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 Encyclopedia: 1928 Summer Olympics
The 1896 Summer Olympics, formally called the Games of the I Olympiad, were the first modern Olympics and the first Games since Roman emperor Theodosius I banned the Ancient Olympic Games in AD 393 as part of the Christian campaign against paganism.
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 1928 Summer Olympics - from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Amsterdam had made a bid for the 1920 and 1924 Olympics, but had to give way to war-victim Belgium and De Coubertin's Paris before finally being awarded with the organisation.
For the first time, the Olympic Flame was lit during the 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.
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 Encyclopedia: 1936 Summer Olympics
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Sailing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place at the Agios Kosmas Olympic Sailing Centre with eleven gold medals being contested.
The events were split into four classes for men, four for women, and three classes that were open to both men and women.
Since the 2000 Summer Olympics the open keelboat event in the Soling-class was removed, while the women's keelboat event in the Yngling-class was added.
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 sailing - definition of sailing by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
sailing - the departure of a vessel from a port
To a man who had but little to do with pleasure sailing (though all sailing is a pleasure), and certainly nothing whatever with racing in open waters, the writer's strictures upon the handicapping of yachts were just intelligible and no more.
You yourself wait until the season for sailing is come, and then haul your swift ship down to the sea and stow a convenient cargo in it, so that you may bring home profit, even as your father and mine, foolish Perses, used to sail on shipboard because he lacked sufficient livelihood.
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 1900 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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 1920 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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 Science Fair Projects - Sailing at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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Since the 2000 Summer Olympics the open keelboat event in the Soling -class was removed, while the women's keelboat event in the Yngling-class was added.
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