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	Wikipedia: 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.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/2/20/2000_summer_olympics.html (672 words)

	Articles - 1964 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, were held in 1964 in Tokyo, Japan.
		The 1964 Summer games marked the first time the Olympics were held in Asia.
		She ended her Olympic career and holds the record for most Olympic medals at 18 (9 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze) since then.
	www.nowize.com /articles/1964_Summer_Olympics (471 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)

	1960 summer olympics - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Rome had been awarded the organisation of the 1908 Summer Olympics, but had to decline and pass the honours to London.
		South Africa appears in the Olympic arena for the last time under the apartheid regime.
		It was the second time an athlete died in competition at the Olympics, after the death of Portuguese marathon runner Francisco Lazaro at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/1960-summer-olympics (275 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		By late March of 2004 many Olympics projects were severely behind and Greek authorities announced that a roof no longer be constructed over the main swimming venue.
		Olympic Stadium the designated facility the opening and closing ceremonies is still under construction with an estimated completion date July 20 some three weeks before the games The current pace of preparation makes the to finish the Athens venues one of tightest in Olympics history.
		Since the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble France it has been the tradition to a mascot for the games and this the official mascots are brother and sister Phevos and Athena named after the god of light music and the goddess of wisdom respectively.
	www.freeglossary.com /2004_Summer_Olympics (561 words)

	1964 Summer Olympics
		Tokyo had already been awarded with the organisation of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honour had been passed to Helsinki because of Japan's involvement in China.
		Yoshinori Sakai, who lit the Olympic Flame, was born in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day the atomic bomb exploded there.
		Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina ends her Olympic career with a record 18 medals, of which 9 gold.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/1/19/1964_summer_olympics.html (244 words)

	1976 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, were held in 1976 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
		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.
		This was seen as a major threat to the future of the Olympic Games, and was not until the financially successful 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles that cities began to line up to be hosts again.
	1976-summer-olympics.ask.dyndns.dk (913 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Scene from the opening ceremony USPS issued a stamp to honor the 2004 Summer Olympics.]] The ceremony for the lighting of the flame was arranged as a pagan pageant, with "priestesses" dancing.
		It was the first Olympics since NBC had merged with Vivendi Universal Entertainment; the merger 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.
		As part of the theatrics, the Olympic rings are seen burning in a pool of water.]] A bare-breasted goddess holding snakes, based on a Minoan statue The Opening Ceremony held on August 13, 2004 began with a thirty second countdown paced by the sounds of an amplified heartbeat.
	2004-summer-olympics.ask.dyndns.dk (1811 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 - 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)

	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)

	2004 Summer Olympics
		By late March 2004, some Olympic projects were still behind schedule, and Greek authorities announced that a roof would no longer be constructed over the main swimming venue.
		The 2004 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony was held on August 13.
		As part of the theatrics, the Olympic rings are seen burning in a pool of water.
	www.askfactmaster.com /2004_Summer_Olympics (1705 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)

	1928 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Amsterdam had made a bid for the 1920 and 1924 Olympics, but had to give way to war-victim Belgium and De Coubertin's Paris before finally being awarded with the organisation.
		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.
	1928-summer-olympics.ask.dyndns.dk (286 words)

	ipedia.com: 1996 Summer Olympics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Cycling professionals were admitted to the Olympics, with five-time Tour de France winner Miguel Induráin winning the inaugural individual time trial event.
		Michelle Smith of Ireland wins three gold medals and a bronze, but her victories are overshadowed by doping allegations, which are later reinforced as she is banned after failing a test in 1999.
		Amy Van Dyken wins four gold medals in the Olympic swimming pool, the first American woman to win four titles in a single Olympics.
	www.ipedia.com /1996_summer_olympics.html (488 words)

	1948 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		After a hiatus of 12 years caused by the outbreak of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
		For the first time, Olympic diplomas were awarded to the 6th highest placed athletes.
		The 1906 Olympics were organised by the IOC, but are currently not officially recognised by the IOC.
	1948-summer-olympics.ask.dyndns.dk (269 words)

	Category:Swimmers at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This category includes swimmers at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
		Pages in category "Swimmers at the 1964 Summer Olympics"
		Categories: Competitors at the 1964 Summer Olympics
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Swimmers_at_the_1964_Summer_Olympics (82 words)

	Summer Olympics 2024 - Oklahoma City - OKCTalk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		OKC would build Olympic Stadium for all track and field events as well as the opening and closing ceremonies (Also, if there is no NFL team by then, this would finally be the lure!).
		You might remember, the party was capped off with the 1989 Olympic festival (the runner and torch statue, by the way, that was put up that year in front of the Myriad has been put back up in front of Ford Center, though the torch is not lit).
		With the Olympics losing its audience due to corruption, frazzled international affairs, and a plethora of other woes, it's time to dream of a way to draw the world's attention that fits in with the new milinium.
	okctalk.com /.../263-summer-olympics-2024-oklahoma-city.html (3678 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)

	1964 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Detroit Vienna and Brussels also made a bid for these Tokyo had already been awarded with the of the 1940 Summer Olympics but this honour had been passed Helsinki because of Japan 's involvement in China.
		The 1940 Olympics were eventually cancelled of the outbreak of World War II Games of the XVIII Olympiad
		Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina ends her Olympic career with a 18 medals of which 9 gold.
	www.freeglossary.com /1964_Summer_Olympics (403 words)

	1908 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Games of the IV Olympiad, originally scheduled to be held in Rome, were instead held in 1908 in London, England.
		Funds that were to have gone to the Olympics were diverted to the reconstruction of Naples, so a new venue was required.
		The 1908 Olympics also prompted the establishment of standard rules for sports, and the selection of judges from different countries, rather than just the host.
	1908-summer-olympics.ask.dyndns.dk (580 words)

	1964 Olympics
		Twenty-six years after Japan's wartime government forced the Japanese Olympic Committee to resign as hosts of the 1940 Summer Games, Tokyo welcomed the world to the first Asian Olympics.
		1964 Olympics - Death and unseasonably mild weather hung over the ninth Winter Games in the Tyrolean Alps.
		Don Schollander - Don Schollander Born: Apr. 30, 1946 Swimming won 4 gold medals at 1964 Olympics, plus one gold and...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0114650.html (414 words)

	1964 Olympics
		Twelve world and six Olympic records fell in swimming alone, with Americans accounting for 13.
		Donna de Varona - Donna de Varona Born: Apr. 26, 1947 Swimming won gold medals in 400 IM and 400 freestyle relay at...
		Environmental factors in the summer Olympics in historical perspective.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114650.html (510 words)

	Tokyo 1964 Olympics
		Tokyo were to host the 1940 Olympics, however the start of World War II in 1939 forced the cancellation of the 1940 Games.
		He won the event in 1964, in an Olympic record time of 17min 1.7seconds.
		Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina wins six medals for the third time in a row; she remains the Olympic athlete with the most medals (18) and the most medals in individual events (14).
	www.topendsports.com /events/summer/hosts/tokyo.htm (253 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Marion Jones completed what probably was the most one-sided sweep of the sprints in Olympic history with her runaway victory in the 200 meters.
		Marie-Jose Perec, a three-time Olympic champion sprinter so reclusive she's been dubbed the "Greta Garbo of athletics," was ruled out of the Sydney Games after fleeing Australia the eve before she was to compete.
		U.S. sprinter Inger Miller reiterated Wednesday she had canceled her appearance in the Olympic 100-meter sprint in an effort to keep up her Olympic dream in the 200-meter, where she is the reigning world champion.
	www.active.com /special_events/olympics_2000/track_field.cfm (1399 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		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.
		* For the first time the Olympic Fire was brought to the Olympic Town by a torch relay, with the starting point in Olympia, Greece.
	brandt.kurowski.net /projects/lsa/wiki/view.cgi?doc=487 (443 words)

	Fanbay.net - Athens 2004 Summer Olympics - Links, News, Travel info
		The most important sports, as always, were track and field and swimming and diving.
		The Ancient Olympic games originated in Greece and the first modern olympics was held in Athens in 1896.
		Also, see the following link for an analysis of the performance of the United States in the Summer Olympics over the years, from 1896 to present.
	www.fanbay.net /olympics/2004.htm (449 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES
		For example, to find out the list of all gold medallists in alpine skiing - downhill, select skiing for the sport, then alpine skiing for the discipline, then downhill for the event.
		The Olympic medal winner database is compiled using data taken from official publications containing Olympic results produced by the Organising Committees at the end of each edition of the Games.
		As the information is not yet fully standardised, we recommend that you search by nation, sport, Olympic Games, etc.
	www.olympic.org /uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp (126 words)

	1968 Summer Olympics ... - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Who won the games of the XIX Olympiad, the idealists or the cynics?
		Led and personified by octogenarian Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee, the idealists claimed that the Mexico City games were 'a true oasis in this troubled world.' The cynics roared with sardonic...
		Search for books about your topic, "1968 Summer Olympics..."
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	Summer Olympics Through The Years
		Distribution of Medals—2004 Summer Games - Country Gold Silver Bronze Total United States 35 39 29 103 Russia 27 27 38 92 China 32 17 14 63...
		The First Modern Olympics: Athens, 1896 - The birth of the modern Olympic Games by John Gettings Marathon runners, Greece 1896 "I hereby...
		Olympic Preview: Wrestling - Wrestling First Olympic Appearance: 1896 (Greco-Roman); 1904 (freestyle) by John Gettings Did You...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0114335.html (133 words)

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