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Topic: Boxing at the 1964 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)

	2004 Summer Olympics - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		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.
		The main Olympic Stadium, the designated facility for the opening and closing ceremonies, was completed only two months before the games opened, with the sliding over of a futuristic glass roof designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
		The Mayor of Athens, Dora Bakoyianni, passed the Olympic Flag to the Mayor of Beijing, Wang Qishan.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/2/0/0/2004_Summer_Olympics_330c.html (2001 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 (376 words)

	Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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)

	Olympics
		That was supposed to be the end of Owens' Olympic participation, but on August 9, he and Ralph Metcalf replaced Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller, the only Jews on the U.S. track team, on the 4x100-meter relay.
		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).
		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)

	Olympic Events
		The modern rules of boxing were developed in Great Britain (18th century); The well known "Queensbury Rules" set the duration of rounds to three minutes and the count for knockdowns to ten.
		Boxing was first included in the competition programme of the 1904 Games in Saint-Louis.
		The Japanese volleyball used in the 1964 Olympics, consisted of a rubber carcass with leather panelling.
	www.ict.mic.ul.ie /websites/2002/Eilis_Faherty/events.htm (1364 words)

	1964 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, were held in 1964 in Tokyo, Japan.
		The 1964 Summer games marked the first time the Olympics were held in Asia [1].
		Olympic Stadium, now known as "National Stadium," was the venue for the opening and closing ceremonies, and for track and field events.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1964_Summer_Olympics (663 words)

	The Summer Olympics, an Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This distance was chosen to ensure that the race finished in front of the box occupied by the British royal family.
		The 1964 Games held in Tokyo are notable for heralding the modern age of telecommunications.
		The 1964 Games were thus a turning point in the global visibility and popularity of the Olympics.
	www.juiceenewsdaily.com /0605/sports/olympics.html (2073 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Kerri stuck her landing in people's memories
		The strongest image I have from past Olympics is of the terrorist standing on the balcony of the Israeli athlete's quarters in Munich, 1972.
		The Olympics is at its best when the celebration of athletic excellence allows us all, competitors and watchers alike, to celebrate the joy and unity of humanity.
		Sadly, the Olympic moment from the 2000 Sydney games that will always stand out in my mind is the IOC stripping an innocent 16 year old Romanian gymnast of an all-around gold medal in the gymnastics competition.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/s/timeline/usercomments.html (3884 words)

	Learn more about 1936 Summer Olympics in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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)

	boxing - definition of boxing by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The act, activity, or sport of fighting with the fists, especially according to rules requiring the use of boxing gloves and limiting legal blows to those striking above the waist and on the front or sides of the opponent.
		Boxing at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Lightweight
		Boxing at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Middleweight
	www.thefreedictionary.com.cob-web.org:8888 /boxing (462 words)

	Summer Olympics: Volleyball
		In the Olympics there are two different kinds of volleyball, Volleyball and Beach Volleyball.
		Volleyball became an Olympic sport in 1964 and Beach Volleyball became an Olympic sport in 1996.
		In the Olympics both Volleyball and Beach Volleyball are played by men and women.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/volleyball.htm (222 words)

	Special: Athens Olympics 2004 \| The Christian Science Monitor
		In early February of 1980, the Olympic news at Lake Placid, N.Y. was that US President Jimmy Carter was asking the International Olympic Committee to move the summer games from Moscow.
		The USSR refused to attend the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
		The official reason was "alleged violations of the Olympic Charter by US authorities," but Monitor correspondent Gary Thatcher paints a picture of plain-old politics: "Although the Soviet authorities will never officially admit it, they are exacting belated retribution for the US boycott of the Moscow Olympics of 1980." PDF.
	www.csmonitor.com /specials/oly2004/docs/oly_politics.html (719 words)

	Boxing at the Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boxing has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since its introduction to the program at the 1904 Summer Olympics, except for the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, because Swedish law banned the sport at the time.
		The boxing competition is organized as a set of tournaments, one for each weight class.
		The division between Bantamweight and Featherweight was moved from 118 lb to 119 lb for 1932-1936.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boxing_at_the_Summer_Olympics (232 words)

	EdGate Summer Games
		Olympic boxers must be between the ages of 17 and 32; competitions are held in 12 weight divisions ranging from light flyweight (up to 48 kg, or about 106 lb) to super heavyweight (over 91 kg, or more than 200 lb).
		Olympic-style boxing is faster than the professional game, and the rules are vastly different as well.The scoring system in amateur boxing awards a point to the fighter who can connect with a punch and move away before his opponent can do the same.
		Pushing an opponent or pinning him against the ropes with the shoulder or forearm are both allowed in professional boxing, but in Olympic boxing they are punished.
	www.edgate.com /summergames/spotlight_sport/boxing.php (772 words)

	Irish Boxing
		It seemed that the summer of 2001 was about to signal the dawn of a glorious new era for Irish amateur boxing.
		Since then though success has proved elusive, this summer's disappointment in Thailand was preceded by a disastrous European and Commonwealth championships last year, which saw all bar one of the Irish boxers eliminated in the first round of the competition.
		Recent successes at the Commonwealth Boxing Championships by Ulster's Paul Baker and Martin Lindsay were a welcome improvement in fortunes but they have been over shadowed by the internal political bickering on the Ulster council which has damaged the morale of the sport there.
	www.irish-boxing.com /september03/22_September_2003_Athens.htm (1056 words)

	1932 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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 (374 words)

	Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The year IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch brought the Olympics to his native Spain marked the first renewal of the Summer Games since the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and the reunification of Germany in 1990.
		Cuba made its Olympic return rewarding, capturing seven boxing golds as well as the gold in baseball.
		The first Olympics since the reunification of Germany in 1990 and the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 resulted in a record 2,174 athletes from 65 countries as the Winter Games were staged in the French Alps for the third time.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/b/u/buw107/olympics.htm (1180 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 (1311 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)

	USATODAY.com - Bidding for the Olympics on TV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		And while Olympic TV tonnage is steadily expanding — NBC's outlets plan virtually round-the-clock coverage of next year's Summer Games in Athens — the new deal will likely give viewers even more access to the thousands of hours of competition in an Olympics.
		For next year's Summer Olympics in Athens, General Electric's NBC and four other GE-owned channels will carry about 807 hours of coverage — nearly quadrupling the total TV hours for the Atlanta Summer Games on NBC seven years ago.
		That would be a 33% increase from the last Olympic TV deal, when NBC paid $1.5 billion for rights to the 2006 and 2008 Games in what were 12% increases over previous rights deals.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/2003-04-21-tv-rights_x.htm (1501 words)

	1964 Olympics — Infoplease.com
		Twenty-six years after Japan's wartime government forced the Japanese Olympic Committee to resign as hosts of the 1940 Summer Games, Tokyo welcomed the world to the first Asian Olympics.
		His record toss was one of 25 world and Olympic marks broken.
		And Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina won six medals for the third Olympics in a row.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114650.html (429 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1980 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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)

	Summer Olympics: Judo
		Kano was a member of the International Olympic Committee and an associate of Baron Peirre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic movement.
		Men's judo was not added to the Olympic Games until 1964 and women's judo became an Olympic event in 1992.
		In the Olympics there are seven weight categories for men and seven weight categories for women.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/judo.htm (199 words)

	Lincoln City Libraries - Reference - In the News: 2004 Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Since 1896, the summer Olympic Games have been held every 4 years, with the exceptions of 1940 and 1944 during the waging of World War II.
		At the last summer Olympics (2000 in Sydney, Australia), 199 countries were represented by 10,651 athletes (4,069 women, 6,582 men), who competed in 300 separate events.
		The following are a sampling of videos featuring footage from past Olympics, plus the soundtrack CD including music used during the Olympics television coverage of the past 20 years.
	www.lcl.lib.ne.us /depts/ref/inthenews-olympics2004.htm (885 words)

	POW! Mixed Martial Arts
		Ryukyu Kempo (which roughly translates into Okinawan kung-fu, or Chinese boxing science) is the original style of martial arts learned and taught by Gichin Funakoshi on the island of Okinawa It stresses the existence of body points within your opponent that can be struck or grappled for more effective fighting.
		He was a boxing champion and open his own martial arts school at the age of 23.When Li Zhi Jian first met Wang, he asked Wang to perform some of the techniques that won him the championship.
		Amazed from the agile footwork of the ape and elegant fighting skills of the crane he developed a unique boxing style based on these animals, it was initially called Lion's Roar, a precept based on Buddhist tradition describing sounds "that shake the earth are like lion's roar".
	www.powkickboxing.com /programs.asp?id=4 (8336 words)

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