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	Olympics - EnchantedLearning.com
		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).
		The Olympic flag was first used in the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium.
		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.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /olympics (1311 words)

	1984 Summer Olympics - Open Encyclopedia
		After the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, the Eastern Bloc, including the Soviet Union, East Germany and Cuba boycotts these Olympics (the USSR announced their intention not to participate on May 8, 1984).
		A marathon for women is held for the first time at the Olympics, won by Joan Benoit.
		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.
	open-encyclopedia.com /1984_Summer_Olympics (367 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1896 Summer Olympics
		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 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.
		The 2004 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, were the 26th Summer Olympic Games.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1896-Summer-Olympics (8325 words)

	GBROLYMPICS.COM / LONDON-OLYMPICS.COM - Olympic Games Medallists
		The Games are held every 4 years (this period is known as an Olympiad) although an additional "intercalated" event, not officially recognised by the International Olympic Committee, was introduced in 1906.
		The modern Olympics were first held in 1896.
		The Winter Olympics were first held in 1924.
	www.gbrathletics.com /olympic (367 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics - Open Encyclopedia
		The 1906 Olympic were organised by the IOC, but are currently not officially recognised by the IOC.
		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.
		He was replaced by United States Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage, who supported the Games.
	open-encyclopedia.com /1936_Summer_Olympics (687 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics - Open Encyclopedia
		The 1906 Olympic were organised by the IOC, but are currently not officially recognised by the IOC.
		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.
		He was replaced by United States Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage, who supported the Games.
	open-encyclopedia.com /1936_Summer_Olympics (687 words)

	1980 Summer Olympics
		Women's field hockey is Olympic for the first time, but all major nations boycott the tournament, leaving only the Soviet team.
		Moscow won the bid to organise the Games by defeating Los Angeles, which would host the next Olympics.
		Guinness Book of Olympic Records: Complete Roll of Olympic Medal Winners (1896-1980, Including 1906) for the 28 Sports (7 Winter and 21 Summer) Contes
	www.freeglossary.com /1980_Summer_Olympics (687 words)

	The Summer Olympic Games History
		The 1904 Olympics were held in St. Louis, which were held in conjuntion with the centennial celebration of the Louisana Purchase.
		After the disappointing Olympics in Paris and St. Louis, the IOC decided to have the games return to Athens for the "Intercalated Games" in 1906.
		A highlight from the Olympics was that Spiridon Louis ran the first marathon race, which was the same course that the hero Pheidippides after the battle of Marathon in 490BC.
	www.fccps.k12.va.us /gm/Webs-2002/gr8-3/hillary/summerhistory.html (3230 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics - Open Encyclopedia
		Anti-fascists planned to host a People's Olympiad in Barcelona as an alternative games to protest the Berlin Olympics but this was cancelled due to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
		The 1906 Olympic were organised by the IOC, but are currently not officially recognised by the IOC.
		He was replaced by United States Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage, who supported the Games.
	open-encyclopedia.com /1936_Summer_Olympics (687 words)

	The Summer Olympic Games History
		The 1904 Olympics were held in St. Louis, which were held in conjuntion with the centennial celebration of the Louisana Purchase.
		After the disappointing Olympics in Paris and St. Louis, the IOC decided to have the games return to Athens for the "Intercalated Games" in 1906.
		A highlight from the Olympics was that Spiridon Louis ran the first marathon race, which was the same course that the hero Pheidippides after the battle of Marathon in 490BC.
	www.fccps.k12.va.us /gm/Webs-2002/gr8-3/hillary/summerhistory.html (3230 words)

	GBROLYMPICS.COM / LONDON-OLYMPICS.COM - Olympic Games Medallists
		The Games are held every 4 years (this period is known as an Olympiad) although an additional "intercalated" event, not officially recognised by the International Olympic Committee, was introduced in 1906.
		The modern Olympics were first held in 1896.
		The Winter Olympics were first held in 1924.
	www.gbrathletics.com /olympic (336 words)

	The Summer Olympic Games History
		The 1904 Olympics were held in St. Louis, which were held in conjuntion with the centennial celebration of the Louisana Purchase.
		After the disappointing Olympics in Paris and St. Louis, the IOC decided to have the games return to Athens for the "Intercalated Games" in 1906.
		A highlight from the Olympics was that Spiridon Louis ran the first marathon race, which was the same course that the hero Pheidippides after the battle of Marathon in 490BC.
	www.fccps.k12.va.us /gm/Webs-2002/gr8-3/hillary/summerhistory.html (3230 words)

	1980 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - TESTVERSION
		The only other time before, where one part of the Olympics was in a different city was when Stockholm, Sweden hosted the equestrian events in the 1956 Summer Olympics while the rest of it was in Melbourne, Australia.
		The 1906 Olympic were organised by the IOC, but are currently not officially recognised by the IOC.
		It was the first time the Olympics were held in a socialist country.
	www.wissen-im-web.net /wiki/1980_Summer_Olympics (3230 words)

	1972 Summer Olympics - Enpsychlopedia
		They were banned from the Olympics for life, as were Tommie Smith and John Carlos in the 1968 Summer Olympics.
		As a counterpart to the Berlin Olympics the Munich Olympics were supposed to present a new, democratic and optimistic Germany to the world, therefore the motto of the Munich Games was "The happy Games".
		After the 1936 Games in Berlin, it was the second time for the Summer Olympics to take place in Germany.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Munich_Olympics (888 words)

	Olympics - EnchantedLearning.com
		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).
		The Olympic flag was first used in the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium.
		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.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /olympics (1136 words)

	1904 St. Louis Olympics
		In the end, the St. Louis Olympics (along with the previous Paris games) proved to be such a disaster that the Olympic Committee was forced to hold interim Olympic games in 1906 at Athens, in an attempt to revive the flagging Olympic movement.
		These games were only the third summer games ever held (There actually were no winter games at this time - they were added in 1924.).
		It should be pointed out, however, that the Olympics were not intended to be a competition among nations at the time - it was a competition among amateur athletes from around the world.
	home.nycap.rr.com /useless/st_louis_olympics (1983 words)

	GBROLYMPICS.COM / LONDON-OLYMPICS.COM - Olympic Games Medallists
		The Games are held every 4 years (this period is known as an Olympiad) although an additional "intercalated" event, not officially recognised by the International Olympic Committee, was introduced in 1906.
		The modern Olympics were first held in 1896.
		The status of many events held in 1900 and 1904 is questionable.
	www.gbrathletics.com /olympic (336 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics
		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 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.
		The stadium was used again for the 2004 Summer Olympics.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/NewSport/Olympia1896.html (3540 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1904 St. Louis
		It took the unofficial 1906 Olympics, staged in Athens to mark the 10th anniversary of the first modern Olympics, to revive interest and faith in the Olympic movement.
		Mistake number one: the International Olympic Committee didn't learn from the mistakes made with the 1900 Paris Games, which were neglected in the shadow of the World's Fair to disastrous effect.
		The 1904 Games were originally scheduled for Chicago, but Exhibition organizers in St. Louis worried the Olympics would detract from their event's attendance and threatened to hold separate sporting competitions of their own.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1904.html (1130 words)

	1906 Summer Olympics -
		Since the 2nd International Olympic Games in Athens now had become an exception, the personal views of various IOC chairmen caused the IOC to retroactively downgrade the 1906 games, and the explanation for the games became that they had been a 10th anniversary celebration.
		The 1906 Summer Olympics, also called the 1906 Intercalated Games, were held in Athens, Greece.
		As the 1904 Summer Olympics were hijacked by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and as a result met with a fate similar to that of Paris 1900, the Olympic Movement was not in good shape.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/1906_Summer_Olympics (1499 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics - Open Encyclopedia
		Anti-fascists planned to host a People's Olympiad in Barcelona as an alternative games to protest the Berlin Olympics but this was cancelled due to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
		The 1906 Olympic were organised by the IOC, but are currently not officially recognised by the IOC.
		He was replaced by United States Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage, who supported the Games.
	open-encyclopedia.com /1936_Summer_Olympics (687 words)

	ISHOF - Martha Norelius (USA) - 1967 Honor Swimmer
		Handley, who coached the U.S. 1924 Olympic team on which Martha, his brightest star, beat hall of Famer Gertrude Ederle and won the 400 meter freestyle, a title she won again in the 1928 Games.
		Martha Norelius was our first woman swimmer to win gold medals in two different Olympics, 1924 when she was 15, and 1928.
		Her swimming career did not span the Atlantic, as did Lindbergh, but that's about all it didn't span in winning freestyle races from 50s to marathons.
	www.ishof.org /67mnorelius.html (484 words)

	1904 St. Louis Olympics
		In the end, the St. Louis Olympics (along with the previous Paris games) proved to be such a disaster that the Olympic Committee was forced to hold interim Olympic games in 1906 at Athens, in an attempt to revive the flagging Olympic movement.
		It should be pointed out, however, that the Olympics were not intended to be a competition among nations at the time - it was a competition among amateur athletes from around the world.
		Since readers probably were not familiar with the Olympics at the time, the article details a history of the games.
	home.nycap.rr.com /useless/st_louis_olympics (484 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - summer olympics
		The 1896 Games included events in cycling, fencing, gymnastics, target shooting, swimming, tennis, track and field, weightlifting, and wrestling....
		history and overview, Summer Olympic Medal Sports, 1896, 1900, 1904, 1906, 1908, 1912, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964,...
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	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=summer+olympics (123 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics
		Summer Olympics Through The Years 1936 Olympics Berlin Top 10 Standings Leading Medal Winners Track and Field Swimming Team Sports Boxing Canoeing Cycling Equestrian Fencing Gymnastics Modern Pentathlon Rowing Shooting...
		Games The Summer Olympics 1896 Olympics 1900 Olympics 1904 Olympics 1906 Olympics 1908 Olympics 1912 Olympics 1920 Olympics 1924 Olympics 1928 Olympics 1932 Olympics 1936 Olympics 1948 Olympics 1952 Olympics 1956...
		Alphabetical index 1936 Summer Olympics The Games of the XI Olympiad were held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany.
	www.olympicsexperts.com /1936-Summer-Olympics.html (123 words)

	1900 Summer Olympics
		Summer Olympics Through The Years Modern Olympic Games The Summer Olympics 1896 Olympics 1900 Olympics 1904 Olympics 1906 Olympics 1908 Olympics 1912 Olympics 1920 Olympics 1924 Olympics 1928 Olympics 1932...
		Summer Olympics Through The Years 1900 Olympics Paris Top 10 Standings Leading Medal Winners Track and Field Swimming Team Sports Archery Cricket Cycling Equestrian Fencing Golf Gymnastics Rowing Shooting Tennis Yachting...
		Between 1900 and 1928, no Summer Olympics was shorter than 79 days.
	www.olympicsexperts.com /1900-Summer-Olympics.html (123 words)

	1908 Summer Olympics
		Summer Olympics Through The Years 1908 Olympics London Top 10 Standings Leading Medal Winners Track and Field Swimming Team Sports Archery Boxing Cycling Fencing Figure Skating Gymnastics Jeu de Paume (court tennis)...
		Summer Olympics Through The Years Modern Olympic Games The Summer Olympics 1896 Olympics 1900 Olympics 1904 Olympics 1906 Olympics 1908 Olympics 1912 Olympics 1920 Olympics 1924 Olympics 1928 Olympics 1932...
		Games of the IV Olympiad The 1908 Olympics were originally awarded to Rome, but were reassigned to...
	www.olympicsexperts.com /1908-Summer-Olympics.html (123 words)

	1908 Summer Olympics
		Summer Olympics Through The Years Modern Olympic Games The Summer Olympics 1896 Olympics 1900 Olympics 1904 Olympics 1906 Olympics 1908 Olympics 1912 Olympics 1920 Olympics 1924 Olympics 1928 Olympics 1932...
		Summer Olympics Through The Years 1908 Olympics London Top 10 Standings Leading Medal Winners Track and Field Swimming Team Sports Archery Boxing Cycling Fencing Figure Skating Gymnastics Jeu de Paume (court tennis)...
		Games of the IV Olympiad The 1908 Olympics were originally awarded to Rome, but were reassigned to...
	www.olympicsexperts.com /1908-Summer-Olympics.html (123 words)

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