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	Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics was represented by two different gymnastics disciplines: artistic gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics, held at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles from July 29 to August 11.
		In artistic gymnastics the number of gymnasts, who qualified for event finals on each apparatus was increased from six to eight both in men's and women's events.
		The scoring and judging system in artistic gymnastics events were similar to gymnastics events at the previous Olympics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gymnastics_at_the_1984_Summer_Olympics (374 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		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.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/2/0/0/2004_Summer_Olympics_330c.html (2001 words)

	1984 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, were held in 1984 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
		The 1984 Games were the second to make a profit, after only the 1932 Summer Olympics (also in Los Angeles).
		Olympic soccer was unexpectedly played before massive crowds throughout America, with several sell-outs at the 100,000+ seat Rose Bowl.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1984_Summer_Olympics (994 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)

	Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		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)

	Kids Gymnastics \| History \| USA Olympic Team \| Picture \| Nude \| Equipment \| Exercises \| For Kids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		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)

	1984 Summer Olympics
		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.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1984_summer_olympics.shtml (289 words)

	Olympic Preview: Artistic Gymnastics
		In 1984, American Mary Lou Retton dazzled us with her smile and spunk, and in 1996, it was the "Magnificent Seven" and Kerri Strug's gutsy vault that ensured the gold for the United States.
		While rhythmic gymnastics are performed with an apparatus (ropes, hoops, balls, etc.), artistic gymnastics are performed on an apparatus.
		The surprise of the 2003 artistic gymnastics world championships was the United States women's team taking home the U.S.'s first world championship title and Team USA as a whole earning a whopping five gold medals in the competition.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/ol-gymnastics.html (364 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)

	Mary Lou Retton
		The other competitors and the Olympic audience were quiet as the tiny gymnast prepared for her final vault.
		She was chosen for the American gymnastics team in the 1984 Summer Olympics.
		Six weeks before the Olympics began in Los Angeles she had to have surgery on one of her knees.
	www.edhelper.com /ReadingComprehension_24_75.html (352 words)

	Book Review: Little Girls in Pretty Boxes \| Caremark Health Resources
		It all peaked in 1992 at the Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where the taped limbs and blank stares of female American gymnasts prompted a call from New York Times columnist Dave Anderson to ban the sport from the Olympics.
		Ryan documents the fact that gymnast Betty Okino, then 17, competed in the 1992 Olympics with stress fractures in her back and elbow and a screw clamping a tendon to her shin.
		In 1995, a former gymnast was hired to study the sport's health risks, and in 1999, she and the sport's governing body produced The Athlete Wellness Book.
	healthresources.caremark.com /topic/brgymnastics (1013 words)

	Olympics: Men's gymnastics
		For once, American women may be upstaged by their male counterparts in Olympic gymnastics.
		As for the rest of the men's team, their prospects appear better than they did in 1996, but they are still far from returning to the glory days of 1984 when they won a team gold.
		They are the first set of twins to make the Olympic gymnastics team, and their story is just beginning.
	www.sptimes.com /News/091000/news_pf/Olympics/Men_s_gymnastics.shtml (860 words)

	OU Assistant Qualifies for Games - NCAA Sports.com
		Going into the camp, the general opinion among the gymnastics' community was that the team's weak events, if any among the four members, was the floor exercise and still rings.
		Young was the only gymnast to compete on five events during both of the scheduled competitions that were scored by actual judges from the U.S. Olympic Trials.
		Each gymnast competed as much as they felt was necessary to impress the committee and help their cause in making the team.
	www.ncaasports.com /gymnastics/mens/story/7501818 (944 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Wilson a rebel with a cause
		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.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/gymnastics/s/2000/0913/740767.html (666 words)

	Platform for better performance - NCAA Sports.com
		Also, the Olympic Trials are set for Anaheim in June, about two months after the NCAA championships.
		Stephenson noted that Pauley Pavilion hosted the gymnastics portion of the Olympics in 1984, so the podium fits well in the venue.
		"I think that from a gymnast's standpoint, any great gymnast who had aspirations of competing internationally certainly would be excited about the prospect of being able to compete in an international type of environment, which is what it's going to provide for them," she said.
	www.ncaasports.com /gymnastics/womens/story/7246981 (784 words)

	Saudi Athletes in Atlanta Strive to Build on Their Nation's Olympic Tradition
		The Olympics have always inspired feelings of national pride, both in the inhabitants of the host country and in the inhabitants of every country sending athletes to the games.
		The soccer team was accompanied to the 1984 Olympics by athletes in cycling, archery, fencing and shooting.
		In the 25th Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, in 1992, Saudi athletes represented the Kingdom in a number of sports, including some in which the Kingdom had never before competed, such as gymnastics, table tennis and swimming.
	www.saudiembassy.net /Publications/MagSummer96/olympics.html (951 words)

	Japanese American Summer Olympians
		In a year filled with international conflict and unrest, the 2004 Summer Olympics seem more important than ever as a reminder of the ancient ideals of competition, culture, education, and peace that began the Olympic games as early as 776 BC.
		The return of the games to Athens, Greece-the original site of the Olympics-and the customary lighting of the torch are reminders of the true spirit of the event where athletes from many countries honor the Olympic Truce and compete, not for personal gain, but to represent the best that their country has to offer.
		She was a top-level gymnast in high school, but injuries led her to switch to diving.
	www.janmstore.com /summerolympics.html (848 words)

	1932 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		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 (377 words)

	Gymnastics : Sports of the modern Olympic Games
		In 1964, Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina wins six medals for the third time in a row; she remains the Olympic athlete with the most medals (18) and the most medals in individual events (14).
		In 1984, 16-year-old Mary Lou Retton earned her place on Wheaties boxes by winning four gymnastics medals - including a gold in all-around gymnastics - just six weeks after undergoing knee surgery.
		In 1996, The US won gold in gymnastics, with the help of Kerri Strug, who nails her second vault despite a sprained ankle.
	www.topendsports.com /events/summer/sports/gymnastics.htm (247 words)

	1984
		1984 was the year we first wore stone washed jeans.
		Mary Lou Retton scored a perfect "10" in gymnastics at the Olympics.
		George Orwell's "1984" was re-released in hardback and topped the best seller list for most of the year.
	www.audiopros.com /1984.htm (314 words)

	CNN Cold War - Spotlight: Olympic boycotts
		With the backing of Hollywood and corporate sponsorships, the 1984 Games scored high TV ratings and were the first since 1932 to turn a profit.
		The '84 Olympics were a bonanza for the United States in the medal count as well.
		Buerkle accepts that politics is part of the Olympics -- "It's the way they've always been," he says -- and believes that the games can be a positive political force, as with a 28-year ban against the apartheid regime in South Africa.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/20/spotlight (815 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)

	USA Gymnastics Official Coach Biography: Bela Karolyi
		Bela Karolyi, 2000 USA Gymnastics Women's National Team Coordinator Bela Karolyi was born September 13, 1942, in Cluj, Romania.
		His coaching efforts have produced 28 Olympians, nine Olympic Champions, 15 World Champions, 12 European medalists and six U.S. National Champions in 30 years of coaching gymnastics in both his native Romania and the United States.
		In addition to Karolyi's World of Gymnastics, Bela and Martha own a 500-acre ranch outside of Houston which is used as a summer training camp.
	www.usa-gymnastics.org /athletes/coachbios/k/bkarolyi.html (461 words)

	History of the Olympics + Cartoon Fun by Brownielocks
		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)

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		The ancient Greeks (who invented the building called a gymnasium for them) and the Romans practiced gymnastics, but it was not until the 20th century that gymnastics became widespread.
		Their eventual success came after their adoption for American military training, their placement on the program of the revived Olympic Games in 1896, and the inclusion of physical education in the curriculum of many schools.
		Olympic weightlifting is an extreme power, technique, and quickness event like gymnastics.
	www.lycos.com /info/gymnastics--olympic-games.html (306 words)

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