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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.
		During the 1996 summer games in Atlanta, Ga., a bomb went off at Centennial Olympic Park, killing 2 (1 as a result of a heart attack) and injuring 111 others; the reason for the bombing remains a mystery.
		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 (361 words)

	Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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)

	Boxing News : Adams : Amateur Boxing: Whoxs Next?
		Amateur boxing is one of the most ignored sports in the world.
		Amateur boxing then began to slip from the public view until one big right hand in 1996 by David Reid brought some excitement back into the sport.
		To be considered a medal prospect at the Olympics, a boxer must have certain qualifications behind him, such as experience, which is a key factor when facing the likes of the Germans, Russians and the Cubans.
	www.maxboxing.com /Adams/Adams011504.asp (753 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1996 Atlanta
		The 1996 Olympics were meant to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the modern Olympics.
		Former Olympic boxing champion, Muhammad Ali (named Cassius Clay when he won in 1960), lit the Olympic cauldron, his hand trembling as a result of Parkinson's disease, as the crowd roared.
		The 1996 Olympics would also be Canada's best-ever medal total in a non-boycotted Olympics, with 22 medals, including three gold.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1996.html (1070 words)

	Marines match mettle - Boxing & Wrestling Marines Magazine - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Boxing matches were indoctrinated into the games only a few years later.
		Wrestling and boxing today, without the deadly outcome of their centuries-old ancestors, remain outlets for the competitive spirit of warriors.
		* Organized boxing disappeared for centuries and eventually reappeared as a mixture of boxing and wrestling in London in the late 1600s--hitting with fists was emphasized and a boxer could grab and throw his opponent, then jump on him and hit him while he was down.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0KWG/is_2003_Summer/ai_111506460 (707 words)

	1996 Olympics — Infoplease.com
		The Atlanta Games were certainly the largest (a record 197 nations competed), most logistically complicated Olympics to date and perhaps the most hyped and overcommercialized as well.
		Atlanta Olympics in 1996 expected to boost region's tourism.
		Arts to play key role in 1996 Summer Olympics.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0201963.html (581 words)

	The Dream Team
		A standard-bearer since boxing was first added to the modern Olympics in 1904, the U.S. had slumped after winning a remarkable five gold medals at Helsinki in 1952.
		Olympic-style boxing, ring historians generally agree, had become a concern more for Communist countries and their sports machines, while the gold medal standard was coming to mean less and less for Stateside athletes.
		Indeed, by the 1976 Olympics in Montreal the Soviet Union and Cuba, winners of the lion's share of gold medals in Munich, were expected to dominate again.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /events/1996/olympics/daily/aug3/boxing.html (1940 words)

	The Ancient Olympics (1996)
		Many of those watching the Olympics in Atlanta this summer will assume that the modern games are a true reflection of the ancient ones, that the events and ceremonies and the ideology of universal brotherhood and amateurism recall the Olympics of Greece's golden age.
		Wrestling, boxing, and the pankration, a combination of the two, were known as "heavy" events because, without weight classes or time limits, bigger athletes dominated.
		A beguiling myth is that the five interlocked Olympic rings were an ancient Greek symbol, but the five rings were invented in 1913 by Pierre de Coubertin, president of the International Olympic Committee.
	cat.he.net /~archaeol/9607/abstracts/olympics.html (831 words)

	Economic Impact of Hosting Olympic Games
		The indirect economic impact of the 1996 Summer Olympics is that portion of spending by out-of-state visitors that purchases goods and services produced by Georgia's industries to satisfy the additional demand, as summarized in Table 1.
		As noted previously, impacts created by hosting the Olympics are not limited to direct and indirect spending, but also include the induced (multiplier) effects that are created through sucessive rounds of re-spending the initial dollars within the state.
		To create an Olympic Village, ACOG contributed $47 million for the construction of new dormitories that eventually will be used to house Georgia Tech and Georgia State University students.
	www.selig.uga.edu /forecast/olympics/OLYMTEXT.HTM (2662 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Jackson disqualified, Viloria loses close one
		Jackson was to have boxed Selim Palyani of Turkey.
		His teammate Mairko Romero, the 1996 Olympic champion at 112 pounds, advanced to the 106-pound quarterfinals.
		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)

	Olympics: Summer fling leaves medal hopes on thin ice
		Australian time, she had set an Olympic record in the 500 meter time trial and had the time to beat with 13 competitors to follow.
		She was an alternate on the cycling team in Atlanta in 1996, but felt burned out by the time she began preparing for Nagano.
		Chris Witty is one of nine Americans to have competed in the Winter and Summer Olympics.
	www.sptimes.com /News/091700/Olympics/Summer_fling_leaves_m.shtml (848 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)

	1996 Summer Olympics
		Cycling professionals were admitted to the Olympics, with five-time Tour de France winner Miguel Indurain winning the inaugural individual time trial event.
		Michelle Smith of Ireland wins three gold medals and a bronze, but her victories are overshadowed by doping allegations, which are later reinforced as she is banned after failing a test in 1999.
		Amy Van Dyken wins four gold medals in the Olympic swimming pool, the first American woman to win four titles in a single Olympics.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1996_summer_olympics.shtml (430 words)

	The Guy Who Ate a Cow and Other Olympic Stars
		The much-vaunted, monthlong Olympic truce was necessary to protect travelers to the Games because the Greek city-states were continually at each other's throats.
		Particularly violent events were boxing and the pankration (pronounced pan-KRAT-ee-ahn), a combination of wrestling and bare-knuckled boxing.
		Olympic competitors were typically men of wealth who could afford to pay their way to the Games.
	www.nytimes.com /specials/olympics/cntdown/0714oly-review.html (1094 words)

	Olympics: Boxing
		In an Olympics supposedly short on star power in the states, Michael Bennett could be the symbol of the American dream and a favorite of NBC's prime-time coverage.
		Scoring in amateur boxing is done by five ring-side judges who hit a button every time they see a competitor land a punch.
		The United States had won at least one boxing gold in every Olympic year since 1948, but it appeared the streak was coming to an end.
	www.sptimes.com /News/091000/Olympics/Boxing.shtml (1054 words)

	ipedia.com: 1996 Summer Olympics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Also during the games, the Centennial Olympic Park bombing took place on July 27, 1996 killing Alice Hawthorne and wounding 111 others, and eliciting the death of Melih Uzunyol by heart attack.
		Softball, beach volleyball and mountainbiking debut on the Olympic programme, together with women's football (soccer) and lightweight rowing.
		Cycling professionals were admitted to the Olympics, with five-time Tour de France winner Miguel Induráin winning the inaugural individual time trial event.
	www.ipedia.com /1996_summer_olympics.html (488 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
		U.S. Olympic officials will vote next month on whether to enter a bid for the 2008 Olympic Games.
		The move could bring the Summer Olympics back to U.S. soil for the third time in 24 years.
		The Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta came to a close Sunday night, after two weeks of athletic competition between 197 countries and over 11,000 athletes -- the most ever in an Olympic Games.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/olympics/longterm/summer96.htm (271 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)

	1996 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Athens would eventually win the right to host the 2004 Summer Olympics in 1997, and the city finished its preparations just days before the start of their games.
		Examples of this are the mid-rise dormitories built for the Olympic village which became the first residential housing for Georgia State University and Turner Field which was a modification of the original Centennial Olympic Stadium, and where the Atlanta Braves baseball team now makes its home.
		Michelle Smith of Ireland wins three gold medals and a bronze in swimming, but her victories are overshadowed by doping allegations, which are later reinforced as she is banned after failing a test in 1998.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics (1187 words)

	Olympics
		Olympic ring border, list of words related to bobsledding and luge to use in poem.
		When the Olympics are over, use the results from your chart to answer the questions.
		This reading comprehension is a biography of Olympic champion Kerri Strug and the story of her famous gold-medal win in gymnastics at the 1996 Olympics.
	www.abcteach.com /directory/theme_units/sports/olympics (1215 words)

	1932 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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 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)

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