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	wrestling - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about wrestling (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Freestyle lightweight
		Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Freestyle middleweight
		Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Greco-Roman lightweight
	encyclopedia.farlex.com.cob-web.org:8888 /wrestling (518 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)

	1904 Summer Olympics
		The Games of the III Olympiad were held in 1904 in St.
		The Olympic competitions, spread out over four and a half months, were lost in the chaos of a World?s Fair.
		Of the 94 events generally considered to have been part of the Olympic program, only 42 included athletes who were not from the United States.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/19/1904_Summer_Olympics.html (170 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		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 main Olympic Stadium, the designated facility for the opening and closing ceremonies, was completed only two months before the games opened, with the sliding over of a futuristic glass roof designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
		The Mayor of Athens, Dora Bakoyianni, passed the Olympic Flag to the Mayor of Beijing, Wang Qishan.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/2/0/0/2004_Summer_Olympics_330c.html (2001 words)

	1904 Summer Olympics (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The 1904 Summer Olympics, officially known as the '''Games of the III Olympiad''', were held in St.
		Considered the lesser of two evils by De Coubertin, St. Louis repeated the mistakes made at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.
		The Olympic events were again mixed with other sporting events, but where Paris hardly ever mentioned the Olympics, Sullivan called all his sports events "Olympic".
	www.seattleluxury.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/entry/1904_Summer_Olympics (878 words)

	Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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)

	1904 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louis, Missouri in the United States from July 1, 1904 to November 23, 1904.
		Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement, gave in.
		From all such events, the IOC is taken to have declared 94 events Olympic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1904_Summer_Olympics (1165 words)

	file_nav_name Encyclopedia Index (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics as usual was a part of the Swimming Sport, other two parts were Water Polo and...
		Wrestling at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by twenty events (all â” men's individual).
		At the 2004 Summer Olympics Brazil was represented by the Brazilian Olympic Committee (abbreviated COB).
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com.cob-web.org:8888 /topics/athlete.html (2688 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1906 Athens
		The modern Olympic founder, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, figured that the best medicine for the flagging Olympics would be to return them to their roots in Athens.
		The International Olympic Committee was cool to the idea, but de Coubertin and the IOC reached a compromise: the 1906 Games would not be deemed an official Olympics.
		Their legacy is that the Olympic movement regained its footing and sense of purpose, and the world actually looked forward to the next official Olympics of 1908 with some excitement.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1906.html (558 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics
		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 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)

	1976 Summer Olympics: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		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 lead a boycott of 22 African nations as the IOC refused not to 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.encyclopedian.com /19/1976-Summer-Olympics.html (379 words)

	wrestling - Columbia Encyclopedia article about wrestling (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Wrestling was also included in the pentathlon pentathlon (pĕntăth`lən), composite athletic event.
		Wrestling tournaments were held in medieval Europe, and the sport has remained popular throughout history.
		Professional wrestling in the United States, which is a form of entertainment rather than a sport, has enjoyed several periods of popularity; it relies on colorful showmanship and media exposure.
	columbia.thefreedictionary.com.cob-web.org:8888 /wrestling (696 words)

	Olympic Events
		Taekwondo was an Olympic demonstration sport at both the 1988 Games in Seoul and the 1992 Games in Barcelona, and it made its debut as an official Olympic sport at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
		The Olympic Games competition schedule is the classic distance triathlon, which is made up of a 1,500m swimming event, a 40 km cycling event, and a 10 km running event.
		The sport of wrestling dates all the way back to ancient times, where there were tales of oiled bodies fighting in the sand in the Ancient Olympics.
	www.ict.mic.ul.ie /websites/2002/Eilis_Faherty/events.htm (1364 words)

	OLYMPICS: 100 Years Of Change
		Perhaps the most blatant of Olympic hypocrisies upheld over the past 100 years was the nonnegotiable rule that each athlete had to swear that he was an amateur before he could compete.
		The first women's athletics event in Olympic history, the discus throw, was won by the brawny Pole Halina Konopacka, who shattered her own world record by 45 cm and beat the runner-up by 2.53 m.
		During the fiercest decades of the cold war, Olympic amateurism was almost as volatile an issue in the East-West conflict as political ideology.
	www.time.com /time/international/1996/960527/olympics.history.html (6130 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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.tvwiki.tv /wiki/1896_Summer_Olympics (3849 words)

	Olympics - Magazine - Central - British Council - LearnEnglish
		In today’s Olympics, one athlete takes an oath on behalf of all the competitors, although of course it is a little different to the ancient Greek oath.
		The original “winner” of the 1904 Olympic marathon, Fred Lorz, was disqualified after it was revealed that he had travelled half the distance in a car.
		The “Zappian Olympics”, as they became known after wealthy organiser Evangelos Zappas, were the bridge between the ancient and modern Olympics, and took place in Greece between 1859 and 1875.
	www.britishcouncil.org /learnenglish-central-magazine-olympics-02.htm (967 words)

	Learn more about 1936 Summer Olympics in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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.
		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.onlineencyclopedia.org /1/19/1936_summer_olympics.html (481 words)

	Olympic Wrestling Events, Pictures, News, Bios
		If your idea of wrestling was formed by the WWE, be prepared for a very different spectator experience from Olympic wrestling.
		Olympic wrestlers are disciplined athlethes, with no props, who compete in several weight classes to see who has mastered the skills it takes to win the Gold...
		One exciting news headline is that the NBC network will be covering all eight days of wrestling at the Olympics for US fans and anyone else who has access to US TV feeds.
	www.chiff.com /olympics/olympics-wrestling.htm (305 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").
		Many other sports were added, including other races, wrestling, boxing, pentathlon (five events, including the long jump, javelin throw, discus throw, foot race, and wrestling), and equestrian events (events with horses and people, like chariot races and horse races) The Olympic games were banned by the Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II in the year AD 394.
		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 (1311 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)

	1904 Summer Olympics at AllExperts (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The 1904 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the III Olympiad, were held in St.
		Considered the lesser of two evils by De Coubertin, St. Louis did repeat the mistakes made at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.
		Various indigenous men from around the world, who were at the World's Fair as part of the exhibits, competed in various events more for anthropoligist to see how they stacked up to the white man than for the sake of sport.
	experts.about.com.cob-web.org:8888 /e/0/1904_Summer_Olympics.htm (836 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The 1904 St. Louis Olympics organizers repeated all of the mistakes of 1900.
		Olympic Oath by: The first athletes' oath was sworn at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium.
		Four new sports were included in the Olympic Games at the 1901 IOC Session in Paris: boxing, dumbbells, freestyle wrestling and decathlon.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1904 (353 words)

	1924 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The 1924 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VIII Olympiad, were held in 1924 in Paris, France.
		The marathon distance was fixed at 42.195 km, from the distance run at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.
		Ireland was given formal recognition as an independent nation in the Olympic Movement in Paris in 1924 and it was at these games that Ireland made its first appearance in an Olympic Games as an independent nation.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1924_Summer_Olympics (429 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
		Sailing first became an Olympic sport in Paris in 1900, where time handicaps were used to referee the race.
		Olympic racing is now conducted with boats categorised into one-design classes based on similar weights and dimensions.
		Olympic history abounds with tales of athletes who overcame crippling adversity to win gold medals, but Karoly Takacs' comeback may be the best.
	library.thinkquest.org /CR0214546/solympics.html (1844 words)

	The History of the Olympic Games
		They were held in the same year as the summer Olympics until 1994, when they began to be held on separate 4-year cycles that were staggered by two years.
		Small, local festivals were being called “Olympics” as early as the 17th century in places like England and France, but the discovery of the ruins of Olympia in the 19th century sparked interest in the games once again on an international scale.
		The next two games in 1900 in Paris and 1904 in St. Louis were not as successful, however, due largely to the fact that they were included in the celebration of the World’s Fair in the same year as well as the lack of large-scale international representation.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~leannajf/olympics.html (1072 words)

	Wrestling Canada Lutte \| CAWA News Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The IOC program commission made the recommendations in a report that was to be delivered Wednesday to the IOC executive board, according to Olympic officials familiar with the document.
		Golf, which was in the Olympics in 1900 and 1904, was proposed for inclusion in the Atlanta Games but was blocked because of controversy over the membership policy of the Augusta National club, which has no women members.
		Elimination from the Olympic program can represent a death blow for smaller sports, which rely on millions of dollars in revenues from Olympic television and marketing revenues for their existence.
	www.wrestling.ca /news/article.php?id=96 (623 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Americans still humble about medal hopes
		As in previous Olympics, the U.S. cyclists watched a steady parade of Europeans march to the podium in Sydney.
		Armstrong, riding in his third Olympics, finally got the medal that had eluded him.
		Perhaps U.S. Cycling will have Witty again after she competes in the Salt Lake Olympics, and team leaders are optimistic about many younger riders.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/news/2000/1001/796013.html (678 words)

	1932 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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.
		An Olympic Village was built for the first time, occupied by the male athletes.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1932_Summer_Olympics (387 words)

	Olympic Preview: Wrestling
		Greco-Roman style wrestling is considered the world's oldest competitive sport and was the focus of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896.
		The main objective in wrestling is to pin your opponent.
		The 2004 Olympics will introduce women's freestyle wrestling to the games with 48 women competing in four weight classes.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/ol-wrestling.html (279 words)

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