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	2012 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad, will be held in London, United Kingdom from 27 July to 12 August 2012.
		On 18 May 2004, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), as a result of a scored technical evaluation, reduced the number of cities to five: London, Madrid, Moscow, New York, and Paris.
		The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG) was put in place to oversee the development of the Games after the success of the bid, and held their first board meeting on 7 October 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics (2300 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)

	Tennis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		At the Olympic Games, matches are played to the best of three sets - except for the men's singles and doubles, which are the best of five.
		Tennis or "Lawn Tennis" became popular in the mid 1800s and was played on courts marked out on garden lawns.
		Tennis was an Olympic sport from the outset in 1896 until 1924 when it lost its place due to professionalism.
	www.olympics.org.uk /sports/summer/tennis.asp?offset=40 (369 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 2004 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Athens 2004 marked the first time since the 1996 Summer Olympics that all countries with a National Olympic Committee were in attendance.
		Athens was chosen as the host city during the 106th IOC Session held in Lausanne in 05 September 1997,(date of the 25th anniversary of the Munich Massacre after surprisingly losing the bid to organize the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta nearly seven years before, on 18 September 1990, during the 96th IOC Session in Tokyo.
		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.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /2004_Summer_Olympics (1826 words)

	Tennis in Olympics quiz -- free game
		The tennis events in the 1908 London Olympics were held twice.
		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.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=188769 (322 words)

	Anecdotage.com - Olympics anecdotes. Anecdotes From Yeats to Gates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Among the competitors in the single-scull rowing event at the 1928 Olympics was...
		Adolf Hitler staged the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin as a showcase for the sup...
		At the 2004 summer Olympics in Athens, Paula Radcliffe failed to finish both the...
	www.anecdotage.com /browse.php?term=Olympics (881 words)

	Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Men's indoor singles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Men's indoor singles
		The men's singles (indoor) was one of six lawn tennis events on the Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme.
		Gore had an easier match against Caridia than he had against Ritchie, the outdoor singles champion, in the semifinals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tennis_at_the_1908_Summer_Olympics_-_Men's_indoor_singles (131 words)

	U.S. News Online: Sydney 2000 Olympics
		In 1908, Americans accused the all-British judging panel of bias, prompting the International Olympic Committee to establish the now-familiar multinational tribunal.
		Good as gold: The Olympics always offer drama, but only in the rarest moments are we privileged to view the exploits of legends.
		Olympic records will be broken as the limits of human performance are tested.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/olympics/first.htm (1092 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)

	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)

	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.
		Nationalities given are those of the countries the medallists were representing at the time of the event.
	www.london-olympics.com (336 words)

	kiat.net: Olympic Games London 1908
		Twenty-two countries competed in the 1908 Olympics, the same number as in 1900, but the number of athletes increased dramatically, from 1,330 to 2,035.
		As a result of the controversy, the IOC decided, after the 1908 Games, that judges would be drawn from an international pool, rather than being furnished by the host country, and that standardized rules would be drawn up for all sports.
		On the brighter side, the overall organization of the 1908 Olympics was nearly impeccable despite an almost constant downpour of rain.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/04london.html (1068 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)

	ITF Tennis - Olympics - Overview
		De Coubertin, founder of the International Olympic Committee in 1894, believed that the Modern Olympic Games would provide a platform for friendly competition in which all difference of status, religion, politics and race would be forgotten.
		It is often forgotten that tennis was one of the original nine Olympic sports in Athens in 1896.
		Tennis withdrew from the Olympics after the 1924 Games but returned as a 21-and-under demonstration event in 1984.
	www.itftennis.com /olympics/history/index.asp (441 words)

	ipedia.com: 2000 Summer Olympics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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.ipedia.com /2000_summer_olympics.html (836 words)

	Tennisrulz.com - Get photos, news and informations about your favourite tennis players
		She notified US Olympic officials by e-mail of her decision, three hours before the American athletes flight was set to take off for Greece.
		Will the Olympic field use this week to deliver a little divine justice, or will the Queen manage to put together an unexpectedly early version of "divine Justine?" It seems a long shot that she'll take home a Gold Medal, but maybe that's just the absence of any recent JHH heroics coloring Backspin's judgment.
		She's always played well for France in international competition, so if she just treats the Olympics in the same fashion she might stumble onto the desired result and #1 could be right around the corner for her.
	www.tennisrulz.com /articles/200408/07.htm (1589 words)

	USATODAY.com - London joins New York, Madrid in race for 2012 Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Government estimates put the cost of hosting a London Olympics at $7.2 billion, half of which the government would be expected to underwrite.
		Preliminary plans call for an Olympic stadium, warmup track and athletes village to be built in Stratford, a rundown part of east London.
		Soccer could be at a rebuilt Wembley Stadium, tennis at Wimbledon, gymnastics at the Millennium Dome, beach volleyball at Regents Park and rowing on the Thames.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/2003-05-15-london-2012_x.htm (584 words)

	1908 Olympics
		The fourth Olympic Games were certainly the wettest and probably the most contentious in history.
		Held at a new 68,000-seat stadium in the Shepherds Bush section of London, the 1908 Games were played out under continually rainy skies and suffered from endless arguments between British officials and many of the other countries involved–especially the United States.
		Environmental factors in the summer Olympics in historical perspective.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114404.html (362 words)

	United States Olympic Committee - Navratilova becomes oldest tennis player in history of Olympics
		At 47 and competing in the first Olympics of her life, the American became the oldest tennis player in the history of the games when she and Lisa Raymond posted an easy first-round 6-0, 6-2 win over wild-card doubles entries Yulia Beygelzimer and Tetyana Perebiynis of Ukraine.
		An old hand at tennis on a farewell tour before retiring again at the end of the year, Navratilova was still not completely exempt from first-time jitters.
		At the following Olympics in Barcelona in 1992, she did not qualify because she had not played on the Fed Cup team.
	www.usoc.org /11604_23863.htm (637 words)

	Who won the most individual gold medals in the summer olympics?
		STL All Sports › Olympics › Who won the most individual gold medals in the summer olympics?
		Ray Ewry hold the record for the most individual gold medals in the summer Olympics history with 10.
		Ray Ewry total is officially 8 as the 1906 summer Olympics weren't recognized.
	www.stlallsports.com /olympics/0503mostgoldmedalssummerolympics.html (107 words)

	Lincoln City Libraries - Reference - In the News: 2004 Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1924 Paris
		Fortunately for the Olympic movement and the reputations of Paris and de Coubertin, the French had their act together this time.
		Two other abiding Olympic traditions were introduced in Paris: the Closing Ceremony tradition of raising three flags -- the IOC flag, the host nation's and the next host nation's flag -- and the Olympic motto of "Citius, Altius, Fortius," or "Faster, Higher, Stronger."
		Weissmuller was the main story in the Olympic pool with gold medals in the 100m and 400m freestyle and the 4X200m freestyle relay.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1924.html (1358 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 American men in top seven at pool
		Defending Olympic champion Xiong Ni, who came out of retirement to bolster China's chances, led the prelims at Sydney International Aquatic Center with 457.38.
		Xiong's closest pursuers were Fernando Platas of Mexico (444.60) and Dmitry Sautin, defending Olympic champion in platform and current world champion at 3 meters.
		At the Olympic trials, Dumais was admitted to a hospital with kidney stones just hours before the competition.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/news/2000/0924/775453.html (558 words)

	Tennis
		court tennis - court tennis, indoor racket and net game of ancient origin.
		Tennis - Professional Tennis Davis Cup Championships U.S. National and Open Champions British (Wimbledon)...
		Tennis - Men Singles: Marc Rosset, SWI, def.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0862652.html (89 words)

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