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	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)

	Olympics
		Until 1994, the Winter and Summer Olympics were held in the same year, but in 1986 the International Olympic Committee, which organises the Olympics, decided to separate them, so as to spread costs for all involved parties.
		As with the Ancient Olympics, once the flame has been lit, it is kept burning throughout the celebration of the Olympics, and is extinguished at end of the closing ceremony of the Games.
		The Olympic fire is then extinguished, and the Olympic flag is lowered, folded, and presented to the mayor of the host city of the next Olympic Games.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /olympics/Olympics.htm (1089 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.
		The program began as a young Greek boy sailed into the stadium on a ship waving the host nation's flag and then various characters from ancient Greek myths appeared, followed by a float parade chronicling Greek history from the ancient Minoan civilization to modern times.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/2/20/2004_summer_olympics.html (1178 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1936 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Canadian Olympic Team was the only olympic team from a non-fascist country to salute Hitler (in a gesture of friendship) while marching by during opening ceremonies.
		The 1996 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and informally known as the Centennial Olympics, were held in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
		The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, will be held in Beijing in the Peoples Republic of China from August 8, 2008 to August 24, 2008, with the opening ceremony to take place at 8 p.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1936-Summer-Olympics (3405 words)

	2000 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Olympic flag was flown at half-staff during the period as a sign of respect to Samaranch's wife.
		People in Canada that wanted to see the Olympics between then and the closing ceremonies had to turn to TSN because the CBC was broadcasing news coverage related to the passing and state funeral of the former prime minister.
		Organisation of the 2000 Summer Paralympics was the responsibility of SPOC the Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/2000_Summer_Olympics (1815 words)

	wiki/1908 Summer Olympics Definition / wiki/1908 Summer Olympics Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Figure Skating (on ice) At the 1908 Summer Olympics, four figure skating events were contested, and winter sports were introduced for the very first time.
		International Olympic Committee The International Olympic Committee is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin in 1894 to reinstate the Ancient Olympic Games held in Greece, and organize this sports event every four years.
		The 1916 Olympics were cancelled due to World War I World War I (also known as the First World War, the Great War, the War of the Nations, and the "War to End All Wars") was a world conflict occurring from 1914 to 1918.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/1908_Summer_Olympics (3842 words)

	ISAF - www.sailing.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This program, where Special Olympics athletes are joined by non-handicapped athletes of similar ability, has been particularly successful in providing a challenging level of competition for higher ability athletes as well as a vehicle for further integrating individuals with and without mental handicaps.
		Unique to Special Olympics is its system of divisioning, a process whereby athletes or teams are placed into groups in which they compete against other individuals or teams of approximately the same age and ability.
		The European Games sailing competition had two divisions or "levels": Level 1 where the Special Olympics sailor was responsible for controlling the foresail and Level 2 where the Special Olympics sailor has to helm 50% of the race.
	www.sailing.org /disabled/sp2000report.asp (604 words)

	The Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Throughout the thousands of years that the Greeks competed every four years in the Olympics, there was war only 75% of the time among the various city states, including the famous pelopponesian war (Kids: Go here for some great information about this fantastic war that changed the world!) of 845BC.
		It was not until the Olympics of 662AD that the athletes finally agreed to wear clothes, as the local shoe company finally agreed to pay rights fees in the amount of 16 drachma per athlete.
		Since the Olympics were first televised in 1824, there have been 4100 sports attempted and rejected, including horse racing along the beach, indoor mountaineering, synchronized golfing, shuffleboard, chess, rhythmic gymnastics, and pizza toss, the favorite sport of the Italians.
	home.earthlink.net /~bobdavisknowledgebase/page04.html (938 words)

	Term paper on 2004 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Scene from the opening ceremony USPS issued a stamp to honor the 2004 Summer Olympics.]] Athens was chosen as the host city in 1997, after surprisingly losing the bid to organize the 1996 Summer Olympics.
		It was the first Olympics since NBC had merged with Vivendi Universal Entertainment; the merger 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.
		As part of the theatrics, the Olympic rings are seen burning in a pool of water.]] A topless goddess holding snakes, based on a Minoan statue The Opening Ceremony held on August 13, 2004 began with a thirty second countdown paced by the sounds of an amplified heartbeat.
	www.termpapertopic.org /20/2004-summer-olympics.html (1708 words)

	CYA: Sailing Team History
		While the Canadian sailing team and the CYA have always had the winning of Olympic medals as their foremost goal, they have also emphasized participation in the numerous international regattas that preceded each Olympics.
		At the 1968 Olympics in Mexico, Canada for the first time arrived equipped with alternate crew, complementary staff and spare boats - the kind of things the team needed all along to stay on par with other nations.
		All the while the Canadian sailing team had been competing at the international level; the CYA had been working behind the scenes to create a national sailing program in the yacht clubs across the country, developing young sailing talent and fostering the growth of the sport.
	www.sailing.ca /cst/history/index.asp (2039 words)

	Special: Athens Olympics 2004 \| The Christian Science Monitor
		At the 1968 Summer Games in Mexico City, fl American athletes used their position on the victory stand to display solidarity with the civil-rights movement, making "fl-power" hand gestures wearing fl gloves.
		In early February of 1980, the Olympic news at Lake Placid, N.Y. was that US President Jimmy Carter was asking the International Olympic Committee to move the summer games from Moscow.
		The official reason was "alleged violations of the Olympic Charter by US authorities," but Monitor correspondent Gary Thatcher paints a picture of plain-old politics: "Although the Soviet authorities will never officially admit it, they are exacting belated retribution for the US boycott of the Moscow Olympics of 1980." PDF.
	www.csmonitor.com /specials/oly2004/docs/oly_politics.html (719 words)

	wiki/1920 Summer Olympics Definition / wiki/1920 Summer Olympics Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Summer Olympic Games The Summer Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event held every four years, organised by the International Olympic Committee.
		The Olympics are the most prestigious of such events in the world, featuring a larger range of sports than others.
		Olympic victory is generally considered to be the most prestigious achievement in sports.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/1920_Summer_Olympics (2506 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The choice of Mexico City to host the 1968 Olympics was a controversial one because of the city's high altitude, 2,300m, which meant that the air contained 30% less oxygen than at sea level.
		The Mexico City Olympics, the first Summer Games to include sex testing for women, were blessed with many outstanding heroines.
		The 1968 Games also saw the first drug disqualification, as a Swedish entrant in the modern pentathlon, Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall, tested positivefor excessive alcohol.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1968 (406 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Sailing at the 2004 Summer Olympics
		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.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Sailing_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics (335 words)

	EdGate Summer Games
		Sprints: The very first race of the modern Olympics was the opening heat of the 100-meter dash.
		The standard Olympic middle distance events are the 800- and 1,500- meter races for women and men.
		Discus Throw: The discus throw is one of the oldest of all Olympic events, clearly tracing its origins to the early Greeks.
	www.edgate.com /summergames/spotlight_sport/track_field.php (1790 words)

	San Diego Metropolitan - The World’s First Binational Olympics Proposed For Tijuana And San Diego - December 2003
		The summer Olympics offer competition in 28 sports, with multiple venues for some, including aquatics, archery, athletics (track and field), badminton, baseball, basketball, boxing, canoeing and kayaking, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football (soccer), gymnastics, handball, hockey, judo, modern pentathlon, rowing, sailing, shooting, softball, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon, volleyball, weightlifting and wrestling.
		The 2010 winter Olympics have been awarded to Vancouver, Canada, and because the International Olympic Committee often rotates hemispheres, the U.S. bid for a summer Olympics in New York City in 2012 may be jeopardized by the Canadian winter location.
		The last U.S.-hosted summer Olympics were held in Atlanta in 1996, preceded by Los Angeles in 1984 and 1932 and by St. Louis in 1904, the first Olympic games in the U.S. While based on ancient Greek games, the modern Olympics were established in Athens in 1896.
	www.sandiegometro.com /2003/dec/coverstory2.html (1246 words)

	The History of the Olympic Games
		Small, local festivals were being called “Olympics” as early as the 17th century in places like England and France, but the discovery of the ruins of Olympia in the 19th century sparked interest in the games once again on an international scale.
		The Olympic relay, another well-known symbol of the games, in which the torch is lit in Olympia and run to the host city, was introduced in 1936.
		The Olympic anthem is played, the Olympic oath is read, and the torch is run into the stadium and used to light the main torch bowl.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~leannajf/olympics.html (1072 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").
		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.
		The events in the Summer Olympics include: archery, badminton, baseball, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, diving, equestrian, fencing, football (soccer), gymnastics, handball, hockey, judo, kayaking, marathon, pentathlon, ping pong, rowing, sailing, shooting, swimming, taekwando, tennis, track and field (many running, jumping, and throwing events), triathlon, volleyball, water polo, weightlifting, wrestling (freestyle and Greco-Roman).
	www.enchantedlearning.com /olympics (1311 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 More marketing disaster than success
		Mascots have been intimately connected to the Olympics since 1968 in Grenoble, France, when Schuss, a skier with rings on his head, emerged as the unofficial mascot.
		Olympic mascots had a great run from 1976 to 1984 -- from Schneemann (the mascot of the 1976 winter games at Innsbruck), a snowman whose design was way ahead of his time, to Uncle Sam, a bald eagle that held an Olympic torch (used in the 1984 Summer Games at Los Angeles).
		In the years between Barcelona and the 1996 summer games, designers added some muscle to Izzy, took the stars out of his eyes and added a mouth.
	www.espn.go.com /oly/summer00/s/2000/0915/745509.html (1076 words)

	1924 Summer Olympics: Definition and links.
		Their stories are depicted in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire.
		The marathon distance was fixed at 42 km and 195 m, from the distance run at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.
		The Olympic motto "Citius, Altius, Fortius" (Faster, Higher, Stronger), was used for the first time.
	www.encyclopedian.com /19/1924-Summer-Olympics.html (223 words)

	EdGate Summer Games
		Olympic boxers must be between the ages of 17 and 32; competitions are held in 12 weight divisions ranging from light flyweight (up to 48 kg, or about 106 lb) to super heavyweight (over 91 kg, or more than 200 lb).
		Olympic-style boxing is faster than the professional game, and the rules are vastly different as well.The scoring system in amateur boxing awards a point to the fighter who can connect with a punch and move away before his opponent can do the same.
		The International Olympic Committee is an invaluable resource for keeping up with the news.
	www.edgate.com /summergames/spotlight_sport/boxing.php (772 words)

	Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics was split into three categories:
		Mountain, held at the Parnitha Olympic Mountain Bike Venue.
		In the World and Olympic Records table shown at the start of each track event's subsection, the records in question were those which existed before the event.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cycling_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics (84 words)

	Sailing Source (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Olympic sailing launched on a low note-the 1896 races in Greece were cancelled for lack of wind-but there have been many high points since.
		Besides the record number of boats is the presence on the water of crowned heads of Europe, Olympic champions, a winner of the America's Cup as well as other world champions, all witness to the craze that has given rise to this unique rendezvous.
		Sailing the colourful RSA 48, Shosholoza crossed tacks with BMW Oracle Racing, the American team and Challenger of Record for the 32nd America's Cup, also sailing for the first time in Marseille.
	www.sailingsource.com /scuttlebutt/1660.php (2709 words)

	About SOTX
		In 1968, five years after she had started a summer day camp for children and adults with intellectual disabilities [mental retardation] at her home in Maryland, Eunice Kennedy Shriver saw her dream realized in Chicago at the first International Special Olympics Summer Games.
		Special Olympics Texas is a registered 501(c)(3), non-profit organization supported by private donations from individuals, corporations and organizations throughout the state.
		Special Olympics is "the most credible charity in America" according to a survey in the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
	www.sotx.org /about (454 words)

	Graduate & Adult Studies Local Sponsor of Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Helen Stephens, "The Fulton Flash," (pictured here with Jesse Owens) was enrolled at William Woods when she won her gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin; one for the women's 100 meters and another as part of the 4 x 100 meter relay.
		William Woods continues the tradition by being a local sponsor of the The Summer Olympics.
		Summer Olympic Events include: track and field, soccer, swimming, baseball, equestrian, sailing, greco-roman wresting and gymnastics.
	www.williamwoods.edu /gradadult/olympic.html (139 words)

	Inside Britannica
		This month the Summer Olympics return to Greece, the nation where the ancient games originated, and to Athens, the city where the first modern games were held in 1896.
		The rebirth of the Olympic movement was largely the result of the perseverance of the French educator Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who founded the International Olympic Committee.
		At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila ran in his bare feet along the cobblestones of the ancient Appian Way on his way to victory in the marathon.
	newsletters.britannica.com /newsletter_AUG04.html (323 words)

	Sydney 2000 Summer Games: Sailing
		In Savannah during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, where 30 medals were available and they were shared by 22 countries.
		If Henderson was proud of the Canadians in the two events, he's just as proud of Carrol Ann Alie of Ottawa in the women's board sailing, a sport in which women in their late 20s are considered washed up.
		As boss of Olympic sailing, he'll be patrolling the course in a 120-foot luxury boat.
	www.canoe.ca /2000GamesSailing/jun18_sailing.html (494 words)

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