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	MSN Encarta - Olympic Games
		The modern Olympic Games began in Athens, Greece, in 1896, two years after French educator Pierre de Coubertin proposed that the Olympic Games of ancient Greece be revived to promote a more peaceful world.
		Although the Olympic Charter, the official constitution of the Olympic movement, proclaims that the Olympics are contests among individuals and not among nations, the IOC assigns to the various NOCs the task of selecting national Olympic teams.
		Women’s Olympic sports have grown significantly since then, and currently women account for approximately half of the members of teams, except in teams from Islamic nations, where the level of female participation is generally lower.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562380/Olympic_Games.html (1328 words)

	Values Aims Reality of the Modern Olympic Games
		Furthermore, the ancient meaning of the Games in relation to their modern form and the idea of regulating sporting life by looking towards the Olympic Games periodically, also the beneficial effects of the example of the Olympic competitors and the incentive provided by the possibility of taking part in the Games.
		The recurring sameness of the opening ceremony with the lighting of the Olympic Flame and the oath, the honouring of the victors with a fanfare and the march of all the participants are expressions of the basic quasireligious idea.
		The Olympic values may be placed in groups according to their content: values of religious commitment, of the perfecting of one's self, of social contacts, concepts of the harmonious synthesis of principal ancient and modern tendencies, of the independence of the Olympic movement and the concept of the Games as a means of national education.
	www.ioa.leeds.ac.uk /1960s/64205.htm (2367 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		A modified revival of the OLYMPIAN GAMES, the modern games were inaugurated in the spring of 1896 in Athens.
		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 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)

	The Olympic Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The words of the Olympic creed are attributed to Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games.
		Olympic medals must be at least 60 millimeters in diameter and at least three millimeters thick.
		The Olympic oath is a symbolic gesture of sportsmanship that traces its origins to the 1920 Olympic Games.
	www.olympics.org.uk /olympicmovement/olympicmovement.asp (580 words)

	Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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 honor the games were held.
		The so-called Intercalated Games (because of their "off-year" status) were held in 1906 in Athens, as the first of an alternating series of Athens-held Olympics.
		Olympic Information Center by the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles – Includes a primer on the Olympic Games, and many historical documents on the Olympic Games are presented in digital form.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/O/Olympic-Games.htm (4224 words)

	Zappas.org for the founders of the Modern Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It is important that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) formally recognises Panagiotis Soutsos and Evangelis Zappas as founders of the Modern Olympic Games and Dr William Penny Brookes as a founder of the Modern Olympic Movement since great institutions cannot stand on false foundations.
		It is essential that the Olympic Games that were held in Athens in 1870 and 1906 that have not yet been formally recognised as Olympic Games by the International Olympic Committee are recognised as such.
		The IOC's Olympic Games which were held at the Paris Exposition in 1900, the St Louis World Fair in 1904 and the Franco-British Exhibition in London in 1908 were side-shows.
	www.zappas.org /campaign.html (242 words)

	kiat.net: Olympic Games Modern Pentathlon
		M. They call it the 'Modern Pentathlon' to distinguish it from the one which, for some 900 years, was a feature of the ancient Olympic Games and consisted of four athletic events and wrestling.
		Today's modern pentathlon entered the Olympic program in 1912, largely as the initiative of Pierre de Coubertin, who saw this sport as the supreme test of versatility and felt it was an ideal sport for army officers.
		Woman began competing in the modern pentathlon in the late 1970s and the first women's world championship was conducted in 1980 in London.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/sports/mp.html (720 words)

	Olympic Games, Spirit and Modern History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		During Olympic years, warring city-states were encouraged to lay down their weapons and to compete in peace on the playing field instead of on the battlefield.
		Due to his work, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was established and Athens, Greece had the honor of being the first city to host the modern Games in the year l896.
		Modern equipment makes it possible for the skiers to momentarily forget their disabilities while flying down the slopes.
	2002.uen.org /html/sports/lessons/olympicgames.html (975 words)

	Abebooks: Modern Olympic Games
		Olympics is a triumphal history of the games, from ancient Greece to Sydney in 2000.
		It is the illustrated, chronological story of the re-creation of the Olympic Games by Pierre de Coubertin, of the often tempestuous and controversial fortunes of the governing body (including three successive boycotts and the Salt Lake City scandal of 1998), together with the highs and lows of the Games themselves.
		Olympic history is filled with the unusual, the bizarre, and the unbelievable.
	www.abebooks.com /docs/Community/Featured/modernOlympics.shtml (967 words)

	The Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Two days after the beginning of the games, the procession of the athletes and the judges started from Elis to arrive in Olympia where it was received by the crowds who had come to watch the games.
		The institution of the Olympic Games lasted for twelve continuous centuries and was abolished in 393 A.D. (the 293rd Olympiad) by order of Theodosios I when the functioning of all idol worshiping sanctuaries was forbidden, and in 426 A.D., during the reign of Theodosios II, the destruction of the Altian monuments followed.
		The Olympic Games combined the deep religious spirit along with the heroic past of the Greeks thus unifying to the highest degree body, mind and soul according to universal and philosophical values, and so projecting the indivdual as well as the cities, through the highest ideal of freedom.
	www.culture.gr /2/21/211/21107a/og/games.html (746 words)

	The Modern Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In this study both the Ancient Olympic Games and the British eduactionalist Thomas Arnold influenced De Coubertin.
		Olympic competition equestrian sport was reserved for the mounted services of the participating nations.
		Because of the level of preparation dedicated to the 1932 Olympics the U.S. won 5 medals during the Games.
	web.simmons.edu /~hallr2/olympiceh.modern.html (518 words)

	Modern Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Olympic Games begun at Olympia in Greece in 776 BC.
		The modern Games are a worldwide event, broadcast to a huge audience, but we can still see their origins in the ancient games.
		A grand celebration, the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games, which for 17 days returned to Greece, the country where they were originally born and the city where they revived, is completed.
	www.door-entry-systems-uk.co.uk /doorentry/modern_olympic_games.html (610 words)

	Olympic games: The Modern Olympics
		The modern revival of the Olympic games is due in a large measure to the efforts of Pierre, baron de Coubertin, of France.
		Politics has influenced the Olympic games in other ways, from the propaganda of the Nazis in Berlin (1936) to pressures leading to the exclusion of white-ruled Rhodesia from the Munich games (1972).
		The International Olympic Committee (IOC), which sets and enforces Olympic policy, has struggled with the licensing and commercialization of the games, the need to schedule events to accommodate American television networks (whose broadcasting fees help underwrite the games), and the monitoring of athletes who seek illegal competitive advantages, often through the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/sports/A0860128.html (476 words)

	Modern Olympic Games
		The original Olympic Games were celebrated as a religious festival from 776 B.C. until 393 A.D., when Roman emperor Theodosius I banned all pagan festivals (the Olympics celebrated the Greek god Zeus).
		The idea was enthusiastically received and the Modern Olympics were born.
		The first Olympics were held two years later in Athens, where 245 athletes from 14 nations competed in the ancient Panathenaic stadium to large and ardent crowds.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0114336.html (150 words)

	Olympic Studies Centre: Olympics by subject > Ancient Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Paper given at the International Olympic Academy Session in 1984 on the origins of the Olympic Games, analysing why of the decline of the ancient Olympic Games.
		Paper given at the International Olympic Academy Session in 1971 on the calendar of the ancient Olympic Games, the events included and the variations of events along the history of the Games.
		Exhibition on the ancient Olympics providing information on the Olympic Games and the Olympic spirit, the ancient and modern Olympic sports, a tour the site of Olympia and the Olympic athletes who were famous in ancient times.
	olympicstudies.uab.es /eng/yellow/dir/aog.html (838 words)

	Modern Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Since the Games were not well publicized internationally, contestants were not nationally chosen but rather came individually and at their own expense.
		The 1980 Olympic Summer Games in Moscow were most notable for the largest boycott of an Olympics in history.
		The Soviets, in retaliation for the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games, boycotted the 1984 Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~kabrown/modern.html (336 words)

	creator of modern olympic games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Modern Pentathlon - The True Olympic Sport - This was the primary wish of its creator, Pierre de Coubertin.
		Olympic Games Torch Relay 1936 Berlin - relationship between this torch relay run of the modern Olympic Games and the ancient - was used by the creator of the Olympic Bell, Walter E. Lemcke, -
		The modern comeback of the Olympic games is due in a large measure to the efforts of Pierre, baron de Coubertin, of France.
	www.olympic-headquarters.net /creator-of-modern-olympic-games.htm (940 words)

	Modern Olympic History
		Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a Frenchman, is justly given credit for establishing the modern Olympics, but it was England that revived the idea, and it was in England that Coubertin was introduced to it.
		As early as 1612, Robert Dover established an English version of the Olympic Games in the Cotswold Hills in Gloucestershire.
		As a result, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was organized, with the goal of staging the first modern Olympics in Paris in 1900.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~esimons1/modern.html (785 words)

	Olympic Games
		Ancient Olympic Games originated in Greece and were held from 776 B.C. to A.D. The modern Olympic Games began in 1896 when organizers revived them to encourage world peace and friendship and to promote healthy sporting competition for the youth of the world.
		This is the official Olympics site, August 13-29, 2004, offering details on scheduled events from the opening ceremony to the closing of the winter games, biographies and interviews of athletes, the latest articles and lots, lots more.
		The first Olympic games were held in ancient Greece, an event of spiritual significance as well as a test of athletic excellence.
	eduscapes.com /42explore/olympics.htm (1126 words)

	The Ancient and Modern Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Games were held in Olympia, Greece, every four years as part of a religious festival in honour of the God Zeus.
		In the 2000 Olympic Games there will be 168 events for men, 120 events for women and 12 mixed events.
		Athletes in the modern Games pay attention to their diets, employ trainers and take various substances to enhance their performance.
	www.dep.org.uk /activities/ge-activities/22/ge22comparewksht.htm (403 words)

	Olympic games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The "sacred truce" beginning the first known Games read, "May the world be delivered from crime and killing and freed from the clash of arms." The intent was for the city-states to stop fighting for the period of the Games so that athletes could compete in peace.
		The Olympic rings are the official symbol of the Olympic movement.
		During the ancient Games, in Olympia, a sacred flame burned on the altar of the goddess, Hera.
	www.etni.org.il /olympics/olympicsorly.htm (2607 words)

	The Olympic Games
		The Ancient Olympics - "In this exhibit, you can compare ancient and modern Olympic sports, tour the site of Olympia as it looks today, learn about the context of the Games and the Olympic spirit, or read about the Olympic athletes who were famous in ancient times."
		REACH An Educator's Guide to the Olympics: Hundreds of beautifully made printable facts and activities sheet on everything imaginable related to the Winter Olympics and the Paralympics.
		Olympic Statistics - Medal Count - "the ranking by country for each olympic event (e.g.
	www.caslt.org /research/olympics.htm (715 words)

	Olympic Games History Pages by Harvey Abrams; Host Cities
		In 80 BCE the Roman general Sulla moved the Olympic Games to Rome and only a single race for boys was held at Olympia, the stade race.
		So the Olympic Games of the second Olympiad were held in Paris, France and the Games of the third Olympiad were in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
		In 1980 the United States led a boycott of the Moscow Olympics and in 1984 the Soviets retaliated and led a boycott of the Los Angeles Olympics.
	www.harveyabramsbooks.com /hostcities.html (1685 words)

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