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Topic: Cycling at the 1948 Summer Olympics

	Summer Olympics 2000 Index
		ESPN.com selected 12 moments from recent Summer Olympics that today still evoke feelings of joy, nostalgia and sadness.
		Armenian lifter Ashot Danielyan was stripped of his bronze medal after a positive test for the steroid nandrolone, becoming the fourth weightlifter to test positive in the Summer Games.
		The Sydney Olympics drew to a close after 17 days, and were donned the "best ever" by IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00 (426 words)

	World Almanac for Kids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		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)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - 1928 Summer Olympics
		The 1928 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad, were held in 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
		For the first time, the Olympic Flame was lit during the Olympics.
		Because of this, running events longer than 200 m were not included in the Olympics until the 1960s.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=1928_Summer_Olympics (388 words)

	Wikipedia: 1948 Summer Olympics
		The Games of the XIV Olympiad were held in 1948 in London, United Kingdom.
		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.
		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)

	CYCLING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		So it is not surprising that cycling was on the programme of the first Olympics and since then has been one of the attractions at the successive Olympic Games.
		Cycling has not been able to make much progress because there is only one velodrome, constructed near the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore many years ago, which too is not in proper shape.
		In the 1st SAARC Cycling Championship held in Colombo (Sri Lanka) in 1999.
	www.sports.gov.pk /html/cycling.html (764 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics
		These were the first celebration of the Olympic Games since the recreation of the ancient Greek Olympics with the founding of the International Olympic Committee in 1894.
		This is remarkable, as the Olympics did not, for a long time, allow professional athletes to compete, with the sole exception of fencing.
		The weightlifting contests are also conducted in the Olympic stadium, with Launceston Elliot of Great Britain and Viggo Jensen of Denmark taking a first and a second place each in the single-hand and double-hand contests.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/18/1896_summer_olympics.shtml (886 words)

	1980 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		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)

	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.
		Olympic medals are awarded to those individuals or teams placing first, second, and third in each event.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /olympics/olympics.htm (1089 words)

	1948 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad, were held in 1948 at Wembley Stadium in London, England.
		For the first time, Olympic diplomas were awarded to the six highest placed athletes.
		Note that these Olympic Games were the first time that the host nation did not win enough medals to be included in the top 10 medal winners.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1948_Summer_Olympics (434 words)

	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.factspider.com /19/1932-summer-olympics.html (379 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		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.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-1936_Summer_Olympics (933 words)

	GBROLYMPICS.COM / LONDON-OLYMPICS.COM - Olympic Games Medallists
		The modern Olympics were first held in 1896.
		Nevertheless all those competitions reported, at one time or another, as Olympic medal events have been included here for the record, with those no longer regarded as official footnoted.
		The Winter Olympics were first held in 1924.
	www.london-olympics.com /olympic (336 words)

	1976 Summer Olympics Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		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)

	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)

	Wikinfo \| 1972 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In the bid to organise the Olympics, Detroit, Madrid and Montreal were beaten.
		Lasse Virén of Finland won the 5000 and 10000 m (the latter after a fall), a feat he would repeat in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
		For the first time, the Olympic Oath is also taken by a representative of the referees.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1972_Summer_Olympics (454 words)

	Sportolysis - The World Sports Blog » Olympics
		At the summer games, Oscar Swahn was the part of the Running Deer shooting team at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics which won gold.
		Neither side seemed aware that they had taken part in the Olympics, and the match was only retrospectively formally recognised as being an Olympic contest in 1912, when the International Olympic Committee met to compile the definitive list of all events in the five modern Olympiads up to that point.
		Olympics will be held for the first time in Britain since 1948 when London host it in 2012.
	www.sportolysis.com /category/olympics (2976 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1928 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Amsterdam had made a bid for the 1920 and 1924 Olympics, but had to give way to war-victim Belgium and De Coubertin's Paris before finally being awarded with the organisation.
		The torch relay was however not started until the 1936 Summer Olympics.
		For the first time, the parade of nations started with Greece, which holds the origins of the Olympics, and ended with the host country, a tradition still continued until this day.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1928_Summer_Olympics (293 words)

	Cycling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Cycling was first introduced to the Olympic programme at the Games in 1896 although it was omitted from the 1904 Olympic Games in St Louis.
		Cycling returned to the Olympic programme as part of the 1908 Games in London and Britain won 5 Gold, 3 Silver and a Bronze medal!
		The women's Cycling event was not introduced until 1984.
	www.olympics.org.uk /sports/summer/cycling.asp?offset=40 (511 words)

	Athens 2004 Summer Olympics : Modern Olympics, Paralympci Games
		The Olympic torch is first lit in Ancient Olympia and then passed on to the stadium of the city hosting the Opening Ceremony of the Games.
		The Modern Olympics were seen as an instrument to promote understanding and friendship among nations and uphold the true spirit of sportsmanship.
		An Olympic sport is one that should be widely practiced by men in at least 75 countries on 4 continents and by women in at least 40 countries on 3 continents.
	www.clearleadinc.com /site/sports.html (1301 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1952 Helsinki
		They built an Olympic Village in Helsinki specifically for the Communist Bloc countries and erected a prominent scoreboard focused on the Soviets' new rivalry with the United States.
		A host of countries from Bahamas to Vietnam made their Olympic debuts, as well, but the highest-profile return, aside from the reconstituted Russians, was Germany's.
		The Germans were not invited to the 1948 London Olympics, but made the trip to Helsinki, ostensibly as a single team unifying West and East Germany, although virtually all the athletes were West German.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1952.html (1286 words)

	1948 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The 1940 games had been scheduled for Tokyo, and later Helsinki as WWII started; no plans were made to hold games in 1944.
		Ilona Elek (Hungary) and Jan Brzak (Czechoslovakia) successfully defended their Olympic titles they had won 12 years earlier.
		Further information: 1948 Summer Olympics medal count, and [[]], and [[]], and [[]], and [[]], and [[]], and [[]], and [[]], and [[]]
	www.dictionpedia.com /en/1948_Summer_Olympics (461 words)

	Olympic Sport Debut Years quiz -- free game
		This quiz is based on 25 sports at the Olympics.
		Fencing is one of the few events that has been featured as a medal event at every Olympics, commening with the first of the modern era in 1896 at Athens?
		At which Olympics was shooting introduced as a medal event?
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=115147 (329 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		Canada got a crack at hosting its first Winter Olympics in 1988, and despite some unusually warm weather, the Calgary Games came through with more than their share of breathtaking performances and heartwarming — as well as heartbreaking — stories.
		The IOC later passed the "Eddie the Eagle Rule," which heightened Olympic qualifying standards, but Edwards endeared himself to spectators and the media with his fearless, if sub-standard, jumps.
		As if to demonstrate their appearance in Calgary was no joke, the Jamaican bobsleigh team returned to the Olympics for the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/history/1988calgary.shtml (1194 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)

	Ivy League Sports - Ivies in Athens 2004
		Track and field has been the cornerstone of the Olympic Games since its inception in 1896.
		He won the 400-meter hurdle gold in 1924 and followed that with two bronze medals in the same event in 1928 and 1932.
		Official Olympic Posters appear with permission and are the property of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
	www.iviesinathens.com /olympic/sport.aspx (446 words)

	Inwit Publishing, Inc. and Inwit, LLC -- Writings, Links and Software Demonstrations - The Science of the Summer Games ...
		Today in Olympic competition men and women swim four strokes: the freestyle (which in practice means "the crawl"), the butterfly, the backstroke, and the breaststroke.
		In the summer of 1949, at a meet in the U. S., the Japanese sprint swimmer Hironashin Furuhashi unleashed what seemed to be a minor refinement of the kick in the crawl stroke, but it led him and the other Japanese to sweeping victories.
		The breaststroke is the most rigidly defined of the Olympic styles; athletes must adhere to six rules, specifying everything from the permissible kick (the frog "backward and out") to the position of the shoulders ("in line with the water").
	www.inwit.com /inwit/writings/scienceofthesummergames.html (5160 words)

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