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Topic: Modern Pentathlon at the 1968 Summer Olympics

	Summer
		Basketball at the 1968 Summer Olympics The Yugoslavia, 65-50.
		Lacrosse at the 1904 Summer Olympics At the Mohawk indians.
		Summer Summer is one of the four temperate August in the Northern hemisphere.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/summer.html (4337 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics
		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.
		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.
		An emotional high point of the parade was the entrance of the delegation from Afghanistan which had been absent from the Olympics, and had female competitors for the first time.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/2/20/2004_summer_olympics.html (1178 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)

	Project Olympics: The Complete Olympic Games Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The eighth Modern Summer Olympics were held in Paris, France.
		The fifteenth Modern Summer Olympics were held in Helsinki, Finland.
		The twenty-fourth Modern Summer Olympics were held in Seoul, Korea.
	www.geocities.com /olympicdream_2002/timeline.html (1946 words)

	1968 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Games of the XIX Olympiad were held in Mexico City in 1968.
		In the medal award ceremony, two African-American athletes Tommie Smith (gold) and John Carlos (bronze) raise their fl-gloved fists as a symbol of Black Power.
		They are banned from the Olympic Games for life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1968_Summer_Olympics (365 words)

	1968 summer olympics
		1968 Summer Olympics: Information From Answers.com 1968 Summer Olympics The Games of the XIX Olympiad were held in Mexico City in 1968.
		Basketball at the 1968 Summer Olympics: Information From Answers.com Basketball at the 1968 Summer Olympics The United States, coached by Henry Iba of Oklahoma State University, went 9-0.
		The modern revival of the Olympic games is due in a large measure to the efforts of Pierre, baron de Coubertin, of France.
	www.olympic-headquarters.net /1968-summer-olympics.htm (891 words)

	1956 Summer Olympics - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Games of the XVI Olympiad were held in 1956 in Melbourne, Australia, although the equestrian events could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations.
		Because Melbourne is situated in the southern hemisphere, the Olympics are held late in the year.
		This remarkable combination would disappear at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/1956_Summer_Olympics (301 words)

	Learn more about 1936 Summer Olympics in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Although awarded before the Nazi Party came to power in Germany, the government saw the Olympics as a golden opportunity to promote their fascist ideology.
		For the first time the Olympic Flame was brought to the Olympic Town by a torch relay, with the starting point in Olympia, Greece.
		Basketball and handball made their debut at the Olympics, both as outdoor sports.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /1/19/1936_summer_olympics.html (482 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").
		Many other sports were added, including other races, wrestling, boxing, pentathlon (five events, including the long jump, javelin throw, discus throw, foot race, and wrestling), and equestrian events (events with horses and people, like chariot races and horse races) The Olympic games were banned by the Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II in the year AD 394.
		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.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /olympics (1137 words)

	1960 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Summer Olympics Through The Years Modern Olympic Games The Summer Olympics 1896 Olympics 1900...
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		Summer Olympics Through The Years 1960 Olympics Rome Top 10 Standings Leading Medal Winners Track and Field Boxing Gymnastics Swimming Team Sports Boxing Canoeing Cycling Equestrian Fencing Gymnastics Modern Pentathlon...
	www.olympicsexperts.com /1960-Summer-Olympics.html (1200 words)

	1928 Summer Olympics
		For the first time, the Olympic Flame was lit during the Olympics.
		The torch relay was however not started until the 1936 Summer Olympics.
		For the first time, the parade of nations started with Greece, which holds the origins of the Olympics, and ended with the host country, a tradition still continued until this day.
	www.fastload.org /19/1928_Summer_Olympics.html (264 words)

	1956 Summer Olympics - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Therefore, these events were held in Stockholm ( Sweden) marking the first, and so far only time, that events of the same Olympics were held in different countries.
		Because Melbourne is situated in the southern hemisphere, the Olympics were held later in the year.
		Inspired by Australian teenager John Wing, an Olympic tradition begins when athletes of different nations are allowed to parade together at the closing ceremony, instead of with their national teams, as a symbol of world unity...
	www.free-definition.com /1956-Summer-Olympics.html (405 words)

	1952 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Summer Olympics 1896 Olympics 1900 Olympics 1904 Olympics 1906 Olympics 1908 Olympics 1912 Olympics 1920 Olympics 1924 Olympics 1928 Olympics 1932 Olympics 1936 Olympics 1948 Olympics 1952 Olympics 1956 Olympics...
		Summer Olympics Through The Years 1952 Olympics Helsinki Top 10 Standings Leading Medal Winners Track and Field Swimming Team Sports Boxing Canoeing Cycling Equestrian Fencing Gymnastics Modern Pentathlon Rowing...
		The five cities wanting to host the 2012 Olympics are highlighting how they will not make the financial mistakes of previous hosts -- the cost overruns, the under used venues, the budget deficits.
	www.olympicsexperts.com /1952-Summer-Olympics.html (1124 words)

	7. MODERN OLYMPICS - MED. NUT.
		Social and demographic influences on the physique of the Olympic athlete.
		Performance of Olympic runners at altitudes of 7,350 and 5,350 feet.
		Observations on the haematology and the iron and protein intake of Australian Olympic athletes.
	nutrition.ucdavis.edu /olympics/Olymp/sci.htm (3975 words)

	Detroit Free Press \| Summer Olympics 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The U.S. Olympic swimming team, still feeling the sting of its opening-night loss to the Aussies in the 4x100-meter men's freestyle relay, got even with the host country in a big-time way Sunday night at the Sydney Aquatic Center.
		With the whole Olympic tournament in front of her, Sheryl Swoopes has more important things to deal with than to make some big announcement about her future in basketball.
		But there's a slew of new events in sports that were already on the Olympic agenda, such as trampoline in gymnastics and women's hammer throw and women's pole vault in track.
	www.freep.com /index/olympics2000.htm (8342 words)

	1996 Summer Olympics
		Also during the games, the Centennial Olympic Park bombing took place on July 27, 1996 killing Alice Hawthorne and wounded 111 others, and causing the death of Melih Uzunyol by heart attack.
		Michelle Smith[?] of Ireland wins three gold medals and a bronze, but her victories are overshadowed by doping allegations, which are later reinforced as she is banned after failing a test in 1999.
		Amy Van Dyken[?] wins four gold medals in the Olympic swimming pool, the first American woman to win four titles in a single Olympics.
	www.fastload.org /19/1996_Summer_Olympics.html (412 words)

	1972 Olympics
		The pall that fell over Munich quieted an otherwise boisterous Games in which American swimmer Rick DeMont was stripped of a gold medal for taking asthma medication and track medalists Vince Matthews and Wayne Collett of the U.S. were banned for life for fooling around on the victory stand during the American national anthem.
		The United States also lost an Olympic basketball game for the first time ever (they were 62-0) when the Soviets were given three chances to convert a last-second inbound pass and finally won, 51-50.
		Olympic tragedy: 1972 Revisited: the shadow of terrorism still haunts the Olympics almost 30 years after Israeli athletes were massacred in Munich.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114715.html (469 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Olympics 2004 \| History
		This was the first official Olympics to see athletes marched into the stadium behind their respective national flags.
		Female athletes competed in the Olympics for the first time in Paris in 1900.
		The first of the modern Olympic Games was staged in Athens, Greece.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/low/olympics_2004/history/default.stm (405 words)

	1968 Olympics
		The Games of the Nineteenth Olympiad were the highest and most controversial ever held.
		Staged at 7,349 feet above sea level where the thin air was a major concern to many competing countries, the Mexico City Olympics were another chapter in a year buffeted by the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, the Democratic Convention in Chicago, and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
		Ten days before the Olympics were scheduled to open on Oct. 12, over 300 Mexico City university students were killed by army troops when a campus protest turned into a riot.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0114683.html (220 words)

	International Games News January 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The International Olympic Committee sent a letter to the Nepalese government dated January 12, giving them thirty days to create a valid National Olympic Committee or their IOC membership will be suspended.
		Elliot, the Olympic 1500 meter champion in 1960, retired in 1961 and when he heard about the statement said that he did work in at the Commonwealth Games in Perth as a journalist, but never set foot in the village.
		The European Olympic Committees met in Rome in December with some 300 delegates and IOC President Jacques Rogge in attendance, and voted on an amended charter for the European Youth Olympic Festivals, and chose the 2007 European Youth Olympic Festival host cities.
	www.internationalgames.net /january2004.html (8183 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES
		For example, to find out the list of all gold medallists in alpine skiing - downhill, select skiing for the sport, then alpine skiing for the discipline, then downhill for the event.
		The Olympic medal winner database is compiled using data taken from official publications containing Olympic results produced by the Organising Committees at the end of each edition of the Games.
		As the information is not yet fully standardised, we recommend that you search by nation, sport, Olympic Games, etc.
	www.olympic.org /uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp (127 words)

	1968 Summer Olympics - ArtPolitic Encyclopedia of Politics : Information Portal
		The Games of the XIX Olympiad were held in 1968 in Mexico City, Mexico.
		Mexico beat Detroit, Buenos Aires and Lyons to host the Games.
		The introduction of doping tests results in the first disqualification because of doping: Swedish pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall is disqualified for alcohol use.
	www.artpolitic.org /infopedia/19/1968_Summer_Olympics.html (309 words)

	1968 Olympics
		The third man. (Australia's Peter Norman was third man on medal podium when African-American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos gave their fl power salute in 1968 Olympics) (Scorecard) (Brief Article) (Sports Illustrated)
		Austrian winner at 1968 Olympics arrested on suspicion of human smuggling (AP Worldstream)
		Athletics: Hemery's determined vision for the future; Winner of 400m hurdles gold medal at 1968 Olympics finds his competitive nature fulfilled as unpaid president of UK Athletics.(Sport) (The Independent (London, England))
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114683.html (427 words)

	Financial Web Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		As part of a strategy to reinvent itself, HP announced that it will lay off about 10 percent of its staff under a restructuring plan designed to bring the company's costs in line with those of competitors such as Dell and IBM.
		HP said the broad changes will save the company about $1.9 billion each year starting in the summer of 2006.
		Though the job cuts will be felt throughout the company, the majority of staff reductions will come from sales and from support functions, such as IT, human resources and finance.
	www.webarticles.org /1968_Summer_Olympics (2062 words)

	ABM -- Belarusians in the 2000 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		ABM -- Belarusians in the 2000 Summer Olympics
		Bronze: Pavel Dovgal won bronze in the modern pentathlon on Saturday (September 29th).
		Bronze: Serahei Lavrenov, this year's European champion, won bronze in the men's 69 kg weightlifting on September 20, with a total lift of 340 kilograms.
	www.belarus-misc.org /bel-oly00.htm (1079 words)

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