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	2000 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The cover for the DVD of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics showing fireworks in the background and the lighting of the Olympic Flame by Cathy Freeman (who subsequently won the 400 m title).
		During the raising of the Olympics Flag, the Olympic Hymn was sung by the Millennium Choir of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia.
		The Olympic flag was flown at half-staff during the period as a sign of respect to Samaranch's wife.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2000_Summer_Olympics (2202 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)

	Taekwondo - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Hence, Taekwondo is loosely translated as "the art of kicking and punching" or "the way of the foot and the fist." Taekwondo's popularity has resulted in the divergent evolution of the art.
		Taekwondo is famed for its employment of kicking techniques, which distinguishes it from martial arts such as Karate or certain southern styles of Kung Fu.
		Taekwondo as a sport and exercise is popular with people of both sexes and of many ages.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/t/a/e/Taekwondo.html (2392 words)

	Lehigh Valley / Lehigh University Taekwondo: About our Taekwondo school
		Taekwondo is known for its enphasis in the kicking techniques.
		Taekwondo became an official Korean martial art during a meeting between the various Kwans in April 1955 Ethe official name was not yet decided at this point.
		Taekwondo was chosen as the demonstration sport of the Seoul Olympics in 1988 and again in 1992.
	www.lehightaekwondo.com /about/taekwondo.shtml (912 words)

	History of Taekwondo: Taekwondo Today
		Taekwondo is a highly complex system composed of many elements, however, it is far more than simply a system of powerful kicks and punches, it is also an art directed toward the moral development of its students.
		Taekwondo must be careful least it fall to the same fate as Judo.
		Taekwondo has a had long history and, due to its international popularity, it is certain to have an equally long future.
	tkdtutor.com /02Taekwondo/TaekwondoHistory/20TKDToday01.htm (902 words)

	Olympic Preview: Taekwondo
		Taekwondo was popularized in Korea and has become a part of its culture and heritage, but now over 50 million people worldwide participate in one form or another.
		Taken literally, taekwondo means "the way of hands and feet." It can trace its roots back to over 2000 years ago, as evidenced by various murals found on ancient Korean tombs, but it didn't get its name or its official rules until 1957.
		The Olympic taekwondo competition is broken up into four categories for both men and women.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/ol-taekwondo.html (480 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)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Taekwondo, litteraly "the way of fist and foot fighting," is a independantly developed Korean martial art with a rich tradition spanning more than 2000 years.
		Taekwondo was recognized by both the International Millitary Sports Council and the General assembly of International Sports Federation in 1976 and was introduced as an official world sport.
		It retained this status in the 1992 Summer Olympic Games held in Barcelona, Spain, and has since been accepted as a full medal sport beginning with the 2000 Summer Olympic Games to be held in Sydney, Australia.
	www.csua.berkeley.edu /~dalia/Taekwondo.html (787 words)

	Athens Olympics 2004
		Fittingly for an Olympic Games that was, more than most, about beginnings and endings, the honour of carrying the Australian flag and leading the team at the closing ceremony was given to veteran swimmer Petria Thomas.
		As is the fate of many Olympic athletes, the members of the men's hockey team who won perhaps the most thrilling of Australia's 17 gold medals will return to relative obscurity once the celebrations have died down.
		Olympic historian Harry Gordon speaks to Roy Masters about his impression of how the Games will be remembered.
	www.smh.com.au /olympics (464 words)

	USATODAY.com - Taekwondo official alleges Olympic fix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Olympic world, already rocked by the possibility of Russian mob influence in figure skating, could be hit with another results-fixing scandal.
		U.S. Olympic officials are urging an investigation into allegations that the taekwondo judging at the 2000 Sydney Olympics was manipulated.
		Taekwondo, an Olympic medal sport for the first time in Sydney, is a style of karate that has its origins in Korea.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/2002-08-05-taekwondo-fix_x.htm (484 words)

	rediff.com: South Korea bank on Taekwondo gold
		If there's anything like a sure bet for gold medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics, it would have to be South Korea in Taekwondo.
		Taekwondo has been practiced in Korea for some 2000 years, but only in the last decade or so has it spread beyond the peninsula.
		South Korea traces the origin of Taekwondo back to the Koguryo dynasty, which was founded in 37 B.C. in present-day North Korea.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2000/aug/17korea.htm (389 words)

	Dominique Bosshart is Going to be a Little Lonely as Canada's Sole Taekwondo Competitor
		The 22-year-old is the sole Canadian taekwondo competitor to qualify for the Olympics, but Bosshart feels pretty confident she'll be bringing back some hardware.
		Taekwondo gained official Olympic status after being a demonstration sport in 1988 and 1992.
		Taekwondo is similar to karate except competitors can't punch in the face, points are earned by kicks to the face or chest protectors, and there is a bit more finesse involved.
	www.caaws.ca /olympics/2000/taekwondo/taekwondo_may22.htm (371 words)

	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)

	Background - Premier Taekwondo / Karate - Merrimack, New Hampshire (NH), USA
		A member of the World Taekwondo Federation and the United States Taekwondo Union, the International and National governing bodies for Olympic Taekwondo competition, Premier Taekwondo is dedicated to high quality, safe and effective martial arts education.
		Smith served as a coach for the New Hampshire State Junior Olympic Team in both 1995 and 1996 and Chairman of the Junior Olympic Committee in 1996 for the New Hampshire State Taekwondo Association.
		Taekwondo is enjoyed by children age 5 to adults in their 70’s.
	www.premiertaekwondo.com /background.html (460 words)

	SI.com - Magazine - Olympics: Is This an Olympic Sport? - Tuesday May 31, 2005 4:19PM
		Hosting the Olympics has become so gargantuan a task that cities and countries can go deep into hock to hold them; IOC president Jacques Rogge has long been concerned that the size and cost have made it impossible for smaller, poorer nations ever to host the Games.
		Members of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) are so upset that a vote on their future is even being taken that the organization's president, Denis Oswald, called a special ASOIF session for this week in Geneva to try to clear the air.
		Elimination from the Olympics would mean the loss of both the prestige of participating on the world's largest athletic stage and the substantial financial rewards cited by Henderson.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2005/magazine/05/31/olympic.new0606 (1681 words)

	Taekwondo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The term "taekwondo" is relatively new, but the martial art can be traced back around 2000 years.
		In the 2000 Summer Olympics, Taekwondo became an official event.
		We stayed overnight at the taekwondo school--the dojang--and woke up at five the next morning to perform the sixteen forms in our curriculum, as well as twenty-nine one-step sparring drills.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~lianneh/webpage/tkd.htm (968 words)

	ANDONGKIM.COM - Taekwondo Still an Official Olympic Sport (for now)
		"South Korea's national sport Taekwondo survived the threat of being ditched out as an official event in 2012 Summer Olympics to be held in London," reported the Seoul Times.
		Taekwondo fans and South Koreans were afraid that their beloved sport would no longer be a part of The Olympic Games.
		The World Taekwondo Federation has conducted a series of reform actions as part of its efforts to make it a truly international sport, including instituting an electronic scoring system and revision of match rules.
	www.andongkim.com /articles/2005/08/tkdstillolympicsport.htm (317 words)

	Summer Olympics: Taekwondo
		In the Olympics the contestants must wear a body protector, forearm protection, shin guards and tooth brace that protects your mouth from getting hit.
		In the Olympics there will be competitions for men and women.
		Taekwondo became an official Olympic sport in the 2000 Olympics.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/taekwondo.htm (169 words)

	EdGate Summer Games
		Paintings of taekwondo practitioners have been found on the ceiling of at least one royal tomb from the Koguryo dynasty (about 50 B.C.) of Korean history.
		Taekwondo is a martial art that combines straight line and circular movements—from Japanese and Chinese styles, respectively— with a variety of kicking techniques using bare hands and feet.
		However, taekwondo is more than a sport because the practitioner learns to improve spiritually while becoming proficient in the sport.
	www.edgate.com /summergames/spotlight_sport/taekwondo.php (500 words)

	Olympics
		Olympic ring border, list of words related to bobsledding and luge to use in poem.
		When the Olympics are over, use the results from your chart to answer the questions.
		This reading comprehension is a biography of Olympic champion Kerri Strug and the story of her famous gold-medal win in gymnastics at the 1996 Olympics.
	www.abcteach.com /directory/theme_units/sports/olympics (1215 words)

	MIT Taekwondo Wins Tourney, Claims Top National Ranking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		With the location of this year’s tournament in nearby Connecticut and the Sport Taekwondo Club’s recent recognition by MIT, Park was finally able to realize her dream of competing with an MIT team at the NCTA Championship.
		Master Daniel Chuang, the head instructor of the MIT Sport Taekwondo Club, was recognized for his contributions to collegiate Taekwondo with the NCTA Coach of the Year award.
		Chuang captained the formidable Cornell Taekwondo team while he was an undergraduate there, and he founded the MIT counterpart with Park in fall 2000.
	web.mit.edu /rbhuang/Public/SportTaekwondo/04-04-27_NCTA_Bridgeport.htm (972 words)

	ThinkQuest : Library Search
		Though the Olympics are known to many all over the world, but at the same time, many does not know what exactly is the "Olympics", the word of which has many stories left untold behind it, and the organizations running it.
		You will learn about the Olympiads, the Ancient Olympics, the Olympic flame, the history of the Olympics, the medal winning countries of 2000, and the world records broken in 2000.
		We chose this because the olympics are an example of global economies supporting atheletes and because we wanted to learn about some sports played all over the world.
	www.thinkquest.org /library/search.html?search_text=olympics (1128 words)

	HoustonChronicle.com - Sports: Summer Olympics 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Olympic coverage from: 9/14 - 9/15 - 9/16 - 9/17 - 9/18 - 9/19 - 9/20 - 9/21 - 9/22 - 9/23 - 9/24 - 9/25 - 9/26 - 9/27 - 9/28 - 9/29 - 9/30 - 10/1
		Nancy Johnson produced the first gold medal of the Sydney Olympics as she won the women's 10-meter air rifle competition early today.
		Olympics has 40 who say they are from Texas
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/sports/oly/00/oly916.html (374 words)

	Athletes
		USA Taekwondo, as the National Governing Body for the Olympic sport of Taekwondo, which is recognized by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and member of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF), is developing and implementing programmatic plans with the intent of developing world-class athletes for the achievement of sustained competitive excellence.
		The Summer World University Games take place every two years and, being a USOC-sponsored team, is incorporated into USA Taekwondo’s high performance initiatives and all related expenses for athletes and coaches are covered by USA Taekwondo.
		He is the first Taekwondo athlete to achieve such a feat in the sports history.
	www.usa-taekwondo.us /92.htm (1859 words)

	USATODAY.com - Taekwondo official denies judging quotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Former World Taekwondo Federation vice president Lee Chong Woo on Tuesday denied a report that quoted him describing how he manipulated the taekwondo judging to favor South Korean athletes at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
		The U.S. Olympic Committee's request for an investigation came on the heels of news of possible Russian mob influence on the 2002 Salt Lake City Games figure skating results.
		"This has been the way taekwondo is," said USOC executive committee member Herb Perez, who won a gold medal in taekwondo at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, where it was an exhibition sport.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/2002-08-07-taekwondo-fix_x.htm (437 words)

	HoustonChronicle.com - Sports: Summer Olympics 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		With his family cheering on, Steven Lopez of Sugar Land came from behind today in the final round to win the United States' first Olympic gold medal in taekwondo, the Olympics' newest sport.
		Her quest is to become the first woman to win five golds at a Summer Olympics.
		But for the second consecutive night, the United States won a wrestling bout with Russia, but this one was on a basketball court with the U.S. Dream team pulling away for the 85-70 win today.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/sports/oly/00/oly928.html (396 words)

	ipedia.com: 1992 Summer Olympics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Paralympic archer Antonio Rebollo lights the Olympic Flame by shooting an arrow into the cauldron.
		Five of the six golds were in individual events, tying Eric Heiden's record for individual gold medals at a single Olympics.
		Badminton and women's judo become part of the Olympic programme, while white water canoeing returns to the Games after a 20-year absence.
	www.ipedia.com /1992_summer_olympics.html (412 words)

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