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Topic: Tennis at the 1924 Summer Olympics

	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 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)

	Summer Olympic Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		National Olympic Committees may enter a limited number of qualified competitors in each event (3 is a common number), and the NOC decides which qualified competitors to select as representatives in each event if more have attained the benchmark than can be entered.
		Four years later the 1900 Summer Olympics attracted more than four times as many athletes, including 11 women, who were allowed to officially compete for the first time, in croquet, golf, sailing, and tennis.
		The 2008 Summer Olympics are to be held in Beijing, China.
	www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-Summer_Olympics (3342 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.
		Olympic medals are awarded to those individuals or teams placing first, second, and third in each event.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /olympics/Olympics.htm (1089 words)

	Athens Olympics 2004. ABC Sport.
		But while every Olympic city has a fabulous stadium, nowhere else in the world could events be held at Ancient Olympia - the home of the ancient Games - and the magnificent Panathinaiko Stadium, home of the first Games of the modern era back in 1896.
		After a behind-closed-doors tongue-lashing by Australian Olympic Committee chief John Coates, the team emerged united, but there were plenty of commentators who saw this as simply papering over some pretty obvious cracks.
		Through the prism of history, the Athens Olympics may come to be seen as the Games at which two major trends emerged - the rise of Asian nations as Olympic powers and the time the war on drugs became serious.
	www.abc.net.au /olympics/default.htm (2755 words)

	Tennis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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)

	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)

	1984 Summer Olympics
		After the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, the Eastern Bloc, including the Soviet Union, East Germany and Cuba boycotts these Olympics (the USSR announced their intention not to participate on May 8, 1984).
		Nawal El Moutawakel of Morocco becomes the first female Olympic champion of an Islamic nation, and the first of her country in the 400 m hurdles.
		A marathon for women is held for the first time at the Olympics, won by Joan Benoit.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1984_summer_olympics.shtml (289 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)

	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
		The Summer Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event held every four years, organised by the International Olympic Committee.
		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.
		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)

	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)

	Olympic Tennis
		Olympic tennis as a tournament is not very different from the Grand Slams draws.
		The conflicts of Olympic tennis through history and the lack of stability that it has shown are minuses that play important role in the athlete.s decisions.
		Being a tennis player it.s hard for me to admit that tennis is the only sport where players are divided in two groups that have different approaches for the games.
	www2.uic.edu /~slluri1/slluri1-p_a/olyten.html (2405 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: 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)

	Olympic Facts (reference)
		The early Olympic Games were celebrated as a religious festival from 776 B.C. until 393 A.D., when the games were banned for being a pagan festival (the Olympics celebrated the Greek god Zeus).
		The five Olympic rings represent the five major regions of the world – Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceana, and every national flag in the world includes one of the five colors, which are (from left to right) blue, yellow, fl, green, and red.
		The Summer Olympic sports are archery, badminton, baseball, basketball, beach volleyball, boxing, cycling, diving, equestrian, fencing, field hockey, gymnastics, judo, mountain biking, rowing, sailing, shooting, soccer, softball, swimming, synchronized swimming, table tennis, tennis, track and field, volleyball, water polo, weightlifting and wrestling.
	www.teachervision.fen.com /olympic-games/sports/2260.html (512 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1924 Paris
		The 1924 Olympics had been scheduled for Amsterdam, but in his final act as International Olympic Committee President, Pierre de Coubertin pulled rank.
		Fortunately for the Olympic movement and the reputations of Paris and de Coubertin, the French had their act together this time.
		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)

	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)

	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)

	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)

	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)

	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.
		Winter games were added in 1924, and (with the same WWII exceptions) have been held every four years since.
		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.
	www.lcl.lib.ne.us /depts/ref/inthenews-olympics2004.htm (885 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		At the 1924 Paris Games, the Olympic motto, "Citius, Altius, Fortius", (Swifter, Higher, Stronger) was introduced, as was the Closing Ceremony ritual of raising three flags: the flag of the International Olympic Committee, the flag of the host nation and the flag of the next host nation.
		The number of participating nations jumped from 29 to 44, signaling widespread acceptance of the Olympics as a major event, as did the presence of 1,000 journalists.
		Lighting the Olympic Flame by: The Olympic flame was first lit during the opening ceremony of the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1924 (358 words)

	1924 Olympics — Infoplease.com
		Olympic Preview: Fencing - Fencing First Olympic Appearance: 1896 by John Gettings One of the four sports that has been...
		Environmental factors in the summer Olympics in historical perspective.
		The Marvelous Spectacles of Olympia and Marathon: The Roots of the Olympics and Marathon Racing.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114458.html1924 (472 words)

	USATODAY.com - Olympics narrow field for 2012 games to five cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The field was trimmed by the International Olympic Committee executive board based on a report assessing the technical capabilities of the nine cities.
		New York, which has never held the Olympics, has to contend with anti-American sentiment fueled by the invasion of Iraq, as well as the geographical disadvantage of the 2010 games in Canada.
		Paris, which hosted the Olympics in 1900 and 1924, is viewed as the front-runner.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/2004-05-18-2012-hosts_x.htm (912 words)

	USATODAY.com - No sports axed for 2008 Beijing Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Soccer and cycling are the only summer sports yet to sign the code, which sets out uniform drug-testing rules and sanctions, but have promised to do so before the Athens Games in August.
		The Olympics are played during the major league season, and commissioner Bud Selig said the season cannot be stopped to allow players to join Olympic teams.
		Paris, which last hosted the Olympics in 1924, is viewed as the front-runner.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/2004-05-17-baseball-safe_x.htm (745 words)

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