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	1988 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were held in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea.
		After boycotts of the Olympics in 1976, 1980 and 1984, the Seoul Games were again boycotted, led by North Korea and followed by Cuba; the basis of the boycott was South Korea's refusal to co-host the Olympics with North Korea, which rejected all compromise.
		Tennis returns to the Olympics after a 64-year absence, and Steffi Graf adds to her four Grand Slam victories in the year by also winning the Olympic title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1988_Summer_Olympics (683 words)

	Archery at the 1988 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Four events were contested in archery at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
		The format for the individual competition was altered for the first time since the 1972 Summer Olympics.
		In Seoul, instead of all archers using the double FITA round to determine rankings, a sort of elimination plan was introduced.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Archery_at_the_1988_Summer_Olympics (1018 words)

	1988 Summer Olympics
		South Korea's government became a democracy under the pressure of organising the Olympics.
		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.
		Two Bulgarian weightlifters are stripped of their gold medals after testing positive for doping.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1988_summer_olympics.shtml (329 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics
		The 1896 Summer Olympics, formally called the Games of the I Olympiad, were the first modern Summer Olympic Games 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.
		However, the 1900 Summer Olympics were already planned for Paris and, barring the so-called Intercalated Games of 1906, the Olympics did not return to Greece until the 2004 Summer Olympics.
		The true origin of the modern Olympics was acknowledged by De Coubertin as being in Much Wenlock, a rural market town in the English county of Shropshire.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/NewSport/Olympia1896.html (3549 words)

	Wikipedia: 1948 Summer Olympics
		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.
		With World War II in recent memory, Germany and Japan were not invited for the Games, although Italy was.
		For the first time, Olympic diplomas were awarded to the 6th highest placed athletes.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/1/19/1948_summer_olympics.html (163 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		These were the first celebration of Olympic Games since the recreation of the ancient Olympics with the founding of the International Olympic Committee in 1894.
		This is remarkable as the Olympics not for a long time allow professional to compete with the sole exception of The final of the amateur foil event a French battle won by Eugène-Henri Gravelotte.
		The weightlifting contests are also conducted in Olympic stadium with Launceston Elliot of Britain and Viggo Jensen of Denmark taking a first and a second each in the single-hand and double-hand contests.
	www.freeglossary.com /1896_Summer_Olympics (968 words)

	1976 Summer Olympics Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/1/19/1976_summer_olympics.html (353 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.y2z.org /19/1984_Summer_Olympics.html (411 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1896 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		These were the first celebration of the Olympic Games since the recreation of the ancient Greek Olympics with the founding of the International Olympic Committee in 1894.
		This is remarkable, as the Olympics did not, for a long time, allow professional athletes to compete, with the sole exception of fencing.
		The fight between the two master fencers on foil is won by Leonidas Pyrgos, which thereby becomes the first Greek Olympic Champion of the modern era.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1896_Summer_Olympics (946 words)

	The Summer Olympics, an Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It is still disputed which events exactly were Olympic, since few or maybe even none of the events were advertised as such at the time.
		In contrast with Paris 1900, the word Olympic was abused for many contests, such as those for school boys or for Irish-Americans.
		Of the six Olympic games between 1900 and 1920, there were six different distances for the marathon.
	www.juiceenewsdaily.com /0605/sports/olympics.html (2073 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)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Chief: Five athletes failed tests in 1988
		He said that in 1988, five U.S. athletes tested positive before the Seoul Olympics "and were enlisted at the games.
		The U.S. Olympic Committee said the cases had been publicized 12 years ago and the athletes involved were cleared because they used the drug, ephedrine, accidentally.
		Pre-games samples in 1988 found eight track athletes with traces of Mahuang, a trade name for ephedrine, contained in a nutritional supplement called Super Charge, according to USOC spokesman Mike Moran.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/news/2000/0924/775264.html (614 words)

	SignOn San Diego Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics -- Future of weightlifting uncertain following new drug scandals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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)

	1896 Summer Olympics
		The first competitions to be held at the modern Olympic Games are the heats of the 100 m track and field event.
		In the stadium, the Americans continue their dominance in athletics, winning the long jump (through Ellery Clark), the shot put (Garrett, winning his second title) and the 400 m (Tom Burke).
		The weightlifting contests are also conducted in the Olympic stadium, with Launceston Elliot of Great Britain and Viggo Jensen of Denmark taking a first and a second place each in the single-hand and double-hand contests.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/18/1896_summer_olympics.shtml (886 words)

	ipedia.com: 1932 Summer Olympics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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.ipedia.com /1932_summer_olympics.html (248 words)

	ipedia.com: 2000 Summer Olympics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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.ipedia.com /2000_summer_olympics.html (836 words)

	Athens 2004 Summer Olympics : Modern Olympics, Paralympci Games
		The Olympic torch is first lit in Ancient Olympia and then passed on to the stadium of the city hosting the Opening Ceremony of the Games.
		The Modern Olympics were seen as an instrument to promote understanding and friendship among nations and uphold the true spirit of sportsmanship.
		An Olympic sport is one that should be widely practiced by men in at least 75 countries on 4 continents and by women in at least 40 countries on 3 continents.
	www.clearleadinc.com /site/sports.html (1301 words)

	CANOE -- SLAM! 2004 Games News: 2004 SUMMER OLYMPICS NOTE
		Tennis, which made its Olympic debut in 1896 with the men's singles and doubles competitions, was dropped in 1924, a victim of a dispute between amateurs and professionals.
		It was brought back as a demonstration sport in 1968 and 1984 before being re-admitted in 1988 in Seoul, Korea.
		The singles draw for both men's and women's will be comprised of 64 players each, with no more than three players from any one country competing in each draw.
	slam.canoe.ca /StatsOLY/BC-OLY-LGNS-TENNISDESC-R.html (158 words)

	St. Petersburg Times Online: Summer Olympics Athens 2004 viewers guide
		Laura Wilkinson was one of the surprises of the Sydney Olympics, roaring from eighth place to first in the finals of the 10-meter platform and snatching gold from the favored Li Na of China - all while diving with a heavily wrapped broken foot.
		There are 12 Olympic sprint events (nine for men, three for women) and four in slalom (three men, one women).
		To train for Olympic water polo, Azevedo, perhaps the best player in the world, and his American teammates spend as much as six hours a day in the water and another couple in the training room.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/webspecials04/olympicstab/index.shtml (1911 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics
		Athens was chosen as the host city during the 106th IOC Session held in Lausanne in 05 September 1997, after surprisingly losing the bid to organize the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta nearly seven years before, on 18 September 1990, during the 96th IOC Session in Tokyo.
		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 Mayor of Athens, Dora Bakoyianni, passed the Olympic Flag to the Mayor of Beijing, Wang Qishan.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/NewSport/Olympia2004.html (1798 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.
		1988 Olympics - A record 1,750 athletes from 57 nations came to western Canada for the first winter Olympics north...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0114845.html (384 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)

	Japanese American Summer Olympians
		In a year filled with international conflict and unrest, the 2004 Summer Olympics seem more important than ever as a reminder of the ancient ideals of competition, culture, education, and peace that began the Olympic games as early as 776 BC.
		The return of the games to Athens, Greece-the original site of the Olympics-and the customary lighting of the torch are reminders of the true spirit of the event where athletes from many countries honor the Olympic Truce and compete, not for personal gain, but to represent the best that their country has to offer.
		Tommy Kono, a Japanese American weightlifter who trained while incarcerated in the Tule Lake Relocation Center, made his mark in Olympic history, winning a gold medal and setting a world record in the Olympic games of 1952 and 1956.
	www.janmstore.com /summerolympics.html (848 words)

	1996: THE YEAR IN REVIEW: Summer Olympics: Ukraine debuts (12/29/96)
		These are just some of the names that gave Ukraine prominence in the field of sports in 1996 and made its debut as a free nation at the XXVI Summer Olympics, held in Atlanta in July, an unqualified success.
		In May, the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine (NOC-Ukraine) was informed that the budget crisis of the government would limit the size of the team and the money it would receive.
		Funding for the Ukrainian Olympic movement was provided not only by the government but by Ukrainian organizations in Canada and the U.S. After the completion of the Games, on August 15 the Ukrainian National Association received a letter of gratitude from Mr.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1996/529611.shtml (2164 words)

	2000 Olympics: Witty adds Summer Games to her resume
		But she decided because she is still at the peak of her speedskating career and the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics were coming up so fast, she couldn't cycle competitively anymore.
		She finished second in the time trial at the Olympic trials, and she finished sixth in a World Cup event in Moscow that included what U.S. sprint Coach Des Dickie called some of the world's better women time-trialers.
		Connie Paraskvein-Young was a member of the 1980 and 1984 speedskating Olympic teams and the 1988, 1992 and 1996 cycling teams.
	www.post-gazette.com /olympics/20000709witty8.asp (840 words)

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