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	1896 Summer Olympics
		The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the '''Games of the I Olympiad''', were held in 1896 in Athens, Greece.
		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.
		Although tennis was already a major sport by the end of the 19th century, none of the top players turned up for the tournament in Athens, which was held at the courts of the Athens Lawn Tennis Club, and the infield of the velodrome.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/1896_Summer_Olympics (3227 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)

	Summer Olympics: Tennis
		Tennis was played as far back as the Middle Ages in France or way back in Ancient Greece.
		There was tennis in the Olympics from 1896 until 1924.
		In the olden days, the strings of a tennis racket were made of sheep, cow, or ox intestines.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/tennis.htm (433 words)

	Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Female Olympic athletes now more confident
		In the summer of 1972, Francie Larrieu Smith had all the opportunity she ever wanted spread out on the track before her as she toed the start line for the Olympic 1,500-meter heat in Munich, Germany.
		There were 96 women on the U.S. team in Larrieu Smith's first Olympics and 203 on her last, when she walked into the stadium in Barcelona, Spain, in 1992 carrying the U.S. flag.
		With the International Olympic Committee delivering on its promise to help unlock the potential of female athletes everywhere, women will compete for the first time at the Olympics in the hammer throw, pole vault, triathlon, modern pentathlon, tae kwon do, water polo and weightlifting.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/s/2000/0829/710203.html (1557 words)

	1984 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, were held in 1984 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
		Tennis returns for the first time since the 1924 Summer Olympics, this time as a demonstration sport.
		Olympic soccer was unexpectedly played before massive crowds throughout America, with several sell-outs at the 100,000+ seat Rose Bowl.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1984_Summer_Olympics (997 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.
		Alfréd Hajós, the first Olympic champion in swimming, is one of only two Olympians to have won medals in both sport and art competitions, Photograph by A. Meyer, Athens, Benaki Museum.
		In the first modern Olympics of 1896, women were not allowed to compete, but there was an unofficial competitor in the marathon, a poor Greek woman who became known as 'Melpomene'.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/NewSport/Olympia1896.html (3549 words)

	Tennis in Olympics quiz -- free game
		Tennis went out of the Olympics after the 1924 Games for quite some time but was staged as a demonstration and exhibition event in one of the Games.
		When tennis returned to Olympics in the 1984 Los Angeles Games, it was restricted as a demonstration event to players under the age of 21.
		Two-time Olympic champion Steffi Graf was denied a hat-trick of golds by this inspired lady from America.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=188769 (333 words)

	Tennis at the 1896 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the 1896 Summer Olympics, two tennis events were contested, both for men.
		They were begun on 8 April and continued on 9 April, 10 April, and 11 April.
		These medals are retroactively assigned by the International Olympic Committee; at the time, winners were given a silver medal and subsequent places received no award.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tennis_at_the_1896_Summer_Olympics (274 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1896 Athens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Currently, the stadium is again being refurbished to serve as the venue for the marathon and archery at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
		All the competitors were men; women did not make it onto the Olympic roster until the next Olympiad in 1900, when the number of competitors swelled to 1,319.
		The marathon’s origins are more apocryphal: a re-enactment of the journey of Philippides, who according to legend, ran to Athens to bring news of the Greeks’ victory over the Persians in 490 BC and collapsed dead of exhaustion upon his arrival.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1896.html (1022 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 – Resources @ Your Library - Palm Beach County Library System
		The 1996 Olympics in Atlanta will mark the centenary of the modern games, and this lavish volume, with more than 750 photos in color and fl and white, is an impressive tribute.
		Here is the historical background to the founding of the games by French nobleman Pierre de Coubertin, and accounts of the summer and winter (the latter founded in 1925) events, from the moving victory of Greek athlete Spiridon Louis in the first marathon in Athens to the 16-day winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, in 1994.
		Recounting the memorable and significant athletic events of the Olympics in terms of their social and political impact, Guttmann demonstrates that the modern games were revived to propagate a political message and continue to serve political purposes.
	www.pbclibrary.org /story-summer-olympics.htm (542 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 2004 Athens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As the first Summer Olympics since the attacks of Sept. 11,2001, the safety of the athletes, spectators and Greek population were of utmost priority.
		The story of Kenteris, the defending Olympic 200-metre champion, and Thanou, the 100 m silver medallist from Sydney, dominated the headlines of every broadcast and newspaper as much for its impact on the host nation as for its sensational details.
		And on the final day of the Olympics, a spectator ran onto the road during the men's marathon and pushed lead runner Vanderlei de Lima of Brazil to the sidelines.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004 (2135 words)

	Olympics: Tennis
		But defending Olympic champion Andre Agassi was likely to withdraw to spend time with his ailing mother and sister, top-ranked Gustavo Kuerten left Brazil's team in a dispute over uniform sponsorship and Russia's seventh-ranked Yevgeny Kafelnikov seemed on the brink of pulling out after a poor U.S. Open performance.
		Not when tennis was on the program from 1896-1924 and not since it returned to the Games in 1988.
		Making the whole thing even more unseemly is that Venus Williams seemed to suggest this summer that she would pull out of the Olympics if her sister was not named to the team.
	www.sptimes.com /News/091000/Olympics/Tennis.shtml (528 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		During the 19th century, several minor sports festivals named after the Ancient Olympic Games were held in a few European countries.
		There was no designated Olympic Village for the athletes like there is nowadays; the athletes stayed in hotels or with friends.
		cs:Letní olympijské hry 1896 de:Olympische Sommerspiele 1896 et:1896.
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/1896_Summer_Olympics (3849 words)

	Olympics Racquet/Target: Archery, Badminton, Shooting, Table Tennis, Tennis - CBS SportsLine.com
		The Olympic Tennis Centre is situated at Maroussi and is part of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex.
		The Tennis Centre consists of the main court (11,000 seats), two semi-final courts (4,000 and 2,000 seats, respectively), and 13 other courts (200 seats each).
		The Olympic Shooting Centre in Markopoulo, in the east Attica region, covers an area of 312,000 sq m.
	cbs.sportsline.com /olympics/summer/target (487 words)

	CANOE -- SLAM! 2004 Games News: 2004 SUMMER OLYMPICS NOTE
		#Event Description & Format - Tennis# ------------------------------------- Tennis will be making its fifth consecutive appearance as a full-medal sport in the Olympics and will feature some of the biggest names in the sport.
		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.
		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)

	Olympics sure to prove a real page-turner - -
		At the 1900 Paris Olympics, for instance, a French boy was drafted to fill in when the Dutch coxed pairs team suddenly found itself without a coxswain.
		The official return of the Olympics to their traditional home has prompted a bevy of books about the ancient Games and their revival in the 19th century.
		In one famous bout, the Olympic crown was awarded posthumously as the two-time defending champion Arrichion was strangled in a choke hold, but just before he died, his opponent submitted because Arrichion had broken his ankle.
	www.theage.com.au /olympics/articles/2004/08/06/1091732090177.html (994 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Two down, three tough ones to go
		Her quest is to become the first woman to win five golds at a Summer Olympics.
		Astrid Kumbernuss of Germany, the Olympic champion in 1996, took the bronze.
		Marla Runyan, the first U.S. paralympian to reach the Olympics, continued her amazing odyssey by qualifying for the final of the women's 1,500 meters.
	www.espn.go.com /oly/summer00/news/2000/0927/784201.html (1006 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)

	The Olympics
		The Olympic Games (or Olympics/however you say it!!) is a competition where people from all over the world come to a central location to compete in different sports.
		The Summer Olympics is the main Olympics and includes a wider range of sports.
		Originally these were held in the same year as the Summer Olympics, but starting with 1994 the Winter Games are in between, two years after the Games of the Olympiad.
	www.projectshum.org /Olympics (274 words)

	The Olympic Games
		A brief text and a drawing for each of the summer olympics from 1896 to 1996.
		REACH An Educator's Guide to the Olympics: Hundreds of beautifully made printable facts and activities sheet on everything imaginable related to the Winter Olympics and the Paralympics.
		Olympic Statistics - Medal Count - "the ranking by country for each olympic event (e.g.
	www.caslt.org /research/olympics.htm (728 words)

	1924 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The 1924 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VIII Olympiad, were held in 1924 in Paris, France.
		The marathon distance was fixed at 42.195 km, from the distance run at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.
		Ireland was given formal recognition as an independent nation in the Olympic Movement in Paris in 1924 and it was at these games that Ireland made its first appearance in an Olympic Games as an independent nation.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1924_Summer_Olympics (436 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They were held between Monday, April 6 and Wednesday, April 15, 1896.
		He presented his ideas at an 1894 congress held in the Sorbonne, Paris, with delegates from sports societies of 11 countries present.
		In addition, the curves of the track were very tight, making fast times in the running events virtually impossible, despite this Thomas Burke won both the 100m and the 400m for the USA in times of 12.0 and 54.2 and winning in relative ease.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1896_Summer_Olympics (3661 words)

	Open Directory - Sports: Events: Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Olympic History from Buffalo and Western New York - Highlights of olympic history with stories about Olympic medal winners and their accomplishments.
		Olympic Museum - A virtual visit of the permanent exhibits, a virtual gallery with Nagano ceremonies, a philatelic and numismatic exhibition, concerts and conferences, a research centre.
		Science and the Olympics - Science and technology played a small role in the original Olympics, which prompted a brief truce in any wars the Greeks happened to be fighting.
	dmoz.org /Sports/Events/Olympics (817 words)

	Olympics News and Coverage
		The 2004 Olympic Games will be held August 13-28 in Athens, Greece, with the tennis competition being staged August 15-22 at the Athens Olympic Tennis Center.
		To be eligible to compete for in the Olympic Tennis Event, players must be no younger than 14 years as at 12/31/2003 (men) or 15 years as at 8/13/2004 (women).
		It was Olympic gold that brought tears to the eyes of 20-year-old tennis superstar Venus Williams.
	www.usta.com /protennis/home.sps?iType=956 (2511 words)

	Summer Olympics
		By Chris and Nick F. In the summer Olympics, Athletics is one of the largest events.
		It is one of the most popular sports in the Olympics and the world.
		It was one of the original sports in the first modern Olympics in 1896.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/athletics.htm (215 words)

	ipedia.com: 1992 Summer Olympics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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)

	Olympics - History & Traditions of the Games
		While the modern Olympics traces its root back to Hellenic Greece, the history of the modern games as we know them really began at the very end of the 19th century, in 1896.
		Whether you're looking for the ancient or modern Olympics, you'll find a world of interesting background information and Olympics trivia on the Web...
		Stop by the oral history section to get a first person view of past Olympics games from the athletes who took part in the games.
	www.chiff.com /olympics/olympics-history.htm (281 words)

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