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	Glasses Prescription Shooting
		Shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Men's individual trap shooting - The men's individual trap shooting competition was one of 15 shooting sports events on the Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics programme.
		Shooting was conducted in three rounds, with each shooter firing at 30 clay birds in the first round, 20 in the second, and 30 in the third.
		Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics - Trap shooting - The trap shooting was one of the competitions in the Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics events in Paris.
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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)

	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.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/2/0/0/2004_Summer_Olympics_330c.html (2001 words)

	Mormon Olympics
		The Olympic motto, “Citius, Altius, Fortius,” (Swifter, Higher, Stronger) was introduced along with the tradition during the Closing Ceremony of hoisting the flags of the IOC, the current hosting country, and the following host.
		The Olympic Flame was lit by Yoshinori Sakai, a student who had been born in Hiroshima on the very day the atomic bomb struck.
		A tragic act of terrorism occurred when a bomb exploded in the Centennial Olympic Park, an open area that was not officially part of the Games and therefore not under the scrutiny of the Olympic security system; one person was killed and 110 were injured.
	www.mormonolympians.org /mormon_olympians/summer_olympics.html (2464 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1900 Paris
		Olympic godfather Pierre de Coubertin may well have wished the Greeks had gotten their wish, once he took stock of the fiasco his own country, France, made of the Games.
		Besides, Paris was already hosting the World's Fair in 1900, and it seemed an obvious and appealing tie-in to the IOC to stage the Olympics in the City of Light.
		Cricket, croquet, golf and tug of war all made their Olympic debuts in Paris, and were soon to exit the Olympic stage, along with one of the most curious of all Olympic events: the obstacle swimming race.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1900.html (1184 words)

	Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		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)

	Go For the Gold
		The modern Olympics hold an arts festival, where the culture of the host country is showcased in various art forms.
		But such present Olympic contests as cycling, canoeing and sailing, football (soccer), basketball, judo, rifle shooting, and water polo were unknown in early times.
		A poster from the 1900 Universal Exhibition shows a a female fencer holding in her right hand the three traditional weapons — foil, sword and sabre — even though women could not compete until 1924.
	teacher.scholastic.com /activities/athens_games/modern.htm (758 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics
		These were the first celebration of the Olympic Games since the recreation of the ancient Greek Olympics with the founding of the International Olympic Committee in 1894.
		The weightlifting contests are also conducted in the Olympic stadium, with Launceston Elliot of Great Britain and Viggo Jensen of Denmark taking a first and a second place each in the single-hand and double-hand contests.
		In the morning, preliminary events of the shooting competition are held, while the first tennis matches are also played.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/18/1896_summer_olympics.shtml (886 words)

	Shooting : Sports of the modern Olympic Games
		Women's shooting events were first included in the Olympics in 1984.
		He teaches himself to shoot with his left, and wins the gold in the rapid-fire pistol event at the 1948 London Games.
		Oscar G Swahn of Sweden won a gold medal for shooting at the 1912 Olympics, when he was 65 years old, and took a silver medal eight years later.
	www.topendsports.com /events/summer/sports/shooting.htm (137 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)

	Learn more about 1936 Summer Olympics in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Although awarded before the Nazi Party came to power in Germany, the government saw the Olympics as a golden opportunity to promote their fascist ideology.
		For the first time the Olympic Flame was brought to the Olympic Town by a torch relay, with the starting point in Olympia, Greece.
		The games were the first to have live television coverage, Telefunken and Fernseh broadcast over seventy hours of coverage to specially erected booths throughout the city.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /1/19/1936_summer_olympics.html (481 words)

	azcentral.com \| Summer Camp Guide \| Sports & Recreational
		Shooting, dribbling skills, ball handling, defensive play, rebounding and many other skills will be taught.
		Shooting Camp, July 10-13; Offensive Specialty Camp, July 17-20.
		Offensive and defensive drills, one-on-one and team situations and fundamentals such as rebounding, ball handling, passing and shooting.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/calendar/summercamp/camps06_sports.html (2863 words)

	1924 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The 1924 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VIII Olympiad, were held in 1924 in Paris, France.
		The marathon distance was fixed at 42.195 km, from the distance run at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.
		Ireland was given formal recognition as an independent nation in the Olympic Movement in Paris in 1924 and it was at these games that Ireland made its first appearance in an Olympic Games as an independent nation.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1924_Summer_Olympics (426 words)

	All Olympic Sports - Archery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		At the Olympics we saw archery for the first time in 1900 (then 6 parts big).
		But at the next Olympics, in 1920 (in connection with the first World War in 1916), there was an enormous interest for archery, so there were 10 parts of archery.
		The men had to shoot with 144 arrows, at distances of 90m, 70m, 50m and 30m (per part 36 arrows).
	library.thinkquest.org /25114/eng/sporten/boogschieten.html (209 words)

	1932 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, were held in 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
		Fewer than half the number of participants from the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam competed in 1932.
		An Olympic Village was built for the first time, occupied by the male athletes.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1932_Summer_Olympics (376 words)

	Summer Olympics: Aquatics
		In the Olympics Swimming has 26 individual events and six relay or team events for both men and women.
		Swimming was one of the sports at the first modern Olympic games in 1896.
		Water polo was included in 1900, Diving in 1904, and Synchronised swimming was added in 1984.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/aquatics.htm (280 words)

	CNNSI.com - Olympics Sports - IOC recommends dropping baseball, softball - Wednesday August 28, 2002 08:49 PM
		The International Olympic Committee's program commission made the recommendations in a report delivered to the IOC executive board, according to Olympic officials familiar with the document.
		Golf, which was in the Olympics in 1900 and 1904, was proposed for inclusion in the Atlanta Games but was blocked because of controversy over the membership policy of the Augusta National club, which has no women members.
		Elimination from the Olympic program can represent a death blow for smaller sports, which rely on millions of dollars in revenues from Olympic television and marketing revenues for their existence.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/news/2002/08/28/dropping_sports_ap (900 words)

	The History of the Olympic Games
		They were held in the same year as the summer Olympics until 1994, when they began to be held on separate 4-year cycles that were staggered by two years.
		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 next two games in 1900 in Paris and 1904 in St. Louis were not as successful, however, due largely to the fact that they were included in the celebration of the World’s Fair in the same year as well as the lack of large-scale international representation.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~leannajf/olympics.html (1072 words)

	Summer Olympics
		Sailing first became an Olympic sport in Paris in 1900, where time handicaps were used to referee the race.
		Olympic racing is now conducted with boats categorised into one-design classes based on similar weights and dimensions.
		Olympic history abounds with tales of athletes who overcame crippling adversity to win gold medals, but Karoly Takacs' comeback may be the best.
	library.thinkquest.org /CR0214546/solympics.html (1844 words)

	ANCIENT OLYMIPCS!!! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		They differed in the number and type of events, the competitors and the scheduling and location of the events.The first real olympics were held in 776 B.C. There were not as many events in the ancient olympics as there are today and only free men who spoke greek could compete in them.
		Prizes for the Ancient olympics were often shields or cups, but now the prize is a bronze medal for third place, a silver medal for second place, and a gold coated silver medal for first.
		This year, the winter olympics will be held in Salt lake city, and in 2004, the Summer Olympics will be held in Athens, Greece.
	www.expage.com /ancientolympics1 (326 words)

	St. Petersburg Times Online: Summer Olympics Athens 2004 viewers guide
		Laura Wilkinson was one of the surprises of the Sydney Olympics, roaring from eighth place to first in the finals of the 10-meter platform and snatching gold from the favored Li Na of China - all while diving with a heavily wrapped broken foot.
		ABOUT THE SPORT: First introduced to the Olympics in 1900, individual archery was on hiatus from 1920 to 1972 because there was no governing set of rules.
		To train for Olympic water polo, Azevedo, perhaps the best player in the world, and his American teammates spend as much as six hours a day in the water and another couple in the training room.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/webspecials04/olympicstab/index.shtml (1933 words)

	Summer Olympics: Archery
		People (men, women and even children) have to shoot an arrow at a target that is 70 m away.
		Each archer shoots six ends of three arrows at a time, with a maximum of 40 seconds allowed per arrow.
		In the Olympics there are individual events and team events for men and women.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/archery.htm (205 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Rowing Fan Guide
		While a record 51 countries qualified for Sydney, the United States is the only one to send a full contingent of 14 boats and 48 athletes.
		Britain's Steve Redgrave, who won gold at the past four Olympics, is switching from coxless pairs to the coxless four, an event won in 1992 and 1996 by the crew known as Australia's Oarsome Foursome.
		Certain crew configurations may or may not include an extra member, called a coxswain (pronounced cox'n), who does not row but uses a rudder to steer and also coaches the rowers.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/rowing/s/viewers.html (358 words)

	Lincoln City Libraries - Reference - In the News: 2004 Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Since 1896, the summer Olympic Games have been held every 4 years, with the exceptions of 1940 and 1944 during the waging of World War II.
		At the last summer Olympics (2000 in Sydney, Australia), 199 countries were represented by 10,651 athletes (4,069 women, 6,582 men), who competed in 300 separate events.
		The following are a sampling of videos featuring footage from past Olympics, plus the soundtrack CD including music used during the Olympics television coverage of the past 20 years.
	www.lcl.lib.ne.us /depts/ref/inthenews-olympics2004.htm (885 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1980 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Moscow won the bid to organise the Games by defeating Los Angeles, which would host the next Olympics.
		Women's field hockey is Olympic for the first time, but all major nations boycott the tournament.
		The team of Zimbabwe is invited just a week before the start of the Games, but it wins the nation's first gold medal.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1980_Summer_Olympics (332 words)

	History of the Modern Summer and Winter Olympics from Fanbay.net
		The Summer and Winter Olympics of 1932 were both held in the United States, in Los Angeles, CA and Lake Placid, NY, respectively.
		The U.S.A. won 30% of the Summer Olympic medals—their highest percentage over the years—not counting Saint Louis, where the U.S. won 84% of the medals because the attendance was even more skewed toward Americans.
		The Olympic facilities were as impressive as the cutting edge facilities that brought the Summer Olympics to a new level in Munich (1972).
	www.fanbay.net /olympics/modern_history.htm (2739 words)

	1972 Olympics — Infoplease.com
		The United States also lost an Olympic basketball game for the first time ever (they were 62-0) when the Soviets were given three chances to convert a last-second inbound pass and finally won, 51-50.
		Olympic tragedy: 1972 Revisited: the shadow of terrorism still haunts the Olympics almost 30 years after Israeli athletes were massacred......
		The Olympics of Terror: at the 1972 Games, Palestinian militants took Israeli athletes hostage, bringing terrorism to the world stage.......
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114715.html (526 words)

	United States Olympic Committee - SHOOTING SPORTS- Wallace and Loper Take Gold Medals in Trap at the 2002 USA Shooting ...
		Dennison, shooting in American trap since he was 11 and the holder of six Texas state ATA titles had never tired his hand at the more difficult international trap game and literally 'walked through the front gate' just two weeks ago, ready to give the Junior Olympics his best shot.
		The athletes for this invitation-only championship were selected based on their results in Junior Olympic qualifying events in their home states, by winning their state's ATA junior 16-yard singles title or NSSA junior skeet title, or by competing at the USA Shooting National Championships.
		USA Shooting is recognized by the US Olympic Committee (USOC) and the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) as the national governing body for the Olympic and international shooting sports in the United States.
	www.usoc.org /73_6228.htm (929 words)

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