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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ray Ewry
		The 1900 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the II Olympiad, were held in 1900 in Paris, France.
		The 1908 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the IV Olympiad, were held in 1908 in London, England.
		The standing triple jump event was discontinued after those Olympics, but Ewry continued to dominate the two remaining standing jump events at both the 1906 Intercalated Games and 1908 Games, thus bringing his total to 10 Olympic titles including two from the Intercalated Games, the highest number ever achieved.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ray-Ewry (1291 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, were held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany.
		The Berlin Olympics also saw the introduction to the ceremonies of the Olympic Torch bringing the Olympic Flame by relay from Olympia.
		The Olympic Flame was used for the second time at these games, but they marked the first time it was brought to the Olympic Town by a torch relay, with the starting point in Olympia, Greece.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/1936_Summer_Olympics (1010 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)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1906 Athens
		The modern Olympic founder, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, figured that the best medicine for the flagging Olympics would be to return them to their roots in Athens.
		Canada only sent four athletes to Athens, but they were pretty successful on a per capita basis, coming home with a gold and silver medal.
		Their legacy is that the Olympic movement regained its footing and sense of purpose, and the world actually looked forward to the next official Olympics of 1908 with some excitement.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1906.html (558 words)

	Olympics
		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 (593 words)

	Canada at the 1904 Summer Olympics - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		The 1904 Summer Olympics was the second Olympics at which Canadian athletes participated.
		The third place finishers were also from Canada, a team of Mohawks from a reserve near Brantford.
		Canada's other gold medal was in golf won by George Lyon.
	www.music.us /education/C/Canada-at-the-1904-Summer-Olympics.htm (468 words)

	1980 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, were held in Moscow in the Soviet Union.
		Although approximately half of the 24 countries which boycotted the 1976 Summer Olympics participated in these, the Games were disrupted by another, even larger, boycott led by the United States followed by 64 other countries in protest at the 1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
		NBC, which was thought to be another major one, cancelled its coverage in response to the U.S.-boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, and became a minor broadcaster as the network did air highlights and recaps of the games on a regular basis.
	www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-1980_Summer_Olympics (592 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		She was also the first to introduce the Olympic torch to the ceremonies.
		For the first time the Olympic Flame was brought to the Olympic Town by a torch relay, with the starting point in Olympia, Greece.
		The Canadian Olympic Team was the only team from a non-fascist country to salute Hitler (in a gesture of friendship) during opening ceremonies.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/1/9/3/1936_Summer_Olympics_a11e.html (852 words)

	1904 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1904 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the III Olympiad, were held in St.
		Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement, gave in.
		Considered the lesser of two evils by de Coubertin, St. Louis repeated the mistakes made at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1904_Summer_Olympics (1167 words)

	Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		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)

	MarathonGuide.com - Marathon Press Releases
		Canada Post will pay tribute to this summer's Olympic Games and one hundred years of participation by Canadian athletes with two new stamps to be issued on July 28, 2004.
		"Canada Post salutes every Canadian athlete of these Olympic and Paralympic Games and wishes them the very best as they strive towards their very own heroic moment." While the modern game of soccer started with the foundation of the Football Association of England in 1863, its roots extend to the opposite ends of the earth.
		The word CANADA appears in the weave of the net in front of which the young girls fight for the ball.
	www.marathonguide.com /pressreleases/index.cfm?file=CanadaPost_040712 (666 words)

	1976 Summer Olympics Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		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 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.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/1/19/1976_summer_olympics.html (353 words)

	SLAM! Sports: 2000 Summer Games: History of the Games
		Like the Paris Games, the Olympics in St. Louis were ill conceived and held along with the World's Fair.
		The American organizers then used the spectacle of the confused and untrained people struggling to perform in sports they were not familiar with to point out their belief that some races are superior to others.
		Canada's second medal of the games was a silver for the men's eight from the Argonaut Rowing Club of Toronto.
	slam.canoe.ca /2000GamesHistory/1904games.html (315 words)

	History of the Modern Summer and Winter Olympics from Fanbay.net
		The Summer and Winter Olympics of 1932 were both held in the United States, in Los Angeles, CA and Lake Placid, NY, respectively.
		The Olympic facilities were as impressive as the cutting edge facilities that brought the Summer Olympics to a new level in Munich (1972).
		Canada skated away with the Olympic gold medal in ice hockey for the first time in 50 years.
	www.fanbay.net /olympics/modern_history.htm (2739 words)

	Canada at the 1904 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		Canada competed at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St.
		Canada made its first footbal appearance in 1904, sending a club team to St.
		Nations at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canada_at_the_1904_Summer_Olympics (478 words)

	Greece Central School District - Summer Reading List
		On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer.
		The summer she turns 12, Hattie Owen is steeped in the routines of her smalltown life until the startling arrival of an uncle no one has ever spoken about.
		Hattie suddenly experiences a summer in which she learns living life fully means facing both the good times and the bad.
	www.greece.k12.ny.us /summerread/list/middle.htm (7450 words)

	Wikinfo \| Summer Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		The Olympics are the most prestigious such event in the world, with a larger range of sports than other such events, and most of those considering Olympic victory the most prestigious achievement in their field.
		The modern Olympic Games were founded in 1894 when Pierre Fredi, Baron de Coubertin, who sought to promote international understanding through the sporting competition.
		On the bright side it did, however, seem that the drug testing and regulation authorities were at last catching up with the cheating that had been widely to be endemic in athletics for some years, and it was generally held that the 1992 Barcelona Games were cleaner, although not without incident.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Summer_Olympic_Games (2021 words)

	Canada at the Olympics
		Canada's best Olympic record performance ever was in the 1984 Summer Olympics at Los Angeles.
		She is the only person in Olympic history to be awarded all 3 medals in the same single event.
		Canada's Olympians placed 4th in 13 events and 5th in 9 events in Turino.
	members.shaw.ca /kcic1/olympics2.html (764 words)

	Newhouse A1
		"The U.S. Olympic Committee is recognized by the IOC as the steward for the Olympic movement in the United States," said Jeff Howard, director of corporate communications for the USOC.
		That path to the Olympics is the same one the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory, recently traveled.
		Support for the team is one of the ways the 2010 Winter Olympics organizing committee promises unprecedented involvement with native communities, said Maureen Douglas, community relations director for the committee.
	www.newhousenews.com /archive/briggs030306.html (1242 words)

	1904 Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (see link for calendar).
		Tug of war at the 1904 Summer Olympics
		the important people born in 1904 were created in 1903.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/1904.html (1879 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)

	1980 Summer Olympics
		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.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1980_summer_olympics.shtml (273 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		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 (53,500) ever to win a medal in the Summer Olympics.
		She was the first gymnast in Olympic history to be awarded the perfect score of 10.0.
		The Olympic flame arrived by air, sent in the form of an electronic signal by a telephone cable towards a transmitter in the direction of a satellite from the Intelsat network.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1976 (427 words)

	1800-Olympics.com -- Summer Olympics: Olympic Sports: Triathlon
		The Californians were the first ones to put together an endurance contest of their favourite outdoor sports (swimming, cycling and running).
		While triathlon was added to the Athens 2000 Olympic Games along with taekwondo, triathlon's first official world championships were only held in 1989.
		She finally kicked for gold, 200 metres from the finish, and won the event two seconds ahead of the Australian favourite.
	1800-olympics.com /SummerOlympics/OlympicSports/Triathlon.htm (898 words)

	JWA - In Focus—Jewish Women In the Olympics
		She was the first woman to win a silver medal for the discus throw and later broke the Olympic and world records to win a gold at the 1932 Olympics.
		The United States participated in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin-the "Nazi Olympics"-sending the largest delegation of any country (312 athletes) to Germany.
		Held in Israel every four years (the year after the Summer Olympic games) these games draw thousands of athletes from dozens of countries.
	www.jwa.org /discover/inthepast/infocus/olympics (906 words)

	2008 Summer Olympics Trivia & Fun Facts
		For more detailed information, click over to our main 2008 Summer Olympics subject pages which will take you to more information about each sport - with more links to tops sites actively involved in reporting all the Olympics action as Summer 2008 draws near...
		Of the 1.2 billion people who live in China, about 400 million are under 18, so there will be plenty of interest in watching the games within China itself, along with millions more who will be tuning in worldwide.
		In the same colors as those found in the five Olympic rings, "The Friendlies" serve as the official mascots of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
	www.chiff.com /a/olympics-trivia.htm (402 words)

	Native Americans seek recognition
		Part of that effort involves a handful of Native American organizations in the United States and Canada seeking International Olympic Committee recognition as sovereign nations, which would allow them to establish what Young calls the North American Indigenous Olympic team.
		By meeting Native American athletes such as Young, she realized their desire for a team of their own and used her knowledge of Olympic governance to draft a proposal dated Jan. 29 to Jacques Rogge, International Olympic Committee president.
		Every step toward the Olympic dream helps Native American communities by inspiring physical fitness and indigenous pride, said Young, the 51-year-old skier from Corvallis.
	www.nativevoices.org /articles/native_plympic_team.htm (1085 words)

	1800-Olympics.com -- Summer Olympics: Olympic Sports: Volleyball
		As a team must win a set by two clear points, the set can take quite a while to finish if the teams are evenly matched and have plenty of stamina in the sun.
		In Canada, the game became closely knit with the formation of the Canadian Volleyball Association in 1953, with the YMCA again playing a major role.
		Torres was only seventeen when she won her first Olympic gold medal, making her the youngest volleyball gold medallist in the history of the Olympics.
	1800-olympics.com /SummerOlympics/OlympicSports/Volleyball.htm (594 words)

	The Summer Olympic Games
		Because of Australian quarantine laws, the equestrian events were held in Stockholm, Sweden.
		1992 was the last year that both the summer games and the winter games were held in the same year.
		After 1992, the summer and winter games are staggered 2 years apart.
	www.janecky.com /olympics/summergames/index.html (76 words)

	LOGOs & MASCOTs
		Executives of the Japanese Olympic committee and national sports federations on 13th August 1997 by 29-17 in a secret ballot chose Osaka to become the country's candidate to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
		The U.S. Olympic Committee on 27th August 2002 selected New York and San Francisco as the U.S. finalists to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, while Houston and Washington, D.C., were eliminated as contenders.
		The Austrian Olympic committee on 2nd December 1997 chose Klagenfurt, capital of the Carinthia region (joint bid with Italy and Slovenia), to become the country's candidate to host the 2006 Olympic Winter Games.
	www.aldaver.com (2814 words)

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