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	Encyclopedia: 1984 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Olympic Fanfare and Theme is a piece of music written by John Williams for the 1984 Olympic Games, which were held in Los Angeles.
		Baseball at the 1984 Summer Olympics was a demonstration sport for the sixth time, and it was the first time that the sport had been played in an Olympic tournament in the 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/1984-Summer-Olympics (3316 words)

	1984 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Los Angeles was selected on May 18, 1978 on the 80th IOC session without voting, because it was the only city to bid to host the 1984 Summer Olympics.
		In the wake of the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, most of the Eastern Bloc, including the Soviet Union, East Germany and Cuba, boycotted these Olympics (the USSR announced its 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1984_Summer_Olympics (522 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)

	1984 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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).
		In weightlifting, athletes from Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) and PRC win a medal in the same event.
		Daley Thompson apparently misses a new world record in winning his second consecutive gold medal in the decathlon; the next year his score is retrospectively raised to 8847, giving him the record.
	www.encyclopedia-1.com /1/19/1984_summer_olympics.html (307 words)

	1976 Summer Olympics - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the bid to organise the Olympics, Montreal defeated Moscow and Los Angeles, which would organise the 1980 and 1984 Olympics.
		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.
		This was seen as a major threat to the future of the Olympic games, and was not until the financially sucessful 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles that cities began to line up to be hosts again.
	www.free-definition.com /1976-Summer-Olympics.html (789 words)

	Weightlifting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		There are two lifts in the weightlifting competition: the snatch and the clean-and-jerk.
		Weightlifting formed part of the programme at the first Olympic Games of modern times in 1896 coming under the category of Athletics.
		The last medal to be won by Great Britain in weightlifting was by David Mercer who won Bronze in 1984 for the Middle-heavyweight category.
	www.olympics.org.uk /sports/summer/weightlifting.asp (366 words)

	1984 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Games of the XXIII Olympiad were held in 1984 in Los Angeles, United States.Los Angeles was the only city to bid to host the 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, andthe first of her country in the 400 m hurdles.
	www.therfcc.org /1984-summer-olympics-51973.html (304 words)

	1984 Summer Olympics: Definition and links.
		Synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics debut in Los Angeles as Olympic events, as doeswind surfing.
		China returns to the Olympics after a long absence and wins 15 gold medals.
		In weightlifting, athletes from Taiwan and China win a medal in the same event.
	www.encyclopedian.com /19/1984-Summer-Olympics.html (268 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 2004 Athens
		As the first Summer Olympics since the attacks of Sept. 11,2001, the safety of the athletes, spectators and Greek population were of utmost priority.
		The story of Kenteris, the defending Olympic 200-metre champion, and Thanou, the 100 m silver medallist from Sydney, dominated the headlines of every broadcast and newspaper as much for its impact on the host nation as for its sensational details.
		That was a small consolation for weightlifting fans; competitors from their sport accounted for half the total number caught cheating.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics (2135 words)

	SignOn San Diego Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics -- Future of weightlifting uncertain following new drug scandals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		SYDNEY, Australia -- The future of weightlifting in the Olympics could be under threat after two more Bulgarians were stripped of medals and the entire team was expelled in the latest drug scandal at the Sydney Olympics.
		The expulsions mark a throwback to the 1988 Seoul Olympics, where the entire Bulgarian weightlifting team was withdrawn after two lifters -- Mitko Grubler and Angel Guenchev -- were stripped of gold medals.
		Two Romanian weightlifters, Traian Ciharean and Adrian Mateas, were suspended and expelled from the Olympic Village after failing out-of-competition tests.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/olympics/20000922-213-oly-drugs.html (872 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		The games were the first to have live television coverage, Telefunken and Fernseh broadcast over seventy hours of coverage to specially erected booths throughout the city.
	www.portaljuice.com /1936_summer_olympics.html (393 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)

	Summer Olympics: Tennis
		There was tennis in the Olympics from 1896 until 1924.
		It returned in 1984 as a demonstration sport and became an official Olympic sport in 1988.
		At the Olympics there will be men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, and women's doubles.
	www2.lhric.org /POCANTICO/olympics/tennis.htm (433 words)

	2000 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		France's Lionel Torres, who won the Olympic test event in Sydney last year, was atop the most recent men's world rankings, and Britain's Alison Williamson was second at the 1999 worlds.
		Mark Todd of New Zealand, the gold medalist in 1984 and 1988 in the individual three-day, returns to the Olympics after missing the last two because of injuries to his horses.
		He is in pursuit of his third straight Olympic gold in the 25-meter rapid-fire pistol shooting.
	www.buffzone.com /sports/misc/a204127a.html (4278 words)

	SignOn San Diego Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics -- Olympics-International sport still saddled with drug cheats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Four weightlifters – Ashot Danielyan of Armenia, Ivan Ivanov, Izabela Dragneva and Sevdalin Minchev (all of Bulgaria) – and 17-year-old Romanian gymnast Andreea Raducan were stripped of their medals after positive tests.
		U.S. chiefs were accused of covering up five positive tests before the 1988 Seoul Olympics and failing to inform international chiefs of 15 suspicious cases in the last two years.
		Before the Games, the IOC was pleased to announce that it had introduced a new test for EPO (erythropoietin), a drug used by distance runners and swimmers to enhance the blood's capacity to carry oxygen.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/olympics/20001001-850-sport-olympi.html (660 words)

	1960 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rome had been awarded the organisation of the 1908 Summer Olympics, but had to decline and pass thehonours to London.
		South Africa appears in the Olympic arena for the last time under the apartheid regime.
		It was thesecond time an athlete died in competition at the Olympics, after the death of Portuguese marathon runner Francisco Lazaro at the 1912 SummerOlympics.
	www.therfcc.org /1960-summer-olympics-67801.html (250 words)

	SUMMER OLYMPIC STATISTICS
		The ranking is performed neither according to gold medal nor medal total but according to points (3 points for a gold, 2 for a silver and 1 for a bronze).
		In some cases, you will find "half medals" : In the early Olympics, some people had unprecise nationality, therefore two countries shared the medal.
		It includes all Olympic results from Athens 1896 to Sydney 2000 (when the sport is completed).
	www.darmoni.net /joete.htm (132 words)

	Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Olympic gold was the latest in a string of successes for the Chinese star, bound to become an even bigger hero in China, as the gold is China's first ever in Olympic athletics competition.
		Prior to her Olympic and Commonwealth achievements, Ottey won silver medals in the 100 and 200 meters in the 1979 CARIFTA Games (behind 100m winner Raymonde Naigré of Guadeloupe, and 200m winner Oralee Fowler of the Bahamas) and the 1979 Pan American Games 200 meter bronze.
		The promise to take the Olympic Torch to the top of the worlds' highest mountain was made by the Mayor of Beijing, Liu Qi, in the documents that Beijing presented when making their bid for the 2008 games.
	www.internationalgames.net /olympic.htm (8101 words)

	7. MODERN OLYMPICS - MED. NUT. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Social and demographic influences on the physique of the Olympic athlete.
		Schenk, P. [Care of 47oo contestants from 42 nations in the Olympic village during the eleventh Olympic series of 1936 in Berlin].
		Observations on the haematology and the iron and protein intake of Australian Olympic athletes.
	nutrition.ucdavis.edu /olympics/Olymp/sci.htm (3975 words)

	TIMEasia.com \| The Summer Olympics: Notebook \| 10/2/2000
		On the night of the opening ceremony, 125,000 calls were made from inside the main Olympic Stadium, including thousands placed by athletes as they marched in the opening parade.
		At the weightlifting venue, the ringing of mobiles frequently disrupted the concentration of lifters, leading to speculation that some of the calls were deliberately placed to disturb opponents.
		The weightlifting venue in the Sydney Convention Center saw plenty of both last week: Colombia's first-ever Olympic gold, India's first women's medal, Mexico's first weight- lifting gold and, sadly, the first woman lifter to be stripped of gold for a positive drug test.
	www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/2000/1002/olympic_notebook.html (1189 words)

	azcentral.com sports \| Summer Olympics: 2004 Summer Olympic event capsules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Americans, who have not won a medal in fencing since 1984, have their best chance in women's saber, where sisters Sada and Emily Jacobson and Mariel Zagunis are all ranked in the top 10.
		Argentina is left as the favorite in the 16-team field, although the Olympic tournament is tough to gauge because rules restrict teams to players under 23, with three exemptions.
		Sure to draw plenty of attention is Tammy Crow, allowed to compete by U.S. Olympic Committee despite pleading no-contest to vehicular manslaughter charges in a crash that killed her boyfriend and a 12-year-old boy.
	www.azcentral.com /sports/azetc/04olympics/0808olycaps0808.html (2224 words)

	Fanbay.net - Athens 2004 Summer Olympics - Links, News, Travel info
		Basketball, Diving, Sailing, Soccer, and the Triathlon, are eagerly anticipated, higly watched events, but their are minimal amounts of medals awarded and they have no impact on the overall olympic medal counts.
		The Ancient Olympic games originated in Greece and the first modern olympics was held in Athens in 1896.
		Also, see the following link for an analysis of the performance of the United States in the Summer Olympics over the years, from 1896 to present.
	www.fanbay.net /olympics/2004.htm (449 words)

	Detroit Free Press \| Summer Olympics 2000
		The U.S. Olympic swimming team, still feeling the sting of its opening-night loss to the Aussies in the 4x100-meter men's freestyle relay, got even with the host country in a big-time way Sunday night at the Sydney Aquatic Center.
		With the whole Olympic tournament in front of her, Sheryl Swoopes has more important things to deal with than to make some big announcement about her future in basketball.
		But there's a slew of new events in sports that were already on the Olympic agenda, such as trampoline in gymnastics and women's hammer throw and women's pole vault in track.
	www.freep.com /index/olympics2000.htm (8350 words)

	1984 Olympics
		Romania was the only Warsaw Pact country to come to L.A. While a record 140 nations did show up, the level of competition was hardly what it might have been had the Soviets and East Germans made the trip.
		The American gold rush was led by 23-year-old Carl Lewis, who duplicated Jesse Owens' 1936 track and field grand slam by winning the 100 and 200 meters and the long jump, and anchoring the 4x100 meter relay.
		The L.A. Olympics were the first privately financed Games ever and made an unheard of profit of $215 million.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0114812.html (305 words)

	1988 Olympics
		For the first time since Munich in 1972, there was no organized boycott of the Summer Olympics.
		Otherwise, Steffi Graf added an Olympic gold medal to her Grand Slam sweep in tennis, Greg Louganis won both men's diving events for the second straight time, and the U.S. men's basketball team had to settle for third place after losing to the gold medal-winning Soviets, 82-76, in the semifinals.
		A symbol of pride and concern; tear gas clouds the Olympics, but the games will probably go on.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114845.html (423 words)

	Games Plan / Northern California has the facilities to host 2012 Summer Olympics but many obstacles remain
		A group of local sports enthusiasts will submit a detailed proposal today to bring the 2012 Summer Olympics to San Francisco, even though any U.S. city appears to be a longshot to host the Games until at least 2020.
		All but four of the 33 Olympic competition venues proposed for 2012 are already built, thus reducing what could be insurmountable construction costs.
		LOS ANGELES: Hosted most successful modern American games in 1984, but Olympic officals said to be reluctant to let the city hog the glory once more.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/12/14/SP172372.DTL (2008 words)

	1984 Olympics
		Daley THOMPSON, 25, training for the 1984 Olympics at the University of California.
		1984 Los Angeles Olympics organizers showed world games could be profitable.
		Flirted: Peter Ueberroth, the former baseball czar and 1984 Summer Olympics organizer, with a run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Alan Cranston (D., Calif.).
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114812.html (425 words)

	1980 Olympics
		Four years after 32 nations walked out of the Montreal Games, twice that many chose to stay away from Moscow–many in support of an American-led boycott to protest the December 1979, Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
		Unable to persuade the IOC to cancel or move the Summer Games, U.S. President Jimmy Carter pressured the USOC to officially withdraw in April.
		The first Games to be held in a Communist country opened in July with 80 nations competing and were dominated by the USSR and East Germany.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0114780.html (272 words)

1984 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)

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