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	2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 2004 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, were held in Athens, Greece, over a period of 17 days from August 13 to August 29, 2004.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2004_Summer_Olympics (2233 words)

	Hockey at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hockey at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the Olympic Hockey Centre located within the Helliniko Olympic Complex.
		In February a test competition involving four each men's and women's teams was held at the site with Spain taking the honours for the men and South Africa for the women.
		The competitions for both men and women was split into two groups with the top two teams after the preliminary rounds progressing through to the semi-finals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hockey_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics (398 words)

	World Almanac for Kids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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)

	Athens Olympics 2004. ABC Sport.
		But while every Olympic city has a fabulous stadium, nowhere else in the world could events be held at Ancient Olympia - the home of the ancient Games - and the magnificent Panathinaiko Stadium, home of the first Games of the modern era back in 1896.
		After a behind-closed-doors tongue-lashing by Australian Olympic Committee chief John Coates, the team emerged united, but there were plenty of commentators who saw this as simply papering over some pretty obvious cracks.
		Through the prism of history, the Athens Olympics may come to be seen as the Games at which two major trends emerged - the rise of Asian nations as Olympic powers and the time the war on drugs became serious.
	www.abc.net.au /olympics (2755 words)

	ipedia.com: 2004 Summer Olympics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		By late March of 2004, many Olympics projects were severely behind schedule, and Greek authorities announced that a roof would no longer be constructed over the main swimming venue.
		Olympic Stadium, the designated facility for the opening and closing ceremonies, is still currently under construction, with an estimated completion date of July 20, some three weeks before the games open.
		Since the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France it has been the tradition to have a mascot for the games and this year the official mascots are brother and sister, Phevos and Athena named after the god of light and music and the goddess of wisdom respectively.
	www.ipedia.com /2004_summer_olympics.html (656 words)

	2004 Olympics - Summer Olympics - Athens Olympics
		The Athens 2004 Olympics torch relay will be the first to travel the globe and return to the country that gave us the Olympics Games.
		The torch for the Athens 2004 Olympics has been inspired from an olive leaf and was chosen to enhance the Flame with its upward dynamic shape.
		An Olympic sport is one that should be widely practiced by men in at least 75 countries on 4 continents and by women in at least 40 countries on 3 continents.
	www.clearleadinc.com /site/sports.html (1300 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.
		The first Balbir Singh, who was followed by four more players of the same name who also played for victorious Indian teams, scored five goals in a 6-1 gold-medal victory over the Netherlands in Helsinki in 1952.
	www.olympic.org /uk/sports/programme/index_uk.asp?SportCode=HO (174 words)

	Olympic Cycling Events, Teams, Racers, Pictures, News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Olympic cycling comes in many forms, none of which are even close to the ride in the park cycling that most of us know.
		The 2004 olympics schedule kept visitors up to date on what events are were going on while the news on the main page provided updates on the results.
		Click on the Events tab and look fot Olympics 2004 in the right and menu for access to maps of each race and more.
	www.chiff.com /olympics/olympics-cycling.htm (311 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)

	Athens Olympics 2004
		Fittingly for an Olympic Games that was, more than most, about beginnings and endings, the honour of carrying the Australian flag and leading the team at the closing ceremony was given to veteran swimmer Petria Thomas.
		As is the fate of many Olympic athletes, the members of the men's hockey team who won perhaps the most thrilling of Australia's 17 gold medals will return to relative obscurity once the celebrations have died down.
		Olympic historian Harry Gordon speaks to Roy Masters about his impression of how the Games will be remembered.
	www.smh.com.au /olympics (464 words)

	Olympics News
		Corey Engen, 90, who was captain of the U.S. Nordic ski team at the 1948 Winter Olympics and, with his brothers, helped popularize skiing in Idaho and Utah, died from complications of pneumonia Tuesday at a...
		Former Olympic sprint queen Marion Jones ran the year's second fastest 100 metres on her seasonal debut, clocking 11.06 seconds to defeat ex-world champion Torri Edwards at Veracruz, Mexico on Saturday.
		Mayor Richard Daley wants the Olympics in Chicago in 2016, and members of the U.S. Olympic Committee are in town this week on a scouting exhibition.
	www.topix.net /olympics (946 words)

	Jibber-Jabber: Summer or winter Olympics?
		With the summer Olympics, you have track events, gymnastics, basketball, swimming, diving, tennis, etc. The summer Olympics also have more recognizable names, such as Michael Phelps and Carly Patterson, who were American heroes from the 2004 Athens games.
		The winter Olympics are full of winter sports that a big part of the nation doesn’t participate in at the level that Americans participate in the summer events.
		The winter Olympics are contained to countries where the climate encourages participation at a young age because Olympic athletes begin early in life.
	www.winona.edu /winonan/S2006/2-22-06/Jibber-JabberSummerorwinterOlympics.htm (981 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 (348 words)

	CANOE -- SLAM! 2004 Games
		A vote on the state's commitment to the proposed $2 billion US stadium in Manhattan to be used by the New York Jets and considered crucial for New York's chances of hosting the 2012 Olympics was postponed Monday.
		Olympic silver medallist Adam Nelson wants a sponsor so badly, he put himself up for auction.
		Jailed IOC vice-president Kim Un-yong, formerly one of the most powerful figures in the Olympic movement, resigned from the organization Friday rather than face expulsion for ethical misconduct.
	2004games.canoe.ca (240 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)

	Egypt in the 2004 Summer Olympics
		The original Olympics were held every four years for a span that lasted for almost eight centuries.
		In 2004, Egypt has high hopes for three medals, and in what seems like the spirit of this year's event, their best chance for a gold comes from the females, specifically Nahla Ramadan.
		At Minsk in May of 2004, Nahla was the biggest star in the field of 262 competitors in both men's and women's weightlifting, and so not surprisingly, even Sport's Illustrated has picked her for Gold in the Women's 75 kg (165 lbs) event at Athens.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/egypt2004olympics.htm (1359 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 (779 words)

	Hockey at the 2004 Summer Olympics: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hockey (Hockey: A game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of 6 skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with hockey sticks) at the 2004 Summer Olympics (2004 Summer Olympics: the games of the xxviii olympiad, commonly known as the 2004 summer olympics were the...
		[follow hyperlink for more...]) was held at the Olympic Hockey Centre (Olympic Hockey Centre: the olympic hockey centre was the site of the field hockey events at the 2004 summer olympics...
		Ten teams competed in the women's event with Australia, winners of three of the last four Olympic Games (Olympic Games: The modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country) gold medals, looking to keep their remarkable run going.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/hockey_at_the_2004_summer_olympics (863 words)

	Olympics
		Olympic ring border, list of words related to bobsledding and luge to use in poem.
		This reading comprehension is a biography of Olympic champion Kerri Strug and the story of her famous gold-medal win in gymnastics at the 1996 Olympics.
		When the Olympics are over, use the results from your chart to answer the questions.
	www.abcteach.com /directory/theme_units/funkids/olympics (898 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)

	USA Hockey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		USA Hockey, Inc. is the national governing body for the sport of hockey in the United States.
		The USA Hockey Cross-Ice program is based on a model of practicing and playing hockey across the ice surface as compared to practicing and playing lengthwise along the full length of the ice surface.
		Recognizing that aggressive adult behavior is on the rise at young sporting events, USA Hockey and Hockey Canada have partnered to launch a series of public service announcements targeting parental behavior.
	www.usahockey.com /usa_hockey/youth/home_youth (497 words)

	Destination: Athens :: UVA swimmer Michael Raab sets his sights on the 2004 Summer Olympics
		Across the country and around the world, this summer will be very different for a select group of college students.
		They are student-athletes with their sights set on the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
		However, if Raab makes it to the Olympics this summer, it is likely to be on the top of his mind.
	virginiasports.cstv.com /sports/c-swim/spec-rel/020904aaa.html (959 words)

	MySA.com: Olympics 2004
		For the last 16 days, the Olympics have been the biggest sporting event on the planet.
		After 16 days, one very scary cab ride (all four wheels off the ground at one point) and at least 30 trips on what one rider called the "spine-crusher special" city bus, we are about ready to end our little vacation in the Italian Alps.
		Relive the 2004 Summer Olympics through the photos shot by Express-News staff photographer William Luther.
	www.mysanantonio.com /specials/olympics (279 words)

	Badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Badminton (Badminton: A game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net) at the 2004 Summer Olympics (2004 Summer Olympics: the games of the xxviii olympiad, commonly known as the 2004 summer olympics were the...
		[follow hyperlink for more...]) was held at the Goudi Olympic Hall (Goudi Olympic Hall: the goudi olympic hall hosted the badminton events at the 2004 summer olympics in athens,...
		This was the first time since the event's debut at the 1996 Summer Olympics (1996 Summer Olympics: the 1996 summer olympics, formally known as the games of the xxvi olympiad and informally...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/badminton_at_the_2004_summer_olympics (5196 words)

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