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	1896 Summer Olympics
		The 1896 Summer Olympics, formally called the Games of the I Olympiad, were the first modern Summer Olympic Games and the first Games since Roman emperor Theodosius I banned the Ancient Olympic Games in AD 393 as part of the Christian campaign against paganism.
		However, the 1900 Summer Olympics were already planned for Paris and, barring the so-called Intercalated Games of 1906, the Olympics did not return to Greece until the 2004 Summer Olympics.
		In the first modern Olympics of 1896, women were not allowed to compete, but there was an unofficial competitor in the marathon, a poor Greek woman who became known as 'Melpomene'.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/NewSport/Olympia1896.html (3568 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, were held in 1896 in Athens, Greece.
		However, the 1900 Summer Olympics were already planned for Paris and, barring the so-called Intercalated Games of 1906, the Olympics did not return to Greece until the 2004 Summer Olympics.
		The concept of a designated Olympic Village for the athletes would not appear until the 1932 Summer Olympics; the athletes had to care for their own lodging.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1896_Summer_Olympics (3657 words)

	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.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/sports/olympics.html (1093 words)

	olympic games summer and winter locations and history of the games
		The Olympic Games took their name from the Greek city of Olympia and though there were important athletic competitions held in other Greek cities in ancient times, the Olympic Games were regarded as the most prestigious.
		Participation in the Olympic Games was originally limited to free born Greeks, but as Greek civilization was spread by the conquests of Alexander the Great, the Games drew entrants from as far away as Antioch, Sidon and Alexandria.
		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.
	www.worldatlas.com /aatlas/infopage/olympic.htm (1007 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1906 Athens
		The modern Olympic founder, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, figured that the best medicine for the flagging Olympics would be to return them to their roots in Athens.
		The International Olympic Committee was cool to the idea, but de Coubertin and the IOC reached a compromise: the 1906 Games would not be deemed an official Olympics.
		Their legacy is that the Olympic movement regained its footing and sense of purpose, and the world actually looked forward to the next official Olympics of 1908 with some excitement.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1906.html (558 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)

	Wikinfo \| Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The Olympic Games were part of the Panhellenic Games, four separate games held at two- or four-year intervals but arranged so that there was one set of games every year.
		Olympic is also the name the public sometimes uses for the Greek national airline, Olympic Airways.
		Olympic uses varous types or airplanes, like the Boeing 747 and Airbus A340 for international routes, and the Boeing 727 and Boeing 737 for domestic routes.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Olympic_Games (1155 words)

	Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		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.
		The Olympic fire is then extinguished, and the Olympic flag is lowered, folded, and presented to the mayor of the host city of the next Olympic Games.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /olympics/Olympics.htm (1089 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)

	Highlights of individual Olympic Games
		The 1916 Olympics were scheduled to be held in Berlin, but were canceled because of what came to be known as World War I. The 1920 Games were awarded to Antwerp to honor the suffering that had been inflicted on the Belgian people during the war.
		The 1932 Olympic Games saw the introduction of automatic timing to one hundredth of a second and of the photo finish, as well as the appearance of the national anthems and the raising of flags in honour of the victors during the medal ceremonies.
		The International Olympic Committee had a great political success in managing to bring together the two Germanys (East and West) within a combined team (EUA) competing under a fl, red and yellow flag with the Olympic rings and with "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's IX Symphony as their anthem.
	www.mapsofworld.com /olympic-trivia/olympic-games-highlights.html (5199 words)

	Olympic Timeline
		The Olympic Games were celebrated 320 times -- every four years -- in the sacred stadium at Olympia, Greece, beginning in 776 B.C. Though boxing and wrestling were added later, the first Olympic event was a sprint.
		Olympic flag unfurled for first time; its five colored rings (fl, blue, yellow, green and red) incorporate at least one color found in flag of every nation on earth.
		Olympic torch run is established -- more than 3,000 runners carry the flame between Olympia, Greece, and Berlin.
	gtresearchnews.gatech.edu /reshor/rh-win96/timeline.htm (821 words)

	ipedia.com: 1964 Summer Olympics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Tokyo had already been awarded with the organisation of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honour had been passed to Helsinki because of Japan's involvement in China.
		The 1940 Olympics were eventually cancelled because of the outbreak of World War II.
		Yoshinori Sakai, who lit the Olympic Flame, was born in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day the atomic bomb exploded there.
	www.ipedia.com /1964_summer_olympics.html (277 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics
		It was the first Olympics since NBC had merged with Vivendi Universal Entertainment; the merger 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 2004 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony was held on August 13.
		The Mayor of Athens, Dora Bakoyianni, passed the Olympic Flag to the Mayor of Beijing, Wang Qishan.
	www.askfactmaster.com /2004_Summer_Olympics (1705 words)

	ipedia.com: 2000 Summer Olympics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The ceremonies concluded with the lighting of the Olympic Flame.
		Former Australian Olympic champions brought the torch through the stadium, handing it over to Cathy Freeman, who lit the flame in the cauldron.
		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 passed away.
	www.ipedia.com /2000_summer_olympics.html (836 words)

	The Summer Olympics — FactMonster.com
		—The 1940 Summer Games are originally scheduled for Tokyo, but Japan resigns as host after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937.
		Olympics 2004: Summer Olympics Biographies, A-Z - Biographies of notable summer athletes
		Olympic Preview: Wrestling - Wrestling First Olympic Appearance: 1896 (Greco-Roman); 1904 (freestyle) by John Gettings Did You...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0114337.html (415 words)

	2000 Sydney Olympic Stadium
		When the Olympics are over, the temporary grandstands at both ends of the stadium will be replaced by roofed grandstands, reducing the stadium's capacity to about 80,000.
		Sydney's Olympic Stadium, being built at a cost of A$665 million will be the centrepiece of Sydney Olympic Park at Homebush Bay.
		The much bigger, splashier and costlier Summer Games dominate the Olympics movement, however, and while the Sydney Summer Games are still two-and-a-half years off, the run-up is anything but slow.
	olympics.ballparks.com /2000Sydney (2213 words)

	Where the Rich and Elite Meet to Compete
		Unlike the widely attended Summer Olympics, the winter version is almost exclusively the preserve of a narrow, generally wealthy, predominantly Caucasian collection of athletes and nations.
		Nations wealthy enough to host a Winter Olympics tend to be those that win most of the medals (17 of the 20 Winter Olympics have been held in Western Europe, Canada or the United States).
		The Winter Olympics might collapse were it not for the financial support of American broadcasters and their (mostly) American advertisers.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/03/AR2006020302280.html (1249 words)

	Shooting at the 1896 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		At the 1896 Summer Olympics, five sport shooting events were contested.
		These events took place at the newly constructed shooting range at Kallithea.
		They were organized and prepared by the Sub-Committee for Shooting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shooting_at_the_1896_Summer_Olympics (105 words)

	Egypt in the 2004 Summer Olympics
		The original Olympics were held every four years for a span that lasted for almost eight centuries.
		Not until 1896 were the games revived, first in Greece, in a stadium paid for by an Egyptian businessman of Greek origin.
		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)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The number of athletes participating in the Summer Paralympic Games has increased from 400 athletes in Rome in 1960 to 3,806 athletes from 136 countries in Athens in 2004.
		The Olympic Games as we know them today have a long history that dates back to Antiquity.
		The Organising Committees of the Olympic Games (OCOGs) organise the Olympic Games in collaboration with their National Olympic Committee and the host city.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/index_uk.asp (179 words)

	OLYMPHILEX '96 Palmares
		OLYMPHILEX '96 enjoys the patronage of the Fédération Internationale de Philatélie Olympique and the International Olympic Committee, the auspices of the Fédération Internationale de Philatélie and the collaboration of the American Philatelic Society.
		The jury expresses its appreciation to His Excellency Juan Antonio Samaranch, President of the International Olympic Committee, to the Fédération Internationale de Philatélie Olympique, to the United States Postal Service, and to the many countries, institutions and collectors for their support and for the philatelic materials and rarities which they provided.
		The Olympic Movement and the Summer Olympics 1894-1948.
	www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/olymphlx/palmares.htm (601 words)

	SI.com - U.S. tops medal charts again - Sunday August 29, 2004 3:36PM
		ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- The United States finished atop the medal charts for the third straight Summer Olympics, with Russia the overall runner-up and China second in gold medals -- its best showing ever and the leading edge of a surge by Asian teams.
		U.S. Olympic Committee chief executive Jim Scherr, who set his team's medal target, said surpassing it was "an exceptional accomplishment" in light of the stiffening competition from Asia and the former Soviet republics.
		Yet the U.S. gold medal total of 35 was the lowest since the Montreal Olympics in 1976.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/olympics/2004/08/29/medal.race.ap (757 words)

	Best Athletes in the History of the Olympic Games
		He was at his prime in the 1998 Summer Olympics winning 5 gold medals.
		Won 6 gold medals in swimming at the 1988 Olympics-- which was a record for women.
		Won a medal at the 1920 Olympics, at the age of 72.
	www.fanbay.net /olympics/bestathletes.htm (691 words)

	1896 Olympics — FactMonster.com
		Among the remains uncovered was the ancient stadium where the original Olympic Games were celebrated from 776 B.C. to 393 A.D., when Roman emperor Theodosius I banned all pagan festivals.
		During the first 13 Olympiads (an Olympiad is an interval of four years between celebrations of the Olympic Games), the only contested event was a foot race of 200 yards.
		On June 23, 1894, French educator Baron Pierre de Coubertin, speaking at the Sorbonne in Paris to a gathering of international sports leaders from nine nations— including the United States and Russia— proposed that the ancient Games be revived on an international scale.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0114349.html (612 words)

	Olympics TCESC
		Click Olympic Games for facts about the past winter and summer Olympics.
		Take a tour of the Olympics through time with music and images, from 1896 to present day.
		This site discusses the origin of the Olympic Games, their importance, and how they emerged into the modern Olympics.
	www.trumbull.k12.oh.us /teachers/resources/Themes/olympics.htm (391 words)

	The Summer Olympic Games
		1992 was the last year that both the summer games and the winter games were held in the same year.
		After 1992, the summer and winter games are staggered 2 years apart.
		Disclaimer: This web site is not affiliated with or funded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) or the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of any country.
	www.janecky.com /olympics/summergames (76 words)

	2006 Winter Olympics Games Torino Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Shaun White, Olympic and Winter and Summer X-Games gold medalist, was a camper at Windells, and all the campers know it.
		Internal planning documents obtained by the CBC show that security plans for the 2010 winter Olympics have been downgraded to reflect a lower level of threat.
		WHISTLER, B.C. (CP) - It was a warm summer day but Olympic medallist Pierre Lueders was already thinking ahead to the 2010 Winter Games as he cast an expert eye over the nearly completed bobsled track that unfolded like a ribbon through the green forest.
	www.2006-winter-olympics-turin-italy.com /blog (3910 words)

	Summer and Winter Olympics Locations - databaseOlympics.com
		The Largest Olympics Statistics and History Database Online
		Fast Links: Home Page Athletes Olympic Games Countries Olympic Sports
		databaseOlympics is not associated with the Olympics or IOC.
	www.databaseolympics.com /games/gameslist.htm (27 words)

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