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  2004 Summer Olympics - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
It was the first Olympics since NBC had merged with Vivendi Universal Entertainment; the merger, along with the acquisitions of the Bravo and Telemundo networks, 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 main Olympic Stadium, the designated facility for the opening and closing ceremonies, was completed only two months before the games opened, with the sliding over of a futuristic glass roof designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
The Mayor of Athens, Dora Bakoyianni, passed the Olympic Flag to the Mayor of Beijing, Wang Qishan.
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 The Olympic Games - Features on thehistorychannel.co.uk
The Olympics reached their height in the 5th-4th Centuries BC thereafter they became more and more professionalized until, in the Roman period, they provoked much censure.
The winners of the Olympics (and of the Heraea) were crowned with chaplets of wild olive, and in their home city-states male champions were also awarded numerous honours, valuable gifts, and privileges.
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.
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 Today in History: July 30
In 1900, the first National Auto Show was held at Madison Square Garden.
Curtis pressed a silver button to light the torch, the Olympic flag was raised, and 2,000 pigeons were released.
Herbert Hoover, then president of a country in the throes of the Great Depression, was unable to attend the Olympics partly due to his preoccupation with sweeping away the remnants of the
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 The History of Jim Crow
In 1977, Lucy Harris, a silver medalist from the 1976 Olympics, was drafted by the NBA New Orleans Jazz.
The 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, provided breakthroughs, as Vonetta Flowers won gold on the 2-woman bobsled, followed by Randy Jones, Garret Hines, and Bill Schuffenhauer, who gold-medaled on the four-man bobsled.
The National was the premier event for African-American golfers on the UGA summer tour until the 1980s.
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 Search Tuna Report for 1960 summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Her historic performance at the Rome Summer Games in was the perfect example of what it means to be an Olympian.
Description: 1960 Summer Olympics The Games Of The XVII Olympiad Were Held In 1960 In Rome, Italy.
Olympic Games The Modern Olympic Movement Has Been Around In Its Current Form Since 1896 But The Olympic Games Are Some 3000 Years Old, Beginning At Ancient Olympia In 776 BC And Lasting For Almost 1000 Years Before Being Banned....
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