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	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.
		The 1936 Olympics were also the first to be broadcast on a form of television.
		Arrival of the Olympic Flame at the Olympic Stadium.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1936 (384 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)

	1936 Summer Olympics - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		She was also the first to introduce the Olympic torch to the ceremonies.
		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 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)

	1956 Summer Olympics
		Therefore, these events were held in Stockholm (Sweden) marking the first, and so far only time, that events of the same Olympics were held in different countries.
		Because Melbourne is situated in the southern hemisphere, the Olympics are held late in the year.
		After being banned from the Olympics in 1948, a team of only West German athletes took part in 1952.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/1/19/1956_summer_olympics.html (314 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, were held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany.
		The Berlin Olympics also saw the introduction to the ceremonies of the Olympic Torch bringing the Olympic Flame by relay from Olympia.
		The Olympic Flame was used for the second time at these games, but they marked the first time it was brought to the Olympic Town by a torch relay, with the starting point in Olympia, Greece.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics (1251 words)

	1972 Summer Olympics
		In the bid to organise the Olympics, Detroit, Madrid and Montreal were beaten.
		Lasse Virén[?] of Finland won the 5000 and 10000 m (the latter after a fall), a feat he would repeat in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
		For the first time, the Olympic Oath is also taken by a representative of the referees.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/19/1972_Summer_Olympics.html (256 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)

	Fencing - OTMWiki
		Their aim is to encourage "sensible" fencing and reward initiative and circumspection at the same time, in particular to reward fencers for properly made attacks, and penalize fencers for attacking into such an attack that lands, an action that could be lethal with sharp blades.
		At Olympic level, it was first introduced to épée in 1936, to foil in 1956, and to sabre in 1988.
		Albert Axelrod, bronze medallist in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Foil
	www.onthemat.com /wiki/index.php/Fencing (9314 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1936 Berlin
		The hope was that the 1936 Berlin Olympics would be a beacon of hope in the global shadow cast by the Great Depression.
		An alternative People's Olympics was scheduled to take place in Barcelona, Spain, but they were cancelled when the Spanish Civil War broke out, one day before the competition was to begin.
		In the heart of the Olympic Village was an open-air, clay basketball court.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1936.html (1477 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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.
	enc.qba73.com /link-1896_Summer_Olympics (3937 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)

	1936 Summer Olympics Information
		The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, were held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany.
		The Berlin Olympics also saw the introduction to the ceremonies of the Olympic Torch bringing the Olympic Flame by relay from Olympia.
		The Olympic Flame was used for the second time at these games, but they marked the first time it was brought to the Olympic Town by a torch relay, with the starting point in Olympia, Greece.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics (918 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 Summer Olympics - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia
		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.tvwiki.tv /wiki/1896_Summer_Olympics (3849 words)

	1984 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1984_Summer_Olympics (1003 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)

	The Nazi Olympics
		Having rejected a proposed boycott of the 1936 Olympics, the United States and other western democracies missed the opportunity to take a stand that — some observers at the time claimed — might have given Hitler pause and bolstered international resistance to Nazi tyranny.
		In August 1936 Olympic flags and swastikas bedecked the monuments and houses of a festive, crowded Berlin.
		On July 16, 1936, some 800 Gypsies were arrested and interned under police guard in a special Gypsy camp in the Berlin suburb of Marzahn.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/olympics.html (3013 words)

	Special: Athens Olympics 2004 \| The Christian Science Monitor
		The 1940 Summer Games were scheduled to be held in Tokyo, then were moved to Helsinki, Finland before being canceled altogether with the start of World War II.
		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)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1948 London
		The looming threat of the Third Reich and world war that accented the 1936 Olympics was replaced by rising tensions between the Communist Bloc and the West.
		Blankers-Koen was the sensation of the London Olympics, but there's no telling what she might have accomplished were it not for the war.
		She made her Olympic debut at Berlin in 1936 and came away with a fifth-place finish in the relay and a sixth in the high jump.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1948.html (1331 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Harvard grad is Athens-bound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In the summer of 2003, after graduation from HMS and when not doing physical conditioning and working out at the Boston Fencing Club, Chang and Lieberman, an associate professor in radiology at HMS, created an educational CD that teaches medical students how to interpret plain films (X-rays) of the abdomen.
		While at HMS, Chang often used fencing as a means to keep from burning out from school, which at times required him to complete 40- to 100-hour rotations, then jet off to World Cup competitions, often overseas.
		The last Harvard fencer to make an Olympic team prior to Chang was John G. Hurd '34, a men's foilist (like Chang) who represented the United States at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games held in Berlin.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2004/06.03/99-fencing.html (964 words)

	1984 Summer Olympics
		After the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, the Eastern Bloc, including the Soviet Union, East Germany and Cuba boycotts these Olympics (the USSR announced their intention not to participate on May 8, 1984).
		Nawal El Moutawakel of Morocco becomes the first female Olympic champion of an Islamic nation, and the first of her country in the 400 m hurdles.
		A marathon for women is held for the first time at the Olympics, won by Joan Benoit.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1984_summer_olympics.shtml (289 words)

	1928 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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.
		The torch relay, however, would not occur until the 1936 Summer Olympics.
	enc.qba73.com /link-1928_Summer_Olympics (477 words)

	The Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Olympic history is traced throughout the twentieth century--the controversies, the triumphs of individual athletes, the sports that have been added or dropped from Olympic play, etc. Also included is an explanation of how host cities are chosen.
		In 1931, when the International Olympic Committee chose Berlin to be the host city of the 1936 Olympics, they had no idea what would be taking place in Germany at that time.
		Revised and expanded just in time for the 2000 Olympics, this extremely readable book is an excellent choice not just for schools and libraries, but for parents who want to watch the Olympics with their kids.
	www.childrenslit.com /th_olympics.html (8191 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)

	Harvard Gazette: Harvard grad is Athens-bound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In the summer of 2003, after graduation from HMS and when not doing physical conditioning and working out at the Boston Fencing Club, Chang and Lieberman, an associate professor in radiology at HMS, created an educational CD that teaches medical students how to interpret plain films (X-rays) of the abdomen.
		While at HMS, Chang often used fencing as a means to keep from burning out from school, which at times required him to complete 40- to 100-hour rotations, then jet off to World Cup competitions, often overseas.
		The last Harvard fencer to make an Olympic team prior to Chang was John G. Hurd '34, a men's foilist (like Chang) who represented the United States at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games held in Berlin.
	www.hno.harvard.edu /gazette/2004/06.03/99-fencing.html (964 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").
		At the end of an Olympics, the mayor of the host-city presents the flag to the mayor of the next host-city.
		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.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /olympics (1311 words)

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