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	1932 Summer Olympics: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		An Olympic Village[?] was built for the first time, occupied by the male athletes.
		Babe Didrikson[?] wins two gold medals in the javelin throw and the hurdles event, and only loses a third in the high jump because her jumping technique is ruled inferior and is placed second.
		Finnish star Paavo Nurmi is barred from competing in the Olympic for being a professional.
	www.encyclopedian.com /19/1932-Summer-Olympics.html (236 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)

	Encyclopedia: 1932 Summer Olympics
		The 1896 Summer Olympics, formally called the Games of the I Olympiad, were the first modern Olympics 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.
		The 1996 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and informally known as the Centennial Olympics, were held in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
		The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, will be held in Beijing in the Peoples Republic of China from August 8, 2008 to August 24, 2008, with the opening ceremony to take place at 8 p.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1932-Summer-Olympics (2331 words)

	Summer Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Olympic victory is generally considered to be the most prestigious achievement in any field of sport.
		The 1956 Melbourne Games were largely successful, barring a water polo match between Hungary and the Soviet Union, which political tensions caused to end as a pitched battle between the teams.
		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.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/summer_olympic_games (2015 words)

	Summer
		Summer Summer is one of the four temperate August in the Northern hemisphere.
		Summer and Smoke Summer and Smoke is a play by Tennessee Williams which tells the story of a lonely, unmarried minister'...
		Summer Palace The Summer Palace (pinyin: Yiheyuan) is a palace in China.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/summer.html (4337 words)

	Olympics
		Basketball at the 1968 Summer Olympics The Yugoslavia, 65-50.
		Football at the 1906 Summer Olympics At the Denmark and the silver and bronze to Turkey, although in fact no medals were...
		Lacrosse at the 1904 Summer Olympics At the Mohawk indians.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/olympics.html (4075 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS
		Rugby union football was held at the Olympics in 1900, 1908, 1920 and 1924.
		Polo is considered the oldest mounted team sport, with a history reaching back centuries, when it was played in the plains of Asia, ancient Persia, China and India.
		Polo was on the Olympic programme in 1900, 1908, 1920, 1924 and 1936.
	www.olympic.org /uk/sports/past/index_uk.asp (349 words)

	2000 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Olympic flag was flown at half-staff during the period as a sign of respect to Samaranch's wife.
		People in Canada that wanted to see the Olympics between then and the closing ceremonies had to turn to TSN because the CBC was broadcasing news coverage related to the passing and state funeral of the former prime minister.
		Organisation of the 2000 Summer Paralympics was the responsibility of SPOC the Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/2000_Summer_Olympics (1817 words)

	GBROLYMPICS.COM / LONDON-OLYMPICS.COM - Olympic Games Medallists
		The modern Olympics were first held in 1896.
		The Games are held every 4 years (this period is known as an Olympiad) although an additional "intercalated" event, not officially recognised by the International Olympic Committee, was introduced in 1906.
		Nevertheless all those competitions reported, at one time or another, as Olympic medal events have been included here for the record, with those no longer regarded as official footnoted.
	www.london-olympics.com /olympic (336 words)

	1932 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Held during the worldwide Great Depression, many nations and athletes were unable to pay for the trip to Los Angeles.
		Fewer than half the number of participants from the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam competed in 1932.
		An Olympic Village was built for the first time, occupied by the male athletes.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/1932_Summer_Olympics (256 words)

	Forty-two athletes try living up to Stanford’s Olympic legacy - The Stanford Daily Online
		It was to be his first and only Olympic medal, but the first of 182 Olympic medals won by Stanford athletes at the summer games.
		Both water polo and track athletes have been a consistent presence in the medal-winning Stanford contingent throughout Olympic history.
		Water polo’s most recent medalists were Ellen Estes and Brenda Villa who took silver on Team USA in 2000.
	daily.stanford.edu /article/2004/8/12/fortytwoAthletesTryLivingUpToStanfordsOlympicLegacy (933 words)

	SLAM! Sports: 2000 Summer Games: History of the Games
		The first Olympic village was built and every athlete was housed, fed and transported for less than $2 a day.
		When Walsh was shot and killed years later an autopsy showed "she" was actually a man. If a sex-test had been used in 1932 Strike would have won gold.
		A sex-test was not introduced at the Olympics until 1968.
	www.canoe.ca /2000GamesHistory/1932games.html (278 words)

	Learn more about 1936 Summer Olympics in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Although awarded before the Nazi Party came to power in Germany, the government saw the Olympics as a golden opportunity to promote their fascist ideology.
		Rower Jack Beresford won his fifth Olympic medal in the sport, and his third gold medal.
		For the first time the Olympic Flame was brought to the Olympic Town by a torch relay, with the starting point in Olympia, Greece.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /1/19/1936_summer_olympics.html (481 words)

	1948 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad, were held in 1948 at Wembley Stadium in London, England.
		After a hiatus of 12 years caused by the outbreak of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
		Note that these Olympic Games were the first time that the host nation did not win enough medals to be included in the top 10 medal winners.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/1948_Summer_Olympics (446 words)

	Los Angeles 1932 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		There was some hesitation, but the IOC (International Olympic Committee) said in 1923 in Rome; "Los Angeles organize the Olympics of 1932." The hesitation came through the Olympics of 1904, which were organized through Sint Louis (the only city that organized the Olympics outside Europe!), and didn't were organized very well.
		The countries which joined the Olympics didn't like the idea to bring their athletes to the west coast of America, but when Los Angeles promised that the transportation, food and homes would be subsidized, the countries liked the idea.
		For the first time was the rostrum at the Olympics (podium for the three who finished as first, second and third), and were the medals given at the end of each day.
	library.thinkquest.org /25114/eng/spelen/zos1932.html (404 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The 1936 Olympics, held in Berlin, are best remembered for Adolf Hitler’s failed attempt to use them to prove his theories of Aryan racial superiority.
		Hungarian water polo player Olivier Halassy won his third medal despite the fact that one of his legs had been amputated below the knee following a streetcar accident.
		Arrival of the Olympic Flame at the Olympic Stadium.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1936 (400 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.zoomschool.com /olympics (1311 words)

	Inwit Publishing, Inc. and Inwit, LLC -- Writings, Links and Software Demonstrations - The Science of the Summer Games ...
		The breaststroke is the most rigidly defined of the Olympic styles; athletes must adhere to six rules, specifying everything from the permissible kick (the frog "backward and out") to the position of the shoulders ("in line with the water").
		Water is of course very close to 1000 grams per liter, and air at the same temperature (0 C) is 1.2929 grams per liter; the viscosity of water at 20 C is 1.0020 millipascal-seconds and air at the same temperature is 18.2 micropascal-seconds.
		At 68 F the viscosity of water is 1.0020 millipascal-seconds; at 78 F the viscosity is 0.8747 millipascal-seconds, a difference of at least 12%.
	www.algorithm.com /inwit/writings/scienceofthesummergames.html (5160 words)

	Jews in sports at the 1936 Olympics, Berlin
		San Diego, CA (special) -- A traveling exhibition prepared by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on the Berlin Olympics of 1936 came on view in San Diego this week with the reopening of the Hall of Champions in new quarters in Balboa Park.
		Marty Glickman, a Jewish sprinter who made the U.S. Olympic team in 1936 but wasn't permitted to compete, was the July 1 opening speaker (see related story).
		In the summer games, fencer Helene Mayer -- blonde-hair, blue-eyed daughter of a Christian mother and Jewish father -- was permitted to compete in the foil competition.
	www.jewishsightseeing.com /germany/berlin/olympic_stadium/19990702-olympics_1936.htm (1752 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").
		At the end of an Olympics, the mayor of the host-city presents the flag to the mayor of the next host-city.
		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.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /olympics (1145 words)

	1932 Summer Olympics at AllExperts
		The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, were held in 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
		Fewer than half the number of participants from the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam competed in 1932.
		After her death in 1980, it was discovered that she was intersex and would have been ineligible to particpate.
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/1932_summer_olympics.htm (489 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Phelps exceeding expectations
		Actually Phelps is still a gangly 6-foot-3, and he didn't set any records by finishing 20th in his 200-meter individual medley race Sunday in the U.S. Olympic trials at the Indiana University Natatorium.
		While barely-pubescent women Olympic swimmers are commonplace, including 16-year-old Megan Quann and 17-year-old Kaitlin Sandeno this year, boys usually have to wait until their late teens or early 20s to have a legitimate shot at qualifying.
		Earlier this year, he revealed to his high school paper that one of his goals was to make the 2000 Olympic team.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/s/2000/0814/684158.html (685 words)

	Olympic Games
		Over the years, other events were added: boxing, wrestling, pankration (combination of boxing and wrestling), chariot racing, several other running events (the diaulos, hippios, dolichos, and hoplitodromos), as well as a pentathlon, consisting of wrestling, stadion, long jump, javelin throw and discus throw (the latter three were not separate events).
		On the final day, there was a banquet for all of the participants, consisting of 100 oxen that had been sacrificed to Zeus on the first day.
		The Olympic Games were part of the Panhellenic Games, four separate games held at two- or four-year intervals but arranged so that there was one set of games every year.
	www.ukpedia.com /o/olympic-games.html (1114 words)

	UC's Got Game - 2004 Summer Olympics - University of California News Room
		This summer, UC Berkeley will send a strong contingent of athletes and coaches to participate in the 2004 Olympic Games.
		Five UC Irvine alumni compose more than one-third of the 13-member U.S. Olympic men's water polo team preparing for the Athens Games.
		Olympic experts at UC Davis, on topics including nutrition, biomechanics, injury prevention, sports psychology, orthopaedic surgery and cycling
	www.universityofcalifornia.edu /news/summerolympics2004.html (567 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)

	Hungarian Reflects on Bloody Melbourne Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		And while Ujvary was also certain that emotions were high and hostilities ran deep, he was not about to exaggerate for the sake of a four-decade-old yarn.
		Forty years ago, in Melbourne, Australia, Ujvary was one of Hungary's Olympic divers, watching with the rest of that country's delegation as it took a measure of spiritual revenge for unspeakable horrors perpetrated by Russians back home.
		On the one hand, he said that water polo players have engaged in their fair share of non-political bloody scrapes.
	www.nytimes.com /specials/olympics/0721/oly-wtp-hungary-russia.html (930 words)

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