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 Poland at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Poland competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
Polish athletes were represented by the Polish Olympic Committee (PKOl).
Poland finished in 23th position in the final medal rankings, with three gold medals and ten medals overall.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poland_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics   (1412 words)

  
 SLAM! Sports - Olympics News - Buffy out to slay competition
Olympic rower Buffy Williams, who wasn't too interested in taking up the sport in her younger years, has had a few rough sports along the way, but she hopes to add to the bronze medal she won at the 2000 Sydney Games.
Canada's Olympic rowing team will be announced by July 12 and Williams wants to be in women's pairs with Darcy Marquardt of Richmond, B.C. Olympic athletes spend years training for that one ultimate performance at exactly the right time.
Williams said it made the summer seem worth it and overall, the experience made her a better athlete.
slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Olympics/News/2004/06/23/511057.html   (1077 words)

  
 DraftHelp.com - Olympics Summer 2004
The aggregate result of these national Olympic teams will determine the winner, on the basis of 5 points for every gold medal, 3 points for every silver medal, and 1 point for every bronze medal.
The 15 national Olympic teams must be chosen from 4 different pools, in which the nations have been divided, according to their performance in Sydney 2000, plus a host nation factor.
Each participant must choose 2 Olympic teams from Group A, 3 Olympic teams from Group B, 5 Olympic teams from Group C and 5 Olympic teams from Group D (with encompasses all nations not in any of the former groups).
www.drafthelp.com /Olympics2004Summer.htm   (635 words)

  
 2004 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The chief justice of the Haitian Supreme Court, Boniface Alexandre, is sworn in as interim president.
Authorities suspect suicide attacks by rebels from Chechnya to be the cause of the crashes.
September 17 - 2004 Summer Paralympics commences in Athens, Greece.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/2004   (6816 words)

  
 Poland - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Poland (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Poland's main rivers (including the Vistula, the Oder, the Warta, and the Western Bug) are connected to the Baltic Sea and are important traffic lanes.
In 1697 the elector of Saxony was chosen king of Poland as Augustus II Augustus II, 1670–1733, king of Poland (1697–1733) and, as Frederick Augustus I, elector of Saxony (1694–1733).
On the death (1733) of Augustus II of Poland, Stanislaus I sought to reascend the Polish throne.
columbia.thefreedictionary.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Poland   (6208 words)

  
 1964 Summer Olympics
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.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1964_summer_olympics.shtml   (231 words)

  
 UC's Got Game - 2004 Summer Olympics - University of California News Room
In fact, if UC were a country, its 2004 medal total would have been exceeded by only 11 other nations.
This summer, UC Berkeley will send a strong contingent of athletes and coaches to participate in the 2004 Olympic Games.
Keeping with its unprecedented Olympic tradition, UCLA will send 55 players and coaches to the 2004 Olympic Games.
www.universityofcalifornia.edu /news/summerolympics2004.html   (547 words)

  
 Athens disqualified from Green Olympics | Greenpeace International
Athens, Greece —; The Athens Olympics may boast gold, silver and bronze medals this summer - but green medals will be nowhere in sight despite Greece's promises of making the 2004 Olympics the greenest ever.
One of our major victories was the Coke Spotlight campaign, which saw Olympic sponsor Coca-Cola meet our demands for a new refrigeration policy to reduce its impact on global climate change.
It was the intention that all electricity used by related premises and users during the Olympics in 2004 should be generated by renewables.
www.greenpeace.org /international/news/athens-disqualified-from-green   (637 words)

  
 Olympics — Infoplease.com
A complete review of the Summer Olympic Games in 2000, including final medal standings by nation, leading individual medal winners and a breakdown of medal winners in all major events.
A complete review of the Summer Olympic Games in 1996, including final medal standings by nation, leading individual medal winners and a breakdown of medal winners in all major events.
Olympic Mountains - Olympic Mountains, highest part of the Coast Ranges, on the Olympic Peninsula, NW Wash. Mt.
www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114094.html   (320 words)

  
 RunningMovies.com: Movies of the Month 2004
This documentary premiered at the Thessaloniki Documentary film festival on March 19, 2004 and this is the third film by Angelike Contis (read interview) who operated as director, writer, and editor of her own camera work.
In 2003 she returned to Berlin for her second marathon and then went to Rotterdam in 2004 where she was unable to complete the race due to a knee injury.
Women’s 800m: Anne Packer sets an Olympic Record of 2:01:01 (and claims England’s first woman’s track gold medal), yet is not seen during the first lap of this race as it is captured by one long camera shot and she is in 6th place at the bell.
www.runningmovies.com /month2004.htm   (4352 words)

  
 Egypt in the 2004 Summer Olympics
The original Olympics were held every four years for a span that lasted for almost eight centuries.
In 2004, Egypt has high hopes for three medals, and in what seems like the spirit of this year's event, their best chance for a gold comes from the females, specifically Nahla Ramadan.
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)

  
 2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2004 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, were held in Athens, Greece, from August 13 to August 29, 2004.
By late March 2004, some Olympic projects were still behind schedule, and Greek authorities announced that a roof it had initially proposed as an optional, non-vital addition to the Aquatics Center would no longer be built.
Officially there were 28 sports as swimming, diving, synchronised swimming and water polo are classified by the IOC as disciplines within the sport of aquatics, and wheelchair racing was a demonstration sport.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2004_Summer_Olympics   (2651 words)

  
 Cal Olympic swimmers represent many nations
At swimmers' training bases in Eastern Europe this summer, three UC Berkeley students, three alumni and an incoming freshman have been preparing together for the sports event of their lives – the 2004 Summer Olympic Games.
Being on this summer's Olympic team has given Cavic, who broke the world record in the 100-meter butterfly in the European Short Course Swimming Championships last December representing Serbia-Montenegro, a "perk," he said.
Draganja said he expects to swim in the Olympics in the 400-meter freestyle relay, the 100-meter butterfly, and the 50- and 100-meter freestyle.
www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2004/08/09_swim.shtml   (1649 words)

  
 ESPN.com: Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
U.S. Olympic volleyball player Clay Stanley was given a 15-month suspended sentence Wednesday for assaulting an officer and resisting arrest.
Sydney gold medalists Serbia and Montenegro were defeated 3-0 by Poland in Sunday's opening match of the Olympic men's volleyball tournament.
ESPN.COM'S 2000 SUMMER OLYMPICS: From the opening ceremonies to the final gold medal.
sports.espn.go.com /oly/summer04/volleyball/index   (298 words)

  
 Full Medal Tally. Results. Athens Olympics 2004. ABC Sport.
From Hicham El Guerrouj ending his Olympic hoodoo to the triumph of Iranian Hercules Hossein Rezazadeh, these were the defining moments of the Athens Games.
The Olympics is the athlete's chance for 15 minutes of fame.
From farce to tragedy, the Olympics are sporting theatre, and Athens 2004 offered the perfect stage for a huge variety of plots and leading characters.
www.abc.net.au /olympics/2004/results/medaltally.htm   (100 words)

  
 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
May 1 - expected enlargement of the European Union to include admission of further 10 member-states: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Malta and Cyprus.
June 8 - First solar transit of the planet Venus since 1882; the next one will occur in 2012.
August 13 through August 29 - 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/20/2004   (199 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Olympics 2004 | Rowing | Partridge to miss Olympics
He was also part of the Olympic team in Sydney where he finished fourth in the men's pair with Greg Searle.
In 2001 he won his second World Championship title in the four and added a bronze in the eight at last summer's Worlds.
Partridge had been experiencing pain since the World Cup finals in Lucerne and the diagnosis of the collapsed lung was made on Friday under the guidance of British Olympic medical director Dr Richard Budgett.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/low/olympics_2004/rowing/3862751.stm   (313 words)

  
 Olympics: Athens 2004
The Olympics draws on traditions of war, religion, economy
The Olympics were held in honor of this Greek god.
Women competed in these games, which may predate the Olympics.
www.factmonster.com /spot/04olympics.html   (228 words)

  
 brazil at the 2004 summer olympics - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
At the 2004 Summer Olympics Brazil was represented by the Brazilian Olympic Committee (abbreviated COB).
The largest Brazilian delegation ever consisted of 247 athletes (125 men and 122 women), which represented 42 more athletes than in Sydney 2000 and 22 more than in Atlanta 1996 — the previous record.
In Athens 2004 Brazil competed in all but ten events (Archery, Badminton, Canoeing - Slalom, Cycling - Track, Softball, Gymnastics - Trampoline, Baseball, Water Polo, Hockey and Weightlifting).
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/brazil-at-the-2004-summer-olympics   (4221 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Ping ready for table tennis challenges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Only one is going to the Olympics in the household game's competitive cousin, table tennis.
When they found out I had made the Olympics, I was kind of a big shot at school.
When I got back from the trials and it was announced that I'd made the Olympics, some kid was just giving me (grief) about that, saying "pingpong's not a sport, anyone can go to the Olympics for that." I was just like, "Man, just come over to my house after school today and we'll play.
www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/2004-04-15-ping-10_x.htm   (1263 words)

  
 GovMint.com - Complete 2004 Gold & Silver Olympic Proof Set
The spirit of the Olympic Games - both past and present - breathtakingly come to life in this superb collection consisting of the complete gold and silver Proofs issued by Greece in honor of it hosting the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Issued by the Bank of Greece National Mint, this fabulous 18-coin collection not only celebrates the return of the Olympics to its birthplace in Athens, Greece, but also pays to Greece’s most historically significant monuments, and honors the sports of ancient times and their modern counterparts.
For anyone who has ever collected Olympic coins in the past or wants to start collecting now, this is THE set - the ONLY officially released complete gold and silver Proof set coins from the host country.
www.govmint.com /countrylistings/europe/greece/goldandsilverset.aspx   (262 words)

  
 Olympic News Circle for Summer & Winter Olympics
A party full of joy, to celebrate the success of the Olympic Winter Games and the athletes’ victories, with a touch of sadness for an event that’s coming to an end.
The show, designed and directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca, among the most widely recognised director, writer, choreographer and clown at an international level for his theatre performances inspired to the circus world, will combined the fantasy and colours of the Carnival with the sounds and shapes typical of the circus and Art Comedy.
Finland, which had allowed only five goals in its first seven matches, was in its first Olympic final but had to settle for the silver.
www.samtsai.com /olympics   (596 words)

  
 2004 Olympics
In other Olympic women’s soccer action from the other groups, Nigeria sent Group E into a tizzy, defeating Japan 1-0, while Mexico pulled off a tremendous result in its first-ever Olympic match, tying China, 1-1, on a goal from star forward Maribel Dominguez.
The USA is 15-1-2 in 2004 heading into the Olympics, with that lone loss coming to Sweden (3-1) at the Algarve Cup, but the USA still won the group and advanced to the title game.
This is their first Olympics and to play at home in front of their own fans, they have a lot on their side and nothing to lose.
www.southernsoccerscene.com /2004olympics.htm   (14771 words)

  
 The Official Site of the USA Basketball Women's Senior National Team
And while it's good for Katie to be back ‘home,' where she got into her first fender-bender, she still wishes she could be with the Ohio State Buckeyes as they make their push in the NCAA Tournament this weekend.
I see her in the summer (during the WNBA season), but when I came here we obviously bonded a little bit.
The referring will be similar to what we'll get in the Olympics, I don't think we'll know what we're going to get, especially playing in their home arenas.
www.usabasketball.com /seniorwomen/2004/04_woly_q-a_smith-k-poland.html   (1022 words)

  
 NATO Update - June 2004
The royal castle in Warsaw, Poland, provided the venue for informal NATO-Ukraine high-level consultations on 6 and 7 June.
As the European 2004 football championship kicked-off this past weekend, NATO’s AWACS radar aircraft took to the skies over Portugal to patrol against possible terrorist threats.
From 22 to 25 June 2004 NATO, Russia and partner countries tested their capabilities to jointly respond to a disaster situation in a field and strategic-level exercise and seminar held in the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation.
www.nato.int /docu/update/2004/06-june/index-e.htm   (976 words)

  
 Polish Music Newsletter, vol. 10, no. 3, March 2004
Karolina Naziemiec was born in Poland, where she studied viola at the Szymanowski High School in Katowice and the Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw.
Last summer, Richard was named Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the "In Terra Pax" International Choral Academy and Artistic Director of the International Festival of Choral Song both in Miedzyzdroje, Poland.
Richard's recent engagements in Poland include preparing the Szczecin choir for a New Years performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Berlin Orchestra in Berlin, Germany and conducting a Koledy [Carols] concert at the Bazylika Cathedral in Szczecin, Poland (see picture) marking the end of the Advent season in January.
www.usc.edu /dept/polish_music/news/mar04.html   (5119 words)

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