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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)

  
 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.
Lugeing entered the Olympic repertoire in 1964 and has been dominated by German participants; men compete for singles and doubles events, while women vie for singles only.
uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572547/winter_olympics.html   (1241 words)

  
 Wikipedia: 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.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/1/19/1932_summer_olympics.html   (198 words)

  
 1964 Summer Olympics
Tokyo had already been awarded with the organisation of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honour had been passed to Helsinki because of Japan's involvement in China.
The 1940 Olympics were eventually cancelled because of the outbreak of World War II.
Yoshinori Sakai, who lit the Olympic Flame, was born in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day the atomic bomb exploded there.
www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/1/19/1964_summer_olympics.html   (244 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)

  
 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.
South Africa appears in the Olympic arena for the last time under the apartheid regime.
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: 2007-08-23)
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   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
Athens was chosen as the host city 1997 after surprisingly having lost the bid organize the 1996 Summer Olympics the celebration of the 100th anniversary the modern Olympic Games.
Olympic Stadium the designated facility the opening and closing ceremonies is still under construction with an estimated completion date July 20 some three weeks before the games The current pace of preparation makes the to finish the Athens venues one of tightest in Olympics history.
Since the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble France it has been the tradition to a mascot for the games and this the official mascots are brother and sister Phevos and Athena named after the god of light music and the goddess of wisdom respectively.
www.freeglossary.com /2004_Summer_Olympics   (561 words)

  
 1976 Summer Olympics
The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, were held in 1976 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The Olympic Stadium, a daring design of French architect Roger Taillibert, remains a lasting monument to the huge deficit, as it never had an effective retractable roof, and the tower was only completed after the Olympics.
This was seen as a major threat to the future of the Olympic Games, and was not until the financially successful 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles that cities began to line up to be hosts again.
1976-summer-olympics.ask.dyndns.dk   (913 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: Volleyball
In the Olympics there are two different kinds of volleyball, Volleyball and Beach Volleyball.
Volleyball became an Olympic sport in 1964 and Beach Volleyball became an Olympic sport in 1996.
In the Olympics both Volleyball and Beach Volleyball are played by men and women.
www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/volleyball.htm   (222 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)

  
 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)

  
 ipedia.com: 1996 Summer Olympics Article
Softball, beach volleyball and mountainbiking debut on the Olympic programme, together with women's football (soccer) and lightweight rowing.
Cycling professionals were admitted to the Olympics, with five-time Tour de France winner Miguel Induráin winning the inaugural individual time trial event.
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.
www.ipedia.com /1996_summer_olympics.html   (488 words)

  
 Saudi Athletes in Atlanta Strive to Build on Their Nation's Olympic Tradition
The Olympics have always inspired feelings of national pride, both in the inhabitants of the host country and in the inhabitants of every country sending athletes to the games.
For the first time ever, the Kingdom's soccer team was represented in the Olympics, and although it lost its first game to Brazil and tied its second with Malaysia, it was a great moment in Saudi soccer history and set the course for the national soccer team's participation in future Olympics.
In the 25th Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, in 1992, Saudi athletes represented the Kingdom in a number of sports, including some in which the Kingdom had never before competed, such as gymnastics, table tennis and swimming.
www.saudiembassy.net /publications/magsummer96/olympics.html   (951 words)

  
 2004 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.
The 2004 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony was held on August 13.
The Mayor of Athens, Dora Bakoyianni, passed the Olympic Flag to the Mayor of Beijing, Wang Qishan.
www.askfactmaster.com /2004_Summer_Olympics   (1705 words)

  
 1964 Olympics
And Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina won six medals for the third Olympics in a row.
Environmental factors in the summer Olympics in historical perspective.
Historical overview of the Paralympics, Special Olympics, and Deaflympics.
www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114650.html   (510 words)

  
 Timeline 1964
1964 Mar 13, In a notorious case, 38 residents of a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens failed to respond to the cries of Kitty Genovese, 28, as she was being stabbed to death.
1964 Jun 23, Henry Cabot Lodge resigned as the U.S. envoy to Vietnam and was succeeded by Maxwell Taylor.
1964 J. Cronin and V. Fitch of Princeton Univ. showed that at least one phenomenon in nature- the decay of a particle called the K0L meson- was not invariant under the CP (charge conjugation and parity) operation.
timelines.ws /20thcent/1964.HTML   (10404 words)

  
 1928 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
For the first time, the Olympic Flame was lit during the Olympics.
For the first time, the parade of nations started with Greece, which holds the origins of the Olympics, and ended with the host country, a tradition still continued until this day.
The 1906 Olympics were organised by the IOC, but are currently not officially recognised by the IOC.
1928-summer-olympics.ask.dyndns.dk   (286 words)

  
 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
The 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki started in spectacular fashion with Pavvo Nurmi, then aged 55, entering the stadium with the Olympic flame and lighting the cauldron on the ground.
It seemed appropriate that the most impressive achievements in Helsinki should be those of another long-distance runner, Emil Zatopek of Czechoslovakia, who became the only person in Olympic history to win the 5,000, 10,000 and marathon at the same Olympics.
Interior view of the Olympic Stadium during the Opening Ceremony in front of the witnesses.
www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1952   (398 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)

  
 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)

  
 Sports and Games/Olympics/Olympics Sub-category List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
The lowest Olympic show-jumping score obtained by a winner is no faults, and is shared by František Ventura of Czechoslovakia, on Eliot, 1928; Alwin...
The most Olympic gold medals won in an endurance event is five by Steve Redgrave (United Kingdom) who won a gold medal at five consecutive Olympic...
The most Olympic diving medals won is five, by Klaus Dibiasi (Italy, three gold and two silver from 1964 to 1976) and Greg Louganis (USA, four gold...
www.guinnessworldrecords.com /content_pages/record_subcategory.asp?subcategoryid=71   (264 words)

  
 Lincoln City Libraries - Reference - In the News: 2004 Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
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)

  
 1948 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
After a hiatus of 12 years caused by the outbreak of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
For the first time, Olympic diplomas were awarded to the 6th highest placed athletes.
In a dramatic finish in the marathon, Belgian Étienne Gailly entered the stadium first, but was so physically drained that he could barely walk around the track.
1948-summer-olympics.ask.dyndns.dk   (269 words)

  
 2004 Summer Olympics
Athens was chosen as the host city during the 106th IOC Session held in Lausanne in 05 September 1997, 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.
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.
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/NewSport/Olympia2004.html   (1798 words)

  
 1908 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
The Games of the IV Olympiad, originally scheduled to be held in Rome, were instead held in 1908 in London, England.
Funds that were to have gone to the Olympics were diverted to the reconstruction of Naples, so a new venue was required.
The 1908 Olympics also prompted the establishment of standard rules for sports, and the selection of judges from different countries, rather than just the host.
1908-summer-olympics.ask.dyndns.dk   (580 words)

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