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	1984 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1984_Summer_Olympics (1351 words)

	Hockey Victoria :: ::
		Hockey is believed to date from the earliest civilisations, and is possibly one of the oldest sports in the world.
		Hockey was not included in the 1912 Olympic Games due to insufficient support, but it was included on the roster in 1920 where England was awarded the gold medal.
		Hockey is played by all ages, starting with Minkey for primary school children, progressing to half-field hockey, junior hockey, and the full game, which can be played through to veterans years.
	www.hockeyvictoria.org.au /siteContent/detailPage.asp?MainMenuID=8&SubMenuID=52 (3225 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Athens 2004 marked the first time since the 1996 Summer Olympics that all countries with a National Olympic Committee were in attendance.
		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.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/2/0/0/2004_Summer_Olympics_330c.html (2001 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)

	1984 Summer Olympics
		The Games of the XXIII Olympiad were held in 1984 in Los Angeles, United States.
		Los Angeles was the only city to bid to host the 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).
	www.y2z.org /19/1984_Summer_Olympics.html (411 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)

	Hockey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hockey sticks are a maximum of 5.10cm in diameter with a curved head of wood and a flat side and a rounded side.
		Hockey pitches at the Games have a synthetic surface and are 91.4m long and 55m wide.
		The earliest versions of hockey appear in drawings in the ancient tombs of the Nile Valley, depicting men playing with curved sticks and a round object.
	www.olympics.org.uk /sports/summer/hockey.asp?offset=40 (493 words)

	1984 NHL Entry Draft -- Mario Lemieux
		Lemieux said he would not play for Canada in 1984 because he was unhappy with how former coach Dave King had treated him during the 1983 tournament.
		Caused a stir at the 1984 NHL Entry Draft when he refused to put on the Pittsburgh sweater after the Penguins drafted him first overall.
		Lemieux said he was coming back because he missed hockey, and because he wanted his son, Austin, to see him in action, but it was clear that he knew the best way to help his team was to play.
	www.hockeydraftcentral.com /1984/84001.html (8166 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS
		Since then, the sport's evolution has been a steady climb as athletes and engineers experiment with anything that might shave a few seconds off their times.
		That inaugural Olympic road race was held on the marathon course, with riders completing two laps covering a total of 87 kilometres.
		Almost a century passed before women got their chance to race in 1984, and, 12 years later, at the 1996 Atlanta Games, time trials were introduced.
	www.olympic.org /uk/sports/programme/disciplines_uk.asp?DiscCode=CR (251 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The 1976 Winter Olympics were awarded to the U.S. city of Denver, but the people of the state of Colorado voted to prohibit public funds from being used to support the Games.
		Lighting the Olympic Flame by: Two cauldrons were lit as a symbol of Winter Games being held twice in Innsbruck.
		The cauldron of 1964 was lit by Christl Haas (Alpine skiing) and the 1976 flame was ignited by Josef Feistmantl (luge).
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1976 (321 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1976 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the bid to organise the Olympics, Montreal defeated Moscow and Los Angeles, which would organise the 1980 and 1984 Olympics.
		In a protest to a tour of South Africa by the New Zealand rugby team, Tanzania led a boycott of 22 African nations as the IOC refused to not admit the New Zealand team.
		The Olympic Stadium, a daring design of French architect Roger Taillibert, remains a lasting monument to the huge deficit, as it never had an effective retractable roof, and the tower was only completed after the Olympics.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1976_Summer_Olympics (407 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Everything You Need to Know About Ice Hockey
		The United States won back-to-back silver medals at the 1952 and 1956 Winter Olympics, and at the 1960 Games in Squaw Valley, Calif., the Americans beat Canada and the Soviet Union on their way to the gold medal.
		The Americans won a silver medal at the 1972 Olympics, and eight years later the United States battled its way to a gold medal at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid.
		Women's hockey, which has been played as far back as 1916, joined its male counterpart on the international scene in 1990 with the advent of the first IIHF Women's World Championship.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/sport/hockey/articles/hockey.htm (1571 words)

	Hockey East Online - Hockey East Tournament
		Hockey East quarterfinal action in 2007 will again be a best-ofthree format with the four highest seeds hosting series at their respective campus sites.
		The FleetCenter was re-christened as the TD Banknorth Garden in the summer of 2005.
		The building has become a recognized leader in hosting college hockey events, having set attendance records for the NCAA Frozen Four in 1998, and boasting progressively larger crowds for the Beanpot and the Hockey East Championships, culminating with sellouts for both events last season.
	www.hockeyeastonline.com /men/tourney/index.php (858 words)

	Summer Olympics: Shooting
		Shooting was part of the first Olympic games in 1896 but shooting goes back to the invention of gun powder.
		Women's shooting was not part of the Olympic games until 1984.
		In the Olympics there are seventeen shooting events, ten for men and seven for women.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/shooting.htm (97 words)

	Varsity Blues -- A Tradition of Excellence
		This competition continued until the withdrawals of McGill in 1924-25 and Queen's in 1935-36, and except for three years of league operation from 1948-49 through 1950-51, only occasional games were scheduled until competition was disbanded in the spring of 1951 for the remainder of the decade.
		Regarded as one of the most skilful hockey teams that ever represented the University of Toronto, this team is commemorated with a banner hanging in Varsity Arena.
		The fall of 1960 marked the dawn of a new era in women's university hockey, and Varsity was one of the schools participating in the revival of the former Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Union (WIAU).
	www.whockey.com /team/blues/excel_99.html (1062 words)

	Crease Monkey Hockey - How Have The Hobey's Done?
		Several initial candidates are picked early in the college hockey season, with the selection process narrowing the field to ten finalists later in the spring.
		Watson became head hockey and golf coach at the College of St. Scholastica after his playing career, and is currently an assistant hockey coach at Western Michigan University.
		He became an unrestricted free agent in the summer of 1996, and was picked up by the Washington Capitals.
	mysite.verizon.net /creasemonkeyhockey/features/wheres.hobey.html (2419 words)

	USA Hockey
		Vairo was instrumental in shaping USA Hockey's Coaching Education Program and has coached every age group of youth hockey, including teams in the Met League, sponsored by the New York Rangers.
		Vairo was honored twice in 1994 for his lifetime commitment to hockey, receiving both the John "Snooks" Kelley Founders Award from the American Hockey Coaches Association, and the Walter Yaciuk Award from USA Hockey's Coaching Education Program.
		He was the assistant coach and assistant general manager of the 1980 U.S. Olympic team that won the historic "Miracle On Ice" gold medal in Lake Placid, N.Y. Patrick joined the New York Rangers organization in 1980 and became the youngest general manager in club history in 1981, at age 34.
	www.usahockey.com /servlets/PrintableWebPage?menu_id=8D5421113035386AE034080020D8D313&page_id=8F84E294E7620504E034080020D8D313 (921 words)

	1988 Summer Olympics
		South Korea's government became a democracy under the pressure of organising the Olympics.
		After boycotts of the Olympics in 1976, 1980 and 1984, the Games were again boycotted, but only by four nations: North Korea, Cuba, Ethiopia and Nicaragua.
		Table tennis is introduced at the Olympics, with China and the host nation both winning two titles.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1988_summer_olympics.shtml (329 words)

	NBCOlympics.com - Countries - Italy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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)

	Professional Hockey Development Inc.
		From July of 2000 to August 2002 he was the Coordinator of Male Athlete Development for Hockey Alberta where he was in charge of the Alberta Cup Program, Under 16, Under 17 Programs of Excellence.
		Jay was the Manager of Hockey Development with the EDGE School for Athletes where he had the opportunity to coach some of Calgary’s top young hockey players.
		Olympic, National and provincial Championships in Hockey as well as National and Provincial Championships in other sports.
	www.phdhockey.ca /staff.html (1199 words)

	Field hockey at the 1984 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		(Redirected from Hockey at the 1984 Summer Olympics)
		Final results for the Hockey competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics:
		Events at the 1984 Summer Olympics (Los Angeles)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hockey_at_the_1984_Summer_Olympics (271 words)

	Summer Olympics: Tennis
		There was tennis in the Olympics from 1896 until 1924.
		It returned in 1984 as a demonstration sport and became an official Olympic sport in 1988.
		At the Olympics there will be men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, and women's doubles.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/tennis.htm (433 words)

	OLYMPIC STATISTICS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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 Sydney 2000 (when sport is completed), and Chamonix 1924 to Salt Lake City 2002..
	www.darmoni.net (129 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)

	Emrick, Davidson, Clement, Ferraro Join NHL on NBC for Inaugural Broadcast Season - hockeyfights.com News
		Emrick called water polo in Athens for his first Summer Games assignment and his first Olympics with NBC and handled Olympic hockey play-by-play duties for CBS at Albertville in 1992, on CBS and TNT at Lillehammer in 1994 and Nagano in 1998.
		In a 1996 reader survey conducted by The Hockey News, Clement was voted "Favorite National TV Personality." In 2004, Clement, a two-time Quebec high school badminton champion, served as the badminton and table tennis analyst and play-by-play commentator on modern pentathlon during NBC's coverage of the Athens Olympic Games.
		In September 2004, Ferraro married Olympic gold medalist and women's hockey pioneer Cammi Granato, who is also the women's Olympic hockey studio analyst in Torino and an NHL on NBC reporter.
	www.hockeyfights.com /news/43958 (1213 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.
		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.
		Sweden won the ice hockey gold by defeating Canada in a shootout; future Colorado Avalanche forward Peter Forsberg's game-winning effort against Canadian goalie Sean Burke was immortalized on a Swedish postage stamp.
	www.naqt.com /YouGottaKnow/olympics.html (1032 words)

	USATODAY.com - For field hockey team, meshing is key (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Women's field hockey national team coach Beth Anders is mulling over final roster decisions, but it appears certain the squad she takes in March to Auckland, New Zealand, for an Olympic qualifying tournament will be dotted with new faces.
		The best showing was a bronze medal in 1984, but the USA has finished no better than fifth since and failed to qualify for the 1992 and 2000 Games.
		Five of the teams going to Auckland competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics and are ahead of the 10th-ranked USA in the world rankings: Great Britain (fifth), Korea (sixth), Spain (seventh), Germany (eighth) and New Zealand (ninth).
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/2004-01-21-field-hockey_x.htm (617 words)

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