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	Olympic Games
		The ancient Olympic Games were abandoned in AD 394 by the Roman emperor Theodosius I, who considered the Games to be a savage celebration.
		Olympic is also the name the public sometimes uses for the Greek national airline, Olympic Airways.
		Olympic uses varous types or airplanes, like the Boeing 747 and Airbus A340 for international routes, and the Boeing 727 and Boeing 737 for domestic routes.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/o/ol/olympic_games.shtml (1103 words)

	Volleyball at the 1984 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This page presents the results of male and female volleyball during the Olympic Games of Los Angeles in the summer of 1984.
		The competition was held in The Long Beach Arena, which had a capacity of 12,033.
		It was Karch Kiraly's first Olympic Gold medal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Volleyball_at_the_1984_Summer_Olympics (118 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)

	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)

	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.
		At the heart of the Olympic Movement is the International Olympic Committee (IOC), currently headed by Jacques Rogge.
		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.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /olympics/Olympics.htm (1089 words)

	1996 Summer Olympics
		Also during the games, the Centennial Olympic Park bombing took place on July 27, 1996 killing Alice Hawthorne and wounded 111 others, and causing the death of Melih Uzunyol by heart attack.
		softball, beach volleyball and mountainbiking debut on the Olympic programme, together with women's football and lightweight rowing.
		Michelle Smith[?] of Ireland wins three gold medals and a bronze, but her victories are overshadowed by doping allegations, which are later reinforced as she is banned after failing a test in 1999.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/19/1996_Olympics.html (364 words)

	Olympics
		That was supposed to be the end of Owens' Olympic participation, but on August 9, he and Ralph Metcalf replaced Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller, the only Jews on the U.S. track team, on the 4x100-meter relay.
		Comaneci had done what no other Olympic gymnast had ever done: scored a perfect "10" - the board had been built to accommodate a high core of 9.9 (soon after, competitions around the world had to replace or remodel their scoring systems to include a perfect 10).
		She won the first Olympic women's competition in the javelin (143 feet, 4 inches) and 80-meter hurdles, setting a world record with her time of 11.7 seconds.
	www.baseball-statistics.com /Greats/Century/Olympics.htm (1668 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Volleyball Fan Guide
		Karch Kiraly, the only volleyball player to win three Olympic gold medals _ two indoors for the United States in 1984 and 1988, along with the first men's beach gold medal _ was poised with new partner Adam Johnson to qualify.
		Format: Beach volleyball, in its second Olympic appearance, is played on a court the same size as that of the indoor game, but the court is made of sand, and there are two players to a side (not the six in indoor).
		Olympic debut: In 2000, bikinis are the required outfit for women.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/volleyball/s/viewers.html (413 words)

	Welcome to AVCA - the American Volleyball Coaches Association (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Volleyball Festival was presented with the William G. Morgan Award by the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 1999.
		Prior to joining USA Volleyball, Liskevych served as the head men's volleyball coach at Ohio State and the women's head coach at the University of the Pacific.
		She was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 1990 and was named Volleyball Magazine's "third most influential person of the century in volleyball." Peppler also served as a co-founder of the first year-round training program in Pasadena, Texas, in 1972.
	www.avca.org /NewsDetail.asp?id=99 (2951 words)

	USA Volleyball : National Teams
		Beal, who guided the team to its first gold medal at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles in his first tour with the team (1977-85), returned to coach the men’s national team in 1997 and will remain with the program at least through the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece.
		The team won the first leg of the elusive volleyball “triple crown” in 1984 when the USA men captured the country’s first-ever volleyball Olympic gold medal.
		Beal was elected to the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 1989 and was USA Volleyball’s first recipient of the All-Time Great Coach Award in 1995.
	www.usavolleyball.org /national/beal.asp (823 words)

	FOX Sports - - 2004 Summer Olympic Games Preview - Volleyball (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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 (1761 words)

	1988 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After boycotts of the Olympics in 1976, 1980 and 1984, the Games were again boycotted, but only by four nations: North Korea, Cuba, Ethiopia and Nicaragua.
		Christa Rothenburger[?] becomes the first (and last) athlete to win Olympic medals at the Winter Olympics and Summer Olympics in the same year.
		Table tennis is introduced at the Olympics, with China and the host nation both winning two titles.
	www.findword.org /19/1988-summer-olympics.html (679 words)

	Tournaments Volleyball Sports
		Bragging rights will be on the table this week during Forsyth County tournaments in soccer and volleyball.
		CC Parks and Rec adult coed volleyball league registration is 10 am to 4...
		Volleyball is the biggest participation sport in the country and its facility requirements is cost-effective even for village-based tournaments.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Sports/Volleyball/Tournaments (447 words)

	700 FAMOUS NEBRASKANS - Olympic Medalists (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Athlete, won gold medal in horizontal bar event in gymnastics during 1992 Olympics, became first American gymnast to win a gold medal in a non-boycotted Olympics since 1932, was a member of the University of Nebraska's 1990 NCAA championship team; motivational speaker in corporate world, role model for Hispanic American community.
		Swimmer, recipient of two gold medals in 1996 Olympics in 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke competition, bronze medal in 2000 Olympics in 100-meter breaststroke, a world record holder for 50, 100 and 200-meter breaststroke events, considered a hero in her native South Africa.
		Track and field sprinter, competed in the Olympics of 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 for her home country of Jamaica, earned three silver and five bronze medals, considered the second fastest woman sprinter in history.
	www.nebpress.com /700/olympic.html (2549 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.
		She won a silver medal with the U.S. in the 1984 Olympics, a bronze in 1992 and played on the 1996 team in Atlanta.
	usctrojans.cstv.com /sports/w-volley/mtt/weishoff_paula00.html (620 words)

	Summer Olympics: Aquatics
		In the Olympics Swimming has 26 individual events and six relay or team events for both men and women.
		Swimming was one of the sports at the first modern Olympic games in 1896.
		Water polo was included in 1900, Diving in 1904, and Synchronised swimming was added in 1984.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/aquatics.htm (280 words)

	Summer Olympics: Shooting
		Shooting was part of the first Olympic games in 1896 but shooting goes back to the invention of gun powder.
		Women's shooting was not part of the Olympic games until 1984.
		In the Olympics there are seventeen shooting events, ten for men and seven for women.
	www2.lhric.org /Pocantico/olympics/shooting.htm (97 words)

	2000 Summer Olympics
		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.gamesinathens.com /olympics/2/20/2000_summer_olympics.shtml (670 words)

	John L. Kessel
		In 1995, Volleyball magazine named him as one of the 50 most important people in the sport of volleyball in the first 100 years.
		For a month in the summer of of 1991, he was one of the four featured speakers at the first International Youth Volleyball Coaches Symposium in Olympia, Greece, attended by over 50 nations, and repeated as main lecturer in the FIVB Volleyball in the Schools Symposium in Quebec City, Canada in 1995.
		He is currently one of 8 members of the International Volleyball Federation's Technical Commission, serving as Secretary of that commission and a Level IV instructor.
	www.volleyball.org /people/john_kessel.html (616 words)

	Paralympic Games
		Sir Ludwig Guttmann organized a sports competition in 1948 which became known as the Stoke Mandeville Games, involving World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries; in 1952 competitors from the Netherlands took part.
		The first Olympic Style games for disabled athletes were held in Rome in 1960 which became the Paralympics.
		The Games are now always held alongside the Olympic Games as on June 19, 2001 an agreement was signed between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) securing this practice for the future.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/p/pa/paralympic_games.shtml (198 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Keeping Score
		If the U.S. men's Olympic volleyball team hopes to return to its golden days, it will need to bring back the ones that had them dancing.
		To that end, USA Volleyball has rehired Doug Beal, the coach who led the U.S. to its first ever Olympic volleyball medal in 1984.
		USA Volleyball is in a state of flux, from the changing of its name (formerly U.S. Volleyball Association) to a change of address.
	www.starbulletin.com /97/06/09/sports/luis.html (597 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1980 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Moscow won the bid to organise the Games by defeating Los Angeles, which would host the next Olympics.
		Women's field hockey is Olympic for the first time, but all major nations boycott the tournament.
		The team of Zimbabwe is invited just a week before the start of the Games, but it wins the nation's first gold medal.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1980_Summer_Olympics (332 words)

	United States Olympic Committee - At 44, Kiraly still among best on the beach
		Karch Kiraly was the youngest guy on the Olympic men's volleyball team in 1984, a fresh-faced and promising youngster whose dominating play helped the United States win its first gold medal.
		His 147 victories and $3.1 million ([euro]2.4 million) in earnings are the most in beach volleyball history.
		He's the lone American volleyballer to win three Olympic golds; indoor from 1984 and 1988, on the sand in 1996.
	www.olympic-usa.org /11624_32267.htm (910 words)

	Category:1984 Summer Olympics events - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tennis at the 1984 Summer Olympics - Men's Singles
		Tennis at the 1984 Summer Olympics - Women's Singles
		This page was last modified 09:03, 18 August 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:1984_Summer_Olympics_events (77 words)

	VolleyballSeek - USA Men's 75th Anniversary All-Era Team
		Bob Ctvrtlik was a member of the 1984 USVBA Male All-Rookie Team, a two-time USVBA First-Team All-American and a two-time U.S. Open Player of the Year.
		As the 1984 USVBA Male Rookie of the Year, expectations of Doug Partie’s career were immediately high.
		No list of great volleyball players would be complete without Karch Kiraly, the only male volleyball player in history to win three Olympic gold medals.
	www.volleyballseek.com /news.cfm?Counter=2036 (1564 words)

	City Mayors: 2012 Summer Olympics
		The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, according to several reports, made $200 million profit from a mixture of private funding, greater commercialisation and the use of existing facilities.
		The 1980 Olympics in Moscow, boycotted by the United States and some other countries over the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, are still remembered by some in the Olympic movement.
		The Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) left their candidature until the last minute, but in the end Rio de Janeiro was selected ahead of Sao Paulo, the country’s biggest city, to be Brazil’s representative.
	www.citymayors.com /features/2012olympics.html (4831 words)

	Honorees
		After graduation, he continued to compete and excel, winning twelve United States Volleyball Association All-American Awards and fifteen USVBA Championships, as well as playing on the gold-medal U.S. Pan American Team in 1959 and captaining the silver-medal winning team at the Pan Am Tournament in 1963.
		In addition to his impressive accomplishments on indoor courts, O'Hara is one of the most outstanding players in beach volleyball history; he has 38 Open Beach Championships to his credit, third highest of all time.
		He served as Executive Director of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and as a consultant for the Calgary and Seoul Olympic Organizing Committee.
	www.volleyhall.org /ohara.html (269 words)

	Sports : Olympics : All Items on Ruby Lane
		This is an official publication printed in Germany of the 1936 Olympic Summer Games (August 1st - 16th) and published by Reichsbahnzentrale fur den Deutschen Reiseverkehr in co-operation with the Propaganda Committee for the X1th Olympic Games and...
		This set of five (5) BC comic strip character placemats commemorates the 1972 Olympics, which were certainly notable for their political events.
		Outstanding Original 1996 Atlanta Georgia Centennial Olympic Torch; crafted out of oak, steel, polished brass and engraved with all the years and cities in which the games were hosted from Athens 1896 till Atlanta 1996 in commemoration of the...
	search.rubylane.com /search/,id=73.7.html (1004 words)

	2004 Athens Olympics - A site dedicated to Athens 2004 and Past Olympics
		Your source for all informations relating to the Summer/Winter Olympics as well as information on Athens, Greece.
		This web site is not affiliated with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), Athens Olympic Committee (ATHOC) or the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of any country.
		The word olympic is a trademark of IOC.
	www.gamesinathens.com (115 words)

	The Summer Olympics
		—The 1984 Games are boycotted by 14 Eastern Bloc nations, led by the USSR, to protest America's overcommercialization of the Games, inadequate security and an anti-Soviet attitude by the U.S. government.
		Olympics 2004: Summer Olympics Biographies, A-Z - Biographies of notable summer athletes
		Modern Olympic Games - The original Olympic Games were celebrated as a religious festival from 776 B.C. until 393 A.D.,...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0114337.html (414 words)

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