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	Encyclopedia: 1976 Summer Olympics
		The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, were held in 1976 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
		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.
		This was seen as a major threat to the future of the Olympic Games, and was not until the financially successful 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles that cities began to line up to be hosts again.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1976-Summer-Olympics (4434 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1984 Summer Olympics
		In the wake of the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, most of the Eastern Bloc, including the Soviet Union, East Germany and Cuba, boycotted these Olympics (the USSR announced its intention not to participate on May 8, 1984).
		Olympic Fanfare and Theme is a piece of music written by John Williams for the 1984 Olympic Games, which were held in Los Angeles.
		Baseball at the 1984 Summer Olympics was a demonstration sport for the sixth time, and it was the first time that the sport had been played in an Olympic tournament in the United States.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1984-Summer-Olympics (3316 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia
		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.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2004_Summer_Olympics (1903 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics
		Athens was chosen as the host city in 1997, after surprisingly losing the bid to organize the 1996 Summer Olympics, the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the modern Olympic Games.
		Since the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France it has been the tradition to have a mascot for the games and this year the official mascots are sister and brother, Athena and Phevos, named after the goddess of wisdom, strategy and war and the god of light and music, respectively.
		An emotional high point of the parade was the entrance of the delegation from Afghanistan which had been absent from the Olympics, and had female competitors for the first time.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/2/20/2004_summer_olympics.html (1174 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)

	Learn more about Olympic Games in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The ancient Olympic Games were abandoned in AD 394 by the Roman emperor Theodosius I, who considered the Games to be a savage celebration.
		Olympic is also the name the public sometimes uses for the Greek national airline, Olympic Airways.
		Olympic uses varous types or airplanes, like the Boeing 747 and Airbus A340 for international routes, and the Boeing 727 and Boeing 737 for domestic routes.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /o/ol/olympic_games.html (1183 words)

	Mark Todd (equestrian) - Wikipedia
		Born in rural Cambridge in the heart of the Waikato on the North Island, Todd was considered by his peers to be the consummate three-day-event horseman.
		From small pony club beginnings he went on to win two Olympic Games gold medals, (the first rider to win successive individual three-day-event titles for 60 years), and also won two bronzes.
		Mark Todd was not only a great evented, but he also competed in the 1988 and 1992 Olympics in the sport of show jumping.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mark_Todd_%28NZ%29 (570 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1936 Summer Olympics
		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 host country had a stellar year in the equestrian events, winning individual and team gold in all three disciplines, as well as individual silver in dressage.
		The Canadian Olympic Team was the only olympic team from a non-fascist country to salute Hitler (in a gesture of friendship) while marching by during opening ceremonies.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1936-Summer-Olympics (3410 words)

	Equestrian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		At Olympic Games, the horses must be the same nationality as the riders and each horse must be at least seven years old and have (as well as the rider) a certificate indicating experience in top international competition.
		The first Equestrian event to appear on the Modern Olympic programme was show jumping in 1900.
		Equestrian is the only completely open Olympic sport, where men and women compete against each other.
	www.olympics.org.uk /sports/summer/equestrian.asp (562 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 More marketing disaster than success
		Mascots have been intimately connected to the Olympics since 1968 in Grenoble, France, when Schuss, a skier with rings on his head, emerged as the unofficial mascot.
		Olympic mascots had a great run from 1976 to 1984 -- from Schneemann (the mascot of the 1976 winter games at Innsbruck), a snowman whose design was way ahead of his time, to Uncle Sam, a bald eagle that held an Olympic torch (used in the 1984 Summer Games at Los Angeles).
		In the years between Barcelona and the 1996 summer games, designers added some muscle to Izzy, took the stars out of his eyes and added a mouth.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/s/2000/0915/745509.html (1076 words)

	Special: Athens Olympics 2004 \| The Christian Science Monitor
		In early February of 1980, the Olympic news at Lake Placid, N.Y. was that US President Jimmy Carter was asking the International Olympic Committee to move the summer games from Moscow.
		The USSR refused to attend the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
		The official reason was "alleged violations of the Olympic Charter by US authorities," but Monitor correspondent Gary Thatcher paints a picture of plain-old politics: "Although the Soviet authorities will never officially admit it, they are exacting belated retribution for the US boycott of the Moscow Olympics of 1980." PDF.
	www.csmonitor.com /specials/oly2004/docs/oly_politics.html (719 words)

	Egypt in the 2004 Summer Olympics
		The original Olympics were held every four years for a span that lasted for almost eight centuries.
		At Minsk in May of 2004, Nahla was the biggest star in the field of 262 competitors in both men's and women's weightlifting, and so not surprisingly, even Sport's Illustrated has picked her for Gold in the Women's 75 kg (165 lbs) event at Athens.
		In fact, she is the only Egyptian athlete to be picked for any medal by SI at the summer event.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/egypt2004olympics.htm (1359 words)

	Canada at the Olympics
		The Summer and Winter Olympic games were held during the same year up to and including 1992, after which the same-year format was dropped.
		The Summer and Winter Paralympic games were held during the same year up to and including 1992, after which the same-year format was dropped.
		She is the only person in Olympic history to be awarded all 3 medals in the same single event.
	www.members.shaw.ca /kcic1/olympics.html (1215 words)

	Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Equestrian Events, Inc. (EEI) is a non-profit Kentucky corporation formed in 1975 initially to stage the 1978 World Three-Day Event Championships at the brand new Kentucky Horse Park.
		With the 1984 Summer Olympic Games scheduled to be held in the Los Angeles, California, area, the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event was again utilized as a Selection Trial for horses and riders who would compose our U. Three-Day Event Team.
		The Advanced Level CCI that is the hallmark of Kentucky served as the first three-day event in the U.S. at which riders and horses aspiring to a place on the 1986 World Championships Team were observed by officials of the USET Selection Committee.
	www.rk3de.org /eei.php (657 words)

	1992 Summer Olympics
		Paralympic archer Antonio Rebollo lights the Olympic Flame by shooting an arrow into the cauldron.
		Five of the six golds were in individual events, tying Eric Heiden's record for individual gold medals at a single Olympics.
		Badminton and women's judo become part of the Olympic programme, while white water canoeing returns to the Games after a 20-year absence.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1992_summer_olympics.html (403 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 (1136 words)

	Los Angeles Equestrian Center
		Reed has been honored with induction into the San Diego Hall of Champions for her decades of equestrian accomplishments and was privileged to participate as a demonstrator in the 1984 Summer Olympics.
		Currently serving on the board of directors of the Los Angeles Horse Show Association and the San Fernando Valley Horse Show Association, as she has for the past several years, Reed is now also a member of the Zone 10 nominating committee.
		She is a lifetime member of the U.S. Equestrian Federation, as well as most other equestrian associations, and a charter member of the California Professional Horseman’s Association.
	www.la-equestriancenter.com /bio/roseyreed.htm (390 words)

	1992 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Yugoslav athletes are not allowed to with their own team but may compete the Olympic flag as Independent Olympic Participants.
		Five the six golds were in individual events Eric Heiden 's record for individual gold medals at single Olympics.
		Badminton and women's judo become part of the Olympic programme white water canoeing returns to the Games a 20-year absence.
	www.freeglossary.com /1992_Summer_Olympics (519 words)

	SUMMER OLYMPIC STATISTICS
		The ranking is performed neither according to gold medal nor medal total but according to points (3 points for a gold, 2 for a silver and 1 for a bronze).
		In some cases, you will find "half medals" : In the early Olympics, some people had unprecise nationality, therefore two countries shared the medal.
		It includes all Olympic results from Athens 1896 to Sydney 2000 (when the sport is completed).
	www.darmoni.net /joete.htm (132 words)

	- American Vaulting Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Perhaps vaulting's most prominent recognition as a form of equestrian sport in more recent times was its inclusion (as "Artistic Riding" by cavalry officers) in the 1920 Olympic Games.
		In 1983, vaulting became one of only seven equestrian disciplines recognized by the Federation Equestré International (FEI), and the first FEI World Vaulting Championships were held in Switzerland in 1986.
		AVA members demonstrated vaulting at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and again at the Atlanta Olympic games in 1996.
	www.americanvaulting.org /history.html (356 words)

	Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		At the Olympic Games, the horse Over and Over broke a leg in cross country eventing, and had to be euthanized after it was determined that surgery would not be successful.
		The Olympic gold was the latest in a string of successes for the Chinese star, bound to become an even bigger hero in China, as the gold is China's first ever in Olympic athletics competition.
		The promise to take the Olympic Torch to the top of the worlds' highest mountain was made by the Mayor of Beijing, Liu Qi, in the documents that Beijing presented when making their bid for the 2008 games.
	www.internationalgames.net /olympic.htm (8101 words)

	1924 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The marathon distance was fixed at 42 km 195 m from the distance run at 1908 Summer Olympics in London.
		Ireland was given formal recognition as an nation in the Olympic Movement in Paris 1924 and it was at these games Ireland made its first appearance in an Games as an independent nation.
		I mean that's when the Olympics still meant something.
	www.freeglossary.com /1924_Summer_Olympics (264 words)

	Bettina Hoy - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bettina competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics and in the 2004 Summer Olympics.
		She lives in Great Britain, with her husband Andrew Hoy, who competes at the Olympic level for Australia.
		The Hoys are possibly the first married couple competing at the Olympics for different teams, in the same year.
	www.free-definition.com /Bettina-Hoy.html (83 words)

	Tufts Magazine Summer 2004
		Peter Wylde, A88, will play out the story this summer in Athens when he represents the United States in the Summer Olympics atop Fein Cera, the horse he nurtured into one of the finest show jumpers in the world.
		The Olympic berth, which Wylde qualified for in May, culminates a remarkable career on the United States Equestrian Team (USET) and a relationship with a horse once pegged as too hot to handle.
		As for what lies ahead at the Olympics, Wylde is eager to ride against the best in the world, and notes that the USET team is ripe for a win.
	www.tufts.edu /alumni/magazine/summer2004/features/feature3.html (1421 words)

	1984 Olympics
		The L.A. Olympics were the first privately financed Games ever and made an unheard of profit of $215 million.
		Daley THOMPSON, 25, training for the 1984 Olympics at the University of California.
		Flirted: Peter Ueberroth, the former baseball czar and 1984 Summer Olympics organizer, with a run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Alan Cranston (D., Calif.).
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114812.html (448 words)

	1976 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia
		He scored a 9.7 thus securing gold for Japan.
		(for the full table, see 1976 Summer Olympics medal count)
		It used the opportunity to expand its rapid mass transit system (subway) first built for Expo '67, the Metro.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1976_Summer_Olympics (1104 words)

	1988 Olympics
		For the first time since Munich in 1972, there was no organized boycott of the Summer Olympics.
		Cuba and Ethiopia stayed away in support of North Korea (the IOC turned down the North Koreans' demand to co-host the Games, so they refused to participate), but that was about it.
		Otherwise, Steffi Graf added an Olympic gold medal to her Grand Slam sweep in tennis, Greg Louganis won both men's diving events for the second straight time, and the U.S. men's basketball team had to settle for third place after losing to the gold medal-winning Soviets, 82-76, in the semifinals.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114845.html (418 words)

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