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	Encyclopedia: 1964 Summer Olympics
		The National Olympic Stadium is a stadium in Tokyo, that served as the main stadium for the 1964 Summer Olympics.
		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.
		The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, will be held in Beijing in the Peoples Republic of China from August 8, 2008 to August 24, 2008, with the opening ceremony to take place at 8 p.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1964-Summer-Olympics (3210 words)

	Olympic Games
		Until 1992, the Winter and Summer Olympics were held in the same year, but in 1986, the IOC voted to separate them, as to spread costs for all involved parties.
		The Olympic Flame is lighted in Olympia and brought to the host city by runners carrying the torch in relay.
		The growth of the Olympics also means that some less popular (modern pentathlon) or expensive (white water canoeing) sports have to fear for their place on the Olympic programme.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/olympic_games (3324 words)

	Football in Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Soccer, or football in Japan, is organized professionally by the J.
		Football is the second most popular sport after baseball among the younger generation.
		Football was introduced in Meiji period along with other sports.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Football_in_Japan (328 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		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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	Summer Olympic Games
		The Summer Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event held every four years, organised by the International Olympic Committee.
		Olympic victory is generally considered to be the most prestigious achievement in any field of sport.
		On the bright side it did, however, seem that the drug testing and regulation authorities were at last catching up with the cheating that had been widely to be endemic in athletics for some years, and it was generally held that the 1992 Barcelona Games were cleaner, although not without incident.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/summer_olympic_games (2025 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2004_Summer_Olympics (1867 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1972 Summer Olympics
		All Olympic events were briefly suspended but Avery Brundage, the IOC President, decided that "The Games must go on" and so they were continued a day later.
		One of the Black September kidnappers on the balcony of the Israeli hostel at the Olympic village The Munich massacre occurred at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by the Palestinian terrorist organization Black September, now known to be...
		They were banned from the Olympics for life, as were Tommie Smith and John Carlos in the 1968 Summer Olympics.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1972-Summer-Olympics (3965 words)

	1964 Summer Olympics -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The Games of the XVIII Olympiad were held in 1964 in (The capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan) Tokyo, (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Japan.
		The 1940 Olympics were eventually cancelled because of the outbreak of (A war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherl) World War II.
		She ends her Olympic career and holds the record for most (additional info and facts about Olympic) Olympic medals at 18 (9 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze) since then.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1964_summer_olympics.htm (671 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		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.
		In the quarter-finals of the football tournament, Peru beat Austria by 4 to 2 in over-time, but a replay was ordered as Peruvian fans stormed the pitch during the match.
	open-encyclopedia.com /1936_Summer_Olympics (687 words)

	1960 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1960_Summer_Olympics (330 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1960 Summer Olympics
		Basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics was the fifth appearance of the sport in Olympic competition.
		This is the full table of the medal count of the 1960 Summer Olympics.
		Category: 1960 Summer Olympics The Olympic Games, or Olympics, is an international multi-sport event taking place every two years and alternating between Summer and Winter Games.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1960-Summer-Olympics (2839 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although awarded before the Nazi Party came to power in Germany, the government saw the Olympics as a golden opportunity to promote their Nazi ideology.
		She was also the first to introduce the Olympic torch to the ceremonies.
		Despite being from non-fascist countries the Canadian Olympic Team and the French Olympic Team saluted Hitler (in a gesture of friendship) during opening ceremonies.
	wikipedia.com /wiki/1936_Berlin_Games (808 words)

	Learn more about 1972 Summer Olympics in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		In the bid to organise the Olympics, Detroit, Madrid and Montreal were beaten.
		All Olympic events were suspended for one day after the terrorist action became known.
		In basketball, the United States' Olympic winning streak, which started in 1936, was ended.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /1/19/1972_summer_olympics.html (477 words)

	Olympic Trivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		On the day the 1948 Olympic games began at Wembley Stadium in London, June 29, the famed Australian ‘Invincibles’ cricket side was finishing off England in a test at nearby Lord’s, winning by 409 runs.
		The Olympic torchbearer for the 1956 Olympics was a virtually unknown 19 year old at the time he carried the torch into the stadium at Melbourne.
		Until the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, baseball was restricted to amateurs.
	www.topendsports.com /olympics/summer/trivia.htm (1033 words)

	1952 Summer Olympics: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about 1952 Summer Olympics
		The Games of the XV Olympiad were held in 1952 in Helsinki, Finland.
		To the enjoyment of the Finnish crowd, the Olympic Flame was lit by two heroes, runners Paavo Nurmi and Hannes Kolehmainen[?].
		For the first time in history, a team from the Soviet Union participated in the Olympics.
	www.encyclopedian.com /19/1952-Summer-Olympics.html (190 words)

	Summer Olympics: Volleyball
		In the Olympics there are two different kinds of volleyball, Volleyball and Beach Volleyball.
		Volleyball became an Olympic sport in 1964 and Beach Volleyball became an Olympic sport in 1996.
		In the Olympics both Volleyball and Beach Volleyball are played by men and women.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/volleyball.htm (222 words)

	1964 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Tokyo had already been awarded with the organisation of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honour had been passed to Helsinkibecause of Japan 's involvement in China.
		Yoshinori Sakai, wholit the Olympic Flame, was born in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945,the day the atomic bomb exploded there.
		Judo and volleyball, both popularsports in Japan, were introduced to the Olympics.
	www.therfcc.org /1964-summer-olympics-108475.html (221 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.y2z.org /19/1988_Summer_Olympics.html (465 words)

	1908 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The Games of the IV Olympiad, originally scheduled to be held in Rome,were instead held in 1908 in London, England.
		Italian authorities were preparing infrastructure for the games when Mount Vesuvius erupted on April 7, 1906, devastating the nearby city of Naples.Funds that were to have gone to the Olympics were diverted to the reconstruction of Naples, so a new venue was required andLondon was selected.
		The 1908 Olympics also prompted the establishment of standard rules for sports, and the selection of judges from differentcountries, rather than just the host.
	www.therfcc.org /1908-summer-olympics-9262.html (425 words)

	1948 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		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.portaljuice.com /1948_summer_olympics.html (155 words)

	1984 Summer Olympics - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Los Angeles was selected on May 18 1978 on the 80th IOC session without voting, because it was the only city to bid to host the 1984 Summer Olympics.
		In the wake of the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, 14 Eastern Bloc countries including the Soviet Union, East Germany and Cuba, boycotted these Olympics (the USSR announced its 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.
	psychcentral.com /wiki/1984_Summer_Olympics (596 words)

	SUMMER OLYMPIC STATISTICS
		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 the sport is completed).
	www.darmoni.net /joete.htm (132 words)

	Summer Olympics: Judo
		Kano was a member of the International Olympic Committee and an associate of Baron Peirre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic movement.
		Men's judo was not added to the Olympic Games until 1964 and women's judo became an Olympic event in 1992.
		In the Olympics there are seven weight categories for men and seven weight categories for women.
	www.pocanticohills.org /olympics/judo.htm (199 words)

	2012 Summer Olympics @ BaseballLiving.com
		The 2012 Olympics will use a mixture of newly built venues, existing facilities, and temporary facilities, including the 80,000 seat Olympic Stadium and the new Wembley Stadium.
		The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG) was put in place to oversee the development of the Games after the success of the bid, and held their first board meeting on 7 October 2005.
		London's bid featured 28 sports, in line with other recent Summer Olympics, but the IOC voted to drop baseball and softball from the 2012 Games two days after it selected London as the host city.
	www.baseballliving.com /about/2012_Summer_Olympics (1633 words)

	1968 Summer Olympics -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The Games of the XIX Olympiad were held in (The capital and largest city of Mexico is a political and cultural and commercial and industrial center; one of the world's largest cities) Mexico City in 1968.
		In the medal award ceremony, two (An American whose ancestors were born in Africa) African-American athletes (additional info and facts about Tommie Smith) Tommie Smith (gold) and (additional info and facts about John Carlos) John Carlos (bronze) raise their fl-gloved fists as a symbol of (additional info and facts about Black Power) Black Power.
		They are banned from the Olympic Games for life.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1968_Summer_Olympics.htm (748 words)

	1964
		Sanders 376 US 1 1964, the Supreme Court of the United States rules that congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population.
		February 26 - John Glenn slips on a bathroom rug in his Columbus, Ohio apartment and hits his head on the bathtub, injuring his left inner ear, and prompting him (later that week) to withdraw from the race for the Senate nomination.
		November 3 - The Bolivian government of President Victor Paz Estenssoro is overthrown by a military rebellion led by General Alfredo Obando Candia, commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
	www.fact-library.com /1964.html (2907 words)

	1992 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Paralympic archer Antonio Rebollo lights the Olympic Flame by shooting an arrow into the cauldron.
		Yugoslav athletes are not allowed to participate with their own team, but may compete under the Olympic flag as Independent Olympic Participants.
		Badminton and women's judo become part of the Olympic programme, while white water canoeing[?] returns to the Games after a 20-year absence.
	www.explainthis.info /19/1992-summer-olympics.html (407 words)

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