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	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
		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 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.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/2/0/0/2004_Summer_Olympics_330c.html (2001 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		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 team from a non-fascist country to salute Hitler (in a gesture of friendship) during opening ceremonies.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/1/9/3/1936_Summer_Olympics_a11e.html (852 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)

	Olympic Events
		Archery was first included in the Olympic competition programme in the year 1900, but had fallen out of favour by 1920.
		Taekwondo was an Olympic demonstration sport at both the 1988 Games in Seoul and the 1992 Games in Barcelona, and it made its debut as an official Olympic sport at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
		The Japanese volleyball used in the 1964 Olympics, consisted of a rubber carcass with leather panelling.
	www.ict.mic.ul.ie /websites/2002/Eilis_Faherty/events.htm (1364 words)

	kiat.net: History of the Olympic Games
		The first Modern Olympics were held two years later in Athens, Greece, where 245 (all men) athletes from 14 nations competed in the ancient Panathinaikon Stadium to large and ardent crowds.
		The Olympic Movement has survived wars, boycotts and terrorism to become a symbol of the ability of the people of all nations to come together in peace and friendship.
		Over the years, the Olympic Games traveled to different countries and continents, and in 2004, they returned to the country of their birth and the city of their revival for the hosting of the XXVIII Modern Olympic Games.
	kiat.net /olympics/history/index.html (1538 words)

	2000 Summer Olympics
		The cover for the DVD of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics showing fireworks in the background and the lighting of the Olympic Flame by Cathy Freeman (who subsequently won the 400 m title).
		During the raising of the Olympics Flag, the Olympic Hymn was sung by the Millennium Choir of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia.
		People in Canada who wanted to see the Olympics between then and the closing ceremonies had to turn to TSN because the CBC was broadcasting news coverage related to the passing and state funeral of the former prime minister.
	www.link-ex.net /wiki_en/?title=2000_Summer_Olympics (1706 words)

	1932 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, were held in 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
		An Olympic Village was built for the first time, occupied by the male athletes.
		The Grand Olympic Auditorium, built to attract the Olympics and home to boxing, weightlifting, and wrestling events, was the largest indoor arena in the United States at the time, seating 15,300.
	www.libraryoflibrary.com /E_n_c_p_d_1932_Summer_Olympics.html (517 words)

	OLYMPICS: 100 Years Of Change
		Perhaps the most blatant of Olympic hypocrisies upheld over the past 100 years was the nonnegotiable rule that each athlete had to swear that he was an amateur before he could compete.
		The first women's athletics event in Olympic history, the discus throw, was won by the brawny Pole Halina Konopacka, who shattered her own world record by 45 cm and beat the runner-up by 2.53 m.
		During the fiercest decades of the cold war, Olympic amateurism was almost as volatile an issue in the East-West conflict as political ideology.
	www.time.com /time/international/1996/960527/olympics.history.html (6130 words)

	Mormon Olympics
		In an effort to rekindle the spirit of the ancient Olympics of Greece, which had been abolished as a pagan cult by Christian Byzantine Emperor Theodosius I in 393 A.D., the modern Olympic Games were initiated in 1896.
		The first Olympics in this modern era were held in Athens, Greece, as a result of the persuasive recommendation of Demetrius Vikelas, a Greek representative of the Pan-Hellenic Gymnastic Club who had come to Paris as a participant in the planning for the new Olympics.
		It is ironic that these two years saw no Olympics, considering the fact that right before the war started, the 1936 Games were held in Berlin, where Adolf Hitler tried to exploit the event to justify his ideas about the alleged superiority of the Aryan race.
	www.mormonolympians.org /mormon_olympians/history_modern_olympics.html (688 words)

	Summer Olympic Games
		The Summer Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event held every four years, organised by the International Olympic Committee.
		The Olympics are the most prestigious such event in the world, with a larger range of sports than other such events, and most of those considering Olympic victory the most prestigious achievement in their field.
		On the bright side it did, however, seem that the drug testing and regulation authorities were at last catching up with the cheating that had been widely to be endemic in athletics for some years, and it was generally held that the 1992 Barcelona Games were cleaner, although not without incident.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/s/su/summer_olympic_games.shtml (1962 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)

	1920 Summer Olympics
		The city was chosen to memorialize Belgium for its suffering in World War I, beating out Amsterdam and Lyon for the right to hold the games.
		The 1916 Olympics were scheduled to be held in Berlin but were canceled due to the fighting in World War I. Games of the VII Olympiad
		These Olympics were the first in which the Olympic Oath was uttered, the first in which doves were released to symbolize peace, and was the first time the Olympic Flag[?] was flown.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/19/1920_Summer_Olympics.html (132 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)

	1956 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were held in 1956 in Melbourne, Australia, although the equestrian events could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations.
		Because Melbourne is in the southern hemisphere, the Olympics were held later in the year than former Olympics held in the northern hemisphere.
		Inspired by Australian teenager John Wing, an Olympic tradition began when athletes of different nations are allowed to parade together at the closing ceremony, instead of with their national teams, as a symbol of world unity.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1956_Summer_Olympics (1423 words)

	1964 Olympics — FactMonster.com
		His record toss was one of 25 world and Olympic marks broken.
		And Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina won six medals for the third Olympics in a row.
		1964 Olympics - 1964 Olympics Innsbruck Death and unseasonably mild weather hung over the ninth Winter Games in the...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0114650.html (415 words)

	London Paralympic Games 2012 - Disabled Olympics
		In 1960, the Olympics were held in Rome, and Guttmann brought 400 wheelchair athletes to the Olympic city to compete.
		In 1964, the able-bodied athletes went to Tokyo for the Olympics and shortly afterward the Japanese capital also played host to the disabled athletes.
		While the Olympics went to Mexico in 1968, the Paralympics were staged in Israel and four years later were held in Heidelberg while the Olympics were in Munich.
	www.apparelyzed.com /london-paralympic-games/index.html (981 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1928 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		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.
		For the first time, the Olympic Flame was lit during the Olympics.
		The torch relay was however not started until the 1936 Summer Olympics.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1928_Summer_Olympics (293 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The 1964 Tokyo Games were the first to be held in Asia.
		The Japanese expressed their successful reconstruction after World War II by choosing as the final torchbearer Yoshinori Sakai, who was born in Hiroshima the day that that city was destroyed by an atomic bomb.
		The carrier of the flame, Yoshinori Sakai, was chosen because he was born on 6 August 1945, the day the atomic bomb exploded in Hiroshima, in homage to the victims and as a call for peace in the world.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1964 (339 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.
		The most recent Olympic Games were held in Athens in the summer of 2004, in which 10,500 athletes competed in 28 sports representing 201 nations and territories.
		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)

	Saudi Athletes in Atlanta Strive to Build on Their Nation's Olympic Tradition
		The Olympics have always inspired feelings of national pride, both in the inhabitants of the host country and in the inhabitants of every country sending athletes to the games.
		For the first time ever, the Kingdom's soccer team was represented in the Olympics, and although it lost its first game to Brazil and tied its second with Malaysia, it was a great moment in Saudi soccer history and set the course for the national soccer team's participation in future Olympics.
		In the 25th Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, in 1992, Saudi athletes represented the Kingdom in a number of sports, including some in which the Kingdom had never before competed, such as gymnastics, table tennis and swimming.
	www.saudiembassy.net /Publications/MagSummer96/olympics.html (951 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1956 Melbourne
		It was a team that also featured Marlene Mathews, the bronze medallist in both the 100m and 200m, and the late Shirley Strickland de la Hunty, who was part of the relay team and defended her gold medal in the 80m hurdles.
		She came back in 1964 and won the 400m - a performance she deemed to be "the only perfect race of my life" and which made her the only sprinter to win Olympic gold medals in the 100m, 200m and 400m.
		She was a sentimental favourite at the 2000 Opening Ceremonies in Sydney, appearing in a wheelchair as she carried the Olympic Torch.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1956.html (1327 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)

	1912 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The 1912 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad, were held in 1912 in Stockholm, Sweden.
		For the first time, competitors in the Games came from all five continents symbolized in the Olympic rings.
		Swedish marksman Oscar Swahn became the oldest Olympic gold medalist (up to that time), at the age of 64, in the deer-shooting event.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/1912_Summer_Olympics (282 words)

	1964 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tokyo, which won the rights to the games in 1958 over the bids from Detroit, Buenos Aires and Vienna, had been awarded with the organisation of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honour had been passed to Helsinki because of Japan's invasion of China.
		The 1964 Summer games marked the first time the Olympics were held in Asia [1].
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1964_Summer_Olympics (669 words)

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