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	1936 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics (970 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)

	Baseball at the 1936 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baseball was again a demonstration sport at the 1936 Summer Olympics after a 24 year absence.
		Leslie Mann, who had pushed strongly for inclusion of baseball as an Olympic sport, was the umpire.
		The Olympics scored in the seventh to tie the game before McNeese hit a walk-off solo home run in the bottom of the seventh to end the game.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baseball_at_the_1936_Summer_Olympics (202 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.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ga/Games_of_the_I_Olympiad.html (876 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The 1916 Olympics were scheduled to be held in Berlin, but were canceled because of what came to be known as World War I. The 1920 Games were awarded to Antwerp to honor the suffering that had been inflicted on the Belgian people during the war.
		The Opening Ceremony was notable for the introduction of the Olympic flag and the presentation of the Athletes’ Oath.
		First use of the Olympic flag with the five rings signifying the union of five continents, created by Baron de Coubertin; the first time a competitor took the Olympic oath and the first release of doves as a symbol of peace.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1920 (366 words)

	Olympics
		That was supposed to be the end of Owens' Olympic participation, but on August 9, he and Ralph Metcalf replaced Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller, the only Jews on the U.S. track team, on the 4x100-meter relay.
		Comaneci had done what no other Olympic gymnast had ever done: scored a perfect "10" - the board had been built to accommodate a high core of 9.9 (soon after, competitions around the world had to replace or remodel their scoring systems to include a perfect 10).
		She won the first Olympic women's competition in the javelin (143 feet, 4 inches) and 80-meter hurdles, setting a world record with her time of 11.7 seconds.
	www.baseball-statistics.com /Greats/Century/Olympics.htm (1668 words)

	GBROLYMPICS.COM / LONDON-OLYMPICS.COM - Olympic Games Medallists
		The modern Olympics were first held in 1896.
		Nevertheless all those competitions reported, at one time or another, as Olympic medal events have been included here for the record, with those no longer regarded as official footnoted.
		Nationalities given are those of the countries the medallists were representing at the time of the event.
	www.gbrathletics.com /olympic (336 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)

	1936 Summer Olympics: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
		The Games of the XI Olympiad were held in 1936 in Berlin (Berlin: Capital of Germany located in eastern Germany), Germany (Germany: A republic in central Europe; split into East German and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990).
		He was replaced by United States Olympic Committee (United States Olympic Committee: the united states olympic committee (usoc) is a non-profit organization that is the national...
		1936 Summer Olympics (1936 Summer Olympics: more facts about this subject) medal count (medal count: this is the full table of the medal count of the 1936 summer olympics....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/1936_summer_olympics (1339 words)

	Jibber-Jabber: Summer or winter Olympics?
		With the summer Olympics, you have track events, gymnastics, basketball, swimming, diving, tennis, etc. The summer Olympics also have more recognizable names, such as Michael Phelps and Carly Patterson, who were American heroes from the 2004 Athens games.
		The winter Olympics are full of winter sports that a big part of the nation doesn’t participate in at the level that Americans participate in the summer events.
		The winter Olympics are contained to countries where the climate encourages participation at a young age because Olympic athletes begin early in life.
	www.winona.edu /winonan/S2006/2-22-06/Jibber-JabberSummerorwinterOlympics.htm (981 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics -
		She was also the first to introduce the Olympic torch to the ceremonies.
		The Olympic Torch was used for the second time in 1936.
		(According to Olympic rules, an athlete can delay his participation if he is getting advice from his coach, as long as he does not sit down, in which case, he would be disqualified.) So, for approximately twenty-five minutes, Farrell spoke nonsense to him while Owens waited to catch his breath and Germans yelled at them.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/1936_Summer_Olympics (1161 words)

	Egypt in the 2004 Summer Olympics
		The original Olympics were held every four years for a span that lasted for almost eight centuries.
		At Minsk in May of 2004, Nahla was the biggest star in the field of 262 competitors in both men's and women's weightlifting, and so not surprisingly, even Sport's Illustrated has picked her for Gold in the Women's 75 kg (165 lbs) event at Athens.
		In fact, she is the only Egyptian athlete to be picked for any medal by SI at the summer event.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/egypt2004olympics.htm (1359 words)

	The Olympics
		Olympic history is traced throughout the twentieth century--the controversies, the triumphs of individual athletes, the sports that have been added or dropped from Olympic play, etc. Also included is an explanation of how host cities are chosen.
		In 1931, when the International Olympic Committee chose Berlin to be the host city of the 1936 Olympics, they had no idea what would be taking place in Germany at that time.
		Revised and expanded just in time for the 2000 Olympics, this extremely readable book is an excellent choice not just for schools and libraries, but for parents who want to watch the Olympics with their kids.
	www.childrenslit.com /th_olympics.html (8191 words)

	1992 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
		For the first time since 1960 South Africa is allowed to participate in the White South African runner Elana Meyer and Ethiopian runner Derartu Tulu fight out a battle in the 10 000 m (won Tulu) and then run their lap of hand in hand.
		As the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991 the Baltic nations of Estonia Latvia and Lithuania participate with their own teams for first time since 1936.
		Badminton and women's judo become part of the Olympic programme white water canoeing returns to the Games a 20-year absence.
	www.freeglossary.com /1992_Summer_Olympics (519 words)

	1936 Olympics
		In Berlin, dictator Adolf Hitler and his Nazi followers felt sure that the Olympics would be the ideal venue to demonstrate Germany's oft-stated racial superiority.
		He directed that $25 million be spent on the finest facilities, the cleanest streets and the temporary withdrawal of all outward signs of the state-run anti-Jewish campaign.
		1936 Olympics - The fourth Winter Olympic Games were held in the neighboring villages of Garmisch and Partenkirchen...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0114524.html (443 words)

	1992 Summer Olympics -
		The 1992 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were held in 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
		All of the IOC countries participated in the Games for the first time since Munich 1972 Summer Olympics.
		Badminton and women's judo became part of the Olympic programme, while slalom canoeing returned to the Games after a 20-year absence.
	www.psychcentral.com /psypsych/1992_Summer_Olympics (632 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)

	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.
		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.mlahanas.de /Greeks/NewSport/Olympia2004.html (1798 words)

	1936 Olympics
		Vera Hruba Ralston - Vera Hruba Ralston Age: 79 skater who competed in the 1936 Olympics and went on to appear in the...
		A House divided: the U.S. amateur sport establishment and the issue of participation in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
		Judith Deutsch refused to swim for Vienna in 1936 Olympics.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114524.html (503 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
		It uses material from the Wiktionary page "Summer".
		Their energy is fueled by a sense of urgency that is lacking in youth.
		Olympic sprinter Tim Montgomery arrested in Norfolk on fraud scheme charges
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-1936_Summer_Olympics.html (1216 words)

	SUMMER OLYMPIC STATISTICS
		The ranking is performed neither according to gold medal nor medal total but according to points (3 points for a gold, 2 for a silver and 1 for a bronze).
		In some cases, you will find "half medals": In the early Olympics, some people had unprecise nationality, therefore two countries shared the medal.
		It includes all Olympic results from Athens 1896 to Athens 2004 (when the sport is completed).
	www.darmoni.net /joete.htm (122 words)

	1928 Summer Olympics
		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.
		Women's athletics and gymnastics debuted at these Olympic, in spite of criticism.
	www.fastload.org /19/1928_Summer_Olympics.html (254 words)

	Basketball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
		The ball is pressurised synthetic or leather, weighing a maximum of 650g and with a circumference of 78cm.
		At the Olympic Games Basketball is played under the International Basketball Federation rules.
		Basketball was a demonstration sport at the Olympic Games in 1904, before first appearing as an Olympic sport in the 1936 Games in Berlin.
	www.olympics.org.uk /sports/summer/basketball.asp (345 words)

	Swimming At the 2004 Summer Olympics Annals @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
		Swimming At the 2004 Summer Olympics Annals @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base)
		Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Olympic Aquatic Centre with the athletes competing in 32 events.
		Other Swimming At the 2004 Summer Olympics Categories:
	www.launchbase.net /encyclopedia/Swimming_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics (203 words)

	SLAM! Sports: 2000 Summer Games: History of the Games
		The 1936 Games were awarded to Berlin before the Third Reich came to power, but they ended up being called the "Nazi Olympics".
		All Jewish athletes with a chance at making the Olympic team were shut out of the trials.
		Jewish groups in the United States protested and called for a boycott of the Games, but U.S. Olympic officials decided to send a team by a 58-56 vote.
	www.canoe.ca /2000GamesHistory/1936games.html (227 words)

	The 1936 Olympic Games in Germany
		By awarding the XI 1936 Olympic games to Berlin, one can say that this was the IOC's way of showing the world that Germany was once again a member of good standing in the global community of nations.
		The 1936 Olympic games would be Hitler's opportunity to showcase his vision of a new and powerful Germany to everyone.
		The main section of the Olympic village was in the shape of a downward pointing horseshoe or large semi-circle.
	www.feldgrau.com /1936olymp.html (5497 words)

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