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	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)

	1904 Summer Olympics: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Games of the III Olympiad were held in 1904 in St.
		The Olympic competitions, spread out over four and a half months, were lost in the chaos of a World?s Fair.
		Of the 94 events generally considered to have been part of the Olympic program, only 42 included athletes who were not from the United States.
	www.encyclopedian.com /19/1904-Summer-Olympics.html (243 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1906 Athens
		The modern Olympic founder, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, figured that the best medicine for the flagging Olympics would be to return them to their roots in Athens.
		The International Olympic Committee was cool to the idea, but de Coubertin and the IOC reached a compromise: the 1906 Games would not be deemed an official Olympics.
		Their legacy is that the Olympic movement regained its footing and sense of purpose, and the world actually looked forward to the next official Olympics of 1908 with some excitement.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1906.html (558 words)

	1904_Summer_Olympics LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		The 1904 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the III Olympiad, were held in St.
		Considered the lesser of two evils by de Coubertin, St. Louis repeated the mistakes made at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.
		The Olympic events were again mixed with other sporting events, but where Paris hardly ever mentioned the Olympics, Sullivan called all his sports events "Olympic".
	www.school-explorer.com /info/1904_Summer_Olympics (1119 words)

	Tennis
		Tennis, game played with a racket and a ball by two (as in singles) or four (as in doubles) competitors, on a rectangular court with a net strung between the midpoints of the longer sides of the court.
		A tennis game, when not prolonged by a tie, is played to four points, designated by the terms 15, 30, 40, and game, with zero points being referred to by the term love (possibly derived from the French word for egg, l'oeuf, referring to the physical appearance of the number zero).
		Annual tennis tournaments operated by the professional tours, such as the French and Italian opens, are held throughout the world between the months of January and November.
	hem.passagen.se /jonasagn/tennis.html (4092 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)

	1908 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1908 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the IV Olympiad, were held in 1908 in London, England.
		However, these have since been retroactively downgraded by the International Olympic Committee and thus the 1908 Games are seen as the start of the Fourth Olympiad, in keeping with the now-accepted four-year cycle.
		Funds that were to have gone to the Olympics were diverted to the reconstruction of Naples, so a new venue was required.
	www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-1908_Summer_Olympics (707 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)

	Bob Larson's Tennis News \| USTA announces its Olympic teams. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Venus Williams, 24, will be making her second Olympic appearance having won a gold medal in both women’s singles and women’s doubles at the 2000 Olympic Games, joining Helen Wills in 1924 as the only player to sweep both titles in the same Olympiad.
		Navratilova, 47, will be making her Olympic debut in Athens in a professional tennis career that began in 1973 and includes 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 39 Grand Slam doubles titles, 167 singles titles, 174 doubles titles and a perfect 40-0 record as member of the U.S. Fed Cup team.
		Tennis was part of the Olympic program from the first modern Olympiad in 1896 until 1924.
	www.tennisnews.com /exclusive.php?pID=417 (1239 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)

	Wikinfo \| Summer Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Olympics are the most prestigious such event in the world, with a larger range of sports than other such events, and most of those considering Olympic victory the most prestigious achievement in their field.
		The modern Olympic Games were founded in 1894 when Pierre Fredi, Baron de Coubertin, who sought to promote international understanding through the sporting competition.
		On the bright side it did, however, seem that the drug testing and regulation authorities were at last catching up with the cheating that had been widely to be endemic in athletics for some years, and it was generally held that the 1992 Barcelona Games were cleaner, although not without incident.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Summer_Olympic_Games (2021 words)

	1904 Summer Olympics (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The 1904 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the III Olympiad, were held in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States from July 1 to November 23, 1904.
		The 1906 Olympic were organised by the IOC, but are currently not officially recognised by the IOC.
		But now it is too as yours are broken for the second time, O Prophetess, the curse of through this life and all other lives that perchance may be given to in writing and sealed.
	1904-summer-olympics.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888 (880 words)

	Tennis at the 1904 Summer Olympics: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Tennis at the 1904 Summer Olympics: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		At the 1904 Summer Olympics, two tennis events were contested.
		Post a link to definition / meaning of " Tennis at the 1904 Summer Olympics " on your site.
	www.encyclopedian.com /te/Tennis-at-the-1904-Summer-Olympics.html (77 words)

	Summer Olympics: Aquatics
		In the Olympics Swimming has 26 individual events and six relay or team events for both men and women.
		Swimming was one of the sports at the first modern Olympic games in 1896.
		Water polo was included in 1900, Diving in 1904, and Synchronised swimming was added in 1984.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/aquatics.htm (280 words)

	Olympic Wrestling Events, Pictures, News, Bios
		If your idea of wrestling was formed by the WWE, be prepared for a very different spectator experience from Olympic wrestling.
		Olympic wrestlers are disciplined athlethes, with no props, who compete in several weight classes to see who has mastered the skills it takes to win the Gold...
		One exciting news headline is that the NBC network will be covering all eight days of wrestling at the Olympics for US fans and anyone else who has access to US TV feeds.
	www.chiff.com /olympics/olympics-wrestling.htm (305 words)

	Bob Larson's Tennis News \| US Olympic team notebook--Saturday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Tennis was not an Olympic sport when Gibson competed, however, she did compete for the U.S. at the Pan American Games in 1959.
		Navratilova continued her assault on tennis history in 2003, winning the mixed doubles titles at the Australian Open and Wimbledon to become the oldest player in the history of the sport to win a Grand Slam tournament title.
		She was not an active player during the 1996 Olympics, having retired from play after the 1994 season, only to return to tennis in 2000.
	www.tennisnews.com /exclusive.php?pID=790 (3746 words)

	Olympic Sport Debut Years quiz -- free game
		This quiz is based on 25 sports at the Olympics.
		Fencing is one of the few events that has been featured as a medal event at every Olympics, commening with the first of the modern era in 1896 at Athens?
		At which Olympics was shooting introduced as a medal event?
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=115147 (329 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.
		The next two games in 1900 in Paris and 1904 in St. Louis were not as successful, however, due largely to the fact that they were included in the celebration of the World’s Fair in the same year as well as the lack of large-scale international representation.
		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)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Americans still humble about medal hopes
		As in previous Olympics, the U.S. cyclists watched a steady parade of Europeans march to the podium in Sydney.
		Armstrong, riding in his third Olympics, finally got the medal that had eluded him.
		Perhaps U.S. Cycling will have Witty again after she competes in the Salt Lake Olympics, and team leaders are optimistic about many younger riders.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/news/2000/1001/796013.html (678 words)

	Ivy League Sports - Ivies in Athens 2004
		The United States won 236 medals at the 1904 Summer Games, the most for a single country in Olympic history.
		Germany was the next closest country in 1904 with 13 medals.
		Official Olympic Posters appear with permission and are the property of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
	www.iviesinathens.com /olympic/games.aspx?ID=103 (320 words)

	Lincoln City Libraries - Reference - In the News: 2004 Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Since 1896, the summer Olympic Games have been held every 4 years, with the exceptions of 1940 and 1944 during the waging of World War II.
		At the last summer Olympics (2000 in Sydney, Australia), 199 countries were represented by 10,651 athletes (4,069 women, 6,582 men), who competed in 300 separate events.
		The following are a sampling of videos featuring footage from past Olympics, plus the soundtrack CD including music used during the Olympics television coverage of the past 20 years.
	www.lcl.lib.ne.us /depts/ref/inthenews-olympics2004.htm (885 words)

	2004 Olympics - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		The U.S. Olympic women's soccer team readies itself for the last go-round with the core of players that brought world-wide notoriety for the women's team.
		The NBC Olympics site has a schedule page and coverage grid that provide information about what portions of the Olympics can be viewed on each network.
		The ancient Olympic Games were primarily a part of a religious festival in honor of Zeus and began in the year 776 BC.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/webspecials/s_207936.html (1070 words)

	JWA - In Focus—Jewish Women In the Olympics
		She was the first woman to win a silver medal for the discus throw and later broke the Olympic and world records to win a gold at the 1932 Olympics.
		The United States participated in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin-the "Nazi Olympics"-sending the largest delegation of any country (312 athletes) to Germany.
		Held in Israel every four years (the year after the Summer Olympic games) these games draw thousands of athletes from dozens of countries.
	www.jwa.org /discover/inthepast/infocus/olympics (915 words)

	ESPN.com - OLY/SUMMER04/FENCING - U.S. fencing wins first gold medal since 1904 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Oregon resident Mariel Zagunis beat Tan Xue of China 15-9 in the saber final, and American Sada Jacobson was third, beating Catalina Gheorghitoaia of Romania 15-7.
		Women's saber is the newest of fencing's six disciplines and is making its first appearance in the Olympics.
		She didn't earn a spot on the U.S. team until June, when the Nigerian Olympic Committee declined to have its fencer participate in the competition.
	sports.espn.go.com /oly/summer04/fencing/news/story?id=1860946 (571 words)

	Sixty-Nine Competitors Represent Big 12 Conference in 2004 Athens Summer Olympics :: Through the years there have been ...
		The Big 12's first Olympian was track and field athlete Ray Moulton of Kansas in 1904 while all 12 members have had at least four representatives through the 100-year history of Big 12 Conference schools' competition in either the Summer or Winter Games.
		The first two alumnae from Big 12 schools in the Olympics were 1968 Nebraska discus ace Carol Frost, the mother of former Huskers' quarterback and NFL standout Scott Frost, and 1968 Colorado Alpine skier Sandra Shellworth.
		Included in the 2004 Summer group are former Big 12 Female Athletes of the Year 1998-99 diver Vera Ilyina of Texas and 2002-03 softball pitcher Cat Osterman of the Longhorns.
	www.big12sports.com /genrel/081004aaf.html (444 words)

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