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  2004 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Athens was chosen as the host city in 1997, after surprisingly losing the bid to organize the 1996 Summer Olympics, the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the modern Olympic Games.
EMI released Unity, the official pop album of the Athens Olympics, in the leadup to the Olympics.
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 sister and brother, Athena and Phevos, named after the goddess of wisdom, strategy and war and the god of light and music, respectively.
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 2000 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Olympic flag was flown at half-staff during the period as a sign of respect to Samaranch's wife.
People in Canada that wanted to see the Olympics between then and the closing ceremonies had to turn to TSN because the CBC was broadcasing news coverage related to the passing and state funeral of the former prime minister.
Organisation of the 2000 Summer Paralympics was the responsibility of the Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee.
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 Olympics [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Olympics were of fundamental religiousReligion, sometimes used interchangeably with faith, is commonly defined as belief concerning the supernatural, sacred, or divine, and the practices and institutions associated with such belief.
The Olympic Flame is lit in Olympia and brought to the host city by runners carrying the torch in relay.
The first Olympic athlete to test positive for doping use was Hans-Gunnar LiljenwallHans-Gunnar Liljenwall is a Swedish modern pentathlete who caused the disqualification of the Swedish men's team at the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City for his alcohol use.
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 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.
The 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, reflected a changed political landscape: the 172 participating nations and territories included the Unified Team (with athletes from 12 former Soviet republics), a reunited Germany, and South Africa, which was allowed to compete for the first time since 1960.
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.
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 Summer Olympic Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In evidence there was increased professionalism amongst Olympic athletes, exemplified by U.S. basketball's "Dream Team." 1992 also saw the reintroduction to the Games of several smaller European states which had been incorporated into the USSR since World War II.
The 2008 Summer Olympics are to be held in Beijing, China.
The 2012 Summer Olympics are to be held in London, United Kingdom.
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 Encyclopedia: Archery at the Summer Olympics
The archery competition that was featured at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich consisted of a FITA Round competition with two events - men's individual and women's individual.
This form of the archery competition was held until the 1988 Summer Olympics, when team competition was added and the Grand FITA Round format was used.
Starting at the 1992 Summer Olympics, the Olympic Round with head-to-head matches was adopted, and has been used ever since.
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 1984 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Los Angeles was selected on May 18 1978 on the 80th IOC session without voting, because it was the only city to bid to host the 1984 Summer Olympics.
In the wake of the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, most of the Eastern Bloc, including the Soviet Union, East Germany and Cuba, boycotted these Olympics (the USSR announced its 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.
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 1992 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Games of the XXV Olympiad were held in 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Five of the six golds were in individual events, tying Eric Heiden's record for individual gold medals at a single Olympics.
Badminton and women's judo become part of the Olympic programme, while slalom canoeing returns to the Games after a 20-year absence.
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 Archery at the 1992 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There were 4 different Archery competitions at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
The format of the previous Olympics was dropped for this Olympiad, with an entirely new system being put in place.
Nations that sent the maximum number of three archers in either or both division also had the chance for those three archers to compete as a team; the top 16 teams in each division were also seeded into single-elimination tournaments.
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 2000 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch, at his last Olympics, had to leave for home, as his wife was severely ill. Upon arrival, his wife had already died.
Organisation of the 2000 Summer Paralympics was the responsibility of SPOC the Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee.
Organisation of the Olympic Games included not only the actual sporting events but also the management (and sometimes construction) of the sporting venues and surrounding precincts, the organisation of the Sydney Olympic Arts Festival and Olympic torch relay.
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 Articles - Indonesia at the 1992 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Indonesia competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
It was the nation's ninth appearance in the Olympics.
Two of the three Olympic rookie women did not advance into the elimination round, while the one that did was defeated in her first match.
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 1976 Summer Olympics - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, were held in 1976 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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.
This was seen as a major threat to the future of the Olympic Games, and was not until the financially successful 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles that cities began to line up to be hosts again.
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 Summer Olympics 2000 Hidayat, 19, has become a teen idol
If Hidayat wins in the Sydney Olympic finals on September 23, he will be the youngest shuttler ever to stand on the top dais.
All three of Indonesia's Olympic golds have come from badminton, which was introduced to the Games in Barcelona in 1992.
Indonesia have set two golds as their target in Sydney, with one hopefully coming from Hidayat.
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 kiat.net: Olympic Games Barcelona 1992
The 1992 Olympic Games are probably best remembered for one of the most spectacular and stylish opening ceremonies of all time.
The year IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch brought the Olympics to his native region of Catalonia in Spain marked the first renewal of the Summer Games since the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and the reunification of Germany in 1990.
On 25 July 1992 in Barcelona, Nelson Mandela, the President of the Republic of South Africa, thus witnessed the parade of the first South African multiracial team at the Opening Ceremony of the Games of the XXV Olympiad.
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 Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is situated in the city of Markópoulo, in the east of the Attica region in Greece.
In the last Olympic competition in running target before it was taken off the program, Manfred Kurzer set a new World record with 590 in the qualification round and though he did not perform a perfect final, he was never threatened.
Ralf Schumann has dominated this event since the late 1980s, and won the Olympic gold medals in 1992 and 1996, but failed to achieve his historic third gold in Sydney.
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 Olympic Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Olympic gold was the latest in a string of successes for the Chinese star, bound to become an even bigger hero in China, as the gold is China's first ever in Olympic athletics competition.
Barton also stated, "Indonesia will be the only country out of 220 which will be represented in Athens not to have a telecast," a report that contradicts information that came out of the Philippines last week.
The NOC of Rhodesia is suspended for non-compliance with the Olympic Charter.
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 azcentral.com sports | Summer Olympics: Victory guarantees Iraq will play for soccer medal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Defending Olympic champion Laura Wilkinson of the United States was fourth after the platform diving semifinals, needing a comeback and some mistakes by competitors for a chance at another medal.
France was awarded the gold medal in the three-day equestrian team event and Britain's Leslie Law got the individual gold after three countries won a joint appeal against an earlier decision that gave both victories to Germany.
Paola Suarez and Patricia Tarabini gave Argentina its first Olympic tennis medal since 1992 by beating Shinobu Asagoe and Ai Sugiyama of Japan 6-3, 6-3 for the doubles bronze.
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 Summer Olympics 2000 Badminton Fan Guide
Badminton became a full competition sport at Barcelona in 1992.
China and Indonesia have captured 70 percent of all championship events since 1934.
Hidden inside is a small metal screw that may be adjusted for weight and altitude considerations.
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Such was China's might that at one time it would throw an occasional match to a foreigner early in a tournament, a policy known as "friendship first." Or if two Chinese players were in the finals, as was often the case, the coaches would decide who would win.
Although Wu is the first drug casualty of the Barcelona Olympics, three British athletes -- a sprinter and two weightlifters -- were sent home by their delegation before their competitions for failing drug tests that were done prior to the Olympics.
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 1992 Summer Olympics medal count - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is the full table of the medal count of the 1992 Summer Olympics.
These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country.
This page was last modified 11:53, 25 June 2005.
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 LOGOs & MASCOTs
Executives of the Japanese Olympic committee and national sports federations on 13th August 1997 by 29-17 in a secret ballot chose Osaka to become the country's candidate to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
The U.S. Olympic Committee on 27th August 2002 selected New York and San Francisco as the U.S. finalists to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, while Houston and Washington, D.C., were eliminated as contenders.
The Austrian Olympic committee on 2nd December 1997 chose Klagenfurt, capital of the Carinthia region (joint bid with Italy and Slovenia), to become the country's candidate to host the 2006 Olympic Winter Games.
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 Television Details, Meaning Television Article and Explanation Guide
The first color broadcast in Europe was by BBC2 in the UK in the summer of 1967, using PAL.
Japan's NHK is a non-commercial network similar to the BBC, funded by a television licence fee, and has more editorial independence over news and current affairs than broadcasters like India's state-run Doordarshan or China's China Central Television.
Number of private broadcasters are indeed increasing in some countries (2004) for example: Indonesia's 10 private national stations compare to only 1 in 1989.
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 South Africa at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
South Africa at the 2004 Summer Olympics is represented by the National Olympic Committee of South Africa (NOCSA), and is abbreviated as RSA.
National Olympic Committees at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece
Categories: Nations at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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Logan's fourth-place finish in the hammer throw was the best by an American since Harold Connolly won the gold medal in the 1956 Olympics.
Logan is the first American since swimmer Rick DeMont in 1972 to fail a drug test at the Olympics.
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 Vietnam Olympics News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Beijing, which will host the Olympic Games in 2008, is investing $16bn in...
Badminton is one of the Olympic sports, like Ping-Pong, that millions of people...
The Naperville native had renovated houses for the poor, volunteered for the Special Olympics and donated money to people in a Vietnamese village when he saw they couldn't afford to eat.
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 MSN Encarta - Related Items - Indonesia, Republic of
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International reaction to the Army's attack in November 1991 on demonstrators in East Timor dominated world media coverage of Indonesia in early 1992 but showed signs of subsiding as the year wore on.
National elections saw the government retain a majority of the 400 elected seats in the 500-member...
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 China Tourism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Potala Palace and the Norpu Lingka Palace are the traditional winter and the summer residences of the Dalai Lama, the Buddha incarnate in Tibet.
The 2008 Olympics may still be five years away, but China's capital city has already got the highly£­anticipated sports meeting off to a rolling start.
The first seven Olympic songs are the best from hundreds of tunes received by the Organizing Committee from April to late October.
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 Price List for Olympics - Winter or Summer - Olympic Related   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
There are additional S/S in both the Olympics and Soccer sets.
Olympic Overprint in English and Russian on "18A" (the Imperf Sheet).
Although Scott has listed 3 stamps in the Olympic Issue above, there are actually 4 stamps in the set.
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 All-Time Medal Standings, 1896-2000
Athletes from the USSR participated in the Summer Games from 1952-88, returned as the Unified Team in 1992 after the breakup of the Soviet Union (in 1991) and have competed as independent republics since the 1994 Winter Games.
Yugoslavia was not invited to the 1992 games (though Serbian and Montenegrin athletes were allowed to compete as independent athletes) but returned in 1996 and competed under the name Serbia and Montenegro starting in 2004.
South Africa was banned from 1964-88 for using the apartheid policy in the selection of its teams.
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