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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)

	1980 Summer Olympics Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, were held in Moscow in the Soviet Union.
		NBC, which was thought to be another major one, cancelled its coverage in response to the U.S.-boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, and became a minor broadcaster as the network did air highlights and recaps of the games on a regular basis.
		Although approximately half of the 24 countries which boycotted the 1976 Summer Olympics participated in these, the Games were disrupted by another, even larger, boycott led by the United States followed by 64 other countries in protest at the 1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
	www.launchbase.org /encyclopedia/1980_Summer_Olympics (591 words)

	Wikipedia: 2000 Summer Olympics
		The ceremonies concluded with the lighting of the Olympic Flame.
		The first medals of the Games were awarded in the women's air rifle shooting event, which was won by Nancy Johnson of the United States.
		IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch, at his last Olympics, had to leave for home, as his wife was severely ill. Upon arrival, his wife had already passed away.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/2/20/2000_summer_olympics.html (672 words)

	1932 Summer Olympics
		An Olympic Village was built for the first time, occupied by the male athletes.
		Babe Didrikson wins two gold medals in the javelin throw and the hurdles event, and only loses a third in the high jump because her jumping technique is ruled inferior and is placed second.
		Finnish star Paavo Nurmi is barred from competing in the Olympic for being a professional.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/1/19/1932_summer_olympics.html (209 words)

	Winter Olympics - MSN Encarta
		The Olympics organization is headed by a president, elected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) members for an initial period of eight years.
		Alpine skiing, for men and women, has been part of the Olympic programme since 1948: the events are the downhill, the slalom, the giant slalom (since 1952), the super giant slalom or super-G (since 1988), and the combined event (downhill and slalom), which has been staged intermittently since 1936.
		Gillis Gräfström of Sweden (with three consecutive titles: 1920-1928), Karl Schäfer of Austria (1932, 1936), and Dick Button of the US (1948, 1952) are the only male skaters to retain their titles.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572547/winter_olympics.html (1241 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.
	ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ga/Games_of_the_I_Olympiad.html (876 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 2004 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Athens was chosen as the host city during the 106th IOC Session held in Lausanne in 05 September 1997,(date of the 25th anniversary of the Munich Massacre after surprisingly losing the bid to organize the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta nearly seven years before, on 18 September 1990, during the 96th IOC Session in Tokyo.
		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.hallencyclopedia.com /2004_Summer_Olympics (1826 words)

	1996 Summer Olympics
		Also during the games, the Centennial Olympic Park bombing took place on July 27, 1996 killing Alice Hawthorne and wounded 111 others, and causing the death of Melih Uzunyol by heart attack.
		Michelle Smith[?] of Ireland wins three gold medals and a bronze, but her victories are overshadowed by doping allegations, which are later reinforced as she is banned after failing a test in 1999.
		Amy Van Dyken[?] wins four gold medals in the Olympic swimming pool, the first American woman to win four titles in a single Olympics.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/19/1996_Olympics.html (364 words)

	2012 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad, will be held in London, United Kingdom from 27 July to 12 August 2012.
		The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG) was put in place to oversee the development of the Games after the success of the bid, and held their first board meeting on 7 October 2005.
		London's bid featured 28 sports, in line with other recent Summer Olympics, but the IOC voted to drop baseball and softball from the 2012 Games two days after it selected London as the host city.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics (2145 words)

	1960 summer olympics - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Rome had been awarded the organisation of the 1908 Summer Olympics, but had to decline and pass the honours to London.
		They would not be allowed to return until 1992, after the abandonment of apartheid and during the transition to a fl-majority government.
		It was the second time an athlete died in competition at the Olympics, after the death of Portuguese marathon runner Francisco Lazaro at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/1960-summer-olympics (275 words)

	Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		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)

	SLAM! Sports: 2000 Summer Games: History of the Games
		The first Olympic village was built and every athlete was housed, fed and transported for less than $2 a day.
		When Walsh was shot and killed years later an autopsy showed "she" was actually a man. If a sex-test had been used in 1932 Strike would have won gold.
		A sex-test was not introduced at the Olympics until 1968.
	www.canoe.ca /2000GamesHistory/1932games.html (278 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Olympic Venues
		Olympic Stadium will seat nearly 110,000 fans and host the opening and closing ceremonies, track and field, soccer (men's finals).
		Triathlon is in the Olympics for the first time and will be held with the Sydney skyline, the landmark Opera House and the nearby Harbour Bridge as a backdrop.
		The Sydney International Shooting Centre cost $20 million to build and includes indoor ranges for air rifle, air pistol and moving target disciplines, a 25-meter range, a 50-meter range and finals range, and an outdoor range for the trap and skeet shotgun events.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/s/venues.html (545 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS
		Shooting originated as a means of survival, as it was practised in order to hunt game for food.
		The National Rifle Association (USA) was formed in 1871 and provided the impetus for the development of shooting as an organised form of sport in the United States.
		As of 1996 in Atlanta, the shooting programme was segregated, with men's events being separated from the women's.
	www.olympic.org /uk/sports/programme/history_uk.asp?DiscCode=SH&sportCode=SH (293 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)

	1988 Summer Olympics
		After boycotts of the Olympics in 1976, 1980 and 1984, the Games were again boycotted, but only by four nations: North Korea, Cuba, Ethiopia and Nicaragua.
		Christa Rothenburger[?] becomes the first (and last) athlete to win Olympic medals at the Winter Olympics and Summer Olympics in the same year.
		Table tennis is introduced at the Olympics, with China and the host nation both winning two titles.
	www.findword.org /19/1988-summer-olympics.html (679 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics
		The 1896 Summer Olympics, formally called the Games of the I Olympiad, were the first modern Summer Olympic Games 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.
		However, the 1900 Summer Olympics were already planned for Paris and, barring the so-called Intercalated Games of 1906, the Olympics did not return to Greece until the 2004 Summer Olympics.
		The true origin of the modern Olympics was acknowledged by De Coubertin as being in Much Wenlock, a rural market town in the English county of Shropshire.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/NewSport/Olympia1896.html (3549 words)

	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.
		When International Olympic Committee expressed its concern over the progress of construction work of the new Olympic venues, a new Organizing Committee was formed under President Gianna Angelopoulos–Daskalaki.
	www.askfactmaster.com /2004_Summer_Olympics (1705 words)

	SR.com: Summer olympics briefly
		Australia easily defeated Britain for the gold medal in the 4,000-meter team pursuit, adding the Olympic title to its three consecutive world championships in the event.
		Alexandre Despatie led the Olympic 3-meter springboard preliminaries, keeping the powerful Chinese out of their customary top spot.
		Hungary finished preliminaries unbeaten and secured an automatic semifinal place in Olympic water polo by edging Russia 7-6 in a rematch of the Sydney 2000 final.
	www.spokesmanreview.com /tools/story_pf.asp?ID=22647 (1074 words)

	1920 Olympics
		The Olympic quadrennial, scheduled for Berlin in 1916, was interrupted by World War I–the so-called “War to End All Wars,” which had involved 28 countries and killed nearly 10 million troops in four years.
		The Antwerp Games were also noteworthy for the introduction of the Olympic oath–uttered for the first time by Belgium fencer Victor Bion–and the Olympic flag, with its five multicolored, intersecting rings.
		Environmental factors in the summer Olympics in historical perspective.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114439.html (452 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1928 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		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.
		The torch relay was however not started until the 1936 Summer Olympics.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1928_Summer_Olympics (293 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 Olympic facilities were as impressive as the cutting edge facilities that brought the Summer Olympics to a new level in Munich (1972).
		The Winter Olympics of 2002 were overshadowed by the terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001.
	www.fanbay.net /olympics/modern_history.htm (2739 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 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.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~leannajf/olympics.html (1072 words)

	BBC SPORT \| HISTORY \| Athens 1896
		The first of the modern Olympic Games was staged in Athens, Greece, although financial difficulties almost saw it staged in Budapest, Hungary.
		The majority of the participants were from the host nation with tennis, track and field, fencing, weightlifting, cycling, wrestling, shooting, swimming and gymnastics all contested.
		The first Olympic winner was American James Brendan Connolly who took the triple jump with a leap of 13.71 metres.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/olympics2000/fans_guide/features/history/872542.stm (249 words)

	Olympic Sport Debut Years quiz -- free game
		This quiz is based on 25 sports at the Olympics.
		Fencing is one of the few events that has been featured as a medal event at every Olympics, commening with the first of the modern era in 1896 at Athens?
		At which Olympics was shooting introduced as a medal event?
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=115147 (329 words)

	SUMMER OLYMPIC STATISTICS
		The ranking is performed neither according to gold medal nor medal total but according to points (3 points for a gold, 2 for a silver and 1 for a bronze).
		In some cases, you will find "half medals": In the early Olympics, some people had unprecise nationality, therefore two countries shared the medal.
		It includes all Olympic results from Athens 1896 to Athens 2004 (when the sport is completed).
	www.darmoni.net /joete.htm (122 words)

	Light the Torch - Summer Olympics
		She won the gold in the 100m during the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles.
		It was during the 1924 Olympics in Paris.
		The 9 Disciplines are as enumerated: Aquatics, Athletics, Cycling, Fencing, Gymnastics, Shooting, Tennis, Weightlifting, and Wrestling.
	www.lightthetorch.net /category/summer-olympics (710 words)

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