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Topic: Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics

	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").
		At the end of an Olympics, the mayor of the host-city presents the flag to the mayor of the next host-city.
		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.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /olympics (1311 words)

	Learn more about 1936 Summer Olympics in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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.onlineencyclopedia.org /1/19/1936_summer_olympics.html (481 words)

	1984 Summer Olympics biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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.biography.ms /1984_Summer_Olympics.html (342 words)

	USOC officials to assess Chicago Olympics bid - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Among the highest priorities, Ryan said, was to show the officials that Chicago has a workable plan to construct a new stadium and Olympic Village, the centerpieces of the proposal.
		Drawings and letters from several area schools arguing the case for a Chicago Olympics were to be given to the visiting officials.
		The International Olympic Committee won't pick the host city until 2009.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/2007-03-05-chicago-meeting_N.htm?csp=34 (417 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.factspider.com /20/2000-summer-olympics.html (791 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics - Biocrawler definition:1936 Summer Olympics - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		She was also the first to introduce the Olympic torch.
		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.
		The Canadian Olympic Team was the only olympic team from a non-fascist country to salute Hitler (in a gesture of friendship) while marching by during opening ceremonies.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/1936_Summer_Olympics (816 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 (388 words)

	USATODAY.com - L.A., San Francisco make separate pitches to host 2016 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles and San Francisco made separate pitches Thursday to bring the 2016 summer Olympics to back to California.
		Members of the U.S. Olympic Committee finished their tour Thursday of five cities hoping to make a U.S. bid for the games by visiting Los Angeles in the morning and San Francisco in the afternoon.
		He declined to be specific but noted that Los Angeles was eliminated in the first round of USOC voting for the 2012 Games.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/2006-05-18-la-2016-bid_x.htm?csp=34 (487 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)

	City Mayors: 2012 Summer Olympics
		The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, according to several reports, made $200 million profit from a mixture of private funding, greater commercialisation and the use of existing facilities.
		Football could be played at a rebuilt Wembley Stadium, tennis at Wimbledon, gymnastics at the Millennium Dome, beach volleyball at Regents Park and rowing on the Thames.
		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 (4860 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Americans play elsewhere after Games
		America's not sitting on a big boom the next four years where pool construction takes off, water polo moms drive kids to Saturday workouts and the U.S. world presence grows.
		When women's water polo became an Olympic sport, the U.S. federation was given $1 million -- same as in 1996 for the men -- to split between both American teams.
		American medals are treated with a "That's great, but where's the football game?" attitude, said U.S. assistant Monte Nitzkowski, who won a bronze and silver as national team coach from 1967-1984.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/news/2000/1001/796048.html (611 words)

	The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics
		His magnus opus, The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics, is the one book even the casual fan - the one who might anticipate flipping on the television for only a few events from Athens next August - would find a significant adjunct to his or her viewing pleasure.
		Completely updated, this ultimate Olympic reference book contains all the nitty-gritty detail, including all records, statistics and medal standings as well as results of the top eight finishers in every Olympic event from the 1896 Games in Athens to the 2000 edition in Sydney.
		The richness and sheer abundance of the anecdotes leaves the reader feeling not only that he was on hand to witness the particular event as it unfolded, but that he had a seat both at the finish line and, later that evening, in the athletes' village.
	www.sportclassicbooks.com /summer-olympics.html (763 words)

	1952 Summer Olympics - Biocrawler definition:1952 Summer Olympics - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Helsinki had been earlier given the 1940 Summer Olympics but they were canceled due to World War II.
		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 USSR participated in the Olympics.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/1952_Summer_Olympics (358 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)

	ESPN.com: OLY - New York City gets U.S. nod for 2012 Summer Games
		The International Olympic Committee will choose the 2012 site in three years, pitting New York against such possible rivals as Paris, Moscow, Toronto, Budapest, Rome, Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid or Seville in Spain, and a city in Germany, perhaps Berlin.
		However, there were three consecutive Olympics in Europe in the 1990s -- Albertville, France, in the winter, Barcelona in the summer of 1992, and Lillehammer, Norway, in the winter of 1994.
		Comedian Robin Williams appeared in a videotape as a weatherman, touting the Bay Area's perfect weather compared with the heat and humidity of a New York summer.
	espn.go.com /oly/news/2002/1102/1454873.html (1058 words)

	databaseOlympics.com - Olympic results for all Winter and Summer Olympics
		databaseOlympics.com - Olympic results for all Winter and Summer Olympics
		DatabaseOlympics.com is your source for every Summer and Winter Olympics medal winner!
		databaseOlympics is not associated with the Olympics or IOC.
	www.databaseolympics.com (125 words)

	Fanbay.net - Athens 2004 Summer Olympics - Links, News, Travel info
		Basketball, Diving, Sailing, Soccer, and the Triathlon, are eagerly anticipated, higly watched events, but their are minimal amounts of medals awarded and they have no impact on the overall olympic medal counts.
		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)

	Best 1984 olympics information sites around (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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	BBC SPORT \| Football \| Euro 2004 \| History \| France 1984
		And a qualification defeat by Denmark at Wembley meant England spent the summer of 1984 touring South America.
		Although John Barnes restored some pride with a classic goal in a 2-0 defeat of Brazil in Rio, over in France it would have been harder to imagine a better tournament taking place even if the Brazilians had been there at their most sublime.
		The unfancied Portuguese team were key contributors to one of the greatest matches in European football history when they took on France in the semis and looked set to conquer them.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/football/euro_2004/history/3083327.stm (519 words)

	Los Angeles Olympics - 1984 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In 1980 everyone was pissed at the USSR for invading Afghanistan so nobody went to the 1980 Winter Olympics in Moscow.
		In 1984 the USSR and most of their buddies didn't come to the L.A. Summer Olympics, but nobody suggested that that Olympics shouldn't count.
		To make the city 'pretty' for the worlds media, the LAPD rounded up the most disgusting, depraved and noticeable homeless people and bussed them to Needles, California, where they were dropped yards from the Nevada border, given a $20 bill and were pointed north with the saying "There be Casinos, free drinks!".
	www.citlink.net /~shakeyjim/lao.htm (582 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		* Rower Jack Beresford won his fifth Olympic medal in the sport, and his third gold medal.
		* For the first time the Olympic Fire 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.
	brandt.kurowski.net /projects/lsa/wiki/view.cgi?doc=487 (443 words)

	The Summer Olympics by the numbers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		4: Number of Summer Games held in the United States (1904 in St. Louis, 1932 in Los Angeles, 1984 in Los Angeles, 1996 in Atlanta)
		26: Countries the Olympic flame visited during its international route June 4-July 8.
		50,000: Estimated meals prepared daily in the Olympic Village, during the Games.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04221/358437.stm (291 words)

	World History :: Encyclopedia Index -- Fo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Football Association of the People's Republic of China
		Football World Cup 2006 - Asian Qualification Groups
		Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia at the 2004 Summer Olympics
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/Fo.htm (245 words)

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