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	Olympic Games - WSUWiki
		The Olympics were of fundamental religious importance, contests alternating with sacrifices and ceremonies honouring both Zeus (whose colossal statue stood at Olympia), and Pelops, divine hero and mythical king of Olympia famous for his legendary chariot race, in whose honour the games were held.
		The organizers had planned the first modern Olympics for 1900 in Paris, but later decided to move the date forward to 1896 and to change the venue to Athens, though the local government of the Greek capital was initially hostile to the idea.
		The Olympic Flame is lit in Olympia and brought to the host city by runners carrying the torch in relay.
	wiki.wsu.edu /wsuwiki/Olympic_Games (4873 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ORGANISATION - STRUCTURES
		The CAS is recognised by the "Paris Convention" signed by the presidents of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF), the Association of the International Olympic Winter Sports Federations (AIWF) and the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC), in the presence of the French Minister of Justice.
		The goal of the Olympic Movement, as stated in the Olympic Charter, is to promote and contribute to the practice of sport in a "spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play".
		The WADA Foundation Board is jointly composed of representatives of the Olympic Movement (the IOC, National Olympic Committees, International Sports Federations and athletes) and representatives of governments from all five continents.
	www.olympic.org /uk/organisation/actions/index_uk.asp (733 words)

	Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Olympics were of fundamental religious importance contests alternating with sacrifices and honouring both Zeus (whose colossal statue stood at Olympia) and Pelops hero and mythical king of Olympia for his legendary chariot race in whose the games were held.
		Although the total of participants did not exceed 250 they been the largest international sports event ever The Greek officials and public were also enthusiastic and they even proposed to be to have the monopoly on organising the The IOC decided differently however and the second Olympic Games took place in Paris France.
		The Olympic Flame is lighted in Olympia and brought the host city by runners carrying the in relay.
	www.freeglossary.com /Olympic_Games (3365 words)

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		It was he and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) who were responsible for the establishment of competitions, to be held in conjunction with the athletic contests, and called ‘Pentathelons of the Muses’ in which artists would be awarded medals.
		As familiar we may be with the Olympic Games, few are aware that competitions in the fine arts have also been part of the Olympics since their origin over two thousand years ago.
		One of the principles of the Olympic Charter requires each national organizing committee to hold “a program of cultural events...symbolizing the universality and the diversity of human culture." In keeping with this, and de Coubertin's Olympic philosophy, the artistic competitions were replaced by exhibitions, festivals and performances at the 1952 Helsinki Games.
	www.askart.com /askart/interest/Olympic_Artists_1.aspx?id=38 (2742 words)

	Olympic
		This page is maintained by a member of the International Society of Olympic Historians.
		Olympic hopeful Mary Saxer of Lancaster set an American junior pole vault record at the Nike Indoor National Championships in Landover, Md. Sunday 3-13-5.
		Olympic silver medalist Travis Mayer no longer has the yellow bib worn by the points leader in Moguls skiing.
	members.tripod.com /~laxman36/olympics.html (2417 words)

	Online NewsHour: Historians look back on the Olympics -- July 22, 1996
		Olympic historian Mark MacDonald discusses how the games have evolved over the past 100 years.
		HAYNES JOHNSON, Author/Journalist: They were supposed to be this Olympic ideal of peace and brotherhood and international goodwill going back to the Greeks 2,000 years ago, and even in our time, Jim, you go back and look at what the rules were, it was for amateurs only, and it was not to make money.
		You know, Jim, 1896 when the modern Olympic games revived, that was a time when we had very few international organizations, no League of Nations, no United Nations, and the idea was that you would have these games that would override national rivalries, and to an extent they have.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/sports/july96/olympics_7-22.html (2083 words)

	International Society of Olympic Historians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The International Society of Olympic Historians is a non-profit organisation with the purpose of promoting and studying the Olympic Movement and the Olympic Games.
		This purpose is achieved primarily through research into their history, through the gathering of historical and statistical data concerning the Olympic Movement and Olympic Games, through the publication of the research via journals and other publications, and through the cooperation of the membership.
		The International Society of Olympic Historians (ISOH) was formed as the result of a meeting in London, England in December 1991.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/International_Society_of_Olympic_Historians (295 words)

	Newhouse A1
		"The U.S. Olympic Committee is recognized by the IOC as the steward for the Olympic movement in the United States," said Jeff Howard, director of corporate communications for the USOC.
		The International Olympic Committee doesn't recognize ethnic groups, said David Wallechinsky, vice president of the International Society of Olympic Historians.
		Erasmus is working to get his team admitted into national and international federations that govern amateur hockey because, as Wallechinsky said, a nation that has been recognized by several international sports federations has better a chance with the International Olympic Committee.
	www.newhousenews.com /archive/briggs030306.html (1242 words)

	ISOH - International Society of Olympic Historians
		A special issue of the Journal of Olympic History gives an overview of the history of the art competitions held at the Olympics from 1912 to 1948.
		The Featured Olympian of the month May is an Olympic silver medallist, but is probably better known as a politician and worker for peace and disarmament, for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959.
		However, she is better known as a five time Wimbledon winner, and also was a field hockey international and a golf champion.
	www.isoh.org (240 words)

	Sports Events Olympics
		International Centre for Olympic Studies - Established at The University of Western Ontario in 1989.
		International Society of Olympic Historians - The purpose of the ISOH is to promote and study the Olympic Movement and the Olympic Games.
		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.
	www.pacosdrivers.com /odp/scat.asp?ID=Sports/Events/Olympics (816 words)

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		But the International Olympic Committee refuses to give full recognition to the so-called "intermediate" games, claiming they were outside the four-year cycle and don't deserve the honor.
		Historians describe the 10-day competition as well-organized, dignified, and full of pageantry that included 6,000 schoolchildren at the closing ceremony.
		A proposal to restore 1906 to the Olympic constellation - as the IIIB Olympiad - was rejected in 1949 by a three-member commission led by American Avery Brundage, who would serve as IOC president from 1952-72.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/080804/oly_1677079.shtml (525 words)

	McFarland - Publisher of Reference and Scholarly Books
		Reports of the 1908 Olympics have been rare and do not for instance contain full results for archery, track and field athletics, football (soccer), gymnastics, motorboating and shooting.
		Bill Mallon is a co-founder and vice-president of the International Society of Olympic Historians (ISOH) and the original editor of the Journal of Olympic History.
		Ian Buchanan is president of the International Society of Olympic Historians and lives in Norwich, England.
	www.mcfarlandpub.com /book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-0598-8 (305 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Returning home: Gigantic modern Olympics head to humble roots in Athens
		At an international sports meeting in France in 1894, he managed to push through a proposal to resurrect the Olympics.
		Connolly became the first Olympic champion in more than 1,500 years with a leap of 44 feet, 11 3/4 inches in the triple jump — which was then a hop-hop-jump combination.
		The race is inspired by the legend of messenger Pheidippides running to Athens in 490 B.C. to announce — with his dying breath — Greek victory over Persians in the Battle of Marathon.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595082596,00.html (1110 words)

	The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: Turin 2006 Edition By David Wallechinsky and Jaime Loucky - SPORTClassic Books
		In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: Turin 2006 Edition, Wallechinsky continues that tradition with a gold-medal performance that once again combines comprehensive results, statistics and records with photographs and the stories behind the events.
		David Wallechinsky is a noted Olympic historian, NBC radio commentator and author of several reference books, including The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics, and The Book of Lists.
		He is also the vice-president of the International Society of Olympic Historians and recipient of the Olympic Order of the International Olympic Committee.
	www.sportclassicbooks.com /winterolympics.html (325 words)

	Olympic Art Competitions
		This is the history of one of the most important cultural collaborations of the 20th Century, the joining of art and sport.
		The author, is a freelance researcher / writer and a member of the International Society of Olympic Historians.
		The Forgotten Olympic Art Competitions chronicles the correspondence, negotiations, confrontations, and, ultimately, the results of the art competitions between 1912 and 1948.
	www.garret.net /olympic-art.htm (848 words)

	Author Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Cava is a life member of the International Society of Olympic Historians and belongs to the Association of Track and Field Statisticians and the Federation of American Statisticians of Track.
		A member of the Society for American Baseball Research, he was a part-time member of The Indianapolis Star's sports department from 1999-2001 and serves as an official scorer for the Indianapolis Indians.
		Tug-of-War was a major event in the Olympics at the beginning of the 20th Century.
	www.wishpublishing.com /pete_cava_5.htm (952 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in the fourth century AD.
		But the Olympic ideal did not die and this book is a succinct history of the ancient Olympics and their modern resurgence.
		Classics professor David Young, who has researched the subject for over 25 years, reveals how the ancient Olympics evolved from modest beginnings into a grand festival, attracting hundreds of highly trained athletes, tens of thousands of spectators, and the finest artists and poets.
	www.blackwellpublishing.com /bookxml.asp?isbn=1405111305 (280 words)

	Coubertin.com Update No.24 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The International Society of Olympic Historians has announced that their Quadrennial Meeting will take place at Omilos Ereton in Piraeus, Greece on Sunday, August 15, 2004.
		The Zappeion was the first indoor Olympic arena and it was built with the legacy of Evangelis Zappas who sponsored Olympic Games that took place in Athens in 1859, 1870 and 1875.
		The first Olympic Games to take place in a stadium in modern times was that held in Athens in 1870 at the Panathenian stadium (26 years before the first IOC Olympic Games which was also held at the same stadium).
	www.coubertin.com /press_office/update24.shtml (698 words)

	Norman Pritchard — The mystery man - Sify.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The lack of company records proved to be setback and there was no trace of his marriage and children if any, or of his death.
		Sports historians have traced Pritchard to the United States, where he was thought to have settled down (and probably died).
		Both Saradindu Sanyal in his book Olympic Games and India (1970), and track and field historian Jal Pardivala have gone on record claiming that he acted in silent films in Hollywood, even co-starring with the leading actor of the silent screen, Ronald Colman.
	sify.com /sports/olympics/fullstory.php?id=13527786 (530 words)

	The Olympic Marathon
		The Olympic Marathon brings the high drama and rich details of the past 24 Olympic marathon races to life in a way no other book ever has.
		The Olympic Marathon is the authoritative book on the race that has captured the imagination of the world.
		In 1978, Martin was selected by the U.S. Olympic Academy to be one of three representatives to the International Olympic Academy.
	www.exrx.net /Store/HK/OlympicMarathon.html (1055 words)

	Australian Olympic Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		AOC historian Harry Gordon has been presented with the International Society of Olympic Historians Lifetime Award 2006.
		Gordon described Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympics, as one of his heroes.
		He told those assembled “de Coubertin single handedly revived the modern Olympic Games, he did it against all odds, and made it prosper”.
	www.olympic.org.au /news.cfm?ArticleID=8695 (225 words)

	Olympic Golden Data Retrieval System: software database for summer & winter olympics
		Olympic Golden Data Retrieval System: software database for summer & winter olympics
		The most astounding collection of historical Olympic information ever.
		Not only do you get stories about events, countries and athletes, but the results from every Olympic Games through 2002 is stored in an easy-to-search database.
	www.datatrace.com /olympics (141 words)

	International Olympic scholars meet at UTS
		Welcoming international Olympic scholars to The Finishing Line lounge at UTS are: (left to right) Wiebke Benze, Development Officer; Janet Cahill, Olympic Project Manager; Professor Rob Lynch, Chair of the UTS Olympic Committee; and Caitlyn Brewer, a third-year student from the School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism.
		While Sydney hosts the elite international athletes and officials of the Olympics, UTS is hosting the elite international academics who study and write about the Games.
		Professor Robert Barney, founding Director of the International Centrefor Olympic Studies from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and Visiting Fellow at UTS, spoke at the opening of The Finishing Line.
	www.uts.edu.au /new/archives/2000/September/19.html (325 words)

	Coubertin.com Update No.21 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A big welcome to all new members of the Coubertin.com Olympic Collectors' Auction service and a special thank you to all members who have participated in the auction.
		A full-page color advertisement for Coubertin.com has appeared on the back-cover of the International Society of Olympic Historians (ISOH) 'Journal of Olympic History'.
		Those of you who collect Olympic stamps, postal history or postcards who have not yet joined the Society of Olympic Collectors are definitely missing out.
	www.coubertin.com /press_office/update21.shtml (502 words)

	Amazon.com: The Forgotten Olympic Art Competitions: Books: Richard Stanton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		When the author could not find a book about the Olympic art competitions he began a quest to learn as much as possible about these events.
		He spent over seven years researching primary source documents from around the world dealing with these competetions and has woven the story they tell into "The Forgotten Olympic Art Competitions," the first book to be published on the subject.
		The author is a freelance researcher/writer and a member of the International Society of Olympic Historians.
	www.amazon.com /Forgotten-Olympic-Art-Competitions/dp/1552126064 (837 words)

	2010 Vancouver Olympic Collectables - Links
		Lifetime Member of the International Society of Olympic Historians.
		This is the most accurate, detailed, and complete reference guide ever published on the subject.
		For more information about Olympic Memorabilia in general and Olympic Bid Pins in particular, feel free to visit Perlow's website.
	www.radarthepinguy.com /2010links.htm (316 words)

	Athens’ forgotten games seen as Olympic savior - Olympics - MSNBC.com
		The Olympic fencing events were held in the fair’s cutlery area.
		The venue for the games — the St. Louis World Exposition — is now better known as a trivia question about the birthplace of the ice cream cone.
		A proposal to restore 1906 to the Olympic constellation — as the IIIB Olympiad — was rejected in 1949 by a three-member commission led by American Avery Brundage, who would serve as IOC president from 1952-72.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5621710 (536 words)

	KnowUK: Publication Information
		WHITAKER'S OLYMPIC ALMANACK is the most authoritative and entertaining collection of Olympic facts, records, statistics and anecdotes from the ancient games right up to the present - essential reading for sports enthusiasts everywhere.
		This comprehensive work of reference is guaranteed to provide hours of informative and fun reading for anyone interested in sport and the Olympic Games.
		He is a founder member of the International Society of Olympic Historians and honorary statistician to the Amateur Athletics Association.
	www.knowuk.co.uk /pubInfo.public.do?PubId=whit_olympic_blurb (165 words)

	USATODAY.com - Multitasker Konrad hopes to pull off feat in Torino (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Now, at 38, she's going to the Olympics for the first time and in two events, cross-country skiing and biathlon, which she started three years ago.
		Bill Mallon, past president and co-founder of the International Society of Olympic Historians, wrote in an e-mail Tuesday that 237 athletes have done double duty in the Olympics.
		Konrad was one of 17 people, including eight 2002 Olympians, named to the U.S. Olympic team Tuesday.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/torino/2006-01-18-konrad_x.htm (599 words)

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