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Topic: Boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Henry Tillman
		Professional boxing bout featuring Ricardo DomÃnguez (left) versus Rafael OrtÃz Boxing, also called pugilism, prizefighting (when referring to professional boxing) or the sweet science (a common nickname among fans), is a sport and martial art in which two participants of similar weight fight each other with their fists...
		Boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics took place in the Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California.
		Tillman turned pro in 1984 as a cruiserweight and had a disappointing professional career, primarily due to a weak chin.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Henry-Tillman (758 words)

	Olympics facts
		For many years the Olympics consisted of only one race, a sprint of 192 metres (210 yards, the length of the stadium) called the "stadion." A second race of 400 metres was added 50 years later.
		Olympic medals since 1928 have featured the same design on the front: a Greek goddess, the Olympic Rings, the coliseum of ancient Athens, a Greek vase known as an amphora, a horse-drawn chariot, and the year, number of the Olympiad, and host city.
		The modern Olympics is the brainchild of Baron Pierre de Coubertin of France.
	www.didyouknow.cd /sport/olympics.htm (579 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Boxing at the 1980 Summer Olympics
		Boxing at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place in the Indoor Stadium of the Olympiski Sports Complex in Moscow.
		Olympic Stadium, known locally as the Olimpiisky, is a large indoor arena located in Moscow, Russia.
		Antonio Esparragoza Betancourt (born September 2, 1959 in Cumana, Sucre, Venezuela) was a boxer in the Featherweight division.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Boxing-at-the-1980-Summer-Olympics (5498 words)

	Olympic Games
		Over the years, other events were added: boxing, wrestling, pankration (combination of boxing and wrestling), chariot racing, several other running events (the diaulos, hippios, dolichos, and hoplitodromos), as well as a pentathlon, consisting of wrestling, stadion, long jump, javelin throw and discus throw (the latter three were not separate events).
		Olympic is also the name the public sometimes uses for the Greek national airline, Olympic Airways.
		Olympic uses varous types or airplanes, like the Boeing 747 and Airbus A340 for international routes, and the Boeing 727 and Boeing 737 for domestic routes.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/o/ol/olympic_games.shtml (1103 words)

	2000 Olympics: Witty adds Summer Games to her resume
		She finished second in the time trial at the Olympic trials, and she finished sixth in a World Cup event in Moscow that included what U.S. sprint Coach Des Dickie called some of the world's better women time-trialers.
		Connie Paraskvein-Young was a member of the 1980 and 1984 speedskating Olympic teams and the 1988, 1992 and 1996 cycling teams.
		Eddie Eagen won a gold medal in boxing at light heavyweight in the 1920 Olympics, then was part of a third-place four-man bobsled team in 1932.
	www.post-gazette.com /olympics/20000709witty8.asp (840 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)

	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)

	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.
		Egypt's best results in the Olympic pool came in 2000 in Sydney when Egypt's retired golden fish Ranya Elwany reached the final B and clinched the 11th spot.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/egypt2004olympics.htm (1359 words)

	2000 Summer Olympics
		The ceremonies concluded with the lighting of the Olympic Flame.
		Former Australian Olympic champions brought the torch through the stadium, handing it over to Cathy Freeman, who lit the flame in the cauldron.
		IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch, at his last Olympics, had to leave for home, as his wife was severely ill. Upon arrival, his wife had already passed away.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/2/20/2000_summer_olympics.shtml (670 words)

	1800-Olympics.com -- Summer Olympics: Olympic Sports: Boxing
		The Irish Amateur Boxing Association are very proud of the fact that they are the only amateur boxing association to have a custom built stadium which they manage and control.
		The National Boxing Association is a world sanctioning body dedicated to assisting and encouraging the sport of boxing throughout the world, and striving to improve the safety and public relations of the sport.
		The World Boxing Association is the oldest of boxing's world sanctioning bodies and has a comprehensive website to go with it -- featuring current champions, past belt holders, championship schedules, rankings, results and records.
	1800-olympics.com /SummerOlympics/OlympicSports/Boxing.htm (676 words)

	1984 Summer Olympic Games
		Olympic contests are meant to be a competition among individuals, not nations.
		As with all Olympic athletes, the contestants can be of any age, but they must be citizens of the country they represent and must have amateur standing.
		Olympic contenders were permitted to earn an expense allowance equal to what they might have earned on regular jobs had they not been in training.
	members.aol.com /efirpo/olymp84.html (676 words)

	Category:1984 Summer Olympics events - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Events at the 1984 Summer Olympics (Los Angeles)
		Tennis at the 1984 Summer Olympics - Men's Singles
		Tennis at the 1984 Summer Olympics - Women's Singles
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:1984_Summer_Olympics_events (77 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - 2000 Summer Olympics
		The cover for the DVD of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics showing fireworks in the background and the lighting of the Olympic Flame by Cathy Freeman (who subsequently won the 400 m title).
		Therefore, former Australian Olympic Champion swimmer, Dawn Fraser, was seated in the chair next to Juan Antonio Samaranch during the Australian cultural display part of the opening ceremony, so that he would not be alone for the ceremony.
		During the raising of the Olympics Flag, the Olympic Hymn was sung by the Millennium Choir of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=2000_Summer_Olympics (1459 words)

	Boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics took place in the Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California.
		The boxing schedule began on July 29 and ended on August 11.
		Twelve boxing events (all men's individual) were contested.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boxing_at_the_1984_Summer_Olympics (48 words)

	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)

	Boxing (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At the Olympic Games, there is an electronic scoring device and points are only awarded if three of the judges push their buttons within one second of the punch being landed.
		Boxing was part of the Ancient Olympic Games, where contestants had simple leather straps tied round their hands and trained with primitive versions of today's punch bags.
		Boxing was introduced to the Olympic Games in 1904, where there was also a demonstration of the women's boxing.
	www.olympics.org.uk /sports/summer/boxing.asp (543 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.
	www.worldatlas.com /aatlas/infopage/olympic.htm (1007 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)

	Wikipedia: 1948 Summer Olympics
		After a hiatus of 12 years caused by the outbreak of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
		With World War II in recent memory, Germany and Japan were not invited for the Games, although Italy was.
		For the first time, Olympic diplomas were awarded to the 6th highest placed athletes.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/1/19/1948_summer_olympics.html (163 words)

	1984 Summer Olympics
		After the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, the Eastern Bloc, including the Soviet Union, East Germany and Cuba boycotts these Olympics (the USSR announced their intention not to participate on May 8, 1984).
		Nawal El Moutawakel of Morocco becomes the first female Olympic champion of an Islamic nation, and the first of her country in the 400 m hurdles.
		A marathon for women is held for the first time at the Olympics, won by Joan Benoit[?].
	www.y2z.org /19/1984_Summer_Olympics.html (411 words)

	Olympics: Boxing
		Boxing did not take place in a ring, which meant there was no opportunity for cornering.
		The boxing champion of the 79th Olympiad in 464 B.C., Diagoras of Rhodes was the ultimate noble ancient athlete.
		But Stevenson turned down offers to box beyond the amateur spotlight, leaving his legacy as one of the best boxers in Olympic history: the first man to win the gold medal in the same division three times.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/08/08/Olympics/Boxing.shtml (1013 words)

	The Summer Olympics, an Overview (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Jackson disqualified, Viloria loses close one
		Jackson was to have boxed Selim Palyani of Turkey.
		Jackson, the U.S. champion at 132 pounds in 1997, didn't box in 1998-99, and he weighed 174 pounds as late as last October.
		In one of the best action fights of the tournament, 30-year-old Rafael Lozano of Spain, boxing in his third Olympics, beat Danilo Lerio of the Philippines 17-15 in a second-round bout at 106 pounds in the afternoon.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/news/2000/0921/765232.html (577 words)

	1976 Summer Olympics
		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.y2z.org /19/1976_Summer_Olympics.html (485 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)

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