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	Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place in the Chamshil Students' Gymnasium in Seoul.
		The boxing schedule began on September 17 and ended on October 2.
		Twelve boxing events (all men's individual) were contested, with the participation of 441 athletes and 159 officials from 106 countries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boxing_at_the_1988_Summer_Olympics (58 words)

	1988 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were held in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea.
		After boycotts of the Olympics in 1976, 1980 and 1984, the Seoul Games were again boycotted, led by North Korea and followed by Cuba; the basis of the boycott was South Korea's refusal to co-host the Olympics with North Korea, which rejected all compromise.
		Tennis returns to the Olympics after a 64-year absence, and Steffi Graf adds to her four Grand Slam victories in the year by also winning the Olympic title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1988_Summer_Olympics (683 words)

	Boxing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boxing, also called pugilism, Western Boxing, 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 in a series of one to three-minute intervals called "rounds".
		Earliest evidence suggests that boxing was prevalent in North Africa during 4000 BC and the Mediterranean in 1500 BC.
		In the late 19th and early 20th century, Olympic boxing was encouraged in schools, universities and in the armed forces, but the champions usually came from among the urban poor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boxing (6913 words)

	2012 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad, will be held in London, United Kingdom from 26 July to 12 August 2012.
		The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG) was put in place to oversee the development of the Games after the success of the bid, and held their first board meeting on 7 October 2005.
		The paper also reported that women's boxing may be added to London; the IOC confirmed that women's boxing would not be included in Beijing because they "did not feel it merited inclusion in 2008".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics (2330 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: 2007-10-30)
		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)

	Wikipedia: 1932 Summer Olympics
		An Olympic Village was built for the first time, occupied by the male athletes.
		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.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/1/19/1932_summer_olympics.html (198 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 2004 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Athens was chosen as the host city during the 106th IOC Session held in Lausanne in 05 September 1997,(date of the 25th anniversary of the Munich Massacre after surprisingly losing the bid to organize the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta nearly seven years before, on 18 September 1990, during the 96th IOC Session in Tokyo.
		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.hallencyclopedia.com /2004_Summer_Olympics (1826 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)

	Olympics
		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: 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 (909 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)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Bribe offer? Boxing officials will double it
		Actually, amateur boxing officials are going one better by giving Olympic judges and referees an offer they can't refuse -- double the bribe in cash for anyone reporting an attempt to influence the scoring of a fight.
		Amid calls to ban boxing from the Olympics, AIBA introduced computerized scoring to try to ensure boxers from any country got a fair break.
		That was evident only last year at the World Amateur Boxing Championships when four AIBA judges were suspended and their decision reversed after Russian welterweight Timour Gaidalov was given a victory over Cuba's Juan Hernandez.
	www.espn.go.com /oly/summer00/boxing/s/0918bribes.html (737 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The Olympic competitions, spread out over four and a half months, were lost in the chaos of a World’s Fair.
		Olympic Oath by: The first athletes' oath was sworn at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium.
		Four new sports were included in the Olympic Games at the 1901 IOC Session in Paris: boxing, dumbbells, freestyle wrestling and decathlon.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1904 (353 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)

	Category:1988 Summer Olympics events - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics - Men's 400 metres
		Tennis at the 1988 Summer Olympics - Men's Singles
		Tennis at the 1988 Summer Olympics - Women's Singles
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:1988_Summer_Olympics_events (88 words)

	1988 Summer Olympics
		The Games of the XXIV Olympiad were held in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea.
		South Korea's government became a democracy under the pressure of organising the Olympics.
		After boycotts of the Olympics in 1976, 1980 and 1984, the Games were again boycotted, but only by four nations: North Korea, Cuba, Ethiopia and Nicaragua.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1988_summer_olympics.shtml (329 words)

	1976 Summer Olympics Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In the bid to organise the Olympics, Montreal defeated Moscow and Los Angeles, which would organise the 1980 and 1984 Olympics.
		In a protest to a tour of South Africa by the New Zealand rugby team, Tanzania led a boycott of 22 African nations as the IOC refused to not admit the New Zealand team.
		The organisation of the Olympics turned out bad financially for Montreal, as the city remained faced with debts well after the Games had finished.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/1/19/1976_summer_olympics.html (353 words)

	SLAM! Sports - Boxing - Hit and miss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		As the best heavyweight fighter of his generation, Lewis, who was born in England, boxed twice for Canada at the Summer Olympics, lived in Miami and Jamaica and Brampton, and won his largest fights in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, was a boxer without a home and of only marginal popularity.
		He won his gold medal in Seoul in 1988, stopping Riddick Bowe in an historic final, just days after Ben Johnson tested positive and the world's attention, not to mention Canada's, had turned to the greatest Olympic scandal in history.
		He is a boxing figure to remember and revere for an even better reason: He leaves the sport wealthy, independent, with his body and mind still sharp at a time when that just doesn't seem possible anymore.
	slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Boxing/2004/02/06/338255.html (1160 words)

	ipedia.com: 2000 Summer Olympics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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.ipedia.com /2000_summer_olympics.html (836 words)

	1988 Olympics
		For the first time since Munich in 1972, there was no organized boycott of the Summer Olympics.
		Otherwise, Steffi Graf added an Olympic gold medal to her Grand Slam sweep in tennis, Greg Louganis won both men's diving events for the second straight time, and the U.S. men's basketball team had to settle for third place after losing to the gold medal-winning Soviets, 82-76, in the semifinals.
		The Barcelona Olympics and the perception of foreign nations: a panel study of Japanese university students.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114845.html (438 words)

	Light the Torch - Disruptions in the Olympics
		I never really sat down and thought about the times that the world didn’t have the Olympics in certain uncontrollable events until tonight when I decided to read up on some of the Games’ history.
		There are numerous occasions enumerated where Olympics and Politics mixed which affected a a lot of athletes, organisations and countries in the process.
		Another example is the latest one, which stated that Afghanistan only returned to the Olympic competition during the 2004 Sydney Games after being suspended between the period of 1999 and 2002.
	www.lightthetorch.net /2006/disruptions-in-the-olympics (570 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)

	Summer Olympics: Tennis
		There was tennis in the Olympics from 1896 until 1924.
		It returned in 1984 as a demonstration sport and became an official Olympic sport in 1988.
		At the Olympics there will be men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, and women's doubles.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/tennis.htm (433 words)

	EdGate Summer Games
		To qualify as an Olympic sport, that sport must be widely practiced by men in at least 75 countries and on four continents, and by women in at least 40 countries and on three continents.
		For example, tennis and baseball were demonstration sports before becoming medal sports in the 1988 and 1992 Games, respectively.
		The Olympic sport of team handball is not to be confused with the game played against a wall with a small rubber ball.
	www2.edgate.com /summergames/spotlight_sport (384 words)

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