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	Swimming at the 1900 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the 1900 Summer Olympics, seven swimming events were contested.
		^ This is the roster of the German team as given by the International Olympic Committee database.
		Categories: Swimming events at the 1900 Summer Olympics
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swimming_at_the_1900_Summer_Olympics (165 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 2004 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		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 Mayor of Athens, Dora Bakoyianni, passed the Olympic Flag to the Mayor of Beijing, Wang Qishan.
		Officially there were 28 sports as swimming, diving, synchronised swimming and water polo are classified by the IOC as disciplines within the sport of aquatics, and wheelchair racing was a demonstation sport.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /2004_Summer_Olympics (1826 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 2004 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, were held in Athens, Greece, over a period of 17 days from August 13 to August 29, 2004.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2004_Summer_Olympics (2301 words)

	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)

	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)

	1980 Summer Olympics Encyclopedia Articles @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, were held in Moscow in the Soviet Union.
		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.
		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.
	www.launchbase.org /encyclopedia/1980_Summer_Olympics (752 words)

	Swimming History.All About The Origins Of Swimming.
		In Japan swimming was one of the noble skills of the Samurai, and historic records describe swimming competitions in 36 B.C. organized by emperor Suigui (spelling unclear), which are the first known swimming races.
		Swimming at The Olympics and The modern era.
		The Olympic Games were held in 1896 in Athens, a male-only competition (see also Swimming at the 1896 Summer Olympics).
	www.athletic-scholarships.net /history-swimming.htm (877 words)

	U.S. News Online: Sydney 2000 Olympics
		A year later, the IOC stripped him of his medals–an Olympic first–because he was paid for playing minor-league baseball in his youth.
		Good as gold: The Olympics always offer drama, but only in the rarest moments are we privileged to view the exploits of legends.
		Olympic records will be broken as the limits of human performance are tested.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/olympics/first.htm (1092 words)

	Anecdotage.com - Olympics anecdotes. Anecdotes From Yeats to Gates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Among the competitors in the single-scull rowing event at the 1928 Olympics was...
		Adolf Hitler staged the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin as a showcase for the sup...
		At the 2004 summer Olympics in Athens, Paula Radcliffe failed to finish both the...
	www.anecdotage.com /browse.php?term=Olympics (881 words)

	Swimming
		Before 1902 it was illegal to swim in the surf in daylight hours, a law based on morality rather than safety with men and women allowed to 'bathe' separately in the early morning or late evening.
		Many Australians are members of swimming clubs and many young Australians take part in school swimming carnivals, through which a few emerge as elite swimmers who compete at a national and international level.
		Swimming is one of the eight founding sports of the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS).
	www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/swimming (888 words)

	Swimming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		There are strict rules governing the four strokes of Swimming (backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle) pertaining to leg and arm movements, starts and turns as well as the length of time swimmers can remain under water.
		Swimming events have changed dramatically since then - by the 1952 Olympic Games every Olympic record had been beaten at least once.
		Also coming under Swimming are diving, water polo which was introduced to the Olympic Games in 1900 for men, women's water polo will be introduced to the Olympic programme at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
	www.olympics.org.uk /sports/summer/swimming.asp (516 words)

	U.S. News Online: Sydney 2000 Olympics
		The front is decorated with the traditional Olympic design born of artist Giuseppe Cassiolo in 1928 - Nike, goddess of victory, sits, holding palm fronds and wearing a laurel wreath, beside a Grecian urn.
		The Olympic Committee claims it is a generic sporting arena, but many say that, instead of resembling the Greek Parthenon, which was a public sporting venue, it resembles the Roman Coliseum, which was a site of public execution.
		He competed in the 1924 Olympics in Paris as a member of the Yale crew team that won the gold medal in the men's eight rowing event.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/olympics/answer.htm (1090 words)

	GBROLYMPICS.COM / LONDON-OLYMPICS.COM - Olympic Games Medallists
		The modern Olympics were first held in 1896.
		In 1896 and 1900 winners were awarded Silver medals and runners-up Copper or Bronze medals (with no awards for third), however are still shown as Gold, Silver and Bronze medallists for consistency with later years.
		The status of many events held in 1900 and 1904 is questionable.
	www.gbrathletics.co.uk /olympic (336 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		Held in Stockholm, the 1912 Olympics were a model of efficiency.
		Lighting the Olympic Flame by: The Olympic flame was first lit during the opening ceremony of the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam.
		Olympic Oath by: The first athletes' oath was sworn at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1912 (435 words)

	olympic games summer and winter locations and history of the games
		The Olympic Games took their name from the Greek city of Olympia and though there were important athletic competitions held in other Greek cities in ancient times, the Olympic Games were regarded as the most prestigious.
		Participation in the Olympic Games was originally limited to free born Greeks, but as Greek civilization was spread by the conquests of Alexander the Great, the Games drew entrants from as far away as Antioch, Sidon and Alexandria.
		The organizers had planned the first modern Olympics for 1900 in Paris, but later decided to move the date forward to 1896 and to change the venue to Athens, though the local government of the Greek capital was initially hostile to the idea.
	worldatlas.com /aatlas/infopage/olympic.htm (1007 words)

	History of swimming pools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		By 1837, regular swimming competitions were being held in London's six artificial pools, organized by the National Swimming Society in England.
		In 1896, swimming became an Olympic sport for men with the 100 metres and 1500 metres freestyle competitions held in open water.
		One used an obstacle course; another was a test of underwater swimming endurance; the third was a 4,000-metre event, the longest competitive swimming event ever.
	www.mippfastfitkitpools.com /history.html (521 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS
		Olympic swimming has come a long way, to temperature-controlled 50-metre pools, wave-killing gutters, lane markers designed to reduce turbulence, and status as one of the Games' glamour events.
		There were the venues, from the Bay of Zea in 1896, to Paris's River Seine in 1900, to a 100-metre pool constructed inside the athletics track in 1908.
		Then there were the events, from a 100-metre race for Greek sailors in 1896, to underwater and obstacle races in 1900, to a "plunge for distance" in 1908.
	www.olympic.org /uk/sports/programme/disciplines_uk.asp?DiscCode=SW (355 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.
		This is remarkable, as the Olympics did not, for a long time, allow professional athletes to compete, with the sole exception of fencing.
		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.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/18/1896_summer_olympics.shtml (886 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)

	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)

	Articles - 1900 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The 1900 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the II Olympiad, were held in 1900 in Paris, France.
		For his victory in the long jump, he was allegedly punched in the face by his rival Meyer Prinstein, who was prevented from competing in the final by officials of Syracuse University, because it was scheduled for a Sunday.
		Weightlifting and wrestling had been dropped since the 1896 Summer Olympics, but 13 new ones were added.
	www.bowling-balls.net /articles/1900_Summer_Olympics (296 words)

	Olympic Summer Games
		For the world’s largest nation, the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games are the ultimate gesture of friendship, a global expression of hope that the community of nations will dance with Beijing and join its dream of a world united in peace through sport.
		The revival of the ancient Olympics attracted athletes from 14 nations, with the largest delegations coming from Greece, Germany and France.
		The sacred Olympic Flame was electronically transmitted from Athens to Ottawa by satellite and from there it was transported by runners to Montreal.
	www.swim2000.org /Olympics/olympic_summer_games.htm (879 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1900 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Games of the II Olympiad were held in 1900 in Paris, France.
		For his victory in long jump, he was allegedly punched in the face by his rival Meyer Prinstein, who had refused to take the final run due to his religious beliefs, as that run was scheduled for a Sunday.
		Charlotte Cooper (tennis) was the first woman to become Olympic champion.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1900_Summer_Olympics (208 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 (3540 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)

	Wikinfo \| 1904 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The organizers repeated all of the mistakes of 1900.
		The Olympic competitions, spread out over four and a half months, were lost in the chaos of a World's Fair.
		Of the 94 events generally considered to have been part of the Olympic program, only 42 included athletes who were not from the United States.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1904_Summer_Olympics (248 words)

	JS Online: Olympic Panel Could Drop Baseball
		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.
	www.jsonline.com /sports/oly02/aug02/ap-oly-ioc-droppin082802.asp?format=print (817 words)

	Olympics Swimming Tickets, Olympics Swimming Olympics Tickets at Cheappremiumtickets.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Swimming as a discipline went through a number of experimental stages, like the 50 m controlled heating pool, or specially-built conduits that minimise water turbulence, before arriving in its contemporary form as one of the most glamorous events of the Olympic Games.
		From the yachting marina in Zea in 1896, via the river Seine in Paris in 1900, to the 100 m pool within a running track in 1908, Swimming venues have changed.
		If you want to buy Olympics Swimming tickets from the venue or organization box offices or their official distribution outlets, please inquire directly with the venues or organizations themselves.
	www.cheappremiumtickets.com /Olympics/Olympics_Swimming_Tickets.cfm (524 words)

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