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	1896 Summer Olympics
		The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the '''Games of the I Olympiad''', were held in 1896 in Athens, Greece.
		However, the 1900 Summer Olympics were already planned for Paris and, barring the so-called Intercalated Games of 1906, the Olympics did not return to Greece until the 2004 Summer Olympics.
		The true origin of the modern Olympics was acknowledged by De Coubertin as being in Much Wenlock, a rural market town in the English county of Shropshire.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/1896_Summer_Olympics (3227 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		The winter Olympics were begun in 1924 and were held in the same year as the summer games until the 1994 winter games in Lillehammer, Norway, when the alternating cycles began.
		The 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, reflected a changed political landscape: the 172 participating nations and territories included the Unified Team (with athletes from 12 former Soviet republics), a reunited Germany, and South Africa, which was allowed to compete for the first time since 1960.
		The Olympic games are competitions of individual athletes, not of nations, and the IOC does not keep national scores; however, the media of all nations report national standings according to one of two scoring systems.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/sports/olympics.html (1093 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics
		These were the first celebration of the Olympic Games since the recreation of the ancient Greek Olympics with the founding of the International Olympic Committee in 1894.
		The weightlifting contests are also conducted in the Olympic stadium, with Launceston Elliot of Great Britain and Viggo Jensen of Denmark taking a first and a second place each in the single-hand and double-hand contests.
		In the first gymnastics competitions, Germany takes the titles in both the parallel bars event for teams and the horizontal bar event, though they are the only entrant in the latter competition.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/18/1896_summer_olympics.shtml (886 words)

	Summer Olympics: Gymnastics
		Gymnastics is a sport where you do handstands, back handsprings, front handsprings, and more.
		The gymnasts use ribbons, a rope, a hoop, a ball, or a club.
		Olympic Gymnastics has changed over the years but Men’s Artistic Gymnastics first became an Olympic sport in 1896 and Women's Artistic Gymnastics became an Olympic sport in 1928.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/gymnastics.htm (215 words)

	Olympics
		Until 1994, the Winter and Summer Olympics were held in the same year, but in 1986 the International Olympic Committee, which organises the Olympics, decided to separate them, so as to spread costs for all involved parties.
		As with the Ancient Olympics, once the flame has been lit, it is kept burning throughout the celebration of the Olympics, and is extinguished at end of the closing ceremony of the Games.
		The Olympic fire is then extinguished, and the Olympic flag is lowered, folded, and presented to the mayor of the host city of the next Olympic Games.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /olympics/Olympics.htm (1089 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Female Olympic athletes now more confident
		In the summer of 1972, Francie Larrieu Smith had all the opportunity she ever wanted spread out on the track before her as she toed the start line for the Olympic 1,500-meter heat in Munich, Germany.
		There were 96 women on the U.S. team in Larrieu Smith's first Olympics and 203 on her last, when she walked into the stadium in Barcelona, Spain, in 1992 carrying the U.S. flag.
		With the International Olympic Committee delivering on its promise to help unlock the potential of female athletes everywhere, women will compete for the first time at the Olympics in the hammer throw, pole vault, triathlon, modern pentathlon, tae kwon do, water polo and weightlifting.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/s/2000/0829/710203.html (1557 words)

	Kids Gymnastics \| History \| USA Olympic Team \| Picture \| Nude \| Equipment \| Exercises \| For Kids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Ancient Romans used gymnastics as part of their military training to improve the strength, balance and flexibility of soldiers.
		In the 1800s, gymnastics exercises using rings, bars, balls and mats were developed by gymnasts in Germany and Sweden.
		Rhythmic gymnastics, which combines gymnastics and dance, and makes use of balls, ropes, hoops and ribbons was introduced as an Olympic sport in 1984.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p4372.htm (644 words)

	Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		At the 1896 Summer Olympics, eight gymnastics events were contested.
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	1896 Summer Olympics
		The 1896 Summer Olympics, formally called the Games of the I Olympiad, were the first modern Summer Olympic Games and the first Games since Roman emperor Theodosius I banned the Ancient Olympic Games in AD 393 as part of the Christian campaign against paganism.
		Alfréd Hajós, the first Olympic champion in swimming, is one of only two Olympians to have won medals in both sport and art competitions, Photograph by A. Meyer, Athens, Benaki Museum.
		In the first modern Olympics of 1896, women were not allowed to compete, but there was an unofficial competitor in the marathon, a poor Greek woman who became known as 'Melpomene'.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/NewSport/Olympia1896.html (3549 words)

	US Summer Olympics - Learn More (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gymnastics was included in the first modern Olympics in Athens in 1896.
		Women's team events were added to the Olympics in 1928, and it wasn't until 1952 that women were allowed to compete in individual apparatus events.
		Great gymnasts that have competed in Olympic history include Larissa Latynina from the Soviet Union, who won nine gold, five silver, and four bronze medals over an eight-year period and Nadia Comaneci who scored a perfect 10 in each of six events in the Montreal Olympics of 1976.
	www.usolympicteam.com /kids/Athens/site/learn/rules_gymnastics.shtml (605 words)

	Gymnastics Activity Card. Physical Activity. BAM! Body and Mind.
		The first large-scale gymnastics competition was during the 1896 Olympics in Athens, Greece.
		Gymnasts also wear hand guards and use chalk to prevent their hands from slipping when working on the floor mats, rings, or bars.
		Gymnasts who participate in rhythmic gymnastics jump, tumble, flip, and dance to music while using rope, hoops, bars, or ribbons as part of their routines.
	www.bam.gov /sub_physicalactivity/activitycards_gymnastics.html (1120 words)

	EdGate Summer Games
		Gymnastics competitions are divided into four parts—a qualifying competition, the team final, the all-around final, and the apparatus final.
		This newest Olympic gymnastics discipline may be best described as a cross between a floor exercise and classical ballet.
		Gymnastics can be one of the most difficult sports for spectators to watch because it has a very specialized terminology.
	www2.edgate.com /summergames/spotlight_sport/gymnastics.php (1595 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The concept of a designated Olympic Village for the athletes would not appear until the 1932 Summer Olympics; the athletes had to care for their own lodging.
		In addition, the curves of the track were very tight, making fast times in the running events virtually impossible, despite this Thomas Burke won both the 100m and the 400m for the USA in times of 12.0 and 54.2 and winning in relative ease.
		Bulgaria – The Bulgarian NOC claims that gymnast Charles Champaud was competing as a Bulgarian.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1896_Summer_Olympics (3661 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)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 2004 Athens
		As the first Summer Olympics since the attacks of Sept. 11,2001, the safety of the athletes, spectators and Greek population were of utmost priority.
		The story of Kenteris, the defending Olympic 200-metre champion, and Thanou, the 100 m silver medallist from Sydney, dominated the headlines of every broadcast and newspaper as much for its impact on the host nation as for its sensational details.
		And on the final day of the Olympics, a spectator ran onto the road during the men's marathon and pushed lead runner Vanderlei de Lima of Brazil to the sidelines.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004 (2135 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1896 Athens
		Currently, the stadium is again being refurbished to serve as the venue for the marathon and archery at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
		All the competitors were men; women did not make it onto the Olympic roster until the next Olympiad in 1900, when the number of competitors swelled to 1,319.
		The marathon’s origins are more apocryphal: a re-enactment of the journey of Philippides, who according to legend, ran to Athens to bring news of the Greeks’ victory over the Persians in 490 BC and collapsed dead of exhaustion upon his arrival.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1896.html (1022 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Wilson a rebel with a cause
		But scratch the surface of America's top Olympic medal hopeful in the carefully cloned world that is men's gymnastics and just underneath you'll find a tattooed, body-pierced Dennis Rodman trying to get out.
		Described as the new face of gymnastics, Wilson has brought a rock-and-roll look and attitude to a sport more easily associated with a military inspection.
		While innovative moves have long been applauded, little has changed in the sport's rigid dress code since it was part of the first modern Olympics in 1896.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/gymnastics/s/2000/0913/740767.html (666 words)

	Apple Learning Interchange
		From Athens 1896 to Sydney 2000, the modern Summer Olympics have brought together countries from all over the globe to participate in the spirit of competition.
		You'll be able to send postcards from some of the Olympic cities while you and your students learn about the geography, history and culture of the host metropolitan areas.
		Using these resources, together with the publicity surrounding the Olympic Games, you'll be ready for wonderful geography lessons related to not only to the Olympic cities, but also to the countries of the world that send teams or individual athletes to the competitions.
	ali.apple.com /features/s_olympics.shtml (1852 words)

	The History of the Olympic Games
		They were held in the same year as the summer Olympics until 1994, when they began to be held on separate 4-year cycles that were staggered by two years.
		Small, local festivals were being called “Olympics” as early as the 17th century in places like England and France, but the discovery of the ruins of Olympia in the 19th century sparked interest in the games once again on an international scale.
		The Olympic relay, another well-known symbol of the games, in which the torch is lit in Olympia and run to the host city, was introduced in 1936.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~leannajf/olympics.html (1072 words)

	1932 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, were held in 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
		Fewer than half the number of participants from the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam competed in 1932.
		An Olympic Village was built for the first time, occupied by the male athletes.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1932_Summer_Olympics (387 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		During the 19th century, several minor sports festivals named after the Ancient Olympic Games were held in a few European countries.
		There was no designated Olympic Village for the athletes like there is nowadays; the athletes stayed in hotels or with friends.
		cs:Letní olympijské hry 1896 de:Olympische Sommerspiele 1896 et:1896.
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/1896_Summer_Olympics (3849 words)

	Summer Olympics
		Sailing first became an Olympic sport in Paris in 1900, where time handicaps were used to referee the race.
		Olympic racing is now conducted with boats categorised into one-design classes based on similar weights and dimensions.
		Olympic history abounds with tales of athletes who overcame crippling adversity to win gold medals, but Karoly Takacs' comeback may be the best.
	library.thinkquest.org /CR0214546/solympics.html (1844 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS
		As a governing body it is held in high esteem by both its member federations and gymnastics clubs throughout five continents.
		In 1897, seventeen national associations joined together to form the basis of the European Gymnastics Federation.
		However, when the USA was admitted in 1921, the Committee changed its name to the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique or FIG, as it is known today.
	www.olympic.org /uk/sports/programme/index_uk.asp?SportCode=GY (165 words)

	1924 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The 1924 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VIII Olympiad, were held in 1924 in Paris, France.
		The marathon distance was fixed at 42.195 km, from the distance run at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.
		Ireland was given formal recognition as an independent nation in the Olympic Movement in Paris in 1924 and it was at these games that Ireland made its first appearance in an Olympic Games as an independent nation.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1924_Summer_Olympics (427 words)

	History of the Olympics + Cartoon Fun by Brownielocks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		During the last winter Olympics in 1998, winter snowboarding was accepted as an official winter competition.
		The Olympic Flame is said to represent the "Olympic Spirit" of competition.
		The newest tradition, which began with the summer Olympics in Los Angeles, CA (USA) was to have the torch carried across the country by people from all walks of life and have it arrive at the stadium just in time for the opening ceremonies.
	www.brownielocks.com /olympics.html (1019 words)

	ThinkQuest : Library : Olympic Games
		A sketch of every summer Olympic competition in the past hundred years is provided.
		Though the Olympics are known to many all over the world, but at the same time, many does not know what exactly is the "Olympics", the word of which has many stories left untold behind it, and the organizations running it.
		We chose this because the olympics are an example of global economies supporting atheletes and because we wanted to learn about some sports played all over the world.
	www.thinkquest.org /library/cat_show.html?cat_id=99 (1209 words)

	Open Directory - Sports: Events: Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Olympic History from Buffalo and Western New York - Highlights of olympic history with stories about Olympic medal winners and their accomplishments.
		Olympic Museum - A virtual visit of the permanent exhibits, a virtual gallery with Nagano ceremonies, a philatelic and numismatic exhibition, concerts and conferences, a research centre.
		Science and the Olympics - Science and technology played a small role in the original Olympics, which prompted a brief truce in any wars the Greeks happened to be fighting.
	dmoz.org /Sports/Events/Olympics (817 words)

	Olympics History Quizzes and Olympics History Trivia -- FunTrivia
		Olympic symbols have been a part of the Games as is the competition.
		This is not the be all and end all of Olympic Quizzes.
		This quiz is about the cities that came second place in the International Olympic Committee voting for the Olympic host cities, or that intended to host the Olympics, but for some reason or other could not.
	www.funtrivia.com /quizzes/sports/olympic_games/olympics_history.html (569 words)

	Fanbay.net - Athens 2004 Summer Olympics - Links, News, Travel info
		Gymnastics, Cycling, Shooting, Wrestling, and Canoe/Kayak are the next biggest sports with about 50 medals awarded from competitions in each of these sports.
		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)

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