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		Basketball at the 1968 Summer Olympics The Yugoslavia, 65-50.
		Golf at the 1904 Summer Olympics At the golf events were contested (men's individual and team tournaments).
		Summer Summer is one of the four temperate August in the Northern hemisphere.
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	1900
		Golf at the 1900 Summer Olympics At the golf events were contested.
		Tug of War at the 1900 Summer Olympics At the tug of war tournament was contested.
		Water Polo at the 1900 Summer Olympics At the water polo tournament was contested.
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	golf
		Golf is usually regarded to be a Scottish invention, as the game was mentioned in two 15th century laws prohibiting the playing of the game of "golf".
		Golf courses have tended to become more controlled and their terrain more specifically changed and designed for the game - accordingly, they tend to have a quite high environmental impact although some designers have sought in recent years to minimize this.
		Although golf is a relatively minor issue compared to other land ethics questions, it has symbolic importance as it is a game normally associated with the wealthier Westernized population, and the culture of colonization and globalization of non-native land ethics.
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	1900 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1900 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the II Olympiad, were held in 1900 in Paris, France.
		The Games competed for visitors with the 1900 World's Fair, which was also held at Paris at the same time.
		For his victory in the long jump, he was allegedly punched in the face by his rival Meyer Prinstein, who had refused to take the final run due to his religious beliefs, as that run was scheduled for a Sunday.
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	1904 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The 1904 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the III Olympiad, were held in St.
		Considered the lesser of two evils by De Coubertin, St. Louis did repeat the mistakes made at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.
		The Olympic events were again mixed with other sporting events, but where Paris hardly ever mentioned the Olympics, Sullivan called all his sports events "Olympic".
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1904_Summer_Olympics (775 words)

	Learn more about Olympic Games in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Olympic Games were part of the Panhellenic Games, four separate games held at two- or four-year intervals but arranged so that there was one set of games every year.
		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.onlineencyclopedia.org /o/ol/olympic_games.html (1183 words)

	U.S. News Online: Sydney 2000 Olympics
		The front is decorated with the traditional Olympic design born of artist Giuseppe Cassiolo in 1928 - Nike, goddess of victory, sits, holding palm fronds and wearing a laurel wreath, beside a Grecian urn.
		The Olympic Committee claims it is a generic sporting arena, but many say that, instead of resembling the Greek Parthenon, which was a public sporting venue, it resembles the Roman Coliseum, which was a site of public execution.
		He competed in the 1924 Olympics in Paris as a member of the Yale crew team that won the gold medal in the men's eight rowing event.
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	1904 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One of the most remarkable athletes was the American gymnast George Eyser, who won six medals even though his left leg was made of wood.
		In the discus, after American Martin Sheridan had thrown exactly the same distance as his compatriot, Ralph Rose (39.28 m), the judges gave them both an extra throw to decide the winner.
		Various indigenous men from around the world, who were at the World's Fair as part of the exhibits, competed in various events more for anthropoligist to see how they stacked up to the white man than for the sake of sport.
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	1900 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Games of the II Olympics were held in 1900 in Paris, France.
		Despite Greek efforts to keep the Games in their country, the IOC decided to hold them at a different place each year.
		For his victory in the long jump, he was allegedly punched in the face by his rival, who had refused to take the final run due to his religious beliefs, as that run was scheduled for a Sunday.
	www.sterlingheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1900_Summer_Olympics (224 words)

	Olympics
		The Olympic Games are a competition in summer and winter sports held every four years for athletes from all over the world.
		Nineteen-ninety-six marked the 100th anniversary of the modern Olympics and the 96th anniversary of women in the Olympics.
		Special Olympics is an international program of year-round sports training and athletic competition for more than one million children and adults with special needs.
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	History of Swimming
		The Olympics in 1904 in St. Louis included races over 50 yards, 100 yards, 220 yards, 440 yards, 880 yards and one mile freestyle, 100 yards backstroke and 440 yards breaststroke, and the 450 yards freestyle relay (see also Swimming at the 1904 Summer* Olympics).
		At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, lane dividers made of cork were used for the first time, and lines on the pool bottom aided with orientation.
		Therefore, the butterfly arms with a breaststroke kick were used by a few swimmers in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin for the breaststroke competitions.
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	Golf and the Olympics just don't mix - PGATOUR.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Summer Olympic Games, the quadrennial festival of sweat and sinew, renews itself in just a few days now, in Sydney, and, I am pleased to report, no golf will be played (except, of course, by Olympic committeepersons who call in sick to meet tee times at Royal Melbourne).
		Each time the WAGC meets, the topic of Olympic golf is raised, in the hope that somewhere down the road, pasture pool will be included along with weight hoisting, foot racing, sword fighting, rassling without face paint and assorted other things we pay no attention to except during the Olympics.
		It was the only time the Olympics included women's golf and it went virtually unheralded until 1996, when research by Paula Welch, a sports history professor at the University of Florida, turned up the facts.
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	Golf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Golf is a game believed to have been first played in Scotland, where each player has to hit his own small ball into a hole using various types of clubs.
		While the Golf was not the first design with this layout (that honour going to the Fiat 128 3P of the early 1970s), it was the first to be truly successful in the mass market, and it was this, rather than the Fiat, that was widely copied by others.
		The sedan version of the Golf was the Jetta, subsequently known as the Vento (from 1992) and later as the Bora from 1998, although the Jetta name is stil used in North America and South Africa.
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	TSN.ca - Olympics - Canada's Sports Leader
		The International Olympic Committee on Monday awarded television rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics to Bell Globemedia and Rogers Media ahead of a bid from incumbent Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
		CTV was also the host broadcaster for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, which was the last time the Olympics were held in Canada.
		The host city for the 2012 Summer Olympics will be chosen July 6 from a group of Madrid, London, New York, Paris and Moscow.
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	About Salt Lake City.
		Spring is usually nice enough for a round of golf in the valley, with skiing in the mountains.
		Other preparations for the Olympics included rebuilding parts of Interstate Highways 15 and 80, redesigning or upgrading other critical transportation routes, and adding a runway to the city's airport.
		After the nationwide depression of 1893, the population resumed its rapid growth, passing 50,000 by 1900 and 140,000 by 1930.
	www.saltlakecityutah.org /aboutsaltlake.htm (2766 words)

	History of the Modern Summer and Winter Olympics from Fanbay.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Summer and Winter Olympics of 1932 were both held in the United States, in Los Angeles, CA and Lake Placid, NY, respectively.
		The U.S.A. won 30% of the Summer Olympic medals—their highest percentage over the years—not counting Saint Louis, where the U.S. won 84% of the medals because the attendance was even more skewed toward Americans.
		The Olympic facilities were as impressive as the cutting edge facilities that brought the Summer Olympics to a new level in Munich (1972).
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	USATODAY.com - Olympics narrow field for 2012 games to five cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The field was trimmed by the International Olympic Committee executive board based on a report assessing the technical capabilities of the nine cities.
		The IOC is often reluctant to award consecutive Olympics to the same continent.
		Paris, which hosted the Olympics in 1900 and 1924, is viewed as the front-runner.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/2004-05-18-2012-hosts_x.htm (927 words)

	1904 Summer Olympics Information - TextSheet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The organizers repeated all of the mistakes of 1900.
		The Olympic competitions, spread out over four and a half months, were lost in the chaos of a World?s Fair.
		Of the 94 events generally considered to have been part of the Olympic program, only 42 included athletes who were not from the United States.
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	Hot Sauce: Golf In The Olympics? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In fact, I have to confess that the only event I have seen is part of a beach volleyball match that was on the tv at a restaurant that my wife and I were visiting.
		Golf has appeared as an Olympic sport twice: in 1900 and 1904.
		At the 1900 Olympics, American Margaret Abbott won the 9 hole women's event, and with it, the distinction of being the first woman to win a gold medal in the modern Olympic games.
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	Saturday Evening Post: Looking back: the oddball Olympics - curious individual and team events have been a part of the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		That's because the 1900 Games were the only Olympics in which no such medals were awarded; the winners received valuable artifacts instead.
		In the two Olympics in which golf was played-1900 and 1904-the United States dominated by annexing eight "medals" and sweeping the team title at St. Louis in 1904 "Golf was discontinued because it wasn't really an international sport at that time.
		The history of the Summer Games is filled with "the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat." Some of that has occurred in such oddball sports as rugby and tug of war, and still others in such mainstream events as track and basketball.
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	Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics - Olympic games memorabilia, pins and more (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Blackwell Science and the International Olympic Committee have teamed up to produce these great books aimed at helping competitive athletes reach their goals with the aid of their coaches, physicians, physical therapists, and nutritionists.
		Whether you're off to the Sydney Olympics in September 2000, headed for the Australian Outback, or exploring the Great Barrier Reef, we've got everything from Lonely Planet Australia and Eyewitness Sydney to Bruce Chatwin's remarkable classic, The Songlines.
		The eyes of the world will be upon Sydney, Australia, for the XXVII Summer Olympics from September 15 through October 1, 2000.
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	Golf at the 1900 Summer Olympics: Definition and links.
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	Did You Know? Scotland's Olympic Medals
		In the Olympic Games held in Sydney in September 2000, Scotland's athletes won nine gold and silver medals (and no bronze), a number not equalled since 1912 and the first gold medals since 1988.
		And the Olympics 2000 certainly proved to be a big improvement over 1996 in Atlanta - when Scottish competitors, participating as always as part of the UK team, won only one bronze.
		In this context, "Scottish" mainly means born in Scotland (though Eric Liddell of "Chariot's of Fire" fame is included, even though he was born in China, of Scottish parents).
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	ESPN.com - MORESPORTS - Ten cities apply for 2008 Summer Olympics
		LONDON -- The race is on for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
		Paris is the only one of the 10 that has previously held the Olympics, in 1900 and 1924.
		Once the cities are selected, the national Olympic committees in those countries will sign a contract with the IOC, giving them responsibility and oversight for the bid.
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	Encyclopedia: Golf at the 1900 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	Summer Times 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although recent attempts by the Department of Environmental Conservation to reintroduce self-sustaining populations of landlocked Atlantic salmon, the lake's native species, have failed miserably (a vitamin deficiency caused by eating smelt and alewives, the lake's largest forage base, makes them sterile), the stocked fish still grow big and go through the moves of spawning.
		At the end of hostilities, they faced being returned to the old country, but sympathetic citizens devised a plan by which they were transported to Canada and allowed to cross the Rainbow Bridge back into the United States, which qualified them for citizenship.
		On hot summer days, savvy locals take a short hike to the base of the cataract and indulge in the cool mist floating in the air.
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	Minnesota Daily
		Swanson said she enjoyed her experience so much at the winter games she decided to apply for the summer Olympics, even though she does not receive payment for her services.
		She said the Olympic officials think being at the games is enough payment, she said.
		She plans on applying to the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy and to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
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	Summer Game Trivia, Quizzes, Quiz Questions, Fun Facts, Information
		Tug of war, rugby, polo, lacrosse, and golf were once on the Olympic program.
		Match the olympic venues to the correct dates from this list- 1896, 1936, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000.
		After the First World War, the Olympic Games were a sporting tonic for the peoples of the world, after so much bloodshed.
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	Olympics On-Line Theme Unit Page 2
		Explain to your class that the first recorded Olympic Games were held by a Greek king who believed that the Games could help save Greece from plague and war.
		The Olympic Games in ancient Greece were for men only, as were the first modern Olympic Games in 1896.
		They might write a story from the perspective of a spectator witnessing one of her Olympic victories, or an article from the perspective of a reporter covering it for a newspaper.
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	1900 Olympics
		The success of the revived Olympics moved Greece to declare itself the rightful host of all future Games, but de Coubertin and the International Olympic Committee were determined to move the athletic feast around.
		In France, however, the Games were overshadowed by the brand new Eiffel Tower and all but ignored by the organizers of the 1900 Paris Exposition.
		Golf: Faldo backs place in Olympics for amateurs.(Sport) (The Independent (London, England))
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