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Cuba at the 2004 Summer Olympics was represented by the Olympic Committee of Cuba and was abbreviated CUB.
Egypt at the 2004 Summer Olympics is represented by the Egyptian Olympic Committee and abbreviated EGY.
Turkey was represented at the 2004 Summer Olympics by the Turkish Olympic Committee and is abbreviated TUR.
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 Category:Nations at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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 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").
At the end of an Olympics, the mayor of the host-city presents the flag to the mayor of the next host-city.
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.
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  Canada at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Canada is not a power at the Summer Olympics.
Canada's most notable success was Benoit Gaudet defeat of Thai former champion Somluck Kamsing and Andrew Kooner who made it to the quarter-final in the Bantamweight class.
Canada's women's water polo team fared poorly, despite beating the number one ranked team from the United States during the round robin.
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 Canada at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships 2004 by Emilie Mondor - Time-to-Run Canada
This summer being an Olympic one, pretty much everyone was present on the start line of the first race, the 8km on Day 1.
Canada had put up a very good and young team this year on the 4km race.
It is the first cross-country medal for Canada since a team medal in 1983 at a time when the African countries were not yet racing the event.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Alex Baumann
He was named Canada's male athlete of the year for 1984 and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
After a poor showing by Canada at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Baumann felt he had more to offer Canadian sport, and expressed interest in taking on the vacant leadership position at the Canadian Olympic Association; however, the COC felt he did not have the business background to handle the job.
In 2004, after a dismal showing by Canada at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, in which they failed to medal and their best finish was sixth place, head coach Dave Johnson was fired.
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 Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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.
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 SFU News - Athletes bound for Olympics - July 08, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Winning medals and surpassing personal bests are on the minds of several SFU students and athletes preparing to compete for Canada at the 2004 summer Olympics in Athens in August.
Under Renney, Canada finished eighth at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and fifth in 1996 in Atlanta.
She swims in her Olympic trials July 8-11, vying for one remaining spot on the team.
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 2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2004 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, were held in Athens, Greece, from August 13 to August 29, 2004.
Athens was chosen as the host city during the 106th IOC Session held in Lausanne in 05 September 1997, 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.
By late March 2004, some Olympic projects were still behind schedule, and Greek authorities announced that a roof it had initially proposed as an optional, non-vital addition to the Aquatics Center would no longer be built.
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 Canada and the 2004 Summer Olympics - dKosopedia
At the 2004 Summer Olympics the United States won 103 Olympic medals, followed by Russia with 92, and China with 63.
And the reason is that increasingly, the USA is becoming a nation of achievers and non-achievers.
Canada has become increasingly socialistic, as big government programs ensure everyone is marginally taken care of.
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 Canada and the 2004 Summer Olympics - Libertarian Wiki
Canada and the 2004 Summer Olympics - Libertarian Wiki
Due to Canada's northern latitude, Canadians are more focussed on winter sports than on summer sports, and hence Canada tends to have a low medal count in Summer Olympic Games.
This effect was especially pronounced in the two most recent Games, as Canada earned only 12 medals at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games[[1]] vs. 24 medals (third-highest) at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games[[2]].
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 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.
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 DraftHelp.com - Olympics Summer 2004
The aggregate result of these national Olympic teams will determine the winner, on the basis of 5 points for every gold medal, 3 points for every silver medal, and 1 point for every bronze medal.
The 15 national Olympic teams must be chosen from 4 different pools, in which the nations have been divided, according to their performance in Sydney 2000, plus a host nation factor.
Each participant must choose 2 Olympic teams from Group A, 3 Olympic teams from Group B, 5 Olympic teams from Group C and 5 Olympic teams from Group D (with encompasses all nations not in any of the former groups).
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 UC's Got Game - 2004 Summer Olympics - University of California News Room
In fact, if UC were a country, its 2004 medal total would have been exceeded by only 11 other nations.
This summer, UC Berkeley will send a strong contingent of athletes and coaches to participate in the 2004 Olympic Games.
Keeping with its unprecedented Olympic tradition, UCLA will send 55 players and coaches to the 2004 Olympic Games.
www.universityofcalifornia.edu /news/summerolympics2004.html   (547 words)

  
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 WCH2004.com Official site of World Cup of Hockey 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Team Canada will be a force to be reckoned with in the upcoming World Cup of Hockey 2004.
All told, 13 of the 22 Team Canada players at the Olympics were already on the wrong side of 30.
Fortunately for Gretzky, Canada is blessed with a sizeable pool of younger talent champing at the bit to replace the old guard.
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 TSN : OLYMPICS - Canada's Sports Leader
Own the Podium 2010 is a national sport technical initiative designed to help Canada’s winter athletes win the most number of medals at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, and to place in the top three nations (gold medal count) at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games.
Revenues are way up and venues for the 2010 Winter Olympics will actually come in under budget, but taxpayers won't get a detailed look at how their money is being spent until early next year, say organizers of the Games.
Canada's Olympic long-track speed skaters returned home on Wednesday and are already looking to 2010.
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 Canada's Olympic Secret :: thetyee.ca
Canada came in 38th (1 per 2.71 million), right in the middle of the pack.
I believe we in Canada could do a better job collectively of allowing our elite amateur athletes to concentrate on their training instead of on where their next meal is coming from.
With regards to Canada's performance this year, Canada won the 2004 hockey world, and is the defending Olympic champion.
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 ESPN.com: Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Greece won for the first time ever in Olympic baseball Saturday night, getting 14 hits from its Greek-American lineup to beat Italy 12-7 in a showdown between the two weakest teams in the eight-nation tournament.
The Greek Olympic baseball team has sufficient financial backing to go to Greece after working out next month in the United States, an official of the Baltimore Orioles said Saturday.
ESPN.COM'S 2000 SUMMER OLYMPICS: From the opening ceremonies to the final gold medal.
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 SLAM! Sports - Olympics
Swimming and most gymnastic finals will be held in the mornings at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, allowing NBC to televise those high-profile events live in the lucrative prime-time North American market.
Organizers of the 2010 Winter Olympics will know by the end of November if several new sports, including mixed doubles curling and women's ski jumping, could be added to the Vancouver Games.
Canada's young hockey talent will be scary in 2010
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 CU’s Olympic connection - Fall 2004 - Carleton University Magazine
Amid great fanfare, the 2004 Olympic Games, one of the biggest sporting celebrations in the world, got underway in Athens, Greece, on August 13, 2004.
Proudly representing Canada and Carleton in different capacities were three members of the university community.
Marshall, one of 22 therapists attending to the needs of Canada’s Olympians, says the experience was one of the highlights of his career.
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 Husker softball player returns with confidence ::
Of course, it hasn't been that long since the NU senior first baseman was competing against the best competition in the world as a player for Team Canada at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
Lawrick had to call her Canadian coach and break the news to him that she may not be able to participate in the Olympics.
Whether in the Olympics or on the collegiate level, Lawrick continues to love her sport.
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 2004 Olympics
China, which was upset by Canada in the quarterfinals of the 2003 Women’s World Cup, was eliminated after its 8-0 loss to Germany and 1-1 tie with Mexico, and will have three years to re-build before they host the 2007 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
The USA is 15-1-2 in 2004 heading into the Olympics, with that lone loss coming to Sweden (3-1) at the Algarve Cup, but the USA still won the group and advanced to the title game.
This is their first Olympics and to play at home in front of their own fans, they have a lot on their side and nothing to lose.
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 July 20, 2004
Waterloo alumna Dana Ellis will be representing Canada at the 2004 summer Olympics after securing her role at the 2004 Canada Dry Canadian Track and Field Championships and Olympic trials in pole vaulting.
Regarded as one of Canada’s youngest bright stars, the University of Waterloo’s very own Keith Beavers will be representing Canada at the 2004 summer Olympics.
A recent release from UW's media relations office describes the work of anthropology professor Pamela Stern, who spends a good deal of her research time researching socio-cultural matters in the far north, particularly the Northwest Territories hamlet of Holman on Victoria Island, 500 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle.
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 PongWorld Table Tennis - 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens Greece
The Olympic Games finally returned to Greece, the country that gave birth to the event more than 2000 years ago.
The African Olympic Qualification events were held between October 12 and 16, 2003 in Nigeria.
The European Singles Olympic Qualification was held November 26-30, 2003 in Luxemburg.
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 35 Trojans To Compete In 2004 Summer Olympics :: USC'S amazing gold medal streak on the line.
Kaitlin Sandeno is one of 35 Trojans who will compete at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
From 1904 to 2000, there have been 340 athletes who attended USC before, during or after their Olympic appearance.
Of USC's 2004 Olympians, 16 will compete in swimming, 8 in track and field, 3 each in basketball and volleyball, 2 each in diving and water polo, and 1 in tennis.
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 CBC.CA - Torino 2006
Led by snow explorers with a white horse symbolizing victory, the Olympic closing ceremony began in grand style at Stadio Olimpico in Turin, Italy, Sunday.
But while some athletes exited the Olympic stage, others served notice that they'll be ones to watch four years from now in Vancouver.
Relive the pageantry of the Torino Olympics closing ceremony.
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 usolympicteam.com, official site of the U.S. Olympic Team
Her mother, Andrea, an Olympic gymnast competing for West Germany.
Olympians on TV Watch Lauren Cheney and the USA Women's Soccer team take on Canada Saturday, May 12 at 5:30 p.m.
Check out the NEW Beijing 2008 Collection at the US Olympic Shop.
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