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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)

	fencing - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about fencing
		Women's fencing was included from 1924, but only using the foil; the épée was not added until in 1996.
		He determined to cultivate the good-will of the youth Raoul and, either whilst fencing with him or when out shooting, to extract from his simplicity some information which would connect the Athos of old times with the Athos of the present.
		Fencing at the 1896 Summer Olympics - Men's masters foil
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /fencing (320 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics
		The 1896 Summer Olympics, formally called the Games of the I Olympiad, were the first modern Summer Olympic Games and the first Games since Roman emperor Theodosius I banned the Ancient Olympic Games in AD 393 as part of the Christian campaign against paganism.
		However, the 1900 Summer Olympics were already planned for Paris and, barring the so-called Intercalated Games of 1906, the Olympics did not return to Greece until the 2004 Summer Olympics.
		In the first modern Olympics of 1896, women were not allowed to compete, but there was an unofficial competitor in the marathon, a poor Greek woman who became known as 'Melpomene'.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/NewSport/Olympia1896.html (3550 words)

	Pretty Tough Fencing
		Fencing is one of only four sports to be included in every modern Olympic Games, since the first in 1896.
		Fencing is conducted on a 14 meter x 2 meter "strip" or "piste" to replicate combat in confined quarters such as a castle hallway.
		The end of the fencing strip represents the line drawn in the earth by duelists' seconds: to retreat behind this line during the duel indicated cowardice and loss of honor.
	www.prettytough.com /fencingfacts.php (560 words)

	- NCAA Sports.com
		Fencing student-athlete Jessica Lewis-Turner takes great pride in her sport, one that she describes as requiring a combination of mental and physical skill that involves athleticism, as well as strategy.
		Stanford also sponsors fencing camps each year, including a "Pirates" camp for about 150 youngsters that introduces them to fencing and sailing and is taught, in part, by student-athletes from the varsity fencing team.
		At the fencing championships, which include schools from all three divisions, the overall national champion is determined by combining the scores from the men's and women's events.
	www.ncaasports.com /fencing/story/6968810 (1490 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics Biography on DanceAge
		The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, were held in 1896 in Athens, Greece.
		These games were the first modern Olympic Games and the first Games since Roman emperor Theodosius I banned the Ancient Olympic Games in 393 as part of the Christian campaign against paganism.
		The concept of a designated Olympic Village for the athletes would not appear until the 1932 Summer Olympics; the athletes had to care for their own lodging.
	music.musictnt.com /biography/sdmc_1896_Summer_Olympics (3621 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)

	1896 Olympic Games - Japan
		The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, were held in 1896 in Athens, Greece.
		However, the 1900 Summer Olympics were already planned for Paris and, barring the so-called Intercalated Games of 1906, the Olympics did not return to Greece until the 2004 Summer Olympics.
		The concept of a designated Olympic Village for the athletes would not appear until the 1932 Summer Olympics; the athletes had to care for their own lodging.
	1896-olympic-games.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/1896_Olympic_Games (3629 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia
		The true origin of the modern Olympics was acknowledged by De Coubertin as being in Much Wenlock, a rural market town in the English county of Shropshire.
		The fencing events were held in the Zappeion, named after Evangelos Zappas, who had organized Greek Olympic Games in the mid-19th century.
		The concept of national teams was not a major part of the Olympic movement until the Intercalated Games ten years later, though many sources list the nationality of competitors in 1896 and give medal counts.
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/1896_Summer_Olympics (3849 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics Information
		The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, were held in 1896 in Athens, Greece.
		These games were the first modern Summer Olympic Games and the first Games since Roman emperor Theodosius I banned the Ancient Olympic Games in 393 as part of the Christian campaign against paganism.
		The concept of a designated Olympic Village for the athletes would not appear until the 1932 Summer Olympics; the athletes had to care for their own lodging.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/1896_Summer_Olympics (3629 words)

	:::► Dictionary of Meaning www.dictionary-of-meaning.com ◄:::
		At the 1896 Summer Olympics, three fencing events were contested at the Zappeion.
		These medals are retroactively assigned by the International Olympic Committee; at the time, winners were given a silver medal.
		Fencing at the 1896 Summer Olympics - Men's masters foilMen's masters foil
	www.dictionary-of-meaning.com /Fencing_at_the_1896_Summer_Olympics.html (172 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)

	Dow We Need the Olympics - Rowing Perspective - Fencing.Net Discussion
		The Olympics is the once chance that a number of lesser sports have the chance to get a show case, though as this article points out, it is gradually degenerating into an extension of pro-sports seasons.
		Otherwise fencing is periously close to the minimum number of sponsored teams before the NCAA would drop the national championships.
		I think that fencing would suffer, at least in the short term, and probably in the long term, if it was dropped from the Olympics.
	www.fencing.net /forums/thread16725.html (4158 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > WikiProject Sports Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		These should give general information about the topic, and give a short history of them (the current Summer Olympic Games page is quite good), link to sports conducted there (past and present).
		This appears to be the most commonly used form in English language, even though the official naming is in the form of "Games of the I Olympiad" and "V Winter Olympic Games".
		For an example, look at Fencing at the 1896 Summer Olympics.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/wi/WikiProject_Sports_Olympics (765 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1896 Athens
		Currently, the stadium is again being refurbished to serve as the venue for the marathon and archery at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
		All the competitors were men; women did not make it onto the Olympic roster until the next Olympiad in 1900, when the number of competitors swelled to 1,319.
		The marathon’s origins are more apocryphal: a re-enactment of the journey of Philippides, who according to legend, ran to Athens to bring news of the Greeks’ victory over the Persians in 490 BC and collapsed dead of exhaustion upon his arrival.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1896.html (1022 words)

	1896 Olympics — Infoplease.com
		Among the remains uncovered was the ancient stadium where the original Olympic Games were celebrated from 776 B.C. to 393 A.D., when Roman emperor Theodosius I banned all pagan festivals.
		The idea was enthusiastically received and the Modern Olympics, as we know them, were born.
		Environmental factors in the summer Olympics in historical perspective.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114349.html (601 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)

	Fencing Community Faces Marketing Challenges - NCAA Sports.com
		Fencing student-athlete Jessica Lewis- Turner takes great pride in her sport, one that she describes as requiring a combination of mental and physical skill that involves athleticism, as well as strategy.
		Lewis-Turner says she believes that fencing student-athletes deserve the same recognition given to teams that attract thousands of fans.
		The movies do not reflect the reality of the sport, she said, adding there's a need to re-educate people that fencing student- athletes train and practice the same as any other student-athlete.
	www.ncaasports.com /fencing/story/7204030 (909 words)

	Olympics Athletics: Modern Pentathlon, Track & Field, Triathlon, Weightlifting - CBS SportsLine.com
		The Olympic Stadium, the centre of the Olympic Games 2004, is situated at Maroussi and is part of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex (OAKA).
		The Goudi Olympic Complex consists of two venues: the Olympic Gymnasium of Goudi and the Olympic Centre of Modern Pentathlon.
		The Olympic Weightlifting Hall in Nikaia, an area in the southwest of the Attica region, consists of a main Indoor Gym building with a capacity of 5,000 seats.
	www.sportsline.com /olympics/summer/athletics (457 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The 1936 Olympics, held in Berlin, are best remembered for Adolf Hitler’s failed attempt to use them to prove his theories of Aryan racial superiority.
		She remains the youngest female gold medalist in the history of the Summer Olympics.
		Arrival of the Olympic Flame at the Olympic Stadium.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1936 (395 words)

	Fencing, Sports in Summer Olympic Games
		Fencing is a form of art, in which combat is fought, armed with swords, knives, pikes, bayonets, clubs etc. the modern sport event fencing refers to the European school of swordsmanship and various events evolved from them.
		The fencing competition at the Olympics is held in eleven categories.
		A number of judges are appointed during the fencing competition to monitor the combat.
	www.mapsofworld.com /olympics/summer-olympic-events/fencing.html (409 words)

	1928 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
	enc.qba73.com /link-1928_Summer_Olympics (477 words)

	Summer Olympics: Fencing
		Fencing was known in Egypt, China, India, and Greece.
		The foil is the lightest, the epée was the sword used for dueling years ago, and the sabre is the heaviest sword.
		The winner is the first fencer to score 15 hits on the opponent or the fencer who scores the greater number of hits by the end of the bout.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/fencing.htm (216 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)

	The Olympics
		The Olympic Games (or Olympics/however you say it!!) is a competition where people from all over the world come to a central location to compete in different sports.
		The Summer Olympics is the main Olympics and includes a wider range of sports.
		Originally these were held in the same year as the Summer Olympics, but starting with 1994 the Winter Games are in between, two years after the Games of the Olympiad.
	www.projectshum.org /Olympics (274 words)

	1988 Summer Olympics
		South Korea's government became a democracy under the pressure of organising the Olympics.
		After boycotts of the Olympics in 1976, 1980 and 1984, the Games were again boycotted, but only by four nations: North Korea, Cuba, Ethiopia and Nicaragua.
		Table tennis is introduced at the Olympics, with China and the host nation both winning two titles.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1988_summer_olympics.shtml (329 words)

	1924 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The 1924 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VIII Olympiad, were held in 1924 in Paris, France.
		The marathon distance was fixed at 42.195 km, from the distance run at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.
		Ireland was given formal recognition as an independent nation in the Olympic Movement in Paris in 1924 and it was at these games that Ireland made its first appearance in an Olympic Games as an independent nation.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1924_Summer_Olympics (424 words)

	History of the Olympics + Cartoon Fun by Brownielocks
		During the last winter Olympics in 1998, winter snowboarding was accepted as an official winter competition.
		The Olympic Flame is said to represent the "Olympic Spirit" of competition.
		The newest tradition, which began with the summer Olympics in Los Angeles, CA (USA) was to have the torch carried across the country by people from all walks of life and have it arrive at the stadium just in time for the opening ceremonies.
	www.brownielocks.com /olympics.html (1019 words)

	History of the Modern Summer and Winter Olympics from Fanbay.net
		The Summer and Winter Olympics of 1932 were both held in the United States, in Los Angeles, CA and Lake Placid, NY, respectively.
		The U.S.A. won 30% of the Summer Olympic medals—their highest percentage over the years—not counting Saint Louis, where the U.S. won 84% of the medals because the attendance was even more skewed toward Americans.
		The Olympic facilities were as impressive as the cutting edge facilities that brought the Summer Olympics to a new level in Munich (1972).
	www.fanbay.net /olympics/modern_history.htm (2739 words)

	1932 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, were held in 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
		Fewer than half the number of participants from the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam competed in 1932.
		An Olympic Village was built for the first time, occupied by the male athletes.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1932_Summer_Olympics (375 words)

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