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	Olympic Games
		The ancient Olympic Games were abandoned in AD 394 by the Roman emperor Theodosius I, who considered the Games to be a savage celebration.
		Olympic is also the name the public sometimes uses for the Greek national airline, Olympic Airways.
		Olympic uses varous types or airplanes, like the Boeing 747 and Airbus A340 for international routes, and the Boeing 727 and Boeing 737 for domestic routes.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/o/ol/olympic_games.shtml (1103 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)

	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)

	Four Stanford coaches to head Olympic teams (7/96)
		Fencing coach Zoran Tulum, who competed in saber for his native Yugloslavia in the 1980 Olympics, even gave up his Stanford apartment to hit the international tournament circuit with athletes trying to qualify for the U.S. fencing team.
		Kenney, a U.S. Olympic coach in 1984 and 1988 who was named Coach of the Year by the American Swim Coaches Association in 1993, masterminded Pablo Morales' storybook comeback for the gold medal in the 100-meter butterfly at the 1992 Olympics, even though he wasn't in Barcelona for the event.
		Posthumus, the only female fencing team leader in the history of the sport, competed nationally in women's foil for two decades and is looking forward to her third Olympic Games.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/pr/96/960715fencing.html (1118 words)

	1976 Summer Olympics: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		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 lead a boycott of 22 African nations as the IOC refused not to 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.encyclopedian.com /19/1976-Summer-Olympics.html (372 words)

	1984 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, were held in 1984 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
		The 1984 Games were the second to make a profit, after only the 1932 Summer Olympics (also in Los Angeles).
		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 (998 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)

	Summer Olympics 2000 More marketing disaster than success
		Mascots have been intimately connected to the Olympics since 1968 in Grenoble, France, when Schuss, a skier with rings on his head, emerged as the unofficial mascot.
		Olympic mascots had a great run from 1976 to 1984 -- from Schneemann (the mascot of the 1976 winter games at Innsbruck), a snowman whose design was way ahead of his time, to Uncle Sam, a bald eagle that held an Olympic torch (used in the 1984 Summer Games at Los Angeles).
		In the years between Barcelona and the 1996 summer games, designers added some muscle to Izzy, took the stars out of his eyes and added a mouth.
	www.espn.go.com /oly/summer00/s/2000/0915/745509.html (1076 words)

	directopedia : Directory : Sports : Fencing
		The earliest known depiction of a fencing bout, complete with practice weapons, safety kit, judges and a score-card, is a relief in a temple near Luxor built by Rameses III around 1190 BC.
		SCA fencing is the fencing conducted by members of the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism), generally in a pre-1600s fashion while still using modern fencing safety gear, usually disguised to pass as period clothing.
		In foil fencing, the competitors wear special conductive vests covering the target area, called lamés, that allow a "valid" circuit to be completed, and a coloured light (usually red or green) turns on.
	www.directopedia.org /directory/Sports-Fencing.shtml (5520 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		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)

	Learn more about 1936 Summer Olympics in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		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.
		Rower Jack Beresford won his fifth Olympic medal in the sport, and his third gold medal.
		For the first time the Olympic Flame was brought to the Olympic Town by a torch relay, with the starting point in Olympia, Greece.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /1/19/1936_summer_olympics.html (481 words)

	Olympic Interview: Peter Westbrook
		In 1984, he finally got his chance and was rewarded with a bronze medal in the men's sabre competition.
		Four years later, he was the oldest U.S. Olympic fencing team member at his final games in Atlanta.
		All that changed in 1984 when Peter Ueberroth was in charge of organizing the world's first privately-funded Games.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/ol-westbrook.html (764 words)

	Olympians-Janice Romary
		While her longevity is unusual, fencers as a group tend to have longer careers than other athletes because of the sport's mental component.
		As recognition for her extraordinary streak of Olympic appearances, Romary was honored at the Mexico City Olympics in 1968 by being the first woman to carry the flag for the United States.
		She was women's administrator for the United States Olympic Committee for the Montreal Olympics in 1976, responsible for all U.S. women competitors, and she was commissioner of fencing for the Los Angeles Olympic Games.
	www-scf.usc.edu /~fencing/Romary.htm (345 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.
		The soccer team was accompanied to the 1984 Olympics by athletes in cycling, archery, fencing and shooting.
	www.saudiembassy.net /Publications/MagSummer96/olympics.html (951 words)

	United States Olympic Committee - Fencing Foundation: The Westbrook Factor
		After the Olympics, his love for the sport and the opportunities it provided continued and the Peter Westbrook Foundation was founded in 1991 with the goal helping inner city youth achieve their dreams through fencing.
		In fencing there is a lot of thought and a lot of fight, but not a lot of hurt.
		A seven-year-old girl is taught to hold a sword properly, Olympics bound Ivan Lee works with one of his coaches and Westbrook stares over to Henry, who is in the middle of an intense match in the far left corner.
	www.usoc.org /11817_20621.htm (1050 words)

	Fencing on Fairfield Avenue Shreveport Louisiana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		As in all of his Olympic films, Greenspan combines rare footage with insightful interviews from athletes, coaches and family members to create personal behind-the-scenes tales of some of the stars of the games.
		As the highest ranked fencer in the world not competing in the Olympics, Zagunis became the world alternate, in the event that a fencer withdrew from the competition.
		His "The Spirit of the Olympics", a multi-screen visual/musical tribute to the quadrennial games, is on permanent display at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.
	www.fencingonfairfield.com /budgreenspan.htm (673 words)

	1988 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were held in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea.
		After boycotts of the Olympics in 1976, 1980 and 1984, the Seoul Games were again boycotted, led by North Korea and followed by Cuba; the basis of the boycott was South Korea's refusal to co-host the Olympics with North Korea, which rejected all compromise.
		Tennis returns to the Olympics after a 64-year absence, and Steffi Graf adds to her four Grand Slam victories in the year by also winning the Olympic title.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1988_Summer_Olympics (586 words)

	Egypt in the 2004 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		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)

	US Fencing Media Resource - News Archive
		The Olympics are ‘The Show.’ It is the culmination of a quadrennial’s worth of hard work by the athletes, the coaches, and the entire U.S. Fencing Association.
		Then, due to the International Olympic Committee limiting the size of the overall field, a stringent qualification system was put into place by the F.I.E. Fencers and teams could now qualify by their World ranking or through their zonal ranking.
		Jon always fences his oversized heart out, and as long as he stays even-keeled throughout the ebbs and flows of the bout, he has the game to cause trouble for anyone.
	www.fencingmedia.org /news.asp?id=10 (2565 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)

	USATODAY.com - Siblings give USA a double edge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Qualifying for his second Olympics, Keeth Smart, the first U.S. fencer to be ranked No. 1 in the world, is excited about his chances this summer in Athens.
		Chosen during the weekend at the U.S. Fencing National Championship in Atlanta, the U.S. team will be led by Smart and first-time Olympian Sada Jacobson, 21, of Dunwoody, Ga., the world's top-ranked female sabre fencer.
		Fencing, one of only four sports featured in every modern Olympics, hasn't seen the USA win an individual medal since 1984 — Peter Westbrook, bronze.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/2004-04-25-fencing_x.htm (376 words)

	Summer Olympics: Aquatics
		In the Olympics Swimming has 26 individual events and six relay or team events for both men and women.
		Swimming was one of the sports at the first modern Olympic games in 1896.
		Water polo was included in 1900, Diving in 1904, and Synchronised swimming was added in 1984.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/aquatics.htm (280 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)

	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)

	Alibris: fencing
		In 19th-century Madrid, a fencing master named Don Jaime is drawn into a dangerous game with a young woman, one of his students.
		Fencing develops dexterity, endurance, flexibility, grace, and overall fitness, while also allowing participants the opportunity to hone the mind's problem-solving abilities.
		Peter Westbrook, winner of a record 13 national sabre championships and a bronze medal at the 1984 Olympics, was the first African-American--and the youngest individual ever--to win a national gold title in sabre fencing.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/fencing (1048 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)

	Los Angeles 1984
		The countries which boycotted the Summer Games in 1980 and 1984 wanted this to reflect badly on the host nation.
		The last time China had competed in the Summer Olympics was in 1952 in Helsinki, but then the Chinese arrived late and only one of their athletes was able to compete.
		Since 1984 the competition has increased, just like the amount of money that can be made by selling the television rights.
	www.sok.se /inenglish/losangeles1984.4.18ea16851076df63622800011008.html (2359 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1980 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Moscow won the bid to organise the Games by defeating Los Angeles, which would host the next Olympics.
		Women's field hockey is Olympic for the first time, but all major nations boycott the tournament.
		The team of Zimbabwe is invited just a week before the start of the Games, but it wins the nation's first gold medal.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1980_Summer_Olympics (332 words)

	Summer Olympics: Shooting
		Shooting was part of the first Olympic games in 1896 but shooting goes back to the invention of gun powder.
		Women's shooting was not part of the Olympic games until 1984.
		In the Olympics there are seventeen shooting events, ten for men and seven for women.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/shooting.htm (97 words)

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