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	1936 Summer Olympics - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, were held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany.
		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.
		In the quarter-finals of the football tournament, Peru beat Austria 4-2 in extra-time, but a replay was ordered as Peruvian fans stormed the pitch during the match.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/1936_Summer_Olympics (1010 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics
		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.
		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.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/19/1936_Summer_Olympics.html (367 words)

	Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The football tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics started on July 20 and ended on August 2.
		The final was held at the Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium and the match for the 3rd place was held at the Grand Arena of the Dynamo Stadium.
		The football tournament was the most attended event on these Olympics: 1,821,624 spectators watched 32 matches of it at the stadiums.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Football_at_the_1980_Summer_Olympics (240 words)

	1984 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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 intention not to participate on May 8 1984).
		Nawal El Moutawakel of Morocco becomes the first female Olympic champion an Islamic nation and the first of her in the 400 m hurdles.
		A marathon for women is held for the time at the Olympics won by Joan Benoit.
	www.freeglossary.com /1984_Summer_Olympics (481 words)

	Special: Athens Olympics 2004 \| The Christian Science Monitor
		In early February of 1980, the Olympic news at Lake Placid, N.Y. was that US President Jimmy Carter was asking the International Olympic Committee to move the summer games from Moscow.
		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)

	1976 Summer Olympics Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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)

	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)

	1980 Summer Olympics
		The Games of the XXII Olympiad were held in 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union.
		On March 21, 1980, following the 1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, American president Jimmy Carter announced a boycott of the Moscow Olympics.
		Women's field hockey is Olympic for the first time, but all major nations boycott the tournament.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1980_summer_olympics.shtml (273 words)

	kiat.net: Olympic Games Moscow 1980
		While chosen to host the 1980 Summer Games of the XXII Olympiad on October 23, 1974, the IOC was all too aware of the difficulties that such a choice may incur.
		The Olympic movement still fell prey to politics when the Games were held in Moscow, the first Eastern European city to host an Olympiad.
		The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said that the Games should not be concerned with politics and looked down upon the United States' actions.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/22moscow.html (522 words)

	SU Athletics [Football:Coach Wood's Bio]
		A 1984 graduate of the University and a four-year letterman on the Sea Gull football team, Wood (45-26 at SU, 68-63-1 overall) returned to his alma mater in 1999 as the sixth head coach in Salisbury football history.
		In 2004, SU was sixth in rushing offense (311.5 ypg) and seventh in scoring defense, 13.1 ppg.
		Originally from Norfolk, VA, Wood is a member of the American Football Coaches Association and serves on its All-America Selection Committee, the Rules Committees, and the Summer Manual Committee.
	www.salisbury.edu /athletics/football/ftblbio.asp (709 words)

	Persian Football News
		After two years, Iranian television has resumed live broadcasts of Bundesliga football, thanks to the interest in 2004 Asian footballer of the year Ali Karimi's debut season with Bayern Munich.
		Iran comfortably clinched qualification for next summer's tournament behind Japan in Group B of the final Asian qualification stage, to underline its "dream team" reputation.
		In the 1970s, before the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran were Asia's undisputed top football power, but it has taken time to recover from the devastating affects of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.
	www.persianfootball.com /readstory.php?storyid=EEkVVklFkkIaesJHQD (770 words)

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

	SLAM! Sports - Olympics News - Opening ceremony get set in Turin as Winter Olympics almost ready to begin
		Nothing so extraordinary should be expected at Friday night's precisely choreographed festivities in the Olympic Stadium, where the 2006 Winter Games were to begin before a full house of 35,000 spectators in Turin.
		NBC Olympics head Dick Ebersol, who oversees the network's skates-to-slopes coverage, believes the circumstances surrounding the athletes outweigh the event's pomp.
		While organizers are typically staying mum on the identity of the final torch bearer, the lighting of the Olympic flame is always a highlight of the ceremony.
	slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Olympics/News/2006/02/10/1435412-ap.html (618 words)

	FIFA.com The Official web site of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association
		The Soviet Union sometimes lived on the edge at the 1988 Summer Games, but proved to be difficult to beat for their second Olympic football gold medal.
		Romario, who would go on to World Cup stardom at USA '94, and who was the tournament's top scorer (seven goals), lifted the Brazilians into a 1-0 advantage in the 29th minute, but Igor Dobrovolski equalized with a penalty kick in the 63rd.
		Attendance did not live up to the expectations generated by the previous two Olympic Football Tournaments as 729,000 spectators watched 32 contests, which still wound up as the most popular sport of the Summer Games.
	www.fifa.com /en/comp/olympicsmen/0,3664,103-OLY-1988,00.html (375 words)

	USA Football - History of the Sport - Professional Game
		Following the completion of the college football season, Grange, a local standout at the University of Illinois, signed with the Chicago Bears.
		On January 20, 1980, the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Los Angeles Rams 31-19 in Super Bowl XIV at Pasadena to become the first team to win four Super Bowls.
		All-Pro quarterback Warren Moon, of the Houston Oilers, passed for 369 yards in a 48-17 victory of the Cincinnati Bengals.
	www.usafootball.com /about-us/history-of-the-sport/professional (4306 words)

	St. Petersburg Times Online: Summer Olympics 2004
		The athletes of the world encircle the main stage as fireworks light up the night at the end of the closing ceremony at the Olympic Stadium.
		Every Olympics produces a few new household names, and this year Chad Hedrick could well be one of them.
		The Winter Olympics are barely more than a month away but the world isn't exactly burning with interest, according to a recent issue of Newsweek.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/webspecials04/olympics (295 words)

	USATODAY.com - Olympics to see London, not France, in 2012 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		SINGAPORE — London won the 2012 Summer Olympics on Wednesday with a stretch-run burst aided by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, leaving New York to ponder whether to bid again and Paris to wonder where it went wrong again.
		Paris' third Olympic bid defeat in the last 20 years was the biggest surprise in a heavyweight contest that saw Moscow eliminated first, New York second and Madrid third before London edged Paris by four votes in the final round.
		Stadium and village: Olympic Stadium and village on undeveloped land in Stratford, on the eastern edge of city.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/2005-07-06-2012-games_x.htm (855 words)

	Debbie Brown And Rest Of 1980 Olympic Team Honored By USA Volleyball :: Irish head coach in Denver for banquet honoring ...
		Fresh off a two-week, four-country European tour with her team, Notre Dame head volleyball coach Debbie Brown headed straight to Denver this week to be honored, along with the rest of the 1980 USA Women's Olympic Volleyball Team, at USA Volleyball's 60th Annual Dorothy C. Boyce Awards and Recognitions Banquet on Thursday.
		On Friday, the 1980 team was scheduled to travel to Colorado Springs to visit their old "stomping grounds" at the United States Olympic Complex and to meet with the USA women's head coach "Jenny" Lang Ping and the current members of the national team.
		But the USA women had their Olympic dreams shattered when the U.S. Olympic Committee's House of Delegates at the urging of President Jimmy Carter voted to boycott the 1980 Olympiad in Moscow to protest the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.
	und.cstv.com /sports/w-volley/spec-rel/052705aae.html (488 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Football \| Eriksson's England era
		The decision was mutually agreed by the Swede and the Football Association on Monday following a meeting which was called after a series of damaging reports in the News of the World Newspaper.
		As long as results went Eriksson's way on the pitch it appeared he was safe in his position - and then the football side of things started to falter.
		In August last year, England suffered their worst defeat since losing to Wales in May 1980 when they were humiliated by Denmark 4-1 in a friendly.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/football/4641902.stm (825 words)

	CNN/SI from CNN and Sports Illustrated
		One of the National Football League's most storied teams, the Baltimore Colts, abruptly moves to Indianapolis.
		The Soviet Union boycotts the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
		The National Football League, fearful of repeating the Raiders legal fiasco, does not oppose the move.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /almanac/video/1984 (390 words)

	Olympics: history, humor and commentary from Hogan's Alley.
		Olympics: history, humor and commentary from Hogan's Alley.
		Olympics - Revisit the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City and look back at the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team.
		Winter Olympics on NBC, Bob Costas, women's biathlon, speed skating and Apolo Anton Ohno.
	www.115sports.com /Olympics (185 words)

	Egypt State Information Service - Teams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Nigeria national football team, nicknamed the Super Eagles, is the national team of Nigeria and is controlled by the Nigeria Football Association.
		Nigeria won the African Nations Cup twice (1980 and 1994), and also won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
		The Zimbabwe national football team, nicknamed The Warriors, is the national team of Zimbabwe and is controlled by the Zimbabwe Football Association.
	www.sis.gov.eg /En/Society/acup/teams/091304000000000004.htm (280 words)

	frank gifford personal appearances, football, representation, Frank Gifford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1976, Frank Gifford was inducted into the NCAA College Football Hall of Fame and into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1977, the same year he won an Emmy Award as the Outstanding Sports Personality for the 1976-77 season.
		The NFL Alumni bestowed their Career Achievement Award to Gifford in 1985 for "demonstrating the higher values of football throughout his career, and after." The March of Dimes honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1989.
		In addition to serving as a member of the-Board of the NY Society of Multiple Sclerosis, he has been the chairman of the Sportscasting Committee for the Special Olympics and at present is a member of the Board of Directors.
	www.sportsstarsusa.com /football/gifford_frank.html (841 words)

	Olympics: LIVE from Salt Lake
		With lessons from the Sydney Summer Games still fresh, NBC takes advantage of the short time difference in covering the Olympics from Salt Lake City.
		For proof, compare the network's prime time coverage of the Winter Olympics Friday and Saturday to its performance less than two years ago at the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
		Of course, fate helped by handing the network a U.S.-based Olympics just when the country seemed to need it most (also erasing the 15-hour time difference that made live coverage of Olympics in Sydney nearly impossible).
	www.sptimes.com /2002/02/11/news_pf/Olympics/LIVE_from_Salt_Lake.shtml (652 words)

	ipedia.com: 1968 Summer Olympics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		See also: 1968 Summer Paralympics The Games of the XIX Olympiad were held in Mexico City in 1968.
		In the medal award ceremony, fl athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos (USA) raise their fl-gloved fists as a symbol of "Black Power".
		John Stephen Akhwari of Tanzania became internationally famous after finishing the marathon in last place despite a dislocated knee.
	www.ipedia.com /1968_summer_olympics.html (321 words)

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