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	Wikipedia: 1932 Summer Olympics
		An Olympic Village was built for the first time, occupied by the male athletes.
		Babe Didrikson wins two gold medals in the javelin throw and the hurdles event, and only loses a third in the high jump because her jumping technique is ruled inferior and is placed second.
		Finnish star Paavo Nurmi is barred from competing in the Olympic for being a professional.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/1/19/1932_summer_olympics.html (198 words)

	1984 Summer Olympics
		The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, were held in 1984 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
		In the wake of the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, 14 Eastern Bloc countries and allies including the Soviet Union, Cuba and East Germany (but not Romania), boycotted these Olympics.
		Olympic soccer was unexpectedly played before massive crowds throughout America, with several sell-outs at the 100,000+ seat Rose Bowl.
	www.1bx.com /en/1984_Los_Angeles_Olympics.htm (962 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)

	1996 Summer Olympics - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The 1996 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and informally known as the Centennial Olympics, were held in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
		Cycling professionals were admitted to the Olympics, with five-time Tour de France winner Miguel Induráin winning the inaugural individual time trial event.
		Michelle Smith of Ireland wins three gold medals and a bronze, but her victories are overshadowed by doping allegations, which are later reinforced as she is banned after failing a test in 1999.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/1996_Summer_Olympics (801 words)

	1960 Summer Olympics
		Rome had been awarded the organisation of the 1908 Summer Olympics, but had to decline and pass the honours to London.
		South Africa appears in the Olympic arena for the last time under the apartheid regime.
		It was the second time an athlete died in competition at the Olympics, after the death of Portuguese marathon runner Francisco Lazaro at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/1/19/1960_summer_olympics.html (260 words)

	Category:1912 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		Tug of War at the 1912 Summer Olympics
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:1912_Summer_Olympics (71 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Anti-fascists planned to host a People's Olympiad in Barcelona as an alternative games to protest the Berlin Olympics but this was cancelled due to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
		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 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.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/1936_Summer_Olympics (806 words)

	1912 Summer Olympics - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The 1912 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad, were held in 1912 in Stockholm, Sweden.
		A winter sports week for the 1912 Games featuring figure skating were rejected by organizers because they wanted to promote the Nordic Games, a quadrennial sporting event, instead.
		1912 Summer Olympics, Highlights, Medals awarded, Medal count, Nations, See also, External links and 1912 Summer Olympics.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/1912_Summer_Olympics (253 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)

	1896 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		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.
		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.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/NewSport/Olympia1896.html (3540 words)

	2000 Summer Olympics
		The ceremonies concluded with the lighting of the Olympic Flame.
		Former Australian Olympic champions brought the torch through the stadium, handing it over to Cathy Freeman, who lit the flame in the cauldron.
		IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch, at his last Olympics, had to leave for home, as his wife was severely ill. Upon arrival, his wife had already passed away.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/2/20/2000_summer_olympics.shtml (670 words)

	Summer Olympics: Modern Pentathlon
		The choice of sports was based on a warrior having to carry a message to the troops during a battle.
		The equipment for fencing is a fencing uniform, fencing glove, protective mask and a sword called an epee.
		The athlete fences each of his or her opponents for one minute.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/modernpentathlon.htm (424 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics
		It was the first Olympics since NBC had merged with Vivendi Universal Entertainment; the merger 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 Olympics Opening Ceremony was held on August 13.
		The Mayor of Athens, Dora Bakoyianni, passed the Olympic Flag to the Mayor of Beijing, Wang Qishan.
	www.askfactmaster.com /2004_Summer_Olympics (1705 words)

	Baseball at the 1912 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baseball had its first appearance at the 1912 Summer Olympics as an exhibition sport.
		The game was held on 15 July 1912 on the Ostermalm Athletic Grounds in Stockholm.
		The Americans were represented by various members of the American Olympic track and field athletics delegation, while the Swedish team was the Vesterås Baseball Club, which had been formed in 1910 as the first baseball club in Sweden.
	dictionpedia.com /en/Baseball_at_the_1912_Summer_Olympics (197 words)

	1988 Summer 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.
		Christa Rothenburger[?] becomes the first (and last) athlete to win Olympic medals at the Winter Olympics and Summer Olympics in the same year.
		Table tennis is introduced at the Olympics, with China and the host nation both winning two titles.
	www.findword.org /19/1988-summer-olympics.html (679 words)

	2006 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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	1912 Olympics
		The IOC, with the full support of the American Olympic Committee, stripped him of his medals and erased his records.
		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 (458 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS
		Equestrian is the only Olympic sport where man and animal are established team-mates, and one of the few where men and women compete on equal terms.
		During the Olympics four days are devoted to dressage.
		The origins of the discipline and its development during the Olympic Games.
	www.olympic.org /uk/sports/programme/disciplines_uk.asp?DiscCode=ED (240 words)

	1912 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Upon awarding Thorpe his medal, King Gustav V is said to have stated "You sir, are the greatest athlete in the world," to which Thorpe replied, "Thanks, King."
		Swedish marksman Oscar Swahn became the oldest Olympic gold medalist (up to that time), at the age of 64, in the deer-shooting event.
		Women\'s events in swimming and diving were introduced.
	www.pleasantoncaus.com /section/1912_Summer_Olympics (377 words)

	Australia at the 2004 Summer Olympics
		Australia at the 2004 Summer Olympics was represented by Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) and abbreviated AUS.
		Australia first competed in the Olympics in 1896, and is one of only two countries to have sent athletes to every Summer Olympic Games.
		National Olympic Committees at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece
	www.askfactmaster.com /Australia_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics (2035 words)

	1920 Olympics
		The Olympic quadrennial, scheduled for Berlin in 1916, was interrupted by World War I–the so-called “War to End All Wars,” which had involved 28 countries and killed nearly 10 million troops in four years.
		Less than two years after the armistice, the Olympics resumed in Belgium, a symbolic and austere choice considering it had been occupied for four years by enemy forces.
		The Antwerp Games were also noteworthy for the introduction of the Olympic oath–uttered for the first time by Belgium fencer Victor Bion–and the Olympic flag, with its five multicolored, intersecting rings.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114439.html (452 words)

	2006 Olympics News, 2008 & 2004 Olympics News: QuickSports.
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		One of Jim's biggest football thrills: "Running back two straight kickoffs for touchdowns against Army [and a cadet halfback named Ike Eisenhower] in 1912." In the Olympics that year, with hardly any formal training, Jim won both the pentathlon and the decathlon.
		Then it was discovered that Jim had played summer baseball in 1909 and 1910--for $25 a week.
	sports.quickfound.net /olympics_news.html (816 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		* Rower Jack Beresford won his fifth Olympic medal in the sport, and his third gold medal.
		* For the first time the Olympic Fire was brought to the Olympic Town by a torch relay, with the starting point in Olympia, Greece.
		* Basketball and handball made their debut at the Olympics, both as outdoor sports.
	brandt.kurowski.net /projects/lsa/wiki/view.cgi?doc=487 (443 words)

	databaseOlympics.com - Olympic results for all Winter and Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		We've gone through tons of sources to bring you the most in-depth olympics database online.
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	www.databaseolympics.com /games/gamessport.htm?g=6&sp=FEN (125 words)

	Medal Count for the 1912 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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