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	2004 Summer Olympics - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Athens 2004 marked the first time since the 1996 Summer Olympics that all countries with a National Olympic Committee were in attendance.
		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 2004 Summer Paralympics were also held in Athens, from September 17 to 28.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/2/0/0/2004_Summer_Olympics_330c.html (2001 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 Fragile truce crumbles as 2004 official is dismissed
		Laliotis does not want 2004 organizers to hire advisers who will have direct involvement in building the venues for yachting, rowing and canoeing, the equestrian center, softball and baseball, and badminton and fencing.
		He told Athens' Flash radio that the 2004 advisers should be allowed only to monitor the construction timetable and ensure the venues meet Olympic standards.
		Athens 2004 officials want to hire their own technical advisers, who would have direct oversight of the construction.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/news/2000/1018/825317.html (428 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS
		Equestrian events were included in the Olympic Games for the first time in 1900 and then in 1912, in a format very similar to that which will be used at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.
		With the inclusion of the sport in the Olympic Games, it became obvious that some internationally recognised rules for the three Olympic disciplines were essential.
		In May 1921, delegates from 10 national equestrian organisations met in Lausanne to discuss the formation of an international federation.
	www.olympic.org /uk/sports/programme/index_uk.asp?SportCode=EQ (187 words)

	Athens Olympics 2004
		Fittingly for an Olympic Games that was, more than most, about beginnings and endings, the honour of carrying the Australian flag and leading the team at the closing ceremony was given to veteran swimmer Petria Thomas.
		As is the fate of many Olympic athletes, the members of the men's hockey team who won perhaps the most thrilling of Australia's 17 gold medals will return to relative obscurity once the celebrations have died down.
		Olympic historian Harry Gordon speaks to Roy Masters about his impression of how the Games will be remembered.
	www.smh.com.au /olympics (464 words)

	Olympics 2004 in Athens Greece - from Penton Overseas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 2004, the Olympic Games are returning to their ancient birthplace and the city of their revival.
		For example, aquatics is an Olympic sport with four Olympic disciplines: swimming, diving, water polo and synchronised swimming.
		An Olympic sport must be "widely practiced by men in at least 75 countries and on four continents, and by women in at least 40 countries and on three continents".
	www.pentonoverseas.com /olympic-games-greece.htm (156 words)

	Egypt in the 2004 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The original Olympics were held every four years for a span that lasted for almost eight centuries.
		In 2004, Egypt has high hopes for three medals, and in what seems like the spirit of this year's event, their best chance for a gold comes from the females, specifically Nahla Ramadan.
		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.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/egypt2004olympics.htm (1359 words)

	1988 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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 (601 words)

	DraftHelp.com - Olympics Summer 2004
		However, for most fantasy leaguers it will be little more than a way to bridge the gap between pre-season football, their annual fantasy draft and the kickoff of the actual NFL season.
		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).
	www.drafthelp.com /Olympics2004Summer.htm (635 words)

	Athens 2004 Summer Olympics : Modern Olympics, Paralympci Games
		The Athens 2004 Olympics torch relay will be the first to travel the globe and return to the country that gave us the Olympics Games.
		The torch for the Athens 2004 Olympics has been inspired from an olive leaf and was chosen to enhance the Flame with its upward dynamic shape.
		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)

	RTÉ.ie Sport - IOC keeps softball, modern pentathlon and baseball
		The International Olympic Committee today decided that the Olympic future of softball, modern pentathlon and baseball is safe until 2012.
		The trio of sports had faced expulsion at the IOC session in 2002, but were given a reprieve when members resisted a proposal to drop them all together.
		Olympic chief urges Athens to rise to the challenge,
	www.rte.ie /sport/2004/0517/olympics.html (307 words)

	Olympic Tickets Olympic Game Tickets Athens Olympic Tickets 2004 Olympics Tickets
		The Greece Athens 2004 Olympic Games date from Ancient Greece and were held in honor of Zeus, the father of the Gods.
		The Olympic Games saw the light in Olympia for the first time in the 7th century B.C and it is also the place were they also held.
		The 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece are going to take place in August and will be the greatest event of the year.
	www.athens-olympic-tickets.com (866 words)

	Athens 2004 Olympics
		The Athens 2004 Olympics will start the eventing competition two days after the opening ceremony (August 13 2004), i.e., from August 15th to 18th, 2004.
		The Olympic Equestrian Centre is located in Markopoulo, in eastern Attica, a facility that includes air-conditioned stables for 300 horses.
		Olympics organizer Lam Woon- kwong said he will invite countries with a good history in equestrian competition, and more than 10 horses will be flown in for the event.
	www.eventers.co.nz /weg_olympics/athens_olympics_index.shtml (3830 words)

	The World Equestrian Games
		During the actual Olympic events in 2008, about 220 horses are expected to arrive, with another 80 for the Paralympics that follow.
		The decision to move the equestrian games from Beijing was made last July, so time for preparation is tight and we have to race against time.
		British Olympic officials are expected to launch their appeal against yesterday’s three-day event result to the Court of Arbitration for Sport within 24 hours.
	www.eventers.co.nz /weg_olympics/olympics_index.shtml (3750 words)

	Olympics
		Olympic ring border, list of words related to bobsledding and luge to use in poem.
		When the Olympics are over, use the results from your chart to answer the questions.
		This reading comprehension is a biography of Olympic champion Kerri Strug and the story of her famous gold-medal win in gymnastics at the 1996 Olympics.
	www.abcteach.com /directory/theme_units/sports/olympics (1215 words)

	Lincoln City Libraries - Reference - In the News: 2004 Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Since 1896, the summer Olympic Games have been held every 4 years, with the exceptions of 1940 and 1944 during the waging of World War II.
		The summer games of Athens 2004 will be the games of the 28th Olympiad.
		At the last summer Olympics (2000 in Sydney, Australia), 199 countries were represented by 10,651 athletes (4,069 women, 6,582 men), who competed in 300 separate events.
	www.lcl.lib.ne.us /depts/ref/inthenews-olympics2004.htm (885 words)

	St. Petersburg Times Online: Summer Olympics Athens 2004 viewers guide
		Laura Wilkinson was one of the surprises of the Sydney Olympics, roaring from eighth place to first in the finals of the 10-meter platform and snatching gold from the favored Li Na of China - all while diving with a heavily wrapped broken foot.
		There are 12 Olympic sprint events (nine for men, three for women) and four in slalom (three men, one women).
		To train for Olympic water polo, Azevedo, perhaps the best player in the world, and his American teammates spend as much as six hours a day in the water and another couple in the training room.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/webspecials04/olympicstab/index.shtml (1911 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Sports Special Report: The Battle for the 2004 Olympics
		Its members also argue that the city should be spared another major event like the Olympics just four years after the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the jubilee year of 2000, when an estimated 30 million pilgrims are expected to visit Rome to mark 2,000 years of Christianity.
		The north Olympic area would be at the city’s Foro Italico Center, where an Olympic stadium built for the 1960 Games stands.
		The south Olympic area is envisioned in the city’s EUR area, a Fascist-era planned community of mixed office, commercial and residential use.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/olympics/longterm/2004/rome20.htm (1056 words)

	Olympic Preview: Equestrian
		Along with sailing, equestrian is the only Olympic sport where men and women compete against each other.
		In fact, only commissioned officers of the military could compete in Olympic dressage competitions from its inclusion in 1912 until 1952.
		Three-day eventing is the most grueling of the Olympic equestrian events, combining dressage, show jumping, and a cross-country phase.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/ol-equestrian.html (426 words)

	Equestrian Olympics Events Sports
		Equestrian Games announces athlete's advisoryHorsetalk, New Zealand - Dec 20, 2006He was a member of the Gold medal winning Team at the 2002 Jerez WEG, was an Individual Gold medalist and a Team Bronze medalist at the 2000 Sydney Olympics...
		called Discovering the Equestrian World, plus scale models of the two equestrian event venues to be used in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and Paralympics.
		Equestrian promotion to launchNews.gov.hk, Hong Kong - Dec 15, 2006The public is set to get a taste of the equestrian excitement that will grace Hong Kong in the 2008 Olympics.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Sports/Events/Olympics/Equestrian (301 words)

	Equestrian at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The events of the Equestrian at the 2004 Summer Olympics featured three equestrian disciplines: dressage, eventing and jumping.
		The Markopoulo Olympic Equestrian Centre, on the outskirts of Markopoulo in the Attica region of Greece, hosted the dressage and jumping events while the eventing took place in the nearby Eventing Park.
		The equestrian events were marred by medal controversies in both the show jumping and the eventing competitions, which resulted in a shuffling of the medals and changing of the overall placings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Equestrian_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics (775 words)

	Tufts Magazine Summer 2004
		Making the team for the Olympics is the ultimate reward for what has been a lifetime dedicated to the sport of show jumping.
		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)

	Horses - New Foundation Formed To Aid Olympic Dressage Competitors - July 2001 - Equiworld - Equestrian Information on ...
		Marietta, GA- The Applewood Foundation for Excellence in Dressage was recently formed in Marietta, Georgia, to support Olympic level dressage riders in a quest to develop top horse and rider combinations for the USA Olympic Dressage team.
		Gibson, a US bronze medallist in the 1996 Olympics, has trained at Applewood Farm in Georgia since she returned form Europe in 1992.
		Michelle Gibson is one of the contenders who hope to benefit from the Applewood Foundation in her quest to compete in the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
	www.equiworld.net /0701/applewood.htm (430 words)

	The New York Times > Sports > Olympics > Equestrian
		Equestrian became a competitive sport at the Dublin Horse Show in 1868, quickly spreading to North America and Europe.
		Equestrian events made their Olympic debut in 1900 with an individual jumping competition.
		Equestrian is supposed to be all about elegance, poise and politesse.
	www.nytimes.com /top/news/sports/olympics2004/equestrian/index.html (505 words)

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