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Topic: Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

	canoeing - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about canoeing
		Modern canoes are modelled on native craft that have been in use in the Americas and the Pacific for thousands of years, and are typically 3–7 m/10–20 ft long.
		Present-day canoes are made from fibreglass, but original boats were of wooden construction covered in bark or skin.
		Canoeing was popularized as a sport in the 19th century, although canoes have been in use for thousands of years.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Canoeing (476 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)

	2004 Summer Olympics - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		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.
		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 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.
		In a protest to a tour of South Africa by the New Zealand rugby team, Tanzania lead a boycott of 22 African nations as the IOC refused not to 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.encyclopedian.com /19/1976-Summer-Olympics.html (361 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)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Canoe/Kayak Fan Guide
		Canoes vs. kayaks: All kayaks are canoes, but not all canoes are kayaks.
		Canadian canoes are open boats paddled from a kneeling position; kayaks are closed and paddled from a sitting position.
		Canoe paddles have one flat blade; kayak paddles have two curved blades.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/canoekayak/s/viewers.html (275 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/1996 Summer Olympics (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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.
		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.
		For the first time Olympic medals were won by the athletes from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burundi, Ecuador, Georgia, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Mozambique, Slovakia, Tonga, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
	www.reference.com.cob-web.org:8888 /browse/wiki/Atlanta_Olympics (1174 words)

	1996 Summer Olympics Biography on DanceAge (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Athens would eventually win the right to host the 2004 Summer Olympics in 1997, and they only got done with 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 it home.
		At least 20 countries made their Olympic debut this year, including the twelve Soviet countries in the Unified Team in 1992, who competed independently for the first time.
	www.danceage.com.cob-web.org:8888 /biography/sdmc_1996_Olympic_Games (1159 words)

	canoeing - Columbia Encyclopedia article about canoeing (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Canoe racing with paddles first became an official Olympic event at the Berlin games in 1936.
		The two types of Olympic canoe races are those among kayaks and Canadian canoes.
		Whitewater canoeing, in which the vessel is navigated through rapids, is quite popular in many areas of the United States.
	columbia.thefreedictionary.com.cob-web.org:8888 /canoeing (492 words)

	Ancient Civilizations : Social Organization : The Olympic Games
		We have heard about the Olympic games and most of us have even witnessed this event either in the country where it is held in that particular year, or at home via the television.
		The Olympic Games were first recorded in the year 776 B.C., so by the Classical Period, they were well established, with participants and spectators -- all male -- coming from all over the Greek world.
		Summer sports consist of archery, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian events (horseback riding), fencing, field hockey, gymnastics, handball, judo, rowing, shooting, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, water polo, weight lifting, wrestling, and yachting.
	library.thinkquest.org /C004203/social/social09.htm (591 words)

	1996 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The 1996 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and informally known as the Centennial Olympics, were held in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
		Cycling professionals were admitted to the Olympics, with five-time Tour de France winner Miguel Induráin 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.
	www.gogoglo.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/1/19/1996_summer_olympics.html (551 words)

	Learn more about 1936 Summer Olympics in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Although awarded before the Nazi Party came to power in Germany, the government saw the Olympics as a golden opportunity to promote their fascist ideology.
		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 games were the first to have live television coverage, Telefunken and Fernseh broadcast over seventy hours of coverage to specially erected booths throughout the city.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /1/19/1936_summer_olympics.html (481 words)

	Olympic Games \| Scholastic.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Perhaps the basic difference between the ancient and modern Olympics is that the former was the ancient Greeks' way of saluting their gods, whereas the modern Games are a manner of saluting the athletic talents of citizens of all nations.
		Olympic Games were held in 1900 and 1904, and by 1908 the number of competitors more than quadrupled the number at Athens — from 311 to 2,082.
		The Summer and Winter Games were traditionally held in the same year, but because of the increasing size of both Olympics, the Winter Games were shifted to a different schedule after 1992.
	content.scholastic.com /browse/article.jsp?id=5067 (2466 words)

	GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government
		On May 2, 1996, the U.S. Postal Service held first day of issue ceremonies in Washington D.C. for a new sheet of 20 32-cent stamps commemorating the Atlanta's 1996 Summer Olympics.
		Olympic sports featured on stamps in the sheet (along with the descriptive text that appears on the back of the stamp) are:
		Men's Canoeing - Whitewater, or slalom, events were added temporarily in 1972 and permanently in 1988.
	www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/olympic1.htm (703 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)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES
		Tony Estanguet's older brother, Patrice, won a bronze medal in the canoe slalom singles event at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
		Although he had never placed higher than thirteenth at the world championships prior to 2000, at the Olympics he was in top form.
		In the second run, it was Martikan who was fastest and flawless, but Estanguet, although he touched a pole in the second half of the course, had built up too large a lead to be caught and he earned the gold medal.
	www.olympic.org /uk/athletes/profiles/bio_uk.asp?par_i_id=118342 (197 words)

	Olympic Preview: Canoe/Kayak
		Also, a canoe paddle has a flat blade on only one end of the paddle shaft while the kayak paddle is equipped with a curved blade on each end.
		Also, the slalom canoes and kayaks are shorter and wider than their sprint counterparts in order to be more maneuverable.
		According to Olympic rules, at least six of the 20 to 25 gates must require a paddler to paddle upstream, the remaining gates can be oriented downstream.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/ol-canoe.html (585 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)

	San Diego Metropolitan - The World’s First Binational Olympics Proposed For Tijuana And San Diego - December 2003
		The summer Olympics offer competition in 28 sports, with multiple venues for some, including aquatics, archery, athletics (track and field), badminton, baseball, basketball, boxing, canoeing and kayaking, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football (soccer), gymnastics, handball, hockey, judo, modern pentathlon, rowing, sailing, shooting, softball, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon, volleyball, weightlifting and wrestling.
		The 2010 winter Olympics have been awarded to Vancouver, Canada, and because the International Olympic Committee often rotates hemispheres, the U.S. bid for a summer Olympics in New York City in 2012 may be jeopardized by the Canadian winter location.
		The last U.S.-hosted summer Olympics were held in Atlanta in 1996, preceded by Los Angeles in 1984 and 1932 and by St. Louis in 1904, the first Olympic games in the U.S. While based on ancient Greek games, the modern Olympics were established in Athens in 1896.
	www.sandiegometro.com /2003/dec/coverstory2.html (1246 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)

	canoeman - definition of canoeman by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's K-1 500 metres
		Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's K-2 500 metres
		Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's K-4 500 metres
	www.thefreedictionary.com.cob-web.org:8888 /canoeman (170 words)

	EdGate Summer Games
		The Laser debuted at the 1996 Atlanta games and is an open class, allowing both men and women to compete.
		Europe — The Europe is the only single-handed women’s Olympic boat and is considered very difficult to handle.
		The United States Olympic Committee site includes the rules and history of events as well as athlete bios, diaries, and chats.
	www.edgate.com /summergames/spotlight_sport/sailing.php (628 words)

	1988 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1988_Summer_Olympics (598 words)

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