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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)

	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)

	1976 Summer Olympics: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		In the bid to organise the Olympics, Montreal defeated Moscow and Los Angeles, which would organise the 1980 and 1984 Olympics.
		In a protest to a tour of South Africa by the New Zealand rugby team, Tanzania lead a boycott of 22 African nations as the IOC refused not to admit the New Zealand team.
		The Olympic Stadium, a daring design of French architect Roger Taillibert[?], remains a lasting monument to the huge deficit, as it never had an effective retractable roof, and the tower was only completed after the Olympics.
	www.encyclopedian.com /19/1976-Summer-Olympics.html (372 words)

	1980 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, were held in Moscow in the Soviet Union.
		The yachting events were held in Tallinn; preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football (soccer) tournament were held, besides Moscow, at the stadiums of Leningrad, Kiev, and Minsk.
		Although approximately half of the 24 countries which boycotted the 1976 Summer Olympics participated in these, the Games were disrupted by another, even larger, boycott led by the United States followed by 64 other countries in protest of the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1980_Summer_Olympics (796 words)

	Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		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)

	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)

	49er History
		She was also on the 1976, 1980 (boycott team), 1988 and 1992 teams.
		Primarily a 1,500-meter runner early in her career, Smith ran the 10,000 meters in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, finishing fifth.
		This summer she represented the United States in the marathon, finishing 13th at age 39.
	www.longbeachstate.com /history/HOF/larrieu-smith-francie.html (86 words)

	Player Bio: Paula Weishoff :: Women's Volleyball
		To many, she is regarded as one of the greatest female athletes in the history of the sport of volleyball.
		This summer she was selected to coach the U.S.A. Volleyball Women's A2 team in Lake Placid, N.Y. As the latest in her long list of personal accolades, the 41-year-old Weishoff was recently named to USA Volleyball's 1978-2002 All-Era Team and was awarded the George J. Fisher Leader In Volleyball Award.
		A two-time Olympic medalist, Weishoff is one of her generation's most dominant middle blockers and servers.
	usctrojans.cstv.com /sports/w-volley/mtt/weishoff_paula00.html (620 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1980 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Games of the XXII Olympiad were held in 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union.
		On March 21, 1980, following the 1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, American president Jimmy Carter announced a boycott of the Moscow Olympics.
		Women's field hockey is Olympic for the first time, but all major nations boycott the tournament.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1980_Summer_Olympics (332 words)

	Olympics: Olympics roundup
		Eric Wainaina, a Kenyan who trains in Japan and who won the bronze medal in 1996, kept surging in an attempt to break the Ethiopians, but he had to settle for second in 2:10:31.
		Fischer has won at least one gold medal at all five Olympics in which she has competed, including the past four.
		VOLLEYBALL: Yugoslavia, which lost to Russia in four games to start the Games, was relentless in the gold medal match, cruising to a 25-22, 25-22, 25-20 victory.
	www.sptimes.com /News/100200/Olympics/Olympics_roundup.shtml (572 words)

	Reason Magazine - R.I.P., Olympics
		The Olympics were to regular sports coverage what Howard Johnson, with its dazzling 28 flavors, was to the old vanilla-only Dairy Queen.
		Rather, he bemoaned the fact that the Olympics had suffered "two savage attacks," a euphemistic reference to the murders and a campaign underway to expel Rhodesia, then a white-supremacist nation, from participating in the games.
		In short, the Olympics matter less because we live in a better world, one filled with innumerable options for leisure and one mostly—though by no means completely—free from the most onerous aspects of geopolitical strife.
	www.reason.com /news/show/33749.html (974 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)

	United States Olympic Committee - Olympic Facts
		The Olympic Rings were created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin in 1913 and first displayed on the Olympic Flag in 1920.
		The greatest honor for an Olympic athlete is to particpate in a Victory Cermony.
		Olympic medals must be at least 60 millimeters in diameter and at least three millimeters thick.
	www.usoc.org /33_34.htm (971 words)

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		But the USA women had their Olympic dreams shattered when the U.S. Olympic Committee’s House of Delegates—at the urging of President Jimmy Carter—voted to boycott the 1980 Olympiad in Moscow to protest the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.
		Baier, Becker, Brassey, Dowdell, Flachmeier, Green, Landreth, McCormick, Woodstra and Selinger—along with 1980 Olympic alternates Sharon Moore and Julie Vollertsen—are all scheduled to be in Denver for the banquet.
		On Friday, May 27, the 1980 team will travel to Colorado Springs to visit their old “stomping grounds” at the United States Olympic Complex and to meet with the USA women’s head coach “Jenny” Lang Ping and the current members of the national team.
	www.usavolleyball.org /VolleyballNews/news.asp?id=937 (533 words)

	1980 Moscow Olympics boycott demands perspective
		It was the summer of 1980 and the Moscow Olympics.
		"1980 is one of the things I use now in speeches about the Olympic movement," said Hawaii Athletic Director Herman Frazier, a former ASU associate athletic director and a 1976 gold medalist who was part of the 4x400 relay that would have run in Moscow.
		In 1980, however, there were only medals and a smaller window at winning one for athletes planning on other careers.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/sports/articles/0719moscow0719.html (1210 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)

	FOX Sports - - 2004 Summer Olympic Games Preview - Volleyball
		Volleyball, invented in 1895 by YMCA instructor William G. Morgan, was initially called mintonette and was first developed to blend the elements of basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball.
		For the USA women, they have never won a gold medal at the Olympics, finishing with the silver in 1984 and with a bronze in 1992.
		However, the team may not be intact for the Olympics as May is sidelined with an abdominal strain, leaving her availability for the Summer Games in doubt.
	nmsn.foxsports.com /other/story/2607522 (1773 words)

	Welcome to AVCA - the American Volleyball Coaches Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Volleyball Hall of Fame Reception and Dinner will be held at the Holyoke Holiday Inn and Holidome beginning at 6 p.m., Oct. 15.
		She was deemed the “Best Player in the World” by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) for three straight years (1992-1994) and was named Most Valuable Player of the WPVA four times.
		He is a board member of the Japan Volleyball Association and devotes his time to the promotion of the sport.
	www.avca.org /newsletter/hof9-15-04.asp (833 words)

	St. Petersburg Times Online: Summer Olympics 2004
		The athletes of the world encircle the main stage as fireworks light up the night at the end of the closing ceremony at the Olympic Stadium.
		Every Olympics produces a few new household names, and this year Chad Hedrick could well be one of them.
		The Winter Olympics are barely more than a month away but the world isn't exactly burning with interest, according to a recent issue of Newsweek.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/webspecials04/olympics (295 words)

	USATODAY.com - Olympics to see London, not France, in 2012 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		SINGAPORE — London won the 2012 Summer Olympics on Wednesday with a stretch-run burst aided by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, leaving New York to ponder whether to bid again and Paris to wonder where it went wrong again.
		Paris' third Olympic bid defeat in the last 20 years was the biggest surprise in a heavyweight contest that saw Moscow eliminated first, New York second and Madrid third before London edged Paris by four votes in the final round.
		Stadium and village: Olympic Stadium and village on undeveloped land in Stratford, on the eastern edge of city.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/2005-07-06-2012-games_x.htm (860 words)

	EDSITEment - This Month's Feature
		Pierre de Coubertin, father of the modern Olympic movement, declared, “The Olympic Games are for the world, and all nations must be admitted to them.” But for most of their history, the ancient Olympics were only for athletes of Greek lineage.
		One feature of the ancient Olympics that may be absent in the modern version is the idea of the ekecheiria, or “sacred truce.” Students can click here to investigate the concept of the sacred truce.
		The marathon was never an ancient Olympic event, but the race was first run as the final event in the inaugural modern Olympics, as a tribute to the popular legend of a Greek soldier named Phidippides (also spelled Pheidippides) who fought at the battle of Marathon in 490 BC.
	edsitement.neh.gov /monthly_feature.asp?id=78 (2340 words)

	Ms. Magazine \| Women's Sports Reach Olympian Heights
		This summer in Athens, with the Olympics back in Greece for the first time in more than 100 years, women athletes will come the closest they’ve ever been to parity with men.
		A quarter century ago, at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, only 21 percent of the competitors were women.
		Globally, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) wrote into its charter the notion that women should be equal players on the Olympic stage (you hear that, de Coubertin?).
	www.msmagazine.com /summer2004/augustamazons.asp (2377 words)

	SPACENEEDLE VOLLEYBALL FOUNDATION: Coaches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		She is a freshman player at Shoreline CC and She was nominated Player of the week for the Northen Region.
		She coached the Summer Volleyball Camps at Shoreline CC.
		Karleen is a freshman at Shoreline CC and she coached at Shoreline Summer Volleyball Camps.
	eteamz.active.com /spaceneedlevolleyballclub/news/index.cfm?cat=225372 (616 words)

	Olympic games: The Modern Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The modern revival of the Olympic games is due in a large measure to the efforts of Pierre, baron de Coubertin, of France.
		As a visible focus of world energies, the Olympics have been prey to many factors that thwarted their ideals of world cooperation and athletic excellence.
		The International Olympic Committee (IOC), which sets and enforces Olympic policy, has struggled with the licensing and commercialization of the games, the need to schedule events to accommodate American television networks (whose broadcasting fees help underwrite the games), and the monitoring of athletes who seek illegal competitive advantages, often through the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/sports/A0860128.html (594 words)

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		Berzins got his start in volleyball thanks to his father, an immigrant from Latvia, who would take his 5-year-old son with him when he went to play at the local YMCA in Kennett Square, Pa. Berzins never played volleyball in high school, but continued his training at the Latvian camp he attended each summer.
		He caught the eye of Terry Liskevych, the men’s volleyball coach at Ohio State University and the son of Ukrainian immigrants, who invited him to come to Columbus in 1975.
		Doug Beal, head coach of the 1984 Olympic Men’s Volleyball Team and the current executive director of USA Volleyball, also remembers the many contributions of the man he calls “Aldy”.
	www.usavolleyball.org /VolleyballNews/news.asp?id=1335 (962 words)

	The Gow School Summer Program - Description - Peterson's
		The Gow School Summer Program was created for girls and boys who are experiencing academic difficulties and have learning differences but possess the potential for success.
		A summer at Gow provides not only remediation and enrichment in the academic program but also allows for a fun and engaging summer full of new experiences, opportunities, and friendships.
		The school has facilities for tennis, basketball, volleyball, baseball, softball, soccer, lacrosse, weight lifting, archery, golf, wrestling, floor hockey, ceramics, painting, arts and crafts, trail hiking, a ropes course, and fishing.
	www.petersons.com /summerop/sites/inc/017714so.asp?mode=print (998 words)

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