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	Encyclopedia: 1960 Summer Olympics
		It was the second time an athlete died in competition at the Olympics, after the death of Portuguese marathon runner Francisco Lazaro at the 1912 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 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/1960-Summer-Olympics (2792 words)

	Summer Olympic Games
		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.
		The 1960 Rome Games saw the first arrival on the world scene of a young light heavyweight boxer named Cassius Clay, better known as Muhammad Ali, who would later throw his gold medal away in disgust after being refused service in a "whites only" restaurant in his home town.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/summer_olympic_games (2015 words)

	Olympic Games: Definition and links.
		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.encyclopedian.com /ol/Olympics.html (948 words)

	Learn more about 1936 Summer Olympics in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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.
		Basketball and handball made their debut at the Olympics, both as outdoor sports.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /1/19/1936_summer_olympics.html (481 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 (1808 words)

	1996 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Atlanta was chosen as the host city by the International Olympic Committee on September 18, 1990.
		Cycling professionals were admitted to the Olympics, with five-time Tour de France winner Miguel Induráin winning the inaugural individual time trial event.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics (791 words)

	Station Information - 1956 Summer Olympics
		Therefore, these events were held in Stockholm(Sweden) marking the second, and so far last time, that events of the same Olympics were held in different countries.
		Because Melbourne is situated in the southern hemisphere, the Olympics are held late in the year.
		Hungary and the Soviet Union were themselves present, which among others led to a hotly contested and violent water polo encounter between the nations.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1956_summer_olympics.html (270 words)

	wiki/1984 Summer Olympics Definition / wiki/1984 Summer Olympics Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A marathon for women is held for the first time at the Olympics, won by Joan BenoitJoan Benoit Samuelson (born May 16, 1957) was an American marathon runner who won gold at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
		Synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics debut in Los Angeles as Olympic events, as does wind surfingWindsurfing (also called boardsailing) is a sport involving travel over water on a small 2-4.7 meter board powered by wind acting on a single sail, that is connected to the board via a flexible joint.
		The 1906 Olympics were organised by the IOC, but are currently not officially recognised by the IOC.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/1984_Summer_Olympics (3352 words)

	Learn more about 1972 Summer Olympics in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the bid to organise the Olympics, Detroit, Madrid and Montreal were beaten.
		White water canoeing is held for the first time at the Olympics.
		For the first time, the Olympic Oath is also taken by a representative of the referees.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /1/19/1972_summer_olympics.html (477 words)

	FROM ATHENS TO ATLANTA, HISTORICAL RECAP
		Baseball, lacrosse and water polo appeared, with the latter labeled "softball in the water" by the disgruntled German team.
		Antwerp donated a flag, a big white banner with the five Olympic rings in the center and a golden fringe around the edge, that is still handed down from host city to host city.
		All this passion spilled out in a water polo match between the Soviet Union and Hungary, where there was blood in the pool and police had been called in to protect the Soviet players from the crowd.
	www.canoe.ca /OlympicsHistory/olympics_recap.html (4086 words)

	wiki/1928 Summer Olympics Definition / wiki/1928 Summer Olympics Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The waters of the Aegean Sea border on Greece to the east, and those of the Ionian and Mediterranean Seas to the west and sout...
		Upon their deaths, he is adopted and raised by a band of apes which Burroughs calls "mangani," a species not otherwise known to science, but with characteristics of gorillas, chimpanzees, and early hominids, including a primitive form of speech.
		1904The 1904 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the III Olympiad, were held in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States from July 1 to November 23, 1904.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/1928_Summer_Olympics (2622 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports > 2004 Summer Olympics
		Hungary wins gold, Americans upset Italy in water polo: Hungary won its eighth Olympic water polo gold medal, scoring three time in the last quarter to beat Serbia-Montenegro 8-7 on Sunday.
		NBC and its family of cable networks flooded American households with nearly nonstop coverage of the Athens Olympics, and the strategy – along with strong performances by the U.S. teams in swimming and gymnastics – produced not only a ratings increase, but an estimated profit of at least $60 million.
		It was predicted before the Olympics that prostitution, which is legal and heavily regulated in Athens, would enjoy a boom economy.
	www.uniontrib.com /sports/olympics/index.html (1587 words)

	Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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)

	The Summer Olympic Games History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The first Modern Olympics were born two years later in Athens where 245 athletes from 14 nations competed in the ancient Panathenaic stadium.
		A highlight from the Olympics was that Spiridon Louis ran the first marathon race, which was the same course that the hero Pheidippides after the battle of Marathon in 490BC.
		The 1904 Olympics were held in St. Louis, which were held in conjuntion with the centennial celebration of the Louisana Purchase.
	www.fccps.k12.va.us /gm/Webs-2002/gr8-3/hillary/summerhistory.html (3230 words)

	Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics was split into three categories:
		Mountain, held at the Parnitha Olympic Mountain Bike Venue.
		In the World and Olympic Records table shown at the start of each track event's subsection, the records in question were those which existed before the event.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cycling_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics (93 words)

	Inside Britannica
		This month the Summer Olympics return to Greece, the nation where the ancient games originated, and to Athens, the city where the first modern games were held in 1896.
		The rebirth of the Olympic movement was largely the result of the perseverance of the French educator Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who founded the International Olympic Committee.
		At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila ran in his bare feet along the cobblestones of the ancient Appian Way on his way to victory in the marathon.
	newsletters.britannica.com /newsletter_AUG04.html (323 words)

	1976 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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 led a boycott of 22 African nations as the IOC refused to not 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.enlightenweb.net /1/19/1976_summer_olympics.html (334 words)

	Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier Online
		In 1896, French educator Baron Pierre de Coubertin, Dimitrios Vikelas and other contributors proposed a revival of the ancient tradition, and thus the modern-day Olympic summer games were born.
		However, Olympic medals must be crafted at least 60 millimeters in diameter and at least 3 millimeters thick.
		Gold and silver medals must be made of 92.5 percent pure silver; the gold medal must be gilded with at least 6 grams of gold.
	www.wcfcourier.com /articles/2004/08/13/news/lifestyles/2d66e1036756993b86256eee0059347f.prt (549 words)

	HickokSports.com - History - The 1960 Olympics
		In Rome, where the ancient Olympics had ended more than 1600 years earlier, the 1960 Olympic venues were a curious blend of ancient and modern architecture.
		Near the brand-new Olympic stadium, sports palace and velodrome, wrestling was contested in the Basilica of Maxentius, which had hosted matches 2,000 years before; gymnastics took place in the Baths of Caracalla, and the marathon was run along the Appian Way, finishing at the Arch of Constantine.
		The Rome Olympics were the first to be thoroughly covered on broadcast television.
	www.hickoksports.com /history/ol1960.shtml (928 words)

	1996 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Also during the games, the Centennial Olympic Park bombing took place on July 27, 1996 killing Alice Hawthorne and wounding 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.
		Cycling professionals were admitted to the Olympics, with five-time Tour de France winner Miguel Indurain winning the inaugural individual time trial event.
	www.ukpedia.com /1/1996-summer-olympics.html (431 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Two down, three tough ones to go
		Her quest is to become the first woman to win five golds at a Summer Olympics.
		Jones' victory margin of 43 hundredths of a second was the biggest since American Wilma Rudolph won by.45 at the 1960 Rome Olympics.
		Marla Runyan, the first U.S. paralympian to reach the Olympics, continued her amazing odyssey by qualifying for the final of the women's 1,500 meters.
	www.espn.go.com /oly/summer00/news/2000/0927/784201.html (1006 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 (1145 words)

	Olympic Trivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		On the day the 1948 Olympic games began at Wembley Stadium in London, June 29, the famed Australian ‘Invincibles’ cricket side was finishing off England in a test at nearby Lord’s, winning by 409 runs.
		The Olympic torchbearer for the 1956 Olympics was a virtually unknown 19 year old at the time he carried the torch into the stadium at Melbourne.
		Until the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, baseball was restricted to amateurs.
	www.topendsports.com /olympics/summer/trivia.htm (1033 words)

	2000 Summer Olympics
		Although the country-to-be had no National Olympic Committee yet, they were allowed to compete under the Olympic Flag.
		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.fact-index.com /2/20/2000_summer_olympics.html (673 words)

	Sports: Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ancient History A Greek legend tells of the great Heracles (or Hercules, in Latin) who won a race at Olympia and then decreed that the race should be re-enacted every four years.
		It is often said that wars were halted during the Games, but this is not true; however, athletes, who were often soldiers, were permitted to leave the army to participate in the Games, and were guaranteed safe passage through enemy territory.
		The Olympic Games were the most important and most prestigious of these.
	www.theparentingsearch.com /Sports/Olympic_Games.shtml (728 words)

	Egypt in the 2004 Summer Olympics
		The original Olympics were held every four years for a span that lasted for almost eight centuries.
		At Minsk in May of 2004, Nahla was the biggest star in the field of 262 competitors in both men's and women's weightlifting, and so not surprisingly, even Sport's Illustrated has picked her for Gold in the Women's 75 kg (165 lbs) event at Athens.
		In fact, she is the only Egyptian athlete to be picked for any medal by SI at the summer event.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/egypt2004olympics.htm (1359 words)

	Remembrance of Peter Beach
		On the second floor at the front of the house was a great bedroom with its own bath, and a long closet connecting it to the next bedroom on that side.
		He played water polo with medal winners from the 1960 Summer Olympics.
		He was offered the summer job of directing a waterfront on Cape Cod.
	www2.aya.yale.edu /classes/yc1964/remembrances/beach.htm (622 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Abebe Bikila
		It's worked before: Ethiopia's Abebe Bikila won the first of his many gold medals in the 1960 Olympics without shoes, and the Stanford University track team's barefoot training regimen inspired Nike to create Nike Free in the first place.
		Abebe Bikila won Ethiopia's and Africa's first Olympic gold medal when he finished first in the marathon as he ran barefoot through Rome at the 1960 Olympics.
		In the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Ethiopian marathoner Abebe Bikila placed first, clocking in at just over two hours and 15 minutes barefoot.
	sports.surfwax.com /files/Abebe_Bikila.html (464 words)

	International Games News August 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Olympic shot put hopeful Tressa Thompson admits she dropped out of the United States Olympic Trials last month after learning that she tested positive for cocaine, amphetamine and methamphetamine at a meet in Portland, Ore. "I've decided that I have to stand up and take my punishment straight on," Thompson said.
		Of the over 1,800 unauthorized domains named in the suit, 168 falsely represent an association with the 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006 Olympic Games, 69 claim to sell tickets or other Games-related services for profit, 43 relate to gambling, and 15 are associated with pornographic material or services.
		'The value and integrity of Olympic marks and terminology becomes diluted when they are used by individuals or entities that have not obtained proper authorization.
	www.internationalgames.net /August2000.htm (2979 words)

	1992 Summer Olympics - Music Voyager Travel Guides : Information Portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For the first time since 1960, South Africa is allowed to participate in the Olympics.
		Yugoslav athletes are not allowed to participate with their own team, but may compete under the Olympic flag as Independent Olympic Participants.
		Badminton and women's judo become part of the Olympic programme, while white water canoeing[?] returns to the Games after a 20-year absence.
	www.musicvoyager.com /info/ba/Barcelona_Olympic_games.html (414 words)

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