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	Search Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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.
		Olympic Mountains Olympic Mountains, highest part of the Coast Ranges, on the Olympic Peninsula, NW Wash. Mt.
		The mast is as old as sailing vessels, and the oldest sailboats depicted (those of ancient Egypt) had a small mast placed forward and carrying a single sail.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Olympic+medalists+in+sailing (602 words)

	ISAF - ISAF World Sailing Rankings
		The Olympic dream continues for some for another four years in the same class, for others, the dream will still be Beijing, but the equipment may be different and for others, Athens will have represented the hanging up of their Olympic Buoyancy Aid.
		Sari MULTALA (FIN) has sailed in the shadow of Sundby but a disappointing Olympic regatta by Sari’s standards did not affect her position as runner—up in the final Europe rankings and this is where she closes the quadrennium.
		Olympic Gold medalist Ben AINSLIE (GBR), Rafael TRUJILLO (ESP) and obviously Dean BARKER (NZL), as well as a host of other heavyweight sailors are now in training for the 2007 America’s Cup in Valencia, Spain, with various syndicates around the World.
	www.sailing.org /?ID=j6~FhtjB~&format=popup (2069 words)

	Sailing History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Because the 115-square-foot sail is fully adjustable with its shape bearing directly on performance and boat speed, the Finn is extremely responsive and mastery of the craft is rarely fully achieved.
		In the 1988 and 1992 Olympics, the Lechner II was used.
		Often considered the senior of Olympic classes, to which sailors graduate in their second or third Olympic campaigns, a Soling demands racing In order to achieve maximum competence even though many Solings are owned purely for family recreation.
	www.boatingchannel.com /Boating_Sports/Sailing/Sailing_History/sailing_history.html (1883 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com
		sailing sailing, as a sport, the art of navigating a sailboat for recreational or competitive purposes.
		Long and narrow, the clipper had the greatest beam aft of the center; the bow cleaved the waves; and the ship carried, besides topgallant and royal sails, skysails and moonrakers—a veritable cloud of sails.
		Olympic games Olympic games, premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests.
	www.encyclopedia.com /search.asp?target=Olympic+medalists+in+sailing&rc=10&fh=36&fr=11 (469 words)

	New Zealand Olympic medallists - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		New Zealand Olympic medallists have built up a fine sporting reputation for their small country which has only a fifth of the population of greater New York city.
		Over the years, teams from Southern Hemisphere countries have had the disadvantage of needing to peak to compete in summer sports which are held during their winter months.
		Only two Olympics have ever been held in the Southern Hemisphere, the XVI Olympiad in Melbourne in 1956 and the XXVII Olympiad in Sydney in 2000.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/New_Zealand_Olympic_medalists (918 words)

	GBROLYMPICS.COM / LONDON-OLYMPICS.COM - Olympic Games Medallists
		The modern Olympics were first held in 1896.
		The Games are held every 4 years (this period is known as an Olympiad) although an additional "intercalated" event, not officially recognised by the International Olympic Committee, was introduced in 1906.
		Nevertheless all those competitions reported, at one time or another, as Olympic medal events have been included here for the record, with those no longer regarded as official footnoted.
	www.gbrathletics.com /olympic (336 words)

	U.S. Olympic Sailors Fail to Meet Expections
		US Sailing Olympic Committee Chairman Bill Shore noted that American sailors were in position to win medals in five classes after three-quarters of the competition, but then fell back.
		US Sailing estimates that an Olympic campaign costs $50,000 per sailor per year, but while the organization provides support upward of $10,000 for its elite team members each year, sailors are on their own to raise the rest of campaign costs.
		The double medalist Mitch Booth of Australia said he had to be in Europe "six to seven months out of the year, every year" to prepare for his silver-medal performance in the Tornado class.
	www.nytimes.com /specials/olympics/0804/oly-yacht.html (576 words)

	Encyclopedia: Olympic medalists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Olympic biathlon competitions were first held at the 1960 Winter Olympic Games, when only one event, the individual race for men, was held.
		These are the male Olympic medalists in swimming.
		Olympic competitors // The Olympic Games, or Olympics, is an international multi-sport event taking place every two years and alternating between Summer and Winter Games.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Olympic-medalists (243 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Sailing Fan Guide
		Sailing will perhaps have the most spectacular setting of any sport at the Olympics, with the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge providing backdrops to the competition on Sydney Harbour.
		The single sailor stands on what is essentially a surfboard, to which the sail is attached at a single point by means of a flexible boom.
		It is the largest and heaviest boat in the Olympic fleet and carries a spinnaker for downwind legs.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/sailing/s/viewers.html (449 words)

	Sailing World Olympic Coverage - Stuart Streuli
		It was the best Olympic sailing performance by Great Britain since the 1908 Games in London when just five teams competed on the Solent.
		The last race of the Olympic regatta was a winner-take-all match race featuring Denmark and Germany in the Soling.
		Bank’s team was the last to qualify for the match-racing portion of the event, finishing in a tie for 12th, on points, with Canada, and then topping the Canadians in the tiebreaker.
	old.cruisingworld.com /olympics_2000/stuart (978 words)

	Rank: 18 of 25. Not Funds, Olympic Sailing
		He and his sailing partner, Myles Pritchard, weathered choppy seas to defeat six other teams, including those from Finland, Argentina and the Cayman Islands, but they fell far behind Brazil's gold medalists.
		At his Marriott hotel room in the Olympic Village in Savannah, he had a stock-quote machine and a computer to send faxes and messages to his office in Nassau.
		Growth, with a 13.75 percent return, is in the top 7 percentile of similar funds, and Foreign, with a 15.07 percent return, is sailing away in the top 4 percent of its group.
	nytimes.com /specials/olympics/0803/mutfund-oly-holowesko-adv04.html (653 words)

	Olympic medalists to compete in Key West regatta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		KEY WEST - About a dozen Olympic sailing medalists and a larger contingent of America's Cup and Volvo Ocean Race sailors are among 3,000 entrants registered for the Key West 2005 regatta set to begin Monday off the Florida Keys.
		Kevin Burnham of Miami and Sofia Bekatorou of Greece, gold winners from the 2004 Olympics in Athens, are to sail in the Melges 24 and Farr 40 classes, respectively.
		Although Bekatorou's gold came in the Women's 470 Dinghy Class, she has sailed enough on larger boats to be comfortable with her role on a Farr 40.
	www.wfts.com /stories/2005/01/050117regatta.shtml (315 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		Although the drug disqualification of sprinter Ben Johnson was the biggest story of the 1988 Olympics, the Seoul Games were highlighted by numerous exceptional performances.
		Christa Luding-Rothenburger, who was also a speed skater, earned a silver medal in cycling to become the only person in history to win Winter and Summer medals in the same year.
		For the first time, all the medalists in dressage were women.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1988 (200 words)

	olympic gold medalists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The current revival of the Olympic games is due in a large measure to the efforts of Pierre, baron de Coubertin, of France.
		As a visible focus of world energies, the Olympics have been prey to many factors that thwarted their ideals of world cooperation and athletic superiority.
		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.olympic-headquarters.net /olympic-gold-medalists.htm (1105 words)

	HickokSports.com - History - The 2004 Olympics
		There was praise for the architecture of new and refurbished Olympic venues, for the fountains and reflecting pools that ornamented the areas, for the shimmering Wall of Nations created by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, who also designed the new stadium and the Olympic Sport Center.
		The Panathinaiko Stadium, where the first modern Olympic Games were held in 1896, was modified to host archery competition and the finish of the marathon.
		China, which will host the 2008 Olympics, was third to the U. and Russia in total medal standings, but was a close second in gold medals, with 32 to 35 for the United States.
	www.hickoksports.com /history/ol2004.shtml (1099 words)

	KWRW Day 4 - Around The World Of Sailing
		A new threat is Australia's James Spithill, sailing with double Olympic medalists Jonathan and Charlie McKee of Seattle.
		Deneen Demourkas of Santa Barbara, sailing her Mumm 30, Groovederci, extended her lead in the Mumm 30s, despite an 11th-place finish that broke her string of all firsts and seconds.
		The Pegasus team is composed of Burnham, fellow Olympic medalist Freddy Loof of Sweden, helmsman Bill Hardesty of San Diego, four-time collegiate all-American Mark Ivey of Newport Beach, Calif. and one female member, Midge Tandy of Florida.
	www.torresen.com /sailing/content_archives/002455.php (892 words)

	Sailing coach wins major regatta - MIT News Office
		An MIT sailing coach won a major regatta last week, with an undergraduate as his crew in a boat built by the MIT sailing master.
		Olympic 2004 hopeful Mike Kalin, now in his second year as varsity sailing coach at the Institute, and Ariya Dararutana, a junior in electrical engineering, beat 59 other boats to take first place in the Interclub Dinghy Frostbite Nationals held on Duxbury Bay Dec. 1-2.
		"Many of these sailors are the rock stars of the sailing world and compete at the highest levels of the sport in other fleets during the warmer months," said MIT sailing master and varsity coach Fran Charles.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2001/sailors-1212.html (499 words)

	e-USSAILING - Daily U.S. Olympic Sailing Team Update
		The live interview, which will include other U.S. medalists, is scheduled to air between 0830 and 0900 EDT on Friday, August 27.
		Gal dedicated his medal to the memory of the Israeli athletes who were killed at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games — it was a very poignant reminder of the saddest day in Olympic history.
		Lovell and Charlie Ogletree, the U.S. representatives in the Tornado at the 2004 Olympics Games, didn't waste any time taking advantage of what they feel are close to their ideal conditions.
	ussailing.org /e-ussailing/issues/04olyparalympics/olympic082604.htm (598 words)

	Olympics: Women's Sailing (washingtonpost.com)
		Filter, a native Washingtonian, was convinced by a friend to take sailing lessons at age 13 and she hasn't stopped sailing since.
		Having sailed and raced for over 30 years, I know some of the best women sailors in the world are sailing keelboats these days.
		Liz Merrifield Filter: Sailing can be financially accessible to anyone...crewing for someone on their boat is a great experience, or sailing in some of the smaller boats can be quite intense, but not financially draining.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A54575-2004Aug10.html (2925 words)

	Ten Stanford Greats Inducted Into Athletic Hall of Fame :: Olympic gold medalists and NCAA champions headline the Class ...
		Olympic gold medalists and NCAA champions headline the Class of 2002
		Olympic gold medalists, NCAA champions and one of the greatest coaches in school history comprise Stanford University's Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2002, announced today by Athletic Director Ted Leland.
		The 10-member class won a total of eight NCAA team titles and 31 individual NCAA titles during their careers on The Farm.
	gostanford.collegesports.com /genrel/081402aaa.html (747 words)

	Sailing World - Where the Dollars Should Add Up
		As a long-time supporter of Olympic participation and as a member of US SAILING's Olympic Sailing Committee, this was music to my ears.
		US SAILING's Youth Championships and Junior Olympic programs can cultivate interest and take youth sailing to the next level, but first they need to want to get out on the water." Leighton and Brenner have started fast, raising $250,000 from individuals and clubs in the first two months of the program.
		Some clubs and other sailing associations have their own foundations to raise money for promising local sailors.
	www.sailingworld.com /article.jsp?ID=38533&typeID=401&catID=591 (841 words)

	1912 olympics track star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jim Thorpe was voted the greatest athlete of the first half of the 20th century.
		Sauk and Fox Indian, hero of the 1912 Olympics, considered by many to be the best all...
		CMG Worldwide is the home of properties and personalities considered to be among the most prestigious in the licensing industry.
	www.111-olympics.com /11/1912-olympics-track-star.html (631 words)

	UKNCCA www.cadetclass.org.uk
		The boat was purposely made to be too small for an adult to sail but with all the attributes of a racing dingy even to include a spinnaker.
		As opposed to the Optimist or Topper classes, the Cadet is almost the only class of boat which is sailed by a crew of two, namely a helm and a crew.
		The big advantage of this is that the children can get to sail almost straight away under the guidance of the older and more experienced helm.
	www.cadetclass.org.uk /gettingstarted/gettingstarted_class.htm (525 words)

	Multihull Cruising Fundamentals - Basic Sailing
		Larger, cruising catamarans and their unique sailing and handling needs are addressed in chapters five through eight.
		The material in this book was developed by the American Sailing Association's Multihull Committee for use in classes throughout North America.
		Rick White has graduated more than 2000 students since 1989 through his Rick White's Sailing Seminars, including two Olympic medalists, ten Olympic team sailors, five national champions thirty divisional champions, and innumerable club champions.
	www.paracay.com /nauticalbooks/prods/MULTI.html (217 words)

	CNNSI.com - Olympic Sports - Sailing - Strong winds help Americans push off in fleet racing - Wednesday September 20, ...
		Latest: Wednesday September 20, 2000 03:17 AM The 49er class, an Australian-designed boat, is the newest addition to the Olympic sailing events.
		Isler, 36, the 1992 bronze medalist, had to take time off from training for this Olympics after giving birth to her second daughter.
		Madrigali thought he was over the starting line early in the first race, and had to decide whether to restart, which basically meant he would have had to eat a last-place finish.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/2000/sailing/news/2000/09/19/americans_winds_ap (859 words)

	CNNSI.com - Olympic Sports - Sailing - Brothers McKee fail to strike 49er gold - Tuesday November 14, 2000 11:30 AM
		The McKees, both former Olympic medalists, are in contention with Britain and Spain.
		Silvestri, in his first Olympics, was eighth overall in the 25-boat Finn fleet.
		Europe skipper Courtenay Becker Dey of The Dalles, Ore., the 1996 bronze medalist, was 16th overall after finishing 14th and 19th.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/2000/sailing/news/2000/09/22/sailing_49er_ap (858 words)

	News : International Tornado Association
		It was the thrid Olympics for the USA team, and their first trip to the medal stand.
		It was difficult conditions, not only shifty winds but hightly variable wind strength as well, so that a premium was on not just going the right way, but changing gears to keep speed through the wind changes.
		The French, who have also been strong over the last 4 years, had Olivier Backes and Laurent Voiron in 4th, and a pair of two-time Olympic medalists, Mitch Booth, sailing for NED with crew Herbie Dercksen, and Australians John Forbes, sailing with his 2000 Silver medal helmsman, Darren Bundock, finished 5th and 6th respectively.
	www.tornado.org /html/news_article.asp?ArticleID=42 (124 words)

	Sailing Seminars FAQ's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		If you cannot find a sailing partner, let us know early, and we will try to team you up with someone who has the same problem and has a similar type of boat.
		Sailing gloves are a must, and full-finger gloves are advisable, if you have them.
		You may want to bring extra telltales for your sails to apply after you get here, in case your current ones are not in the proper positions.
	www.catsailor.com /sailingseminars/ss_FAQ.html (1497 words)

	The Valley News :: Mikee Anderson-Mitterling makes Olympic sailing team (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Now 20, Mikee and his sailing partner, David Hughes, 26, are the number two team backing up Olympic veteran competitors Paul Foerster, 46 and Kevin Burnham, 51, in the 470-boat category in Athens.
		Since there is virtually no funding from the US Sailing or USailing Olympic Committee, the over $100,000 cost to compete comes from sponsors and private sources.
		Mikee’s future Olympic hopes depend on the generosity of his family and sponsors like Ullman Sails, owned by Dave Ullman, three time 470 World Champion, and Jay and Pease Glaser, both Olympic medalists who are also mentoring Mikee in 470 sailing.
	www.temeculavalleynews.com /story.asp?story_ID=94 (535 words)

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