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	ipedia.com: 1972 Summer Olympics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		In the bid to organise the Olympics, Detroit, Madrid and Montreal were beaten.
		Lasse Virén of Finland won the 5000 and 10000 m (the latter after a fall), a feat he would repeat in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
		For the first time, the Olympic Oath is also taken by a representative of the referees.
	www.ipedia.com /ipedia/1/19/1972_summer_olympics.html (444 words)

	1972 Summer Olympics at AllExperts
		the Olympic swimming hall, the "Olympiahalle" (a multipurpose facility) and the Olympic stadium (Olympiastadion).
		All Olympic events were briefly suspended but Avery Brundage, the IOC President, decided that "The Games must go on" and so they were continued a day later.
		They were banned from the Olympics for life, as were Tommie Smith and John Carlos in the 1968 Summer Olympics.
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/1972_Summer_Olympics.htm (885 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		The skates worn for ice hockey differ from those used for figure skating and speed skating in that the blade is thinner and shorter, with a plain, pointed end, and the boot is lower and thicker.
		Ice hockey was added to the roster of the summer Olympic games in 1920 and became part of the winter games when they began four years later.
		Women’s ice hockey is governed by the IIHF under the same rules as those for men’s hockey, except that body checking is not allowed; body contact, unless it results from playing the puck, constitutes an infraction of the rules.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/sports/hockey.html (1903 words)

	CBSNews.com
		Held in conjunction with Olympic Games in Paris, the Chamonix Winter Games were originally known as an "International Winter Sports Week," due to objections by Scandinavian countries that felt a Winter Olympics would detract from their Nordic Games.
		With the first Olympic Winter Games an enormous success, it was no surprise that the St. Moritz Games attracted an 84 percent increase in the number of participants.
		The star of these Olympics was Norwegian Sonja Henie, who as a 15-year-old, won the first of her three Olympic gold medals.
	www.cbsnews.com /htdocs/sports/olympics/olympics_2002_games/timeline.html (1181 words)

	1972 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, were held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972.
		The 1972 Summer Olympics were the second Summer Olympics held in Germany, after the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
		In basketball, the United States' Olympic winning streak, which started in 1936, was ended by the Soviet team's victory in the gold medal game, which USA Basketball calls "the most controversial game in international basketball history" [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1972_Summer_Olympics (1487 words)

	Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		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.
		Olympic medals are awarded to those individuals or teams placing first, second, and third in each event.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /olympics/Olympics.htm (1089 words)

	1920 Summer Olympics
		The city was chosen to memorialize Belgium for its suffering in World War I, beating out Amsterdam and Lyon for the right to hold the games.
		The 1916 Olympics were scheduled to be held in Berlin but were canceled due to the fighting in World War I. Games of the VII Olympiad
		These Olympics were the first in which the Olympic Oath was uttered, the first in which doves were released to symbolize peace, and was the first time the Olympic Flag[?] was flown.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/19/1920_Summer_Olympics.html (132 words)

	National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC
		On other fronts, the Olympics were broadcast on television for the first time (as seen in the film Contact) and also saw the introduction of the relay of the Olympic torch.
		1972 Summer (Munich, West Germany; August 26-September 11, 1972) One of the most tragic Olympics ever, these Games saw the kidnapping and killing of 11 Israeli athletes by eight Palestinian terrorists, five of whom were shot dead by West German police.
		Though the Olympics paused for 34 hours, the IOC ordered the games to continue and memorable performances were turned in by American swimmer Mark Spitz, who won seven gold medals, and Russian gymnast Olga Korbut, who captivated audiences en route to winning three gold medals.
	www.naqt.com /YouGottaKnow/olympics.html (1032 words)

	1972 Olympics — Infoplease.com
		Memorable Olympic Moments: Mark Spitz - Spitz's Seven Ambitious Mark Spitz claims seven golds and an Olympic record by Mike Morrison...
		John Akii-Bua - John Akii-Bua Age: 47 winner of the gold medal in the 400m hurdles at the 1972 Olympics; set a...
		Olympic tragedy: 1972 Revisited: the shadow of terrorism still haunts the Olympics almost 30 years after Israeli athletes were massacred......
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0300768.html (489 words)

	1948 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad, were held in 1948 at Wembley Stadium in London, England.
		After a hiatus of 12 years caused by the outbreak of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
		In field hockey, India and Pakistan first participated as independent nations, and the homeland of the sport, Great Britain, played the triple Olympic champions from India for the first time and lost.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/1948_Summer_Olympics (446 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)

	1972: Olympics - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
		1972: Olympics - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
		They were billed as Olympics of serenity; perhaps in a less turbulent age they could have been.
		The West German Organizing Committee did its best to ensure that these games would erase the memory of the 1936 Olympics and the show of autocratic strength staged in Berlin by Adolf Hitler.
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_461575409/1972_Olympics.html (148 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)

	Stu Irving
		He was a player-coach during his last season in Muskegon and signed on as an assistant coach at Merrimack in the fall of 1984.
		On October 1st, 2000, some 28 years late, eyes were opened as Massachusetts Hockey inducted the members of the 1972 Olympic Hockey Team " The Forgotten Team" into the Mass Hockey Hall of Fame.
		Dave Silk (1980 Olympic Team) was the Master of Ceremonies, which made the give and take lively and quite funny.
	www.masshockey.com /Hall/Irving (719 words)

	2012 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad, will be held in London, United Kingdom from 27 July to 12 August 2012.
		The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG) was put in place to oversee the development of the Games after the success of the bid, and held their first board meeting on 7 October 2005.
		London's bid featured 28 sports, in line with other recent Summer Olympics, but the IOC voted to drop baseball and softball from the 2012 Games two days after it selected London as the host city.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/2012_Summer_Olympics (1650 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		Hockey star Dany Heatley has travelled a long, hard road to the Torino Games.
		Hockey Night in Canada's Kelly Hrudey dissects the Canadian men's squad bound for Turin.
		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)

	Olympics and Television
		In 1996, the Summer games in Atlanta were priced at $456 million, a figure that did not include the cost of the production itself, which has been estimated at another $150 million.
		Spacing the Summer and Winter Olympics two years apart thus allowed sponsors to spread out their costs and also to invest in more high-profile packages.
		The Summer broadcast rights almost tripled from 1980 to 1984 ($87 million to $225 million) and both Winter and Summer rights have gone for $300 million or more since 1988.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/O/htmlO/olympicsand/olympicsand.htm (1131 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 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).
	www.fanbay.net /olympics/modern_history.htm (2739 words)

	1972 Summit Series: A September to Remember (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Back then Hewitt was as much a part of hockey as the sticks and pucks and the goals and the fights.
		Ozerov - a former tennis star from the 1940s, actually was scheduled to call various sporting events in the 1972 Summer Olympics, but he was so popular in Russia that he was reassigned for this historic series against Canada.
		"Comrade Hockey," as he was known, was a regular on hockey broadcasts from the 1950s through the 1980s.
	www.1972summitseries.com /ozerov.html (263 words)

	1956 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		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.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1956_Summer_Olympics (1413 words)

	1932 Summer Olympics
		An Olympic Village was built for the first time, occupied by the male athletes.
		Babe Didrikson wins two gold medals in the javelin throw and the hurdles event, and only loses a third in the high jump because her jumping technique is ruled inferior and is placed second.
		Finnish star Paavo Nurmi is barred from competing in the Olympic for being a professional.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1932_summer_olympics.shtml (196 words)

	The Summit in 1972: 20th Century Top Hockey Events in Canadian History
		In December 1999, 1972 Team Canada was honored at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto as the greatest team of the century.
		It was neither Stanley Cup finals, nor Olympics, nor one of the Canada or World Cups that came after the Summit in 1972.
		Thirty years past the 1972 Summit, the Series remains the most fascinating spectacle that gave so much to the Canadian, Russian and, no doubt, international hockey.
	www.chidlovski.com /personal/1972/story/ca20vek.htm (626 words)

	Winter Olympics 2002 \| Salt Lake City
		At an IOC meeting in 1923, the Dutch, who had been selected to host the 1928 Summer Games in Amsterdam, declared they would be geograpically unable to stage a "winter sports week" as well (remember, it wasn't the "Winter Olympics" yet).
		It was the first Winter Games in a capital city instead of a small resort town, and in the eyes of one Norwegian chronicler, the urban setting and large crowds gave the Winter Olympics the kind of boost that Stockholm had given the then-struggling Summer Olympics in 1912.
		The first Winter Olympics in the western United States were the inspiration of a transplanted Easterner named Alex Cushing, who saw Squaw Valley for the first time in the late 1940s and decided he was going to move there and build a ski resort.
	web.knoxnews.com /web/kns/sports/olympics/thepast.shtml (2107 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 For those affected, boycott still lingers
		He pledged to boycott that year's Summer Olympics, to be held in Moscow, if the Soviets didn't pull the troops.
		In the 1972 and '76 Games, Kennedy's home country of Rhodesia (which later became Zimbabwe), was banned from the Games due to apartheid.
		It's hard for an athlete, a person who could have gotten a medal to look at the Olympics today and see all the endorsements and then think how their life could have been different.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/s/boycott/mainbar.html (1244 words)

	SI.com - Hockey - Simple exhibition series turned into something legendary - Thursday April 24, 2003 01:13 AM
		Hockey already had been changed forever by the previous seven games, but the finish of the decisive eighth game is the stuff of fairy tales.
		But while the Canadians have a weekend full of activities planned to commemorate their triumph in Game 8, the Russians won't be celebrating this weekend.
		The Soviet team members graciously sent a telegram to the members of Team Canada to be presented at their weekend gathering in suburban Toronto.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /hockey/news/2002/09/27/summit_main (1406 words)

	usnews.com - Winter Olympics 2002 - War and Olympics
		From ancient to modern Olympics, a timeline of peace and war throughout the games.
		Attempts to use Olympic bans and boycotts to further peace have had a mixed record.
		In the drive for a global Olympic truce in the summer of 2004, the Athens-based International Olympic Truce Center has persuaded the foreign ministers of longtime rivals Greece and Turkey to sign a truce petition (as individuals, not as government officials, however).
	www.usnews.com /usnews/olympics/winter/war.htm (2040 words)

	Ivy League Sports - Ivies in Athens 2004
		Due to the absence of a bona-fide hockey team, Penn has seen little participation in the winter Olympics in recent years.
		He took up the sport of skeleton in 1997, and made it to the Olympics five years later, all while holding a day job as a computer programmer.
		Official Olympic Posters appear with permission and are the property of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
	www.iviesinathens.com /olympic/school.aspx?ID=6 (420 words)

	Team Canada Hockey.com
		Lemieux and Yzerman were on a list released Thursday by Hockey Canada of 36 NHL players invited to a training and orientation camp in Vancouver and Kelowna, B.C., from Aug. 15-20.
		Gretzky insisted it is not a tryout camp and that decisions on the final 23-man Olympic roster will be based on how players perform in the first three months of the NHL season, assuming the lockout has ended.
		There are 26 players from the team that won the World Cup of Hockey last September, 19 from the team that won silver at the IIHF world championship in May and 14 from Canada's gold-medal team at Salt Lake City.
	www.1972summitseries.com /2006OlympicArchives004.html (1147 words)

	SI.com - Hockey - 'Miracle on Ice' coach Brooks killed in car accident - Monday August 11, 2003 10:57 PM
		Mark Johnson, who played on the 1980 Olympic team and now coaches the University of Wisconsin women's hockey team, said he was stunned by the news.
		At all levels of the game, including college hockey, Olympic hockey and the National Hockey League, Herb Brooks was a consummate teacher, an unparalleled motivator and an unquestioned innovator.
		It is devastating to all of us in the hockey world that his passion for the game, his insight, his foresight, have been taken away.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /hockey/news/2003/08/11/brooks_obit_ap/?cnn=yes (1288 words)

	American Hockey Coaches Association
		Less chronicled, but very much a part of United States Olympic hockey lore, is the gold medal victory of 1960 in Squaw Valley, California.
		Since 1956 the number of men who have won an Olympic medal in hockey while playing with “USA” emblazoned across the chest of their sweaters is small.
		Thirty-four years later the accomplishment of the United States Olympic hockey team during the 1972 Winter Games has seemingly been one of American hockey’s most well-kept secrets.
	www.ahcahockey.com /news/0506/0201sil.html (668 words)

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