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	Swimming at the 1896 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the 1896 Summer Olympics, four swimming events were contested.
		Hajós, who had intended to sweep the three open swimming events, did not compete in the 500 because it was begun immediately after the 100 metres.
		However, the competition is included in the International Olympic Committee's database of Olympic medallists and there is no record of Pierre de Coubertin or any other major figure in the beginning of the modern Olympic movement objecting to the consideration of the race as Olympic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swimming_at_the_1896_Summer_Olympics (387 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1936 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Canadian Olympic Team was the only olympic team from a non-fascist country to salute Hitler (in a gesture of friendship) while marching by during opening ceremonies.
		The 1996 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and informally known as the Centennial Olympics, were held in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
		The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, will be held in Beijing in the Peoples Republic of China from August 8, 2008 to August 24, 2008, with the opening ceremony to take place at 8 p.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1936-Summer-Olympics (3402 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics
		Athens was chosen as the host city in 1997, after surprisingly losing the bid to organize the 1996 Summer Olympics, the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the modern Olympic Games.
		Since the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France it has been the tradition to have a mascot for the games and this year the official mascots are sister and brother, Athena and Phevos, named after the goddess of wisdom, strategy and war and the god of light and music, respectively.
		An emotional high point of the parade was the entrance of the delegation from Afghanistan which had been absent from the Olympics, and had female competitors for the first time.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/2/20/2004_summer_olympics.html (1174 words)

	1956 Summer Olympics - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Because Melbourne is situated in the southern hemisphere, the Olympics were held later in the year than those held in the northern hemisphere.
		Inspired by Australian teenager John Wing, an Olympic tradition begins when athletes of different nations are allowed to parade together at the closing ceremony, instead of with their national teams, as a symbol of world unity...
		The 1906 Olympic were organised by the IOC, but are currently not officially recognised by the IOC.
	open-encyclopedia.com /1956_Summer_Olympics (405 words)

	Fanny Blankers-Koen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She is most famous for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
		A swimming coach advised her to do athletics because there were already several top swimmers in the Netherlands at that time (such as Rie Mastenbroek), and she would have a better chance to qualify for the Olympics in athletics.
		Blankers, a former triple jumper (participant in the 1928 Olympics) was a sports journalist and the coach of the Dutch women's athletics team, even though he originally thought women should not compete in sports – not an unusual opinion at the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fanny_Blankers-Koen (2228 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1972 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		One of the Black September kidnappers on the balcony of the Israeli hostel at the Olympic village The Munich Massacre occurred at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by the Palestinian terrorist organization Black September.
		They were banned from the Olympics for life, as were Tommie Smith and John Carlos in the 1968 Summer Olympics.
		Handball at the 1972 Summer Olympics was the second appearance of the sport at the Olympics, returning to the Olympic program after a 36 year absence.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1972-Summer-Olympics (3609 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1968 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Olympic Stadium is the name usually given to the big centrepiece sports arena of the Summer Olympic Games.
		Gold medal winner Ethel Catherwood of Canada scissors over the bar at the 1928 Summer Olympics The high jump is an athletics/track and field event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights.
		This is the full table of the medal count of the 1968 Summer Olympics.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1968-Summer-Olympics (3000 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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 Britain and Viggo Jensen of Denmark taking a first and a second place each in the single-hand and double-hand contests.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/1/18/1896_summer_olympics.html (923 words)

	1968 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Games of the XIX Olympiad were held in Mexico City in 1968.
		In the medal award ceremony, two African-American athletes Tommie Smith (gold) and John Carlos (bronze) raise their fl-gloved fists as a symbol of Black Power.
		John Stephen Akhwari of Tanzania became internationally famous after finishing the marathon in last place despite a dislocated knee.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1968_Summer_Olympics (365 words)

	Geschichte des Schwimmens \| History of Swimming
		Competitive swimming is at least as old as 36 B.C., when the Japanese held the first known swimming races.
		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).
		As in the past, swimming in oceans, lakes, rivers, canals, and quarries continues to be popular, even though most swimmers use pools.
	www.svl.ch /GeschichteDesSchwimmens.html (3566 words)

	1964 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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.
		The 1940 Olympics were eventually cancelled because of the outbreak of World War II.
		Yoshinori Sakai[?], who lit the Olympic Flame, was born in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day the atomic bomb exploded there.
	www.fastload.org /19/1964_Summer_Olympics.html (251 words)

	1968 summer olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		1968 Summer Olympics: Information From Answers.com 1968 Summer Olympics The Games of the XIX Olympiad were held in Mexico City in 1968.
		Basketball at the 1968 Summer Olympics: Information From Answers.com Basketball at the 1968 Summer Olympics The United States, coached by Henry Iba of Oklahoma State University, went 9-0.
		The International Olympic Committee (IOC), which sets and enforces Olympic policy, has struggled with the licensing and commercialization of the games, the need to schedule events to accommodate American television networks (whose broadcasting fees help underwrite the games), and the monitoring of athletes who seek illegal competitive advantages, often through the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
	www.olympic-headquarters.net /1968-summer-olympics.htm (897 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.
		The Winter Olympics were first held in 1924.
	www.gbrathletics.com /olympic (353 words)

	Highlights and Trivia of the 1968 Summer Olympics
		In researching the topic of the 1968 Olympics I found that I was fascinated with the trivia of the games.
		The spirit of the Olympics touches my heart and exemplifies what an individual can do if they set their mind to it and are disciplined enough to see it through.
		She achieved her unique Olympic treble despite the fact that she was handicapped by a severely upset stomach.
	www.geocities.com /ekrebich/Project5C.html (825 words)

	Debbie Meyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Her winning times were 2:10.5 for 200m, 4:31.8 for 400m and 9:24.0 for 800m, all of them new Olympic records.
		A sufferer from asthma, she also broke twenty world records, which landed her in the, broke 24 United States records and won 19 Amateur Athletic Union championships.
		On 5 July 2004 she is scheduled to be inducted into the United States.
	www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Debbie_Meyer (202 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Synchronized Swimming Fan Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The United States and Canada won every gold and silver medal in the first four Olympic competitions, but their leading swimmers retired after Atlanta.
		Synchronized swimming consists of technical and free routine competitions, accounting for 35 percent and 65 percent of the final score, respectively.
		Olympic revival: The duet event will return with 24 pairs participating.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/synchro/s/viewers.html (206 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 (1145 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.
		Egypt's best results in the Olympic pool came in 2000 in Sydney when Egypt's retired golden fish Ranya Elwany reached the final B and clinched the 11th spot.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/egypt2004olympics.htm (1359 words)

	1972 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Munich Games were marred by an act known as the Munich Massacre.
		Mark Spitz set seven World Records to win a record seven gold medals in one Olympics, bringing his total to nine.
		The last three seconds, during which US athletes missed their victory, were replayed two times before the Aleksander Belov's winning throw, due to faults by referees.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/1972_Summer_Olympics (613 words)

	1960 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Rome had been awarded the organisation of the 1908 Summer Olympics, but had to decline and pass thehonours to London.
		South Africa appears in the Olympic arena for the last time under the apartheid regime.
		It was thesecond time an athlete died in competition at the Olympics, after the death of Portuguese marathon runner Francisco Lazaro at the 1912 SummerOlympics.
	www.therfcc.org /1960-summer-olympics-67801.html (250 words)

	1968 Olympics
		Staged at 7,349 feet above sea level where the thin air was a major concern to many competing countries, the Mexico City Olympics were another chapter in a year buffeted by the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, the Democratic Convention in Chicago, and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
		Ten days before the Olympics were scheduled to open on Oct. 12, over 300 Mexico City university students were killed by army troops when a campus protest turned into a riot.
		Austrian winner at 1968 Olympics arrested on suspicion of human smuggling (AP Worldstream)
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114683.html (395 words)

	2000 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		France's Lionel Torres, who won the Olympic test event in Sydney last year, was atop the most recent men's world rankings, and Britain's Alison Williamson was second at the 1999 worlds.
		He is in pursuit of his third straight Olympic gold in the 25-meter rapid-fire pistol shooting.
		Sheila Taormina, 31, of Livonia, Mich., was a 1996 Olympic swimming gold medalist in the 4-x-200-meter relay.
	www.buffzone.com /sports/misc/a204127a.html (4278 words)

	summer olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		1968 Summer Olympics See also: 1968 Summer Paralympics The Games of the XIX Olympiad were held in 1968 in Mexico City, Mexico.
		1956 Summer Olympics The Games of the XVI Olympiad were held in 1956 in Melbourne, Australia, although the equestrian events could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations.
		Fencing at the 1896 Summer Olympics At the 1896 Summer Olympics, three fencing events were contested.
	www.searchtermtrends.com /terms/summer+olympics.html (1066 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Jones falls short in long jump
		In her weakest event, Jones captured the bronze medal Friday behind 1992 Olympic champion Heike Drechsler of Germany and 1996 silver medalist Fiona May of Italy.
		Korzeniowski, who got gold in the 20-kilometer walk last week when Bernardo Segura was disqualified after crossing the finish line first, won the 50-kilometer walk in 3 hours, 42 minutes, 22 seconds.
		Korzeniowski, also the 1996 Olympic champion in the 50-kilometer walk, broke away from the field in the closing stages of the race.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/news/2000/0928/787013.html (1071 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 Sydney 2000 (when the sport is completed).
	www.darmoni.net /joete.htm (132 words)

	1956 Summer Olympics. Who is 1956 Summer Olympics? What is 1956 Summer Olympics? Where is 1956 Summer Olympics? ...
		Therefore, these events were held in Stockholm(Sweden) marking the second, and so far last time, that events of the same Olympics were held in different countries.
		Because Melbourne is situated in the southern hemisphere, the Olympics are held late in the year.
		A third boycott came from the People's Republic of China, which protested against presence of Taiwan (under the name Formosa).
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/jsp/db/facts.jsp?title=1956+Summer+Olympics (282 words)

	Detroit Free Press \| Summer Olympics 2000
		The U.S. Olympic swimming team, still feeling the sting of its opening-night loss to the Aussies in the 4x100-meter men's freestyle relay, got even with the host country in a big-time way Sunday night at the Sydney Aquatic Center.
		With the whole Olympic tournament in front of her, Sheryl Swoopes has more important things to deal with than to make some big announcement about her future in basketball.
		But there's a slew of new events in sports that were already on the Olympic agenda, such as trampoline in gymnastics and women's hammer throw and women's pole vault in track.
	www.freep.com /index/olympics2000.htm (8350 words)

	1968 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mexico City beat Detroit, Buenos Aires and Lyon to host the Games.
		In the medal award ceremony, fl athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos (USA) raise their fl-gloved fists as a symbol of "Black Power".
		They are expelled by the US National Olympic Committee.
	www.encyclopedia-1.com /1/19/1968_summer_olympics.html (268 words)

	the ten people who won the most medals at the Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		With the latest addition to the roster for the 2000 Olympics, "gymnastic trampoline," it wouldn't be that strange if they began tossing a few medals out to the spectators in the near future.
		His first Olympics was actually in 1968, though he didn't perform up to his capabilities.
		After his 1968 triumph, Spitz retired from swimming until 1992, when he tried (unsuccessfully) to qualify for the 1992 summer games.
	www.soyouwanna.com /site/toptens/medals/medals.html (541 words)

	1960 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Rome had been awarded the organisation of the 1908 Summer Olympics, but had to decline and pass the honours to London.
		Danish cyclist Knut Jensen[?] collapsed during his race under the influence of amphetamines and later died in the hospital.
		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.fastload.org /19/1960_Summer_Olympics.html (275 words)

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