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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)

	1936 Summer Olympics - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		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.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/1936_Summer_Olympics (1010 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics
		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.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/19/1936_Summer_Olympics.html (367 words)

	Athens Olympics 2004. ABC Sport.
		But while every Olympic city has a fabulous stadium, nowhere else in the world could events be held at Ancient Olympia - the home of the ancient Games - and the magnificent Panathinaiko Stadium, home of the first Games of the modern era back in 1896.
		Through the prism of history, the Athens Olympics may come to be seen as the Games at which two major trends emerged - the rise of Asian nations as Olympic powers and the time the war on drugs became serious.
		Ian Thorpe, with gold medals in the 200 metres and 400 metres and a bronze in the 100 metres, was a stand-out and Grant Hackett, chest infection and all, swam the gutsiest race of his life to win the 1,500 metres, was just as impressive.
	www.abc.net.au /olympics/default.htm (2755 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)

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		Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics as usual was a part of the Swimming Sport, other two parts were Water Polo and...
		Weightlifting at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by ten events (all â” men's individual), held between July...
		At the 2004 Summer Olympics Brazil was represented by the Brazilian Olympic Committee (abbreviated COB).
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/athlete.html (2688 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)

	The Development of the Modern Stroke
		In 1696, The Art of Swimming by the French author Thevenot first described a type of breaststroke done with the face out of the water and an underwater arm recovery (the stage of a stroke when the arms and/or legs relax and return to the starting position).
		Besides winning three Olympic medals, she is the only swimmer ever to hold all of the U.S. records at the same time.
		Sullivan's control not only of the Olympics but of the AAU is attested by the fact that one month after his death in 1914, women's events were allowed by the AAU.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/olympics/longterm/swimming/swimstrk.htm (2314 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.
		Though drug tests had been part of the Olympics for 16 years, actually catching guilty athletes was extremely difficult because of masking agents, natural hormones that didn't show up in tests and careful timing of illicit dosages so no traces were left when urine samples were taken.
	www.time.com /time/international/1996/960527/olympics.history.html (6130 words)

	Aquatics-Swimming
		Swimming is a method for survival in water.
		Swimming got the status of sport event in early 19 th century.
		All four strokes are used in medley events; in the 400 meter individual medley, competitors have to swim 100 meter of butterfly, then 100 meter of backstroke, followed by 100 meter of breaststroke and finally 100 meter freestyle.
	www.mapsofworld.com /olympics/summer-olympic-events/swimming.html (1083 words)

	1976 Summer Olympics Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		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 led a boycott of 22 African nations as the IOC refused to not 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.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/1/19/1976_summer_olympics.html (353 words)

	Twin Rivers
		Swimming was highly esteemed in ancient Greece and Rome, especially as a form of training for warriors.
		In Europe, swimming fell into disuse almost entirely during the Middle Ages (5th century to 15th century), when immersion in water was associated with the recurrent epidemic diseases of the time (see Plague).
		By 1896 swimming had become well established and was one of the sports in the first modern Olympic Games, held in Athens, Greece.
	www.geocities.com /rjf279 (508 words)

	1924 Olympics — FactMonster.com
		Speaking of the movies, Johnny Weissmuller of the U.S. won three swimming gold medals in the 100 and 400-meter freestyles and the 4x200 freestyle relay.
		1924 Olympics - 1924 Olympics Chamonix The first Winter Olympic Games were actually called “The International...
		Johnny Weissmuller - Johnny Weissmuller Born: June 2, 1904 Swimmer won 3 gold medals at 1924 Olympics and 2 more at 1928...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0114458.html (368 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.
		Obviously, some wavemaking is inevitable in vigorous swimming, but in modern pools the effect is reduced in two ways: by contoured "gutters" around the edges of the pool, which damp out wave action, and by dividing the competition lanes with finlike disks or perforated floating cylinders.
	www.algorithm.com /inwit/writings/scienceofthesummergames.html (5160 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)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		At the 1924 Paris Games, the Olympic motto, "Citius, Altius, Fortius", (Swifter, Higher, Stronger) was introduced, as was the Closing Ceremony ritual of raising three flags: the flag of the International Olympic Committee, the flag of the host nation and the flag of the next host nation.
		The number of participating nations jumped from 29 to 44, signaling widespread acceptance of the Olympics as a major event, as did the presence of 1,000 journalists.
		Lighting the Olympic Flame by: The Olympic flame was first lit during the opening ceremony of the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1924 (379 words)

	EdGate Summer Games
		During the 1920s, women organized and participated in gymnastic events, and the first women’s Olympic competition was held at the 1928 Games in Amsterdam.
		This newest Olympic gymnastics discipline may be best described as a cross between a floor exercise and classical ballet.
		The International Olympic Committee site is so descriptive that it has special pages for artistic, rhythmic, and trampoline gymnastics.
	www2.edgate.com /summergames/spotlight_sport/gymnastics.php (1595 words)

	USATODAY.com - Four-time Olympic champion Popov to retire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		MOSCOW (AP) — Four-time Olympic champion Alexander Popov is retiring after a career in which he became one of the greatest swimmers.
		He made an unsuccessful bid last year to become president of the Russian swimming federation, and at the Athens Games was eliminated in the 100 semifinals and 50 heats.
		Coe, who won 1,500-meter titles at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics, told the IOC that in addition to government support approval was in place to begin building venues the day after the vote.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/2005-02-16-roundup_x.htm (1218 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		She was also the first to introduce the Olympic torch to the ceremonies.
		The olympic torch was first used in 1936
		The Canadian Olympic Team was the only team from a non-fascist country to salute Hitler (in a gesture of friendship) during opening ceremonies.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/1/9/3/1936_Summer_Olympics_a11e.html (852 words)

	University of Hawai'i - Office of Intercollegiate Athletics
		In the summer of 2001, major renovations were made to the diving facilities.
		Between 20 and 25 collegiate swimming teams compete and train at the complex every year during the nationally renowned forum.
		He attended the Olympics again in 1932 at the age of 42 with the U.S. water polo team.
	uhathletics.hawaii.edu /Facil/pool.html (568 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)

	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)

	Swimming : Sports of the modern Olympic Games
		Women compete in swimming events for the first time in 1912, but none of them are from America, which bars its female athletes from competing in events without long skirts.
		The first women's swimming gold medal was won by the Australian Sarah 'Fanny' Durack, who won the 100m freestyle in 1912.
		Smith was accused of using performance-enhancing drugs; this remained unproven, but she was suspended in 1998 for tampering with a urine sample.
	www.topendsports.com /events/summer/sports/swimming.htm (314 words)

	Summer Olympics
		Decisions or goals were clear: the rules for swimming, diving, and water polo were to be standard; to keep the world records listed.
		Olympic racing is now conducted with boats categorised into one-design classes based on similar weights and dimensions.
		Olympic history abounds with tales of athletes who overcame crippling adversity to win gold medals, but Karoly Takacs' comeback may be the best.
	library.thinkquest.org /CR0214546/solympics.html (1844 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1924 Paris
		The 1924 Olympics had been scheduled for Amsterdam, but in his final act as International Olympic Committee President, Pierre de Coubertin pulled rank.
		Fortunately for the Olympic movement and the reputations of Paris and de Coubertin, the French had their act together this time.
		Weissmuller was the main story in the Olympic pool with gold medals in the 100m and 400m freestyle and the 4X200m freestyle relay.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1924.html (1358 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Sports
		Her memories of the 1920 Summer Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium, flow like vintage wine from a crystal decanter.
		But she did swim at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.
		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)

	1984 Summer Olympics
		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).
		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.
		Synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics debut in Los Angeles as Olympic events, as does wind surfing.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1984_summer_olympics.shtml (289 words)

	1924 Olympics — Infoplease.com
		Olympic Preview: Fencing - Fencing First Olympic Appearance: 1896 by John Gettings One of the four sports that has been...
		Environmental factors in the summer Olympics in historical perspective.
		The Marvelous Spectacles of Olympia and Marathon: The Roots of the Olympics and Marathon Racing.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114458.html (472 words)

	kiat.net: Olympics - Facts & Figures
		The Olympic Motto Citius, Fortius, Altius, which stands for Faster, Stronger, Higher was inspired by Michel Breal and introduced in the Games of 1896.
		During the ancient Olympic Games in Greece, a sacred flame burned at the altar of Zeus, in whose honor the Games were held.
		The first Olympic flame of the modern era was lit in Amsterdam in 1928.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/facts.html (897 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/index.html (904 words)

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