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	Encyclopedia: 1936 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Canadian Olympic Team was the only olympic team from a non-fascist country to salute Hitler (in a gesture of friendship) while marching by during opening ceremonies.
		The 1900 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the II Olympiad, were held in 1900 in Paris, France.
		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.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1936-Summer-Olympics (3410 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Athens was chosen as the host city in 1997, after surprisingly losing the bid to organize the 1996 Summer Olympics, the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the modern Olympic Games.
		Since the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France it has been the tradition to have a mascot for the games and this year the official mascots are sister and brother, Athena and Phevos, named after the goddess of wisdom, strategy and war and the god of light and music, respectively.
		An emotional high point of the parade was the entrance of the delegation from Afghanistan which had been absent from the Olympics, and had female competitors for the first time.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/2/20/2004_summer_olympics.html (1174 words)

	1956 Summer Olympics - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Because Melbourne is situated in the southern hemisphere, the Olympics were held later in the year than those held in the northern hemisphere.
		Inspired by Australian teenager John Wing, an Olympic tradition begins when athletes of different nations are allowed to parade together at the closing ceremony, instead of with their national teams, as a symbol of world unity...
		The 1906 Olympic were organised by the IOC, but are currently not officially recognised by the IOC.
	open-encyclopedia.com /1956_Summer_Olympics (405 words)

	2000 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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 the Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/2000_Summer_Olympics (1690 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2004_Summer_Olympics (1902 words)

	1976 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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.
		The Olympic Flame was "electronically" transmitted from Athens to Ottawa, by means of an electronic pulse derived from the actual burning flame.
		This was seen as a major threat to the future of the Olympic Games, and was not until the financially successful 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles that cities began to line up to be hosts again.
	sterlingheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1976_Summer_Olympics (1057 words)

	1904 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement, gave in.
		Considered the lesser of two evils by De Coubertin, St. Louis did repeat 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".
	lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1904_Summer_Olympics (775 words)

	1984 Summer Olympics - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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.
	open-encyclopedia.com /1984_Summer_Olympics (367 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 Britain and Viggo Jensen of Denmark taking a first and a second place each in the single-hand and double-hand contests.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/1/18/1896_summer_olympics.html (923 words)

	1980 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The yachting events were held in Tallinn; preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament were held, besides Moscow, at the stadiums of Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk.
		Although approximately a half of the countries, which boycotted 1976 Summer Olympics, participated in these ones, the Games were disrupted by another, even larger, boycott led by the United States in a protest to the 1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
		In response to the U.S.-boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, NBC, which was slated to provide coverage of the games, canceled its coverage, but the network did air highlights and recaps of the games on a regular basis.
	sterlingheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1980_Summer_Olympics (427 words)

	1996 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		More seriously, the Centennial Olympic Park bombing of July 27, 1996 killed spectator Alice Hawthorne and wounded 111 others, and elicited the death of by heart attack.
		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.
	lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1996_Summer_Olympics (744 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics. Who is 1936 Summer Olympics? What is 1936 Summer Olympics? Where is 1936 Summer Olympics? ...
		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.
		I believe my grandfather was one of the U.S. boxing or track and field coaches at the 1936 Olympics but I cannot find a site that gives information on coaches.
		I know that he was also a boxing or track and field coach at perhaps the 1928 Olympics.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/1936_Summer_Olympics (468 words)

	1936 summer olympics in berlin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		1936 Summer Olympics: Information From Answers.com 1936 Summer Olympics The Games of the XI Olympiad were held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany.
		1936 Summer Olympics - definition of 1936 Summer Olympics in - The Games of the XI Olympiad were held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany.
		The Nazi Olympics - On May 13, 1931, the International Olympic Committee, headed by Count Henri Baillet-Latour of Belgium, awarded the 1936 Summer Olympics to Berlin.
	www.olympic-headquarters.net /1936-summer-olympics-in-berlin.htm (895 words)

	1964 Summer Olympics
		Tokyo had already been awarded with the organisation of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honour had been passed to Helsinki because of Japan's involvement in China.
		The 1940 Olympics were eventually cancelled because of the outbreak of World War II.
		Yoshinori Sakai[?], who lit the Olympic Flame, was born in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day the atomic bomb exploded there.
	www.fastload.org /19/1964_Summer_Olympics.html (251 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The tale of Hitler snubbing Owens at the ensuing medal ceremony is, however, apocryphal.
		Basketball : This was the year that basketball became a recognized Olympic sport.
		Although the medal count for Germany is official, it would not be considered legitimate by today's standards since the German atheletes would have been disqualified because of drug use.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /1936_summer_olympics.htm (641 words)

	1928 Summer Olympics
		For the first time, the Olympic Flame was lit during the Olympics.
		The torch relay was however not started until the 1936 Summer Olympics.
		For the first time, the parade of nations started with Greece, which holds the origins of the Olympics, and ended with the host country, a tradition still continued until this day.
	www.fastload.org /19/1928_Summer_Olympics.html (254 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)

	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 (1145 words)

	1960 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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)

	1936 summer olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The current comeback of the Olympic games is due in a large measure to the efforts of Pierre, baron de Coubertin, of France.
		As a visible concentration of world energies, the Olympics have been prey to many factors that thwarted their ideals of world cooperation and athletic superiority.
		The International Olympic Committee (IOC), which sets and enforces Olympic policy, has struggled with the licensing and commercialization of the games, the need to schedule events to accommodate American television networks (whose broadcasting fees help underwrite the games), and the monitoring of entrants who seek illegal competitive advantages, often through the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
	www.olympic-headquarters.net /1936-summer-olympics.htm (861 words)

	1956 Summer Olympics. Who is 1956 Summer Olympics? What is 1956 Summer Olympics? Where is 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.
		A third boycott came from the People's Republic of China, which protested against presence of Taiwan (under the name Formosa).
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/jsp/db/facts.jsp?title=1956+Summer+Olympics (282 words)

	The New York Times: 2000 Summer Olympics
		t the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Fanny Koen did not win a medal in track and field, but she did meet Jesse Owens, get his autograph and even have a drink with him.
		Not only did she compete, but she became the only female track and field athlete ever to win four gold medals in one Olympics, taking the 100-meter dash, the 200, the 80-meter hurdles and anchoring the 4x100-meter relay.
		She likely would have won the long jump, too, given that she had the world record, but she skipped the event because it conflicted with a preliminary round of the 200 meters.
	www.nytimes.com /events/olympics/sydney2000/2000_oly_moment_8.html (277 words)

	Resources for Summer Olympics 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Summer Olympic Games are held in Athens, Greece, from 13-29 August, 2004.
		Extensive, with detailed sections on each Summer Olympics, event-by-event, athletes with winter and summer medals, all-time leading medal winners, all-time leading USA medalists, all-time medal standings 1924-2000.
		News, rosters, schedules and results, a summer Olympics history, facts and figures, about Athens, medal tracker, photos, video, quizzes, polls, etc.
	www.waterborolibrary.org /olympics.htm (439 words)

	The 1936 Olympic Games in Germany
		By awarding the XI 1936 Olympic games to Berlin, one can say that this was the IOC's way of showing the world that Germany was once again a member of good standing in the global community of nations.
		The 1936 Olympic games would be Hitler's opportunity to showcase his vision of a new and powerful Germany to everyone.
		The main section of the Olympic village was in the shape of a downward pointing horseshoe or large semi-circle.
	www.feldgrau.com /1936olymp.html (5497 words)

	Summer Olympics: Canoeing
		In Olympic canoeing there are two kinds of races.
		That is when the water is calm and the race is to see who finishes first.
		Men's canoeing was added to the Olympic competition in 1936 and women's in 1948.
	www2.lhric.org /POCANTICO/olympics/canoeing.htm (169 words)

	Fanbay.net - Athens 2004 Summer Olympics - Links, News, Travel info
		Gymnastics, Cycling, Shooting, Wrestling, and Canoe/Kayak are the next biggest sports with about 50 medals awarded from competitions in each of these sports.
		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)

	Olympic Games (Summer Olympics)
		The Olympic Games take place every four years and are the world's most important sporting competition.
		Months before the Olympics actually take place, the Olympic Flame is lit in Olympia and relayed to the host city where, at the opening ceremony, the last runner lights the Olympic fire.
		The Olympic Games did not take place in 1916 due to World War I and in 1940 and 1944 due to World War II.
	www.ego4u.com /en/read-on/animals/olympic/summer (445 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - summer olympics
		The 1896 Games included events in cycling, fencing, gymnastics, target shooting, swimming, tennis, track and field, weightlifting, and wrestling....
		history and overview, Summer Olympic Medal Sports, 1896, 1900, 1904, 1906, 1908, 1912, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964,...
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	1952 Summer Olympics - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Helsinki had been earlier given the 1940 Summer Olympics but they were canceled due to World War II.
		To the enjoyment of the Finnish crowd, the Olympic Flame was lit by two heroes, runners Paavo Nurmi and Hannes Kolehmainen.
		For the first time in history, a team from the USSR participated in the Olympics.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/1952_Summer_Olympics (330 words)

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