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	Unified Team - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Unified Team was the name used for the sports team of the former Soviet Union at both the Winter and Summer Olympic Games of 1992 (in Albertville and Barcelona, respectively).
		The team consisted of athletes of all former Soviet republics except the Baltic states.
		The Unified Team finished first in the overall medal tally at Bracelona with 45 golds, 38 silvers, and 29 bronzes (112 medals in total).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unified_Team (182 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)

	1992 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Games of the XXV Olympiad were held in 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
		Paralympic archer Antonio Rebollo lights the Olympic Flame by shooting an arrow into the cauldron.
		As the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991, the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania participate with their own teams for the first time since 1936.
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1992_Summer_Olympics (434 words)

	1960 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Rome had been awarded the organisation of the 1908 Summer Olympics, but had to decline and pass the honours to London.
		They would not be allowed to return until 1992, after the abandonment of apartheid and during the transition to a fl-majority government.
		It was the second time an athlete died in competition at the Olympics, after the death of Portuguese marathon runner at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
	www.sterlingheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1960_Summer_Olympics (357 words)

	1956 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Because Melbourne is situated in the southern hemisphere, the Olympics were held later in the year than those held in the northern hemisphere.
		After being banned from the Olympics in 1948, a team of only West German athletes took part in 1952.
		Inspired by Australian teenager John Wing, an Olympic tradition begins when athletes of different nations are allowed to parade together at the closing ceremony, instead of with their national teams, as a symbol of world unity...
	www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1956_Summer_Olympics (465 words)

	WinterSports2002.com - Olympic highlights
		When Communist bloc countries joined the Olympic movement in the post-World War II era, many of their players were on government payroll as military employees — hence, the USSR's "Red Army" hockey team — while other free-world nations made do with bona fide amateurs.
		Team USA went undefeated in seven games, including a 2-1 quarterfinal win against co-favorite Canada, a surprising 3-2 comeback victory over the Soviets (the first U.S. victory vs. the USSR) and then a surprising 9-4 triumph over Czechoslovakia in the gold-medal game.
		The Americans were trailing the Czechs 4-3 after two periods of the championship game when USSR team captain Nikolai Sologubov came into the dressing room and gestured for the tense, exhausted U.S. squad to use oxygen during the final period.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/print/0,4060,36,00.html (1298 words)

	Turning the pages back... July 27, 1992 (07/21/96) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		And, for the first time in their history, the Summer Games would see the blue-and-yellow national flag of independent Ukraine as 81 athletes from Ukraine - 16.10 percent of the Unified Team of the Commonwealth of Independent States - would be competing.
		Marching behind the Unified Team banner, but carrying little blue-and-yellow flags, young men and women from Ukraine would be attired in "neutral" uniforms made in Yugoslavia, but they would wear Ukrainian flag patches as well as patches depicting wreaths of flowers, the symbol of that year's Ukrainian team.
		Ukraine's athletes accounted for 36 percent of the Unified Team's medals, and 38 percent of its gold.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1996/299618.shtml (442 words)

	CNN Cold War - Spotlight: Olympic boycotts
		The U.S. team protested the outcome, did not attend the medal ceremony and did not accept the silver medal.
		Team USA, whose basketball dominance was as complete as the Soviet hockey dynasty, lost to the Soviets 82-76.
		In 1992, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia fielded their own teams, and the rest of the former Soviet Union competed as the "Unified Team." Winners were saluted with the flags and anthems of their countries.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/20/spotlight/highlights (762 words)

	The Sports Network - Olympics
		It would be the first Olympic Games in 1,503 years since the 293rd and final edition of the original Olympic era was held in 393 A.D. A photograph of the interior of the Panathenian Stadium before the start of the 1896 Olympic Games.
		This was the first Olympics in which there was actual awarding of gold medals, the standardization of the marathon distance, the introduction of figure skating, the first winter sport to appear in an Olympics, and the introduction of women's gymnastics as a demonstration sport.
		However, when North Korea's Olympic team was banned from the Olympics by the IOC for participating in non-sanctioned games in Indonesia the year before, this left the Olympic tournament with just five teams, one less than the minimum required by the Olympic charter.
	www.sportsnetwork.com /?c=sportsnetwork&page=olymp/2004/history.htm (14089 words)

	Sports -- There’s Something Wrong with Summer in September
		The U.S.S.R. had become something called the Unified Team, and the basketball team had turned into the gargantuan entity that was the "Dream Team." To me, they lived up to my expectations about as much as possible and remain cemented as one of my favorite sports teams.
		I suppose the early inklings of my patriotism must have gotten the better part of me that summer, or maybe New Jersey isn't quite as exciting as everyone thinks it is. I can't really explain it, but for some reason I just really got into the Olympics that summer.
		Aside from the Dream Team, there was the emergence of Oscar De La Hoya and Summer Sanders, and the utter dominance of Carl Lewis.
	www.thehoya.com /sports/090100/sports5.htm (989 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Lowest finish ever for U.S.
		The U.S. pair of Anna Kozlova and Tuesday Middaugh settled for fourth in the duet competition Tuesday behind a near-perfect Russian duo and teams from Japan and France.
		Kisseleva's presence in the Olympics was accompanied by controversy: She was stripped of her European duet title after failing a doping test July 21.
		Officials said the lighter penalty was fair because the banned substance, ephedrine, was included in a supplement to control Kisseleva's weight and gave her no advantage in the pool.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/news/2000/0926/778524.html (519 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Russia beats Sweden to win gold
		The Russians, who won gold in 1976 and 1988 as the Soviet Union and in 1992 as the Unified Team, upset the world and European champions to win their third Olympic crown in 12 years.
		The Swedes were left clutching silver for the third time in a row after they were beaten by the Unified Team in the 1992 Olympic final then by Croatia in the 1996 final.
		With the king and queen of Sweden watching from the stands, the Scandinavians opened the scoring in the first minute through their captain Stefan Loevgren and held on to lead 14-13 a halftime.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/news/2000/0930/791821.html (286 words)

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		Administration of Unified Sports at the State Level State directors were a valuable source of information to the evaluation team, providing considerable insight into the operation of Unified Sports in their respective states.
		Some teams had partners who seemed to purposely avoid including the athletes during play, while other teams had partners who made a concerted effort to ensure that the athletes were an integral part of the team effort.
		On many teams, the partner is considered to be any individual without mental retardation, including a parent, sibling, director of a sheltered workshop, social caseworker, volunteer, etc. In other instances, the partner is, as defined by the mission of Unified Sports, of similar age and similar ability to the athlete.
	www.specialolympics.org /NR/rdonlyres/exrezkuenbxi77ra4pdyygj6zsfeotux37qc6juf2oqb62m7gxtn3dg4rmxbaa5llcmq6absepvevfus5vaexfwxyje/unified_sports_report.doc (6848 words)

	Turning the pages back... February 6, 1998 (02/03/02) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Four years ago, Ukraine fielded its third Winter Olympic team since independence - the second with its own independent team (as Ukraine's team had been forced by circumstance to compete in 1992 under the aegis of the Unified Team).
		The head of the delegation, the president of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine, Valerii Borzov, told The Weekly in 1998 that the team would be happy with a couple of medals.
		A former Summer Olympics multiple gold medalist, he said Ukraine nonetheless had medal potential in several events, including figure skating, free-style acrobatic skiing, the luge and Nordic combination (biathlon), but he refrained from naming individual potential medalists.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2002/050215.shtml (308 words)

	1992...web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		he summer Olympics which were held in Eastern Europe and Germany, and were competed in by 10,563 athletes from 172 nations.
		In the winter Olympics which were held in France played host to 2,174 athletes from 65 countries.
		Norway won as many as gold medals as the Unified Team, thank to the cross-country skiers Bjorn Dahlie and Vegard Ulyang who earned three gold's and a silver.
	www.mtlakes.org /hs/acad/tech/museum/1992/sport.htm (346 words)

	Barcelona 1992 - Athens Enviromental Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The 1992 Olympic Games are probably best remembered for one of the most spectacular and stylish opening ceremonies of all time.
		Held in the neo-classical Olympic Stadium on Montjuic, there were performances by the Spanish Opera stars, Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras, and Monserrat Caballe.
		The women's 100m was won by Gail Devers of the U.S. This was a personal triumph for the American as her feet had nearly been amputated by doctors in 1990 as a result of radiation treatment for Graves' disease.
	www.athensenvironmental.org /modern_olympics/modern_olympics22.asp (859 words)

	The Events: Gymnastics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In previous Olympics, national coaches used the same six gymnasts on each apparatus and declared the seventh member of their teams the alternate.
		In 1988, Sergei Kharkov had the fourth-highest score in the team competition but missed the all-around final because the three gymnasts ahead of him were all Soviets.
		The first Olympic group competition also will be held in Atlanta, with teams of five gymnasts performing two different exercises.
	www.nytimes.com /specials/olympics/cntdown/0714oly-special-gym.html (930 words)

	History of the Modern Summer and Winter Olympics from Fanbay.net
		The Summer and Winter Olympics of 1932 were both held in the United States, in Los Angeles, CA and Lake Placid, NY, respectively.
		The Olympic facilities were as impressive as the cutting edge facilities that brought the Summer Olympics to a new level in Munich (1972).
		The Winter Olympics of 2002 were overshadowed by the terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001.
	www.fanbay.net /olympics/modern_history.htm (2739 words)

	Russian Hockey Deaths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		His death was the first in a series of auto accidents that would plague Soviet hockey for the next decade and heads a list of more than a dozen of the country's top talents who have died under tragic circumstances dur ing the past 30 years.
		Passed over for the soviet Unions 1981 Canada Cup team, Kharlamov died while the Soviet team was in Canada preparing for the event.
		Among team members who did not make the trip was Viktor Tikhonov, who went on to become the greatest coach in the country's history.
	www.russianhockey.net /deaths3.htm (1688 words)

	International Gymnast Online: Catching Up With...
		Alternate on the Unified team's gold medal-winning squad at the 1992 Olympics, Stovbchataya has been living in Virginia since October 1997.
		That summer, Stovbchataya travelled to Barcelona, where she served as alternate for the victorious Unified team at the 1992 Olympics.
		In preparation for the 1992 Olympics, Stovbchataya and her coaches had been training near Moscow.
	www.intlgymnast.com /cuw/stovbchataya.html (901 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		Her victory lap with silver medallist Elana Meyer, a white South African, symbolised hope for the future of the Olympic Movement.
		In eight matches, the team attained an average of 117 points and never asked for a time out.
		Andreas Keller of the gold medal-winning German field hockey team was the third generation of his family to win a medal in the event.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1992 (224 words)

	SignOn San Diego Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics -- USA 89, South Korea 75 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Though this is a team expected to win with balance, it took two outstanding individual performances to get by the feisty Koreans.
		Swoopes, who at one point wasn't even going to play in the Olympics because she was working through some personal problems, hit 11 of 21 shots, including a pair of 3-pointers, and grabbed nine rebounds.
		It was the closest game for the U.S. women in the Olympics since a 79-73 loss to the Unified Team in 1992.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/olympics/basketball/20000916-621-oly-southkor.html (791 words)

	TSN.ca - Olympics - Canada's Sports Leader
		The IOC refuses to postpone the Olympics or even consider moving them out of Mexico due to the violence.
		The Mexico City Olympics were also the first Summer Games to include sex testing for women.
		During the medal presentation ceremony, Tommie Smith and John Carlos - gold and bronze medal winners in the 200 m - raised a fl-gloved fist and hung their heads when their country's national anthem was played.
	www.tsn.ca /olympics/feature.asp?fid=9410 (433 words)

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		In Barcelona, where Yugoslavia's sports teams have been fractured like the country itself, an exception was made for table tennis: the European women's doubles champions, a Bosnian and a Serb, would be allowed to play together.
		She said `I thought it was a good tonic.' She had even recommended it to other members of the team as being good for when you feel tired.
		Although Wu is the first drug casualty of the Barcelona Olympics, three British athletes -- a sprinter and two weightlifters -- were sent home by their delegation before their competitions for failing drug tests that were done prior to the Olympics.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/packages/ccic/cnd/InfoBase/Olympics/92-olympics.9 (3047 words)

	American women really want to play
		The Olympics always are about two things -- sentiment and winning the gold, and the American women have an edge in both.
		They are the gold-medal favorites, but they also have captured praise for making it clear how much an Olympic berth means -- which has been pointed out even more in the wake of the numerous defections from the men's team by NBA players.
		Nine players were on the team that collected gold at the 2002 world championships.
	www.freep.com /sports/2004olympics/owhoops1311e_20040811.htm (590 words)

	Lightning: Habby might not play in World Cup
		He also sparkled for Russia at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City and was named by the International Ice Hockey Federation as that tournament's top goalie.
		Tikhonov coached the Unified Team at the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, France.
		It is one of the reasons Khabibulin did not play for Russia in the 1998 Olympics and was the start of a saga that ended in 2002, when Khabibulin was finally awarded his medal.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/05/17/Lightning/Habby_might_not_play_.shtml (690 words)

	1992 Olympics
		The year IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch brought the Olympics to his native Spain marked the first renewal of the Summer Games since the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and the reunification of Germany in 1990.
		This was also the year the IOC threw open the gates to professional athletes after 96 years of high-minded opposition.
		Carl Lewis earned his seventh and eighth career gold medals with a third consecutive Olympic win in the long jump, and an anchor-leg performance on the American 4x100-meter relay team that helped establish a world record.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0114882.html (336 words)

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