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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)

	1988 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were held in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea.
		After boycotts of the Olympics in 1976, 1980 and 1984, the Seoul Games were again boycotted, led by North Korea and followed by Cuba; the basis of the boycott was South Korea's refusal to co-host the Olympics with North Korea, which rejected all compromise.
		Tennis returns to the Olympics after a 64-year absence, and Steffi Graf adds to her four Grand Slam victories in the year by also winning the Olympic title.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1988_Summer_Olympics (596 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		It was the first Olympics since NBC had merged with Vivendi Universal Entertainment; the merger, along with the acquisitions of the Bravo and Telemundo networks, made it possible for the network to broadcast over 1200 hours of coverage during the games, triple what was broadcast in the U.S. four years earlier.
		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.
		The Mayor of Athens, Dora Bakoyianni, passed the Olympic Flag to the Mayor of Beijing, Wang Qishan.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/2/0/0/2004_Summer_Olympics_330c.html (2001 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)

	1896 Summer Olympics - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		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.tvwiki.tv /wiki/1896_Summer_Olympics (3849 words)

	Lawn Tennis
		Tennis matches are usually the best two out of three sets or the best three out of five sets.
		Tennis was first played professionally in 1926, when American promoter Charles C. Pyle organized a traveling tour for which the players were paid.
		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.
	www.cnenigeria.com /sports/lawntennis.htm (3545 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)

	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)

	Games matter, but they could mean more
		Tennis, one of nine sports in the modern-day revival of the Olympics in 1896, returned in 1988 after a 64-year absence - and this time was open to professionals.
		Depending on one's perspective, Olympic tennis could be considered on par with the Grand Slams or downplayed as less important than Davis Cup or Federation Cup.
		When tennis was added as a medal sport, the Olympic committees in many countries began funding development programs that in many cases didn't previously exist.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2004/08/04/spt_sptoly1a.html (802 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: 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)

	CANOE -- SLAM! 2004 Games News: 2004 SUMMER OLYMPICS NOTE
		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.
		It was brought back as a demonstration sport in 1968 and 1984 before being re-admitted in 1988 in Seoul, Korea.
		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)

	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)

	PongWorld - Table Tennis Facts
		Table tennis was banned in the Soviet Union from ca 1930 to 1950.
		Early table tennis paddles were normally made of cork, cardboard, or wood, and covered with cloth, leather or sandpaper.
		Table tennis is the most popular racquet sport in the world and ranked second overall in terms of participation.
	www.pongworld.com /more/facts.shtml (242 words)

	Seoul 1988 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		For these Olympics excisted all facilities already in 1988, because the Asian Games were in Seoul in 1986.
		Because tennis re-entered the Olympics as Olympic sport, to be in 1920 as last at the program, and new sports like table tennis were introduced, came the number of sports (and so the number of gold medals) to a record of 237.
		This year had the American tv-stations incredible amount for the rights of the broadcasting of the Olympics (amounts to 750 million dollars), but under conditions that the most important finals should be during the hours that the viewing figures in the USA were at his highst.
	library.thinkquest.org /25114/eng/spelen/zos1988.html (205 words)

	Tennis : Sports of the modern Olympic Games
		Tennis was played at the Olympics until 1924, then reinstituted in 1988.
		The first woman to win an Olympic event was England's Charlotte Cooper, who won the tennis singles at the 1900 games.
		In 1988, tennis returned after a 64-year absence, and Steffi Graf won the gold.
	www.topendsports.com /events/summer/sports/tennis.htm (74 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Chief: Five athletes failed tests in 1988
		He said that in 1988, five U.S. athletes tested positive before the Seoul Olympics "and were enlisted at the games.
		The U.S. Olympic Committee said the cases had been publicized 12 years ago and the athletes involved were cleared because they used the drug, ephedrine, accidentally.
		Pre-games samples in 1988 found eight track athletes with traces of Mahuang, a trade name for ephedrine, contained in a nutritional supplement called Super Charge, according to USOC spokesman Mike Moran.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/news/2000/0924/775264.html (614 words)

	The Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Throughout the thousands of years that the Greeks competed every four years in the Olympics, there was war only 75% of the time among the various city states, including the famous pelopponesian war (Kids: Go here for some great information about this fantastic war that changed the world!) of 845BC.
		It was not until the Olympics of 662AD that the athletes finally agreed to wear clothes, as the local shoe company finally agreed to pay rights fees in the amount of 16 drachma per athlete.
		Since the Olympics were first televised in 1824, there have been 4100 sports attempted and rejected, including horse racing along the beach, indoor mountaineering, synchronized golfing, shuffleboard, chess, rhythmic gymnastics, and pizza toss, the favorite sport of the Italians.
	home.earthlink.net /~bobdavisknowledgebase/page04.html (938 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1988 Seoul
		The Ben Johnson fiasco notwithstanding, the Seoul Olympics were relatively free of scandal, aside from a boxing tournament that appeared to be even more rigged by corrupt and otherwise incompetent judging than ever.
		Tennis returned to the Olympic line-up after a 64-year absence and had a least one gold medallist with megastar appeal - women's singles winner and Grand Slam champion Steffi Graf of Germany.
		In the pool, Carolyn Waldo became one of Canada's rare double-gold medallists, when she captured two gold medals in synchronized swimming, one in the individual event and the other with partner Michelle Cameron in the duet.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1988.html (1321 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)

	EdGate Summer Games
		To qualify as an Olympic sport, that sport must be widely practiced by men in at least 75 countries and on four continents, and by women in at least 40 countries and on three continents.
		For example, tennis and baseball were demonstration sports before becoming medal sports in the 1988 and 1992 Games, respectively.
		The Olympic sport of team handball is not to be confused with the game played against a wall with a small rubber ball.
	www2.edgate.com /summergames/spotlight_sport (384 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		Although the drug disqualification of sprinter Ben Johnson was the biggest story of the 1988 Olympics, the Seoul Games were highlighted by numerous exceptional performances.
		She became one of few champions to win medals in both the summer and winter Olympics.
		Tennis returns as a medal sport after a hiatus of 64 years.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1988 (200 words)

	Summer Sanders Fan Page
		Summer is one of the greatest women's swimmers of the 1990's. She is a double Olympic gold medalist. In recent years she has also become known for her work on television, most notably as the host of FIGURE IT OUT on Nickelodeon and as the co-host of NBA INSIDE STUFF.
		Summer narrowly missed making the 1988 Seoul Olympic team. She remains the current American record holder in both the 400m individual medley and the 200m individual medley. Summer also won gold in the 200m fly, silver in the 200m IM, bronze in the 400m IM, at the 1991 Perth World Championships.
		Summer was born and grew up in Roseville, California, which a city outside of Sacramento.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Boulevard/6152/summer.html (975 words)

	USATODAY.com - Ping ready for table tennis challenges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Whitney Ping, who was 1 year old when doubles partner Jasna Reed won a medal in the 1988 Games, took time out from her schedule of school and training to talk with USATODAY.com's Beau Dure.
		When they found out I had made the Olympics, I was kind of a big shot at school.
		When I got back from the trials and it was announced that I'd made the Olympics, some kid was just giving me (grief) about that, saying "pingpong's not a sport, anyone can go to the Olympics for that." I was just like, "Man, just come over to my house after school today and we'll play.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/2004-04-15-ping-10_x.htm (1239 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Tennis Fan Guide
		Olympic participation by top tennis stars tends to be spotty.
		With a strong American team, this year's tennis could be the best yet since the sport returned to full-medal status in 1988.
		The courts: The Olympic tournaments will be played on a new hardcourt built out of the same type of materials as those used at the Australian Open.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/tennis/s/viewers.html (168 words)

	Anguilla Tennis Academy: Buy a Brick!
		She is currently a member of the board of the United States Tennis Association and is the captain of the USA Fed Cup Team.
		She compared the Anguilla tennis programme to her own experience growing up and says she is pleased to be able to help the children in Anguilla.
		In the 1988 Seoul, Korea Olympics, representing the United States of America, she won a bronze medal in singles and a gold medal in doubles with partner Pam Shriver.
	www.tennis.ai (3214 words)

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