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	1920 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1920 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad, were held in 1920 in Antwerp, Belgium.
		The 1916 Olympics were scheduled to be held in Berlin but were canceled due to the fighting in World War I. Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey were not invited due to their part in the war.
		These Olympics were the first in which the Olympic Oath was uttered, the first in which doves were released to symbolize peace, and was the first time the Olympic Flag was flown.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1920_Summer_Olympics (355 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)

	Swimming, art of self-support or self-movement, by means of hands and feet, in or on the water
		Swimming, art of self-support or self-movement, by means of hands and feet, in or on the water, generally practiced as a sport or means of recreation.
		Swimming is known not only as a means of survival or saving lives in emergencies, but also as a valuable tool in physical therapy and as one of the most beneficial forms of general exercise.
		Swimming was highly esteemed in ancient Greece and Rome, especially as a form of training for warriors.
	www.latifm.com /look/Sports_Swimming.htm (1634 words)

	IHSA - Illinois H.S.toric: Girls Interscholastic Swimming in the Chicago Public Schools, 1917-1934
		Swimming was one of the earliest competitions in which the IHSA sponsored a state meet, in 1973.
		Fauntz failed to place in the 1928 Olympics competing in the breaststroke, but diving was her greater strength, and in the 1932 Olympics she took third in springboard diving.
		Despite the end of interscholastic swimming competition in the Chicago schools in 1926, the girls could look back and say they had it pretty good compared to their suburban and downstate counterparts, where there was a ban in place throughout the decade.
	www.ihsa.org /initiatives/hstoric/swimming_girls_early.htm (2599 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		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 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.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/2/0/0/2004_Summer_Olympics_330c.html (2001 words)

	2000 Summer Olympics
		The ceremonies concluded with the lighting of the Olympic Flame.
		Swimming the last leg, Thorpe passed the leading Americans and arrived in a new World Record time, two tenths of a second ahead of the Americans.
		In the swimming pool, American Tom Dolan beat the World record in the 400 m medley, successfully defending the title he won in Atlanta four years prior.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/2/20/2000_summer_olympics.shtml (670 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)

	1984 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, were held in 1984 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
		In the wake of the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, 14 Eastern Bloc countries and allies including the Soviet Union, Cuba and East Germany (but not Romania), boycotted these Olympics.
		Olympic soccer was unexpectedly played before massive crowds throughout America, with several sell-outs at the 100,000+ seat Rose Bowl.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1984_Summer_Olympics (993 words)

	1976 Summer Olympics: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		In the bid to organise the Olympics, Montreal defeated Moscow and Los Angeles, which would organise the 1980 and 1984 Olympics.
		In a protest to a tour of South Africa by the New Zealand rugby team, Tanzania lead a boycott of 22 African nations as the IOC refused not to admit the New Zealand team.
		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.
	www.encyclopedian.com /19/1976-Summer-Olympics.html (377 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").
		At the end of an Olympics, the mayor of the host-city presents the flag to the mayor of the next host-city.
		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)

	Olympic Summer Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		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)

	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)

	OLYMPICS: 100 Years Of Change
		Perhaps the most blatant of Olympic hypocrisies upheld over the past 100 years was the nonnegotiable rule that each athlete had to swear that he was an amateur before he could compete.
		The first women's athletics event in Olympic history, the discus throw, was won by the brawny Pole Halina Konopacka, who shattered her own world record by 45 cm and beat the runner-up by 2.53 m.
		During the fiercest decades of the cold war, Olympic amateurism was almost as volatile an issue in the East-West conflict as political ideology.
	www.time.com /time/international/1996/960527/olympics.history.html (6130 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		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.tvwiki.tv /wiki/1896_Summer_Olympics (3849 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1920 Antwerp
		But the first family of the 1920 Olympics was undoubtedly Italy's Nadi clan.
		The 1920 Antwerp Olympics honoured Belgium's survival of the First World War, and Victor Boin was the most honoured Belgian athlete.
		But in 1920, he switched to fencing and won a silver in the team epee competition.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1920.html (1340 words)

	Learn more about 1936 Summer Olympics in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		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.
		Rower Jack Beresford won his fifth Olympic medal in the sport, and his third gold medal.
		For the first time the Olympic Flame was brought to the Olympic Town by a torch relay, with the starting point in Olympia, Greece.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /1/19/1936_summer_olympics.html (481 words)

	Inwit Publishing, Inc. and Inwit, LLC -- Writings, Links and Software Demonstrations - The Science of the Summer Games ...
		Organized swimming hardly existed until the nineteenth century, although the Japanese did have competitive swimming as far back as 36 B.C. During the Middle Ages Europeans swam very little — the feeling was that water spread disease, and should be avoided (for washing too!).
		James Counsilman, the hugely successful Indiana University swimming coach, wrote, "Although a swimmer may swim in an almost straight line, his movements to accomplish this are all circular or rotary...." World-class swimmers used to try to root out the s-curve from their strokes, but "it kept winning races," and now the s-curve is lovingly cultivated.
		Today in Olympic competition men and women swim four strokes: the freestyle (which in practice means "the crawl"), the butterfly, the backstroke, and the breaststroke.
	www.algorithm.com /inwit/writings/scienceofthesummergames.html (5160 words)

	Olympics 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The Olympic Museum is for everyone for whom sport and the Olympic Movement are a passion, everyone fascinated by history, culture and art, and all those who are interested in to the future of our society.
		The Olympic symbol of five interlocked rings represents the five original continents: and the meeting of the athletes from throughout the world at the Olympic Games.
		The conjunction of the five rings symbolized the conjunction of the continents during the athletic events and represents the ideal of peace and brotherhood of the whole planet.
	www.swim2000.org /Olympics/olympics_2004.htm (1046 words)

	1932 Olympics — Infoplease.com
		Despite a world-wide economic depression and predictions that the 1932 Summer Olympics were doomed to failure, 37 countries sent over 1,300 athletes to southern California and the Games were a huge success.
		Energized by perfect weather and the buoyant atmosphere of the first Olympic Village, the competition was fierce.
		Environmental factors in the summer Olympics in historical perspective.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114502.html (416 words)

	JWA - In Focus—Jewish Women In the Olympics
		As manager and president of the WSA, Epstein guided many of its members to Olympic victory; she herself was the U.S. Women's Olympic Swimming Team's manager for the 1920, 1924, and 1928 games.
		In 1935, Epstein chaired the swimming committee in charge of team selection at the second Maccabiah Games in Tel Aviv; the next year, she boycotted the Olympics in Berlin in protest over Nazi policies.
		She was the first woman to win a silver medal for the discus throw and later broke the Olympic and world records to win a gold at the 1932 Olympics.
	www.jwa.org /discover/inthepast/infocus/olympics (906 words)

	St. Petersburg Times Online: Summer Olympics Athens 2004 viewers guide
		Laura Wilkinson was one of the surprises of the Sydney Olympics, roaring from eighth place to first in the finals of the 10-meter platform and snatching gold from the favored Li Na of China - all while diving with a heavily wrapped broken foot.
		But that's when 19-year-old Lisbeth Lenton had the swim of her life, heard the roar of the crowd and looked up at the scoreboard to see she had swum the fastest women's 100-meter freestyle in history.
		To train for Olympic water polo, Azevedo, perhaps the best player in the world, and his American teammates spend as much as six hours a day in the water and another couple in the training room.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/webspecials04/olympicstab/index.shtml (1941 words)

	1932 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, were held in 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
		Fewer than half the number of participants from the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam competed in 1932.
		An Olympic Village was built for the first time, occupied by the male athletes.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1932_Summer_Olympics (387 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES
		At 1.40m tall and weighing 29.5 kg, she was the smallest athlete at the 1920 Olympics.
		She returned to the Olympics in 1924 and won a silver medal for springboard diving and a bronze in the 100m backstroke.
		Riggin was the first person to earn Olympic medals in both diving and swimming.
	www.olympic.org /uk/athletes/profiles/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=52506 (240 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)

	Wikinfo \| 1980 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Moscow won the bid to organise the Games by defeating Los Angeles, which would host the next Olympics.
		Women's field hockey is Olympic for the first time, but all major nations boycott the tournament.
		The team of Zimbabwe is invited just a week before the start of the Games, but it wins the nation's first gold medal.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1980_Summer_Olympics (332 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Sports
		Soule said the 1920 Olympics marked the first time women competitors wore one-piece bathing suits that exposed the legs.
		Soule said she was a diver in 1920 only because she was considered too small to be a swimmer.
		She still swims three miles a week and set six age group records in the U.S. Masters Swimming Championships in May. She also receives fan mail, which she answers with autographed photos of herself at the 1920 Olympics.
	starbulletin.com /96/07/17/sports/story2.html (770 words)

	UC's Got Game - 2004 Summer Olympics - University of California News Room
		This summer, UC Berkeley will send a strong contingent of athletes and coaches to participate in the 2004 Olympic Games.
		In previous Summer Olympics, 387 athletes, coaches and trainers have represented UCLA in the Games - and brought home 195 medals.
		Olympic experts at UC Davis, on topics including nutrition, biomechanics, injury prevention, sports psychology, orthopaedic surgery and cycling
	www.universityofcalifornia.edu /news/summerolympics2004.html (547 words)

	Lane 9 News Archive: A Chat With Lenny Krayzelburg, Lindsay Benko and Grant Hackett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Benko: Setting the world record in that event and being the first woman to swim that fast in the 400 short course free was quite a high.
		This is a great opportunity for two of possibly the best swimming nations in the world to go head to head and have some fun with the sport.
		He has had such a dominance in world swimming and I think he has won three or four world swimmer of the year (awards), which is just phenomenal.
	www.swimmingworldmagazine.com /lane9/news/5219.asp (3801 words)

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