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	1976 Summer Olympics Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In the bid to organise the Olympics, Montreal defeated Moscow and Los Angeles, which would organise the 1980 and 1984 Olympics.
		In a protest to a tour of South Africa by the New Zealand rugby team, Tanzania led a boycott of 22 African nations as the IOC refused to not admit the New Zealand team.
		The Olympic Stadium, a daring design of French architect Roger Taillibert, remains a lasting monument to the huge deficit, as it never had an effective retractable roof, and the tower was only completed after the Olympics.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/1/19/1976_summer_olympics.html (353 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - 1920 Summer Olympics
		The 1920 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad, were held in 1920 in Antwerp, Belgium.
		The 1916 Olympics were scheduled to be held in Berlin but were canceled due to the fighting in World War I. Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey were not invited due to their part in the war.
		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.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=1920_Summer_Olympics (254 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)

	Wikipedia: 1948 Summer Olympics
		After a hiatus of 12 years caused by the outbreak of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
		With World War II in recent memory, Germany and Japan were not invited for the Games, although Italy was.
		For the first time, Olympic diplomas were awarded to the 6th highest placed athletes.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/1/19/1948_summer_olympics.html (163 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.
		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 (3549 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)

	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.y2z.org /19/1984_Summer_Olympics.html (411 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)

	Raid on home, law office of Olympic official - Fencing.Net Discussion
		Prosecutors and police have raided the home and law office of Thomas Bach, a vice president of the International Olympic Committee, as part of a wider fraud and tax evasion investigation centered around the former president of his local fencing club, Emil Beck.
		Bach, 48, who was the gold medallist for West Germany in fencing at the 1976 Summer Olympics, said he found the raids “impossible to understand“ and said he was confident he would be exonerated.
		Chief Prosecutor Hubert Jobski said the investigation of the fencing club in Taubersbischofsheim, a town in northwestern Bavaria that prides itself as “the cradle of German fencing,“ centered around suspicions that cars provided by sponsor Mercedes-Benz for the benefit of athletes had been put by the club to other uses, without any tax being paid.
	www.fencing.net /forums/thread4929.html (333 words)

	ipedia.com: 1932 Summer Olympics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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.ipedia.com /1932_summer_olympics.html (248 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1972 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		All Olympic events were suspended for one day after the terrorist action became known.
		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.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1972_Summer_Olympics (454 words)

	OLYMPIC STATISTICS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The ranking is performed neither according to gold medal nor medal total but according to points (3 points for a gold, 2 for a silver and 1 for a bronze).
		In some cases, you will find "half medals": in the early Olympics, some people had unprecise nationality, therefore two countries shared the medal.
		It includes all Olympic results from Athens 1896 to Sydney 2000 (when sport is completed), and Chamonix 1924 to Salt Lake City 2002..
	www.darmoni.net (129 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics
		Athens was chosen as the host city during the 106th IOC Session held in Lausanne in 05 September 1997, after surprisingly losing the bid to organize the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta nearly seven years before, on 18 September 1990, during the 96th IOC Session in Tokyo.
		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 Mayor of Athens, Dora Bakoyianni, passed the Olympic Flag to the Mayor of Beijing, Wang Qishan.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/NewSport/Olympia2004.html (1798 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)

	Summer Olympics: Rowing
		Baron Pierre de Coubertin was really fond of Rowing and included it as an Olympic sport in 1896 at the first modern Olympic Games.
		The first rowing events were actually held for men in 1900 but women were not included until 1976.
		There are two categories of boats in the Olympic games and there will be races for both men and women.
	www2.lhric.org /poCantico/olympics/rowing.htm (180 words)

	1976 Olympics
		In 1970, when Montreal was named to host the Summer Olympics '76, organizers estimated it would cost $310 million to stage the Games.
		1976 Olympics - The IOC originally gave the 1976 Winter Games to Denver, but in 1972 Colorado voters rejected a $5...
		John Naber - John Naber Born: Jan. 20, 1956 Swimmer won 4 gold medals and a silver in 1976 Olympics.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0114748.html (380 words)

	City Mayors: 2012 Summer Olympics
		The International Olympic Committee (IOC) was founded on 23 June 1894 by the French educator Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who was inspired to revive the Olympic Games of Greek antiquity.
		The 1980 Olympics in Moscow, boycotted by the United States and some other countries over the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, are still remembered by some in the Olympic movement.
		The Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) left their candidature until the last minute, but in the end Rio de Janeiro was selected ahead of Sao Paulo, the country’s biggest city, to be Brazil’s representative.
	www.citymayors.com /features/2012olympics.html (4831 words)

	Summer Olympics: Gymnastics
		In the Olympics there are three different kinds of gymnastics events.
		In 1976, Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci was the first artistic gymnast to score a perfect ten!
		Olympic Gymnastics has changed over the years but Men’s Artistic Gymnastics first became an Olympic sport in 1896 and Women's Artistic Gymnastics became an Olympic sport in 1928.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/gymnastics.htm (215 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Olympics 2004 \| History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This was the first official Olympics to see athletes marched into the stadium behind their respective national flags.
		Female athletes competed in the Olympics for the first time in Paris in 1900.
		The first of the modern Olympic Games was staged in Athens, Greece.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/low/olympics_2004/history/default.stm (411 words)

	SLAM! Sports: 2000 Summer Games: History of the Games
		For the first time in Olympic History the Games were held in Canada.
		Tawain withdrew from the Games because of disputes with China and some African nations boycotted the Games because they were angered by New Zealand's rugby tours in apartheid South Africa.
		The Olympic hero of the Games was Nadia Comaneci, the 14-year-old Romanian gymnast who recorded the first perfect "10" and won two gold medals.
	www.canoe.ca /2000GamesHistory/1976games.html (210 words)

	1976 Olympics
		Nadia Comaneci - Gymnast, born 12 November 1961, Perfect-scoring Romanian gymnast of the 1976 Olympics
		The Barcelona Olympics and the perception of foreign nations: a panel study of Japanese university students.
		City characteristics and coverage of China's bid to host the Olympics.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114748.html (422 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Although awarded before the Nazi Party came to power in Germany, the government saw the Olympics as a golden opportunity to promote their fascist ideology.
		He was replaced by United States Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage, who supported the Games.
		* For the first time the Olympic Fire was brought to the Olympic Town by a torch relay, with the starting point in Olympia, Greece.
	brandt.kurowski.net /projects/lsa/wiki/view.cgi?doc=487 (443 words)

	Fanbay.net - Athens 2004 Summer Olympics - Links, News, Travel info
		Here are some facts and information about the 2004 Summer Olympics at Athens, Greece.
		The Ancient Olympic games originated in Greece and the first modern olympics was held in Athens in 1896.
		Also, see the following link for an analysis of the performance of the United States in the Summer Olympics over the years, from 1896 to present.
	www.fanbay.net /olympics/2004.htm (449 words)

	SignOn San Diego Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics -- Russia 3, Cuba 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Brazil, the only country to appear in all 10 of the men's Olympic tournaments, won the gold medal in 1992 and had come here focused and confident, looking to redeem its fifth-place finish in Atlanta.
		Cuba is one of the best teams in the world, and certainly the most entertaining, but its best Olympic finish was third in 1976.
		Russia, which won six straight medals, including three golds, between 1964 and 1988, is trying to return to prominence after a seventh-place finish in Barcelona and a fourth-place showing in Atlanta.
	signonsandiego.com /sports/olympics/other/20000927-530-oly-mensvol.html (851 words)

	1980 Olympics
		Four years after 32 nations walked out of the Montreal Games, twice that many chose to stay away from Moscow–many in support of an American-led boycott to protest the December 1979, Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
		Unable to persuade the IOC to cancel or move the Summer Games, U.S. President Jimmy Carter pressured the USOC to officially withdraw in April.
		The first Games to be held in a Communist country opened in July with 80 nations competing and were dominated by the USSR and East Germany.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0114780.html (355 words)

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