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	2000 Summer Olympics
		The cover for the DVD of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics showing fireworks in the background and the lighting of the Olympic Flame by Cathy Freeman (who subsequently won the 400 m title).
		During the raising of the Olympics Flag, the Olympic Hymn was sung by the Millennium Choir of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia.
		Organisation of the 2000 Summer Paralympics was the responsibility of SPOC the Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/2/20/2000_summer_olympics.html (2876 words)

	Summer 2000 Olympics - More Coverage
		Less than 24 hours after winning gold in the women's 400 meters, Cathy Freeman was asked about her long-term future but preferred to focus only on her next race.
		The rush to capitalize on Olympic glory is a tricky one, agents say.
		New role, same Overbeck for U.S. Carla Overbeck is hurt and not playing for the U.S. women, but she's still an integral part of the team.
	www.espn.go.com /oly/summer00/more.html (263 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Sailing Fan Guide
		It is suited for smaller sailors, and thus is sailed as a women's event at the Olympics.
		It is the largest and heaviest boat in the Olympic fleet and carries a spinnaker for downwind legs.
		Olympic debut: The 49er is a 16-foot double-handed, high-performance dinghy.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/sailing/s/viewers.html (449 words)

	ISAF - www.sailing.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		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)

	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)

	Athens Olympics 2004
		Fittingly for an Olympic Games that was, more than most, about beginnings and endings, the honour of carrying the Australian flag and leading the team at the closing ceremony was given to veteran swimmer Petria Thomas.
		As is the fate of many Olympic athletes, the members of the men's hockey team who won perhaps the most thrilling of Australia's 17 gold medals will return to relative obscurity once the celebrations have died down.
		Olympic historian Harry Gordon speaks to Roy Masters about his impression of how the Games will be remembered.
	www.smh.com.au /olympics (464 words)

	2000 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 2000 Summer Olympics or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were the Summer Olympic Games held in 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
		Because the wife of Juan Antonio Samaranch, the IOC President, was seriously ill and not able to accompany her husband to the Olympics, former Australian Olympic Champion swimmer, Dawn Fraser, accompanied Samaranch during the Australian cultural display, explaining to him some of the more obscure cultural references.
		People in Canada who wanted to see the Olympics between then and the closing ceremonies had to turn to TSN because the CBC was broadcasting news coverage related to the passing and state funeral of the former prime minister.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2000_Summer_Olympics (2123 words)

	GBROLYMPICS.COM / LONDON-OLYMPICS.COM - Olympic Games Medallists
		The modern Olympics were first held in 1896.
		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.
		Nationalities given are those of the countries the medallists were representing at the time of the event.
	www.gbrathletics.com /olympic (336 words)

	Racing to Sydney
		The Sydney Olympics are still almost one year away, but for Tampa Bay sailors Mark Mendelblatt and Robbie Daniel, the path to Sydney might look a little more like a downhill run at this point after years of hard work.
		Olympic officials wanted to test their facilities and the sailing venue, and the top sailors from around the world found out where they stand against each other one year before the Olympics.
		Sailing with a different crewmember, Daniel finished third at the '96 trials, which were won by the New Orleans-based team of John Lovell and Charlie Ogletree.
	www.southwindssailing.com /articles/9910/Racing_to_Sydney.html (1701 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)

	Olympic Preview: Sailing
		Mostly because seven of the current classes of boats being used in Olympic competition are actually small dinghies or sailboards and are far from the definition of a yacht.
		Another reason Olympic officials decided on the switch was to lessen the public perception of the sport as one for the wealthy elite.
		The action will be held at the Agios Kosmas Olympic Sailing Center on the coast of southern Attica and comprise eleven events in nine different boat classes and two racing categories.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/ol-sailing.html (511 words)

	City Paper, May 2000
		Kirk Culbertson is the executive director of the Downtown Sailing Center (DSC), a 6-year-old nonprofit organization whose goal is to make sailing fun, convenient, and--most important--affordable to all.
		Annapolis is Maryland’s—if not the East Coast’s—de facto sailing center; Baltimore’s waters are generally regarded as the domain of cargo ships, water taxis, and paddleboats.
		Culbertson was a kid himself when he first took to the tiller—he’s been sailing since age 11 and started racing boats on the Chesapeake at 13.
	www.downtownsailing.org /Articles/citypaper_5_2000.htm (1549 words)

	Olympics
		Olympic ring border, list of words related to bobsledding and luge to use in poem.
		When the Olympics are over, use the results from your chart to answer the questions.
		This reading comprehension is a biography of Olympic champion Kerri Strug and the story of her famous gold-medal win in gymnastics at the 1996 Olympics.
	www.abcteach.com /directory/theme_units/sports/olympics (1215 words)

	summer olympics sailing
		2004 Summer Olympics - definition of 2004 Summer Olympics in - - commonly known as the 2004 Summer Olympics were the 28th Summer Olympic Games.
		Summer Olympics: Sailing - There are nine Olympic sailing categories.
		Olympic Preview: Sailing - The action will be held at the Agios Kosmas Olympic Sailing Center on the coast - OLYMPICS 2004.
	www.olympic-headquarters.net /summer-olympics-sailing.htm (319 words)

	ESPN.com - OLY/SUMMER04/SAILING - Fierce Meltemi winds capsize 10 sailboats
		Belgium's Sebastien Godefroid was sailing side-by-side with Britain's Ben Ainslie just 100 yards from the downwind finish of the second race when a breeze caught him from behind and put him in the drink.
		The most impressive performance of the day was by Ainslie, the Finn favorite who needs to sail the rest of the regatta almost perfectly because of a loss in the protest room Saturday night.
		Ainslie, who won the Laser-class gold medal in 2000 and the silver in 1996, was disqualified from his second-place finish in Saturday's second race because of a right-of-way infringement.
	sports.espn.go.com /oly/summer04/sailing/news/story?id=1859709 (891 words)

	Summer 2000 Box Office Preview
		The summer games begin in May at theaters across North America as Hollywood rolls out its best and brightest athletes in an attempt to cash in on the busiest season of all.
		Summer is routinely a season filled with movies packed with action, special effects, stunts, and violence as a steady flow of testosterone flicks makes its way into cinemas throughout the months.
		But the current scouting report shows that while the summer box office will be red hot, it will have to work some serious overtime hours if it wants a chance at beating last year's record summer which collected $3 billion from the wallets of moviegoers across the United States and Canada.
	www.boxofficeguru.com /summer2000preview.htm (1816 words)

	DSC Access-Ability Sailing Programs
		To make sailing accessible to people of all ages and abilities, the DSC with the help of a number of local organizations and volunteers has developed programs specifically designed to assist those with limited access to the water due to disabilities or low-income have access to sailing.
		Unlike other outreach programs which only a one-time sailing experience, the DSC is working to offer a sailing program which teaches children the fundamentals of sailing each day for a week.
		To support all of the Access-Able sailing programs, the DSC teaches local high school students to sail so that they can serve as aides to instructors all while experience the joy of sailing and fulfilling their community service requirements.
	www.downtownsailing.org /education/access-able.htm (779 words)

	Corinthian Sailing Club
		Sections of the deteriorating docks were replaced including boardboat pads, south sail folding area, and junior Laser pads.
		In 2002, the davits at the south end of the club were turned to open to the north to increase their utility.
		Snipe Fleet 1 voted to move to CSC in 1993 to preserve the continuity of the fleet on the lake.
	www.cscsailing.org /club_history_present.html (965 words)

	Feature Article - 98-09
		This last European summer ("98), we bought a long wheel-base, high-top Fiat Ducato van, which we had fitted out with two bunks, a small kitchen and very colourful decals of a skiff with it's "kite" in the colours of the SA flag.
		We were scheduled to compete in the Sydney Harbour Olympic Classes Regatta, and then between Christmas and New Year head down to Melbourne for three weeks of training before the "99 World Championships which is a selection regatta for the 2000 Olympics.
		After this summer in Australia, our plan is to spend the European summer of "99 travelling the European Olympic Circuit for six months after which we have our sights set on representing South Africa at the Pre-Olympic Regatta to be held in Sydney in September 1999.
	www.sailing.co.za /oldfeat/1999/fa_9901.htm (2169 words)

	The Beaufort Gazette: Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		BALTIMORE (AP) - Former Olympic biathlon champion Myriam Bedard was in police custody in Maryland on Saturday on a child abduction charge after U.S. marshals found the athlete and her daughter at a hotel on the girl's 12th birthday.
		KUWAIT CITY (AP) - The IOC is perfectly happy with London's preparations for the 2012 Olympics and insists the sharp rise in long-term infrastructure costs does not affect the financing of the games themselves.
		Trevor Graham, a track and field coach of Olympic athletes, was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury for his role in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) steroid distribution case.
	www.beaufortgazette.com /24hour/olympics (870 words)

	Scuttlebutt: Archived Newsletters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		She was fourth at the Boat U.S. Santa Maria Cup in late May. An Intercollegiate Sailing Association All-American in 1989 and '91 while at Brown University, Swett was a port trimmer aboard Mighty Mary in the 1995 America's Cup.
		She undertook two Olympic campaigns in the Europe class, finishing second out of 19 boats at the 1996 Europe Olympic Team Trials and sixth out of 23 boats at the 2000 Europe Olympic Team Trials.
		In 1948, the Olympic single-handed sailing competition was held in Firefly dinghies; it was Elvstrom's first Olympics and his first gold medal.
	www.sailingscuttlebutt.com /archived_Detail.asp?key=1685 (1958 words)

	Summer Olympics: Taekwondo
		In the Olympics the contestants must wear a body protector, forearm protection, shin guards and tooth brace that protects your mouth from getting hit.
		In the Olympics there will be competitions for men and women.
		Taekwondo became an official Olympic sport in the 2000 Olympics.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/taekwondo.htm (169 words)

	Cardinal At The 2000 Summer Olympics ::
		British discus thrower Robert Weir competes in a qualifying round of the men's discus throw at the Summer Olympics Sunday, Sept. 24, 2000, at Olympic Stadium in Sydney.
		Chryste Gaines of the United States, competes in a frst round heat of the 100m at the Summer Olympics Friday, Sept. 22, 2000, at Olympic Stadium in Sydney.
		U.S. swimmer Gabrielle Rose competes in a heat of the women's 200m individual medley Monday, Sept. 18, 2000 at the Sydney International Aquatic Center during the Summer Olympics in Sydney.
	gostanford.cstv.com /genrel/092400aac.html?page=1 (497 words)

	Sports: 2000 Summer Olympics
		NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol believes the Olympics is one of the few times the family gathers together around the TV.
		So naturally, when mom, dad and the kids were sharing a bowl of popcorn around 8:30, and the dog was snoozing on the rug, the network gave them...
		Summer fling leaves medal hopes on thin ice
	www.sptimes.com /News/webspecials/olympics2000 (280 words)

	1992 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The 1992 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were held in 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
		All of the IOC countries participated in the Games for the first time since Munich 1972 Summer Olympics.
		Baseball was introduced at the Olympics, with Cuba won the gold medal, Chinese Taipei got silver medal and Japan was Bronze medal.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1992_Summer_Olympics (583 words)

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