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  Fencing
Displacement (fencing) In fencing, a displacement is a movement that avoids or dodges an attack.
Fencing at the 1896 Summer Olympics At the fencing events were contested.
Fencing at the 1988 Summer Olympics At the fencing events were contested.
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 Olympic Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Olympics were of fundamental religious importance, contests alternating with sacrifices and ceremonies honouring both Zeus (whose colossal statue stood at Olympia), and Pelops, divine hero and mythical king of Olympia famous for his legendary chariot race, in whose honour the games were held.
The Olympic Flame is lit in Olympia and brought to the host city by runners carrying the torch in relay.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, the first three were given wreaths as well as their medals.
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 Encyclopedia: Olympics
The Olympics were of fundamental religious importance, contests alternating with sacrifices and ceremonies honouring both Zeus (whose colossal statue stood at Olympia), and Pelops, divine hero and mythical king of Olympia famous for his legendary chariot race, in whose honor the games were held.
In 1988, North Korea boycotted the Seoul Olympics in 1988 along with a couple of other nations, though it was not officially announced as boycotts so as to avoid IOC censure.
The Olympic Flame is lighted in Olympia and brought to the host city by runners carrying the torch in relay.
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 1988
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 2004 Summer Olympics
Athens was chosen as the host city in 1997, after surprisingly losing the bid to organize the 1996 Summer Olympics, the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the modern Olympic Games.
Olympic Stadium, the designated facility for the opening and closing ceremonies, was completed -- without roof -- shortly before the games opened.
Since the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France it has been the tradition to have a mascot for the games and this year the official mascots are sister and brother, Athena and Phevos, named after the goddess of wisdom, strategy and war and the god of light and music, respectively.
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 1988 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After boycotts of the Olympics in 1976, 1980 and 1984, the Seoul Games were again boycotted, but this time only by four nations: North Korea, Cuba, Ethiopia and Nicaragua.
Anthony Nesty of Suriname wins his country's first Olympic medal by winning the 100 m butterfly, scoring an upset victory; he is also the first Black to win a swimming title.
Table tennis is introduced at the Olympics, with China and the host nation both winning two titles.
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 Social inequality bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
At the 1984 Summer Olympics, eight fencing events were contested.
At the 1980 Summer Olympics, eight fencing events were contested.
At the 1976 Summer Olympics, eight fencing events were contested.
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 1988 summer olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics: Information From Answers.com Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics Final results for the Basketball competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea : Men's.
1988 Summer Olympics: Information From Answers.com 1988 Summer Olympics The Games of the XXIV Olympiad were held in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC), which sets and enforces Olympic policy, has struggled with the licensing and commercialization of the games, the need to schedule events to accommodate American television networks (whose broadcasting fees help underwrite the games), and the monitoring of athletes who seek illegal competitive advantages, often through the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
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 1936 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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.
The games were the first to have live television coverage, Telefunken and Fernseh broadcast over seventy hours of coverage to specially erected booths throughout the city.
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 1964 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Tokyo had already been awarded with the organisation of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honour had been passed to Helsinki because of Japan's involvement in China.
The 1940 Olympics were eventually cancelled because of the outbreak of World War II.
Yoshinori Sakai[?], who lit the Olympic Flame, was born in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day the atomic bomb exploded there.
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 Are you looking for 1992 Fencing Olympics Summer? This page provides new information on 1992 Fencing Olympics Summer!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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Olympics in 1916, 1940, and 1944, but they resumed in 1948 and are held every 4 years.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports > 2004 Summer Olympics
NBC and its family of cable networks flooded American households with nearly nonstop coverage of the Athens Olympics, and the strategy – along with strong performances by the U.S. teams in swimming and gymnastics – produced not only a ratings increase, but an estimated profit of at least $60 million.
The United States finished atop the medal charts for the third straight Summer Olympics, with Russia the overall runner-up and China second in gold medals – its best showing ever and leading a surge by Asian teams.
It was predicted before the Olympics that prostitution, which is legal and heavily regulated in Athens, would enjoy a boom economy.
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 1956 Summer Olympics. Who is 1956 Summer Olympics? What is 1956 Summer Olympics? Where is 1956 Summer Olympics? ...
Therefore, these events were held in Stockholm(Sweden) marking the second, and so far last 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.
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 1988 Olympics
For the first time since Munich in 1972, there was no organized boycott of the Summer Olympics.
Otherwise, Steffi Graf added an Olympic gold medal to her Grand Slam sweep in tennis, Greg Louganis won both men's diving events for the second straight time, and the U.S. men's basketball team had to settle for third place after losing to the gold medal-winning Soviets, 82-76, in the semifinals.
(B) OPINION: China and the Lessons of the 1988 Olympics.
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 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).
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 Summer Olympics 2000 Chief: Five athletes failed tests in 1988
He said that in 1988, five U.S. athletes tested positive before the Seoul Olympics "and were enlisted at the games.
The U.S. Olympic Committee said the cases had been publicized 12 years ago and the athletes involved were cleared because they used the drug, ephedrine, accidentally.
Pre-games samples in 1988 found eight track athletes with traces of Mahuang, a trade name for ephedrine, contained in a nutritional supplement called Super Charge, according to USOC spokesman Mike Moran.
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 dates for summer olympics 1988   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Summer Game Trivia, Quizzes, Quiz Questions, Fun Facts, Information - to the correct dates from this list- 1896, 1936, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, - 5, Summer Olympic Dates In what year were the Summer Olympics held in -
The modern revival of the Olympic games is due in a large measure to the efforts of Pierre, baron de Coubertin, of France.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC), which sets and enforces Olympic policy, has struggled with the licensing and commercialization of the games, the need to schedule events to accommodate American television networks (whose broadcasting fees help underwrite the games), and the monitoring of entrants who seek illegal competitive advantages, often through the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
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 University of Alabama at Birmingham bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
At the 2000 Summer Olympics, ten fencing events were contested.
At the 1996 Summer Olympics, ten fencing events were contested.
At the 1992 Summer Olympics, eight fencing events were contested.
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 1960 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Rome had been awarded the organisation of the 1908 Summer Olympics, but had to decline and pass thehonours to London.
South Africa appears in the Olympic arena for the last time under the apartheid regime.
It was thesecond time an athlete died in competition at the Olympics, after the death of Portuguese marathon runner Francisco Lazaro at the 1912 SummerOlympics.
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 2000 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
France's Lionel Torres, who won the Olympic test event in Sydney last year, was atop the most recent men's world rankings, and Britain's Alison Williamson was second at the 1999 worlds.
Mark Todd of New Zealand, the gold medalist in 1984 and 1988 in the individual three-day, returns to the Olympics after missing the last two because of injuries to his horses.
He is in pursuit of his third straight Olympic gold in the 25-meter rapid-fire pistol shooting.
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 1988 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Marion Jones wrote on her classroom flboard in 1988.
Certainly it is a much better city to play host a decade and a half from now than Seoul in 1988.
See also: 1988 Summer Paralympics ---- The Games of the XXIV Olympiad were held in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea.
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 1988 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
South Korea's government became a democracy under the pressure of organisingthe Olympics.
She adds a cycling silver to the speed skating gold she wonearlier in the year in Calgary.
Table tennis is introduced at the Olympics, with China and the host nation both winning twotitles.
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 azcentral.com sports | Summer Olympics: U.S. earns fencing gold for 1st time in century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
For the first time in a century, the United States won a gold medal in Olympic fencing, and it added a bronze for good measure.
Sweden, facing first-round elimination from the Olympics, scored two goals in four minutes in a 2-1 win against Nigeria in Volos and earned a place in the quarterfinals.
The round-robin win was a breakthrough for Japan, which sat on the sideline while Cuba and the United States won the first three golds in Olympic play.
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 1960 Summer Olympics
Rome had been awarded the organisation of the 1908 Summer Olympics, but had to decline and pass the honours to London.
Danish cyclist Knut Jensen[?] collapsed during his race under the influence of amphetamines and later died in the hospital.
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.
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