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	Wrestling at the 1896 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the 1896 Summer Olympics, one wrestling event was contested.
		No weight classes existed for the wrestling competition, held in the Panathinaiko Stadium which meant that there would only be one winner among competitors of all sizes.
		The wrestling competition was held on 10 April, except for the continuation of the final match on 11 April.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wrestling_at_the_1896_Summer_Olympics (285 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1896_Summer_Olympics (3571 words)

	Encyclopedia: Wrestling at the 1980 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Wrestling at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by twenty events (all â” men's individual).
		The Judo competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics was the first time that the medal count was not dominated by Japan, as the country joined the boycott of the games because of the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
		Weightlifting at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by ten events (all — mens individual), held between July 20 and July 30 at the Izmailovo Sports Palace, situated alongside the Izmailovo Park (eastern part of Moscow).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Wrestling-at-the-1980-Summer-Olympics (1663 words)

	Wrestling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There is a central wrestling area with a diameter of 7m, which includes a centre spot where the wrestling is started and restarted during a match.
		Wrestling matches last for two periods of three minutes, with a 30 second break, unless concluded earlier by a fall, technical superiority or, more rarely, disqualification.
		A wrestling match that runs its full course is decided on points, with the wrestler who is leading at the end of round two being declared the winner.
	www.olympics.org.uk /sports/summer/wrestling.asp (411 words)

	Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall and was split into two disciplines, Freestyle and Greco-Roman which are further divided into different weight categories.
		Men competed in both disciplines whereas women only took part in the Freestyle event with 12 gold medals being contested in all.
		This was the first Olympics that had women's wrestling as an event.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wrestling_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics (138 words)

	Olympics Wrestling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Olympics: Latest Medals With the introduction of women's wrestling in the Olympics--the only new sport to be added to this summer's games--there is hope among women and wrestling coaches that the sport will receive more attention at both the high school and college Women's Wrestling Reaches Olympics.
		Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall and was split Women's Wrestling Reaches Olympics By Dakota Smith Beginning today, about 60 young female wrestlers from across the country will compete in the Olympic trials in Indianapolis.
		Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall and was split...
	www.wwe-vs-wwf.read-and-go.com /women-wrestling/olympics-wrestling.html (1020 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.
		Anti-fascists planned to host a People's Olympiad in Barcelona as an alternative games to protest the Berlin Olympics but this was cancelled due to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
		For the first time the Olympic Flame was brought to the Olympic Town by a torch relay, with the starting point in Olympia, Greece.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /1936_summer_olympics.htm (641 words)

	Athens Olympics 2004
		Fittingly for an Olympic Games that was, more than most, about beginnings and endings, the honour of carrying the Australian flag and leading the team at the closing ceremony was given to veteran swimmer Petria Thomas.
		As is the fate of many Olympic athletes, the members of the men's hockey team who won perhaps the most thrilling of Australia's 17 gold medals will return to relative obscurity once the celebrations have died down.
		Olympic historian Harry Gordon speaks to Roy Masters about his impression of how the Games will be remembered.
	www.smh.com.au /olympics (464 words)

	Council Members - Danny M. Gable
		Gable became known as the University of Iowa's "all-time winningest wrestling coach," with a career record of 355-21-5, all at Iowa.
		Gable was head coach for the 1980, 1984 and 2000 Olympic wrestling teams and assistant freestyle coach for the 1976 and 1988 Olympics.
		In 1980, he was named to the U.S.A. Wrestling Hall of Fame and in 1985 was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame.
	www.fitness.gov /aboutpcpfs/members/gable/gable.html (143 words)

	Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's Freestyle 72 kg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's Freestyle 72 kg
		The Women's Freestyle 72 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall, August 22 to August 23.
		Categories: Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wrestling_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics_-_Women%2527s_Freestyle_72_kg (126 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.
		Wrestling: Two male players in the Greco-Roman: Mohamed Abdel- Fattah (Bougi) in the 84kg and Karam Gaber in the 96kg.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/egypt2004olympics.htm (1359 words)

	Ohio coaches oppose proposed Olympic cuts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		So when the International Olympic Committee announced that it is considering dropping several sports, including baseball, softball and wrestling, coaches of these sports at Ohio University naturally had something to say.
		Ohio wrestling coach Joel Greenlee said he feels eliminating wrestling from the Summer Olympics would move the games further away from their amateur origins.
		Brazier also said she felt having softball as an Olympic sport is important because of the limited athletic opportunities for women.
	thepost.baker.ohiou.edu /archives3/oct02/100102/s2.html (434 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Wrestling Fan Guide
		The competition format has changed from double-elimination to pools and the IOC ordered wrestling to cut down its weights from 10 to eight.
		The United States has 99 Olympic medals in wrestling, 44 gold, almost twice as many as any other country.
		Points are scored by takedown, worth one point or, if the opponent is brought down on his back, more; exposure, which is turning the opponent's shoulders to the mat; and reversal, when the man underneath completely reverses his position and comes to the top position.
	www.espn.go.com /oly/summer00/wrestling/s/viewers.html (253 words)

	ESPN.com: OLY - IOC recommends baseball, softball to be dropped
		Modern pentathlon and Greco-Roman wrestling also are up for exclusion as the program commission studies ways to modernize the Olympics, which now consist of 28 summer sports and 300 events.
		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.
	espn.go.com /oly/news/2002/0828/1423814.html (827 words)

	azcentral.com sports \| Summer Olympics: Gardner thrown in OT, loses bid for repeat wrestling gold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		One of the biggest stars of the 2000 Summer Games, Gardner was thrown to the mat in overtime Wednesday by Kazakhstan's Georgi Tsurtsumia and lost 4-1 in his Greco-Roman semifinal match.
		Tsurtsumia was wrestling at the junior level when Gardner beat Karelin to win one of the most unanticipated gold medals in U.S. Olympic history.
		The other American to wrestle Wednesday, 2000 bronze medalist Garrett Lowney, was a 3-0 loser to Cuba's Ernesto Pena in a tough opening match in his pool.
	www.azcentral.com /sports/azetc/04olympics/0825gardner-ON.html (791 words)

	Summer Olympics: Wrestling
		By Jibin and A.J. Wrestling was one of the sports in the first ancient Olympic games in 776 B.C. It was also part of the first modern Olympic games in 1896.
		Wrestlers wear special wrestling outfits in either red or blue that fit their bodies closely.
		In the Olympics there is men's Greco-Roman wrestling and men's freestyle, and women's freestyle wrestling.
	www.pocanticohills.org /olympics/wrestling.htm (119 words)

	USATODAY.com - Bono makes U.S. wrestling team in return to Iowa State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Olympic silver medalist Sara McMann (138¾) also earned a spot on the team, along with Jenny Wong (105½), Stephanie Murata (112), Marci Van Dusen (121), Sally Roberts (130) and Iris Smith (158½).
		McMann, who had to go through the challenge tournament, wrestled her way to a spot on the team after a trying period last fall.
		Shortly after winning her Olympic medal, she was charged with careless driving causing a death after a car crash that killed her boyfriend, former Arizona State wrestler Steven Blackford.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/2005-06-19-wrestling-trials_x.htm (986 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 (1136 words)

	World History :: Encyclopedia Index -- Wr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's Freestyle 48 kg
		Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's Freestyle 55 kg
		Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's Freestyle 63 kg
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/Wr.htm (278 words)

	azcentral.com sports \| Summer Olympics: Only one U.S. woman in wrestling finals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Miranda, who wrestled her way into Stanford University's men's lineup as a senior, was trying to put Merleni in a headlock when Merleni reversed the hold and took her to the back for a 4-0 lead in less than 30 seconds.
		Miranda, pushing hard to come back, was attempting to work a tilt early in the second period when the faster and technically smoother Merleni again reversed her and turned her for a three-point, making it 9-0.
		Miranda was to wrestle Angelique Berthenet of France later Monday for the bronze; Berthenet lost 12-1 to Chiharu Icho.
	www.azcentral.com /sports/azetc/04olympics/0823OlyWmnWrestling23-ON.html (775 words)

	Olympic Wrestling Events, Pictures, News, Bios
		If your idea of wrestling was formed by the costumed performers so popular today, 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 (346 words)

	- TrendUK - July - British CouncilThe Olympics: from archery to wrestling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896 and 108 years later they are returning.
		In the Sydney Olympic Games Triathlon and taekwondo became events for the first time and women were allowed to enter the wrestling.
		In the 1960 Rome Olympics 400 Athletes took part, raising 3,843 athletes from 112 different countries in 2000 competing in sports and events which include swimming, judo, sailing and basketball.
	www.britishcouncil.org /arabic-trenduk-july-the-olympics-from-archery-to-wrestling.htm (253 words)

	azcentral.com sports \| Summer Olympics: Golden chance for women's wrestling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The 25-year-old wrestled on the Stanford men's team at 125 pounds as a senior and is entering Yale Law School after the Olympics.
		O'Donnell, 22, was a big hit at the Olympic trials because she grew up in Homer, Alaska, as the daughter of a mime.
		The Ahwatukee woman's childhood victories over Zeke Jones, a 1992 Olympic silver medalist and current U.S. men's freestyle coach, are legendary, but the media portrayed Saunders as an oddity, a pioneer or a troublemaker rather than taking her seriously as an athlete.
	www.azcentral.com /sports/azetc/04olympics/0724olysaunders0724.html (1119 words)

	NewsNet5.com - Olympics 2004 - Egypt Wins First Gold Medal Since 1948
		Karam Ibrahim won the gold medal in the men's 96kg class of Greco-Roman wrestling, as he beat Ramaz Nozadze of Georgia in the final.
		It was the first Olympic wrestling medal for Egypt since 1960 and the first gold in wrestling since 1928.
		The flame that will burn at the Athens Games made an international trek this summer amid the ruins of the ancient sanctuary where the Olympics were born.
	www.newsnet5.com /olympics2004/3683990/detail.html (351 words)

	USATODAY.com - Eyeing Athens from the wrestling mat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		U.S. wrestlers hoping to compete in the 2004 Olympics will hold a convention of sorts this weekend in Las Vegas, and the stakes are high.
		The U.S. Nationals, the first phase of the Olympic trials, are set for Friday and Saturday at the Las Vegas Convention Center in men's and women's freestyle and men's Greco-Roman.
		Miranda started wrestling when she joined the boys team as an eighth-grader in Saratoga, Calif. She became a high school team captain.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/2004-04-09-wrestling-las-vegas_x.htm (540 words)

	Basketball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The ball is pressurised synthetic or leather, weighing a maximum of 650g and with a circumference of 78cm.
		At the Olympic Games Basketball is played under the International Basketball Federation rules.
		Basketball was a demonstration sport at the Olympic Games in 1904, before first appearing as an Olympic sport in the 1936 Games in Berlin.
	www.olympics.org.uk /sports/summer/basketball.asp (345 words)

	New Olympic Sports \| 2004 Summer Olympics Athens \| Sychronize Swimming \| Skateboarding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		All of these are activities which the people who organize the Olympics consider to be "sports", and are thinking about adding as new events to future Olympic competitions.
		The same goes for synchronized swimming, which you'll be seeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
		Activities that clearly aren't sports have been added to Olympic competition because there are artsy-fartsy old bags organizing the Olympics, rather than athletes.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p1326.htm (271 words)

	Pair of Ohio State Head Coaches to Broadcast Summer Olympics for NBC :: Hellickson to do play-by-play for wrestling, ...
		Hellickson previously covered wrestling at the 1984, '88, '92, '96 and 2000 Olympic games in the role of analyst at the 1984 Los Angeles games and as play-by-play from 1988 in Seoul, Korea through 2000 in Sydney, Australia.
		Hellickson was an Olympic silver medallist at the 1976 games in Montreal, Quebec and a member of the 1980 U.S. team that boycotted the Olympics in Moscow.
		A complete Olympic broadcast schedule for NBC and conjoining networks is available at www.nbcolympics.com/tvlistings/index.html?l=knsd.
	www.collegesports.com /sports/m-wrestl/stories/061404aaa.html (411 words)

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