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	1956 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were held in 1956 in Melbourne, Australia, although the equestrian events could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations.
		Because Melbourne is in the southern hemisphere, the Olympics were held later in the year than former Olympics held in the northern hemisphere.
		Inspired by Australian teenager John Wing, an Olympic tradition began when athletes of different nations are allowed to parade together at the closing ceremony, instead of with their national teams, as a symbol of world unity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1956_Summer_Olympics (448 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.
		A total of eight sports were included in the winter Olympics in 1998: biathlon (cross-country skiing and rifle marksmanship), bobsled, curling (for the first time), ice hockey (which included women’s hockey for the first time), luge (toboggan), figure skating, speed skating, and skiing (which, for the first time, included snowboarding as a medal sport).
		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)

	1984 Summer Olympics Comp @ LocalColorArt.com (Local Color Art) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Los Angeles was selected on May 18, 1978 on the 80th IOC session at Athens, Greece without voting, because it was the only city to bid to host the 1984 Summer Olympics.
		Olympic soccer was unexpectedly played before massive crowds throughout America, with several sell-outs at the 100,000+ seat Rose Bowl.
		Following the news of the massive financial losses of the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, few cities wished to host the Olympics.
	www.localcolorart.com /encyclopedia/1984_Summer_Olympics (789 words)

	1956 Summer Olympics: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/1956_summer_olympics (956 words)

	GBROLYMPICS.COM / LONDON-OLYMPICS.COM - Olympic Games Medallists
		The modern Olympics were first held in 1896.
		Nevertheless all those competitions reported, at one time or another, as Olympic medal events have been included here for the record, with those no longer regarded as official footnoted.
		Nationalities given are those of the countries the medallists were representing at the time of the event.
	www.gbrathletics.com /olympic (336 words)

	KIAT.NET - Olympic Winter Games Ice Hockey
		The origins of ice hockey are unclear, but it's widely accepted that the British are responsible for bringing hockey to North America.
		From the 1980s, professional hockey players who had played in the National Hockey League (NHL) were declared eligible to compete in the Olympic ice hockey tournament.
		Women's ice hockey was approved as an Olympic sport in 1992, and debuted in Nagano in 1998.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/sports/winter/icehockey.html (726 words)

	CNN Cold War - Spotlight: Olympic boycotts
		From 1956 through 1964, the two Germanys were forced to reach their own Olympic truce and compete as a joint team.
		North Korea boycotted the Seoul Olympics and was joined by Ethiopia, Nicaragua and Cuba, but the Games went on with little interruption.
		In 1992, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia fielded their own teams, and the rest of the former Soviet Union competed as the "Unified Team." Winners were saluted with the flags and anthems of their countries.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/20/spotlight/highlights (762 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)

	ESPN.com - Russians regroup on other side of the red line
		Hockey was the most popular sport in a society that placed athletics, in general, among its highest priorities.
		The 1994 Olympic team was a mere shadow of the 1992 Unified Team because of a mass exodus of players to the NHL, which did not allow its players to compete in the Olympics at that time.
		While hockey and other sports officials in Russia cried poverty and demanded more money from the NHL in transfer fees, arguing that organized sport in Russia could not survive without an influx of cash, it turned out that organized crime was probably skimming off most of the influx.
	sports.espn.go.com /oly/winter02/hockey/story?id=1326249 (7325 words)

	Special: Athens Olympics 2004 \| The Christian Science Monitor
		The 1940 Summer Games were scheduled to be held in Tokyo, then were moved to Helsinki, Finland before being canceled altogether with the start of World War II.
		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)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS
		Hockey is the oldest known ball and stick game.
		The name hockey probably derives from the French hocquet, or shepherd’s crook, and refers to the crooked stick which is used to hit a small ball.
		Until the 1970s, the game at international level was mainly played on natural grass, but has become an even more exciting and Skilful India dominated the sport for three decades, winning all six Olympic gold medals and 30 consecutive games from 1928 to 1956.
	www.olympic.org /uk/sports/programme/index_uk.asp?SportCode=HO (174 words)

	1928 Summer Olympics
		Amsterdam had made a bid for the 1920 and 1924 Olympics, but had to give way to war-victim Belgium and De Coubertin's Paris before finally being awarded with the organisation.
		For the first time, the Olympic Flame was lit during the Olympics.
		The torch relay was however not started until the 1936 Summer Olympics.
	www.fastload.org /19/1928_Summer_Olympics.html (254 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Winter Olympics 2002 \| Front Page \| Losers win hearts
		And an inexperienced ice hockey team won gold in their sport, an event Americans referred to as "The Miracle on Ice".
		There was a gap of only two years before the next event, at Lillehammer in 1994, in order to ensure future Winter Olympics would not take place in the same year as their summer counterparts.
		The build-up was dominated by the attack on American figure skater Nancy Kerrigan and the subsequent news that team-mate Tonya Harding was involved.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/hi/english/front_page/newsid_1630000/1630239.stm (415 words)

	History of the Modern Summer and Winter Olympics from Fanbay.net
		The Summer and Winter Olympics of 1932 were both held in the United States, in Los Angeles, CA and Lake Placid, NY, respectively.
		The Olympic facilities were as impressive as the cutting edge facilities that brought the Summer Olympics to a new level in Munich (1972).
		The Winter Olympics of 2002 were overshadowed by the terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001.
	www.fanbay.net /olympics/modern_history.htm (2739 words)

	1992 Summer Olympics - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The 1992 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were held in 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
		All of the IOC countries participated in the Games for the first time since Munich 1972 Summer Olympics.
		Badminton and women's judo became part of the Olympic programme, while slalom canoeing returned to the Games after a 20-year absence.
	www.psychcentral.com /psypsych/1992_Summer_Olympics (632 words)

	SUMMER OLYMPIC STATISTICS
		The ranking is performed neither according to gold medal nor medal total but according to points (3 points for a gold, 2 for a silver and 1 for a bronze).
		In some cases, you will find "half medals": In the early Olympics, some people had unprecise nationality, therefore two countries shared the medal.
		It includes all Olympic results from Athens 1896 to Athens 2004 (when the sport is completed).
	www.darmoni.net /joete.htm (122 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Brothers aren't competing against each other
		MILWAUKEE -- Morgan and Paul Hamm will be the first twin gymnasts to compete in the Olympics for the United States when they take part in the Sydney Games.
		There were gymnast brothers who competed in the 1956 Olympics but never twins, said Courtney Caress, communications manager for USA Gymnastics.
		The twins' mother, Cecily Hamm, said they were especially supportive of each other at the Boston Olympic trials that ended Aug.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/gymnastics/s/2000/0829/710032.html (571 words)

	NBCOlympics.com - Countries - Italy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Even though the Olympic games are over, the NBC Universal Store still has your favorite Torino merchandise.
		The 2006 Olympic host city of Torino, located in northwest Italy at the confluence of the Po and Dora Riparia rivers, is the capital of the Piedmont region.
		The 19-year-old, who earned bronze at the 2005 World Championships, is the daughter of a 1984 Olympic hockey player and the cousin of Alpine skier Isolde Kostner, who took silver in the women's downhill in 2002.
	www.nbcolympics.com /countries/5056762/detail.html (723 words)

	Olympics :
		This little bear is from the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow.Famous for their dancing bears (I think they are trying to cut back on this animal cruelty).The foam bear is flocked brown and has an Olympic metal symbol at his waist.
		This green sponge whale is flocked and has the Olympic ribbon wrapped around his body and the Olympic entwined circles symbol attached to the ribbons.He is good clean condition and is 8 inches long.Great vintage collectible.
		Olympic Hero - A Tale of the 87th Greek Games was written by Henry Roxborough and published in 1960 by the Ryerson Press in Toronto.
	search.rubylane.com /collectibles?id=54&cache=b0cca3e22c90737&db=_rlcollectibles (1185 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		Hockey Night in Canada's Kelly Hrudey dissects the Canadian men's squad bound for Turin.
		Olympic ice hockey has hosted its share of dynasties and upsets.
		Olympic rules put a premium on a player's hockey sense — the ability to act quickly and positively with the puck and the discipline to know what to do without it.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/sports/icehockey (657 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics
		Athens was chosen as the host city during the 106th IOC Session held in Lausanne in 05 September 1997, after surprisingly losing the bid to organize the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta nearly seven years before, on 18 September 1990, during the 96th IOC Session in Tokyo.
		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.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/NewSport/Olympia2004.html (1798 words)

	SportsFilter \| All Olympics links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bode "rocked" at the Olympics Even though he didn't even finish several of the events he was expected to medal in and left the Turin empty-handed, Bode Miller enjoyed his Olympic experience, particularly his time at crazy bars.
		Ruggiero: Canadian women should tone it down In what almost frighteningly mirrors men's hockey at the inaugural Winter Olympics in Chamonix, the unavoidable gold medal showdown between Canada and the USA is sparking some lively debate as to whether there is a place in the Olympics for lopsided victories or top-heavy sports at all.
		New Olympic Sports being considered for 2012 include golf, rugby, karate, squash and "roller sports," while softball, baseball and modern pentathlon may be on the chopping block.
	www.sportsfilter.com /cat.cfm/sports/Olympics.html (11538 words)

	1956 ? Cortina d?Ampezzo, Italy - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		The 1956 Cortina d’Ampezzo Games are the first Winter Olympics to be covered by live television.
		Although television networks would be willing to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for broadcast rights by the end of the 20th century, the Cortina organizing committee actually pays an Italian TV network 10 million lira to help offset the costs of production.
		The seven gold medals include the team honors in ice hockey and four individual golds in speedskating, with two being captured by Yevgeny Grishin in the 500- and 1,500- meter races.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,12,00.html (402 words)

	Equestrian at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The events of the Equestrian at the 2004 Summer Olympics featured three equestrian disciplines: dressage, eventing and jumping.
		All three disciplines are further divided into individual and team contests for a total of six events.
		The Markopoulo Olympic Equestrian Centre, on the outskirts of Markopoulo in the Attica region of Greece, hosted the dressage and jumping events while the eventing took place in the nearby Eventing Park.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Equestrian_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics (698 words)

	OpinionJournal - Hot Topic
		Before the Berlin Wall fell, the Olympics were considered, to adapt Clausewitz, politics by other means.
		Nothing viewers are likely to see in Turin can compete with the bloody 1956 water polo match in Melbourne in which the Hungarians defeated the Soviets weeks after the Soviet army had crushed an uprising back in Hungary.
		And should the U.S. hockey team meet Russia in a medal round next week, no one expects the drama of the Lake Placid "miracle" of 1980.
	www.opinionjournal.com /weekend/hottopic/?id=110007990 (688 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The 1956 Winter Olympics, held in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, were most notable for the first appearance by a team from the USSR.
		The Cortina Games were the first to be televised and the last at which the figure skating competitions were held outdoors.
		In the Olympic competition she skated well enough to earn the first-place votes of ten of the eleven judges.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1956 (294 words)

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