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  1800-Olympics.com -- Summer Olympics: Olympic Sports: Equestrian
The Olympic three-day event is the complete equestrian test (including as it does the disciplines of dressage, cross-country and show jumping); an overall show of horsemanship, where men and women compete together and the star of the show is often the horse.
The Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI) expects all those involved in international equestrian sport to adhere to the FEI’s Code of Conduct and to acknowledge and accept that at all times the welfare of the horse must be paramount and must never be subordinated to competitive or commercial influences.
The Canadian Equestrian Federation is the one national organisation that represents all equine and equestrian interests in Canada.
1800-olympics.com /SummerOlympics/OlympicSports/Equestrian.htm   (759 words)

  
  1936 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, were held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany.
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.
Despite being from non-fascist countries, the Canadian, the British and the French Olympic Team saluted Hitler (in a gesture of friendship) during opening ceremonies.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics   (1093 words)

  
 1980 Summer Olympics Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
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.launchbase.org /encyclopedia/1980_Summer_Olympics   (637 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 2004 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
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.
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.hallencyclopedia.com /2004_Summer_Olympics   (1826 words)

  
 1912 olympics track star
Charles Reidpath, Olympic Champion - University 1908-1912 that Charles Reidpath became a collegiate track star, - Reidpath's accomplishments in the 1912 Olympics were understandably -
ESPN Classic - Thorpe preceded Deion, Bo - Jim Thorpe won the decathlon and pentathlon in the 1912 Olympics.
ciislearnmore - He won gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon in the 1912 Olympics in - He feared that his track star would be seriously injured in the game.
www.olympic-headquarters.net /1912-olympics-track-star.htm   (325 words)

  
 1912 Olympics
equestrianism - equestrianism, art of riding and handling a horse.
Environmental factors in the summer Olympics in historical perspective.
Olympics puts punch in Dad's Day in Atlanta: retailers say accessories sales with the Games logos are hot.
www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114419.html   (416 words)

  
 2004 Summer Olympics - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
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NBC Universal paid the IOC $793 million for U.S. broadcast rights [2], the most paid by any country.
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.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/2/0/0/2004_Summer_Olympics_330c.html   (2001 words)

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