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  1936 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, were held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany.
The Berlin Olympics also saw the introduction to the ceremonies of the Olympic Torch bringing the Olympic Flame by relay from Olympia.
The Olympic Flame was used for the second time at these games, but they marked the first time it was brought to the Olympic Town by a torch relay, with the starting point in Olympia, Greece.
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 1936 Summer Olympics: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The international olympic committee is an organisation based in lausanne, switzerland, created by pierre de coubertin in 1894 to reinstate the ancient...
The united states olympic committee (usoc) is a non-profit organization that is the national olympic committee for the united states....
Lutz long (1930-1943) is an german olympic athlete who was posthumously awarded the pierre de coubertin medal for his sportmanship at the 1936 summer...
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 1984 Summer Olympics Palaver @ LocalColorArt.com (Local Color Art)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Los Angeles was selected on May 18, 1978 on the 80th IOC session at Athens, Greece without voting, because it was the only city to bid to host the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Nawal El Moutawakel of Morocco becomes the first female Olympic champion of an Islamic nation, and the first of her country in the 400 m hurdles.
Olympic soccer was unexpectedly played before massive crowds throughout America, with several sell-outs at the 100,000+ seat Rose Bowl.
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The Olympic Games were held every four years in Ancient Greece, at a small village in Pelopponisos called Olympia.
The 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin was an illustration, perhaps best recognised in retrospect, where an ideology was developing which used the event to strengthen its spread through propaganda.
The closeness of art and sport in these times was revealed by the nature of the Olympic Games which, as we have seen, were celebrations of both sporting and artistic achievements, poetry, sculpture and architecture.
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 Articles - 1936 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
She was also the first to introduce the Olympic torch to the ceremonies.
(According to Olympic rules, an athlete can delay his participation if he is getting advice from his coach, as long as he does not sit down, in which case, he would be disqualified.) So, for approximately twenty-five minutes, Farrell spoke nonsense to him while Owens waited to catch his breath and Germans yelled at them.
* Despite being from non-fascist countries the Canadian Olympic Team, the British and the French Olympic Team saluted Hitler (in a gesture of friendship) during opening ceremonies.
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