympics in Europe in the 1990s -- Albertville, France, in the winter, Barcelona in the summer of 1992, and Lillehammer, Norway, in the winter of 1994.
	espn.go.com /oly/news/2002/1102/1454873.html (1058 words)

	Timeline 1960
		1960 Oct 21, The 1st British nuclear submarine, Dreadnought, was launched at Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, by her majesty the Queen.
		1960 Dec 1, Patrice Lumumba was caught in the Congo.
		1960 William F. House led a team that perfected the cochlear implant, a device that transforms sound into electrical signals that stimulate the auditory nerve in the brain.
	timelines.ws /20thcent/1960.HTML (9769 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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.
		He was replaced by United States Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage, who supported the Games.
		* For the first time the Olympic Fire was brought to the Olympic Town by a torch relay, with the starting point in Olympia, Greece.
	brandt.kurowski.net /projects/lsa/wiki/view.cgi?doc=487 (443 words)

	1960 in sports - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		See also: 1959 in sports, other events of 1960, 1961 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'.
		The league expands to Dallas for the 1960 season and Minneapolis-St.Paul for the 1961 season.
		The American Olympic men's ice-hockey team won the United States' first Olympic hockey gold medal with a record of 7–0–0 during the tournament.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/1960_in_sports (700 words)

	Fanbay.net - Athens 2004 Summer Olympics - Links, News, Travel info
		Basketball, Diving, Sailing, Soccer, and the Triathlon, are eagerly anticipated, higly watched events, but their are minimal amounts of medals awarded and they have no impact on the overall olympic medal counts.
		The Ancient Olympic games originated in Greece and the first modern olympics was held in Athens in 1896.
		Also, see the following link for an analysis of the performance of the United States in the Summer Olympics over the years, from 1896 to present.
	www.fanbay.net /olympics/2004.htm (449 words)

	1960 Olympics
		Died: Frank McKinney Jr., 53, the pioneer of modern, bent-arm backstrokers, who won three medals at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics and went on to become chairman of an Indiana bank and president of its parent company; in a small-airplane crash near Indianapolis.
		SPORTS, PART 2: TRACK AND FIELD: Coach's career speaks for itself: Therrell High's Meadows doesn't advertise her national championships, or: her race at the 1960 Olympics.
		MIRACLE OF 1960 (The Record (Bergen County, NJ))
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114618.html (504 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Index
		American Emily deRiel, in only her first year of international competition, won the silver medal in the Olympic debut of the women's pentathlon.
		DeRiel's medal was the first in pentathlon for an American since 1960.
		A skittish horse made the difference as Senior fell to sixth place, and Dmitry Svatkovsky of Russia won the gold.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/pentathlon (87 words)

	Search Tuna Report for 1960 summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Her historic performance at the Rome Summer Games in was the perfect example of what it means to be an Olympian.
		Description: 1960 Summer Olympics The Games Of The XVII Olympiad Were Held In 1960 In Rome, Italy.
		Olympic Games The Modern Olympic Movement Has Been Around In Its Current Form Since 1896 But The Olympic Games Are Some 3000 Years Old, Beginning At Ancient Olympia In 776 BC And Lasting For Almost 1000 Years Before Being Banned....
	www.searchtuna.com /ftlive2/1710.html (1698 words)

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