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Topic: Table Tennis at the 1988 Summer Olympics

	2000 Summer Olympics
		The ceremonies concluded with the lighting of the Olympic Flame.
		Former Australian Olympic champions brought the torch through the stadium, handing it over to Cathy Freeman, who lit the flame in the cauldron.
		IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch, at his last Olympics, had to leave for home, as his wife was severely ill. Upon arrival, his wife had already passed away.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/2/20/2000_summer_olympics.shtml (670 words)

	Olympic Games
		The ancient Olympic Games were abandoned in AD 394 by the Roman emperor Theodosius I, who considered the Games to be a savage celebration.
		Olympic is also the name the public sometimes uses for the Greek national airline, Olympic Airways.
		Olympic uses varous types or airplanes, like the Boeing 747 and Airbus A340[?] for international routes, and the Boeing 727 and Boeing 737 for domestic routes.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ol/Olympic_games.html (921 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)

	PongWorld - Table Tennis Facts
		Table tennis was banned in the Soviet Union from ca 1930 to 1950.
		Early table tennis paddles were normally made of cork, cardboard, or wood, and covered with cloth, leather or sandpaper.
		Table tennis is the most popular racquet sport in the world and ranked second overall in terms of participation.
	www.pongworld.com /more/facts.shtml (242 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 main Olympic Stadium, the designated facility for the opening and closing ceremonies, was completed only two months before the games opened, with the sliding over of a futuristic glass roof designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
		The Mayor of Athens, Dora Bakoyianni, passed the Olympic Flag to the Mayor of Beijing, Wang Qishan.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/2/0/0/2004_Summer_Olympics_330c.html (2001 words)

	Whitehorse 2007 - Jeux du Canada Winter Games
		It appeared in the Olympics as a demonstration sport in 1972 and became a full medal sport at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
		Table tennis appeared as a full medal sport at the Seoul Olympics in 1988.
		Table tennis has been on the program of the Canada Games since the first Canada Winter Games in 1967 in Quebec City.
	www.2007canadagames.ca /en/sports (2371 words)

	Olympics
		Until 1994, the Winter and Summer Olympics were held in the same year, but in 1986 the International Olympic Committee, which organises the Olympics, decided to separate them, so as to spread costs for all involved parties.
		As with the Ancient Olympics, once the flame has been lit, it is kept burning throughout the celebration of the Olympics, and is extinguished at end of the closing ceremony of the Games.
		The Olympic fire is then extinguished, and the Olympic flag is lowered, folded, and presented to the mayor of the host city of the next Olympic Games.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /olympics/Olympics.htm (1089 words)

	Mormon Olympics
		The Olympic motto, “Citius, Altius, Fortius,” (Swifter, Higher, Stronger) was introduced along with the tradition during the Closing Ceremony of hoisting the flags of the IOC, the current hosting country, and the following host.
		The Olympic Flame was lit by Yoshinori Sakai, a student who had been born in Hiroshima on the very day the atomic bomb struck.
		A tragic act of terrorism occurred when a bomb exploded in the Centennial Olympic Park, an open area that was not officially part of the Games and therefore not under the scrutiny of the Olympic security system; one person was killed and 110 were injured.
	www.mormonolympians.org /mormon_olympians/summer_olympics.html (2464 words)

	Beijing Puts Its Game Face On for the Olympics
		Four of China's 2004 Olympic champions — in gymnastics, volleyball, taekwondo and table tennis — began their sports development at the school, which calls itself "the cradle of world champions" and "the origin of Olympic talents" despite facilities clearly showing their age.
		China's women did rise to world leadership in swimming and distance running in the mid-1990s, but that emergence was tainted by both doping and accusations that the distance runners, conditioned to "eat bitterness," were subjected to a dehumanizing and brutal training regime.
		Pinsent, who had criticized the IOC's 2001 decision to award the Olympics to Beijing, said in a BBC report that he'd observed gymnasts in obvious pain and at least one boy who told a translator that he had been beaten by a coach.
	www.chinatownconnection.com /beijing-olympics.htm (1204 words)

	Summer Olympics: Table Tennis
		Table tennis first showed up in England in 1890 as a sport for the wealthy people.
		Table Tennis became an Olympic sport in 1988.
		In the Olympic games, table tennis includes four disciplines; men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, and women's doubles.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/tabletennis.htm (159 words)

	Seoul 1988 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		For these Olympics excisted all facilities already in 1988, because the Asian Games were in Seoul in 1986.
		Because tennis re-entered the Olympics as Olympic sport, to be in 1920 as last at the program, and new sports like table tennis were introduced, came the number of sports (and so the number of gold medals) to a record of 237.
		This year had the American tv-stations incredible amount for the rights of the broadcasting of the Olympics (amounts to 750 million dollars), but under conditions that the most important finals should be during the hours that the viewing figures in the USA were at his highst.
	library.thinkquest.org /25114/eng/spelen/zos1988.html (205 words)

	About Our Sport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Since 1926, when the International Table Tennis Federation was formed, the sport itself has made tremendous progress in virtually all parts of the world.
		Table Tennis is now recognized and played in the "OLYMPICS", with it's debut appearance in the 1988 Seoul Olympic games.
		TABLE TENNIS is the athletic 'sport', such as is played in the Olympics.
	www.sdtta.org /our_sport.html (613 words)

	KnoxNews: Olympics
		U.S. Olympic coach Dan Seemiller, who lives 20 minutes from Hazinski and has coached him for seven years, said he saw Hazinski's Olympic potential in 1993.
		USA Table Tennis named him 2003 Men's Athlete of the Year partly thanks to strong play at the 2003 U.S. National Championship, where he finished second to Lupulesku.
		Olympic table tennis player Mark Hazinski will play doubles in the table tennis event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
	www.knoxnews.com /kns/olympics/article/0,1406,KNS_937_2847955,00.html (795 words)

	Summer Olympics: Tennis
		Tennis was played as far back as the Middle Ages in France or way back in Ancient Greece.
		In the olden days, the strings of a tennis racket were made of sheep, cow, or ox intestines.
		A tennis ball is hollow and a little smaller than a baseball.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/tennis.htm (433 words)

	Olympics -> Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Summer Olympics (Games of the Olympiad) have been held every fourth year starting in 1896, except in 1916, 1940, and 1944 due to the World Wars.
		The first winter Olympics competitions were held as a non-Olympic sports festival, but were declared to be official Games by the International Olympic Committee in 1925.
		Originally these were held in the same year as the Summer Olympics, but as of 1994 (the Lillehammer Games) the Winter Games and the Summer Games have been held two years apart.
	www.bloggit.info /olympics (158 words)

	Olympics Pathfinder
		He began and served as president of the International Olympic Committee for 29 years, which is now the "supreme authority over the Olympic Movement" (Olympic Primer).
		The Modern Olympic Games are referred to by Roman numerals designating the number of the particular games, with the first being the one held in Athens in 1896.
		In the summer of 1936, Tony runs away from his home above his family's Italian restaurant in Chicago, while in Berlin David is present at the Olympics and prepares to move to America.
	eaglesnest.dsc.k12.ar.us /hs/library/pathfinder/olympics.htm (3353 words)

	CANOE -- SLAM! 2004 Games News: 2004 SUMMER OLYMPICS NOTE
		Tennis, which made its Olympic debut in 1896 with the men's singles and doubles competitions, was dropped in 1924, a victim of a dispute between amateurs and professionals.
		It was brought back as a demonstration sport in 1968 and 1984 before being re-admitted in 1988 in Seoul, Korea.
		The tennis competition runs from August 15-22 at the Olympic Tennis Centre.
	slam.canoe.ca /StatsOLY/BC-OLY-LGNS-TENNISDESC-R.html (158 words)

	Daily Herald \| Crossing China
		Table tennis, known here as ping pang qui, is China’s national sport.
		Chinese winners of the table tennis world championships are practically ensured national hero status.
		Then, suburban table tennis proteges might learn what could await them in 2016, the year Chicago officials have toyed with the idea of trying to host the Olympics.
	www.dailyherald.com /special/crossingchina/part5sidebarA.asp (1220 words)

	ipedia.com: 1996 Summer Olympics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Also during the games, the Centennial Olympic Park bombing took place on July 27, 1996 killing Alice Hawthorne and wounding 111 others, and eliciting the death of Melih Uzunyol by heart attack.
		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.
	www.ipedia.com /1996_summer_olympics.html (488 words)

	Welcome to myfoodcount.com - Measure Your Health - Living Library - Ping Pong
		Table tennis, also known as Ping Pong, is a sport where two players hit a ball back and forth to each other, with a racket on a table, in a manner similar to tennis.
		Table tennis is an Olympic sport, "ping-pong" is the recreational version of the same sport.
		Past-president of the United States Table Tennis Association (USTTA) from 1990 to 1995, Seemiller was unanimously inducted into the USTTA Hall of Fame in 1995.
	www.myfoodcount.com /healthylife/livinglibrary/pingpong.html (1675 words)

	Summer Olympics
		In badminton the net is lowered, and they use a shuttlecock instead of a tennis ball, and it is never to hit the ground, or the other team gets a point.
		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)

	Summer Olympics: Table Tennis
		Table tennis first showed up in England in 1890 as a sport for the wealthy people.
		To play table tennis you need a table with a net, ball and a racket.
		Table Tennis became an Olympic sport in 1988.
	www.pocanticohills.org /olympics/tabletennis.htm (159 words)

	kiat.net: Olympic Games Seoul 1988
		Otherwise, Steffi Graf added an Olympic gold medal to her Grand Slam sweep in tennis, Greg Louganis won both men's diving events for the second straight time, and the U.S. men's basketball team had to settle for third place after losing to the gold medal-winning Soviets, 82-76, in the semifinals.
		Also in 1988, at the Games of the Olympiad in Seoul, tennis - which had not been on the Olympic programme for 60 years - returned with the best players in the world taking part.
		The Seoul Olympics encouraged the West to explore the culture and history of South Korea instead of its chilly, often volatile relationship with its communist North Korean neighbour.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/24seoul.html (773 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS
		Whatever name it assumes, table tennis has come a long way since its introduction as a genteel, after-dinner alternative to lawn tennis in 1890s England.
		Table tennis has become the world's largest participation sport, with 40 million competitive players worldwide and countless millions playing recreationally.
		Various rubber compounds and glues are applied on the rackets to impart greater spin or speed.
	www.olympic.org /uk/sports/programme/index_uk.asp?SportCode=TT (163 words)

	The History of the Olympic Games
		They were held in the same year as the summer Olympics until 1994, when they began to be held on separate 4-year cycles that were staggered by two years.
		Small, local festivals were being called “Olympics” as early as the 17th century in places like England and France, but the discovery of the ruins of Olympia in the 19th century sparked interest in the games once again on an international scale.
		The Olympic relay, another well-known symbol of the games, in which the torch is lit in Olympia and run to the host city, was introduced in 1936.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~leannajf/olympics.html (1072 words)

	1988 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Tennis returns to the Olympics after a 64-year absence, and Steffi Graf adds to her four Grand Slam victories in the year by also winning the Olympic title.
		Table tennis is introduced at the Olympics, with China and the host nation both winning two titles.
		1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1988_Summer_Olympics (586 words)

	Saudi Athletes in Atlanta Strive to Build on Their Nation's Olympic Tradition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Olympics have always inspired feelings of national pride, both in the inhabitants of the host country and in the inhabitants of every country sending athletes to the games.
		For the first time ever, the Kingdom's soccer team was represented in the Olympics, and although it lost its first game to Brazil and tied its second with Malaysia, it was a great moment in Saudi soccer history and set the course for the national soccer team's participation in future Olympics.
		In the 25th Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, in 1992, Saudi athletes represented the Kingdom in a number of sports, including some in which the Kingdom had never before competed, such as gymnastics, table tennis and swimming.
	www.saudiembassy.net /Publications/MagSummer96/olympics.html (951 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1988 Seoul
		The Ben Johnson fiasco notwithstanding, the Seoul Olympics were relatively free of scandal, aside from a boxing tournament that appeared to be even more rigged by corrupt and otherwise incompetent judging than ever.
		Tennis returned to the Olympic line-up after a 64-year absence and had a least one gold medallist with megastar appeal - women's singles winner and Grand Slam champion Steffi Graf of Germany.
		In the pool, Carolyn Waldo became one of Canada's rare double-gold medallists, when she captured two gold medals in synchronized swimming, one in the individual event and the other with partner Michelle Cameron in the duet.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1988.html (1321 words)

	Paralympic Games
		Sir Ludwig Guttmann organized a sports competition in 1948 which became known as the Stoke Mandeville Games, involving World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries; in 1952 competitors from the Netherlands took part.
		The first Olympic Style games for disabled athletes were held in Rome in 1960 which became the Paralympics.
		The Games are now always held alongside the Olympic Games as on June 19, 2001 an agreement was signed between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) securing this practice for the future.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/p/pa/paralympic_games.shtml (198 words)

	'Sold out' signs going up at Games events - News in Depth -
		The Olympics will be relaxed compared to this," one soccer fan responded.
		Even the crowds to date are pretty remarkable for a nation of under 11 million people that does not have the sports culture Australia prides itself on.
		With the games deliberately held in the biggest summer holiday week, when Athenians normally flee the capital - presumably to leave room for the influx of international visitors - the level of local attendance was always a question.
	www.theage.com.au /olympics/articles/2004/08/22/1093113055507.html (448 words)

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