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Olympic Games History:     more books (100)

The Olympics: A History of the Games by William Oscar Johnson, 1992-05 The 1984 Olympics Handbook: A Guide to the Los Angeles Olympics and a History of the Games -- First 1st Edition by Norman Giller, 1983-01-01 The Olympics_A History of the Games Downside the history of the Olympic Games in scandals, provocations, judicial errors and curiosities. / Oborotnaya storona medali (Istoriya Olimpiyskikh igr v skandalakh, provokatsiyakh, sudeyskikh oshibkakh i kurezakh) by Valeriy Shteynbakh, 2008 History of the Olympic Games (Olympic Games 2008) by Melanie Guile, 2008-01-01 History of Olympic games,: Ancient and modern, by Hugh Harlan, 1932 History of Olympic games: Ancient and modern, together with Olympic and world records by Hugh Harlan, 1931 Olympics:A History of the Games by WilliamOscarJohnson, 1992 THE OLYMPICS: A History of the Games by William Oscar Johnson, 1996 The Olympics: A History of the Games AN APPROVED HISTORY OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES by Bill Henry & Patricia Henry Yeomans, 1984 The 1984 Olympics Handbook: a Guide to the Los Angeles olympics and a History of the Games. A Brief History of the Olympic Games.(Book review): An article from: The Historian by Nigel B. Crowther, 2005-12-22 Historia de los juegos olimpicos/ History of the Olympic Games (Spanish Edition) by Nestor Falcciani, 2009-03-30

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41. Stadio.gr
    English language news coverage, history of the olympic games, Greek, and other track and field athletes.  
    http://www.stadio.gr/indexuk.asp

42. Clickhere.gr - Travel To The Olympic Games - History
    Clickhere presents the history of the olympic games from Ancient timesto present! begin your journey in the history of the olympic games!  
    http://www.clickhere.gr/olympics/olympic_history_en.html

43. Sport Seen - Results & Statistics
    Answers to sports questions and trivia. Includes cricket statistics, sports history, olympic games, and ratings and rankings.  
    http://www.sport-seen.com/

44. Competition Results / Resultados De Competiciones
    Men's and women's history and results from major competitions such as the olympic games, world championships, European cups, and grand slams.  
    http://teleline.terra.es/personal/jlpenag/
    
    Extractions: COMPETITION RESULTS HISTORIALES NEW!! You can now buy the Sportstatistics CD of the year 2003. The CD contains the results of the main competitions in 2003, of ALL sports (up to 130!!), from Aerobic to Wushu!! ¡¡NUEVO!! Ya puedes comprar el nuevo CD Anuario 2003, con toda la información de lo que ha sido el año en las grandes competiciones de TODOS los deportes (¡¡¡130 en total!!!). Contact our SCHEDULE section to follow current competitions and their official sites Mira en el CALENDARIO las competiciones actuales con enlaces directos a las páginas oficiales. This web page brings together the results of the major competitions of the most popular sports in the world. If you want to know how many Olympic medals belong to Carl Lewis; what team won the NBA in 1983; how many times had Argentina been the soccer World Cup champion or even what tennis player has most Wimbledon titles, you can find it all now on the same page. I have added statistics at the end of the pages, and also the rosters of the medal winning countries in all the Olympic Games since (at least) Montreal 1976. This is, above all, a reference page, so there are no photographs, for I don´t have much room (nor means). I will add more competitions and sports in the future, so if you have any useful information or you want to express your opinion about the page, just e-mail me:

45. HEC Bylaws
    What is the history and Meaning of the olympic games? There is absolute serenityand innocence. 12. The history of the olympic games is long and consistent.  
    http://www.greece.org/olympics/why.html
    
    Extractions: Foreword Why are the Olympic Games so important? Why will people from all around the world come in the summer of 1996 to Atlanta to either watch or compete in them? Why is it that billions of people around the world will sit in front of their television sets to watch these games? To answer these questions we need to go back in history to find the meaning of the Olympic Games. 1. The Ancient Games. In ancient Greece, sports and competition were very important. The Greeks believed that physical exercise and mental training were connected to each other. The Greek word for education meant the development of the entire human being and could not be divided into physical and mental education, because the mind cannot exist without the body, and the body has no meaning without the mind. Their rule of thumb was, "Educate children with gymnastics and music." Religion encouraged this kind of education, and great athletic and musical contests were held in holy places, under the protection of the gods, and in front of thousands of spectators from all over Greece. The contests were called Games, and the most famous were held at the Sanctuary of Olympia in southwestern Greece. The Olympian or Olympic Games started in 776 BC, and were held every four years in honor of Zeus, the king of the mythical Greek gods. They were at their peak in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, but they were suppressed in 394 AD by the Roman emperor Theodosius I.

46. Brief History Of The Olympic Games
    Brief history of the olympic games. Ancient olympic games Chronologyof athletic events added to the olympic games Myths and the  
    http://www.nostos.com/olympics/
    
    Extractions: Brief History of the Olympic Games Ancient Olympic Games The Olympic Games begun at Olympia in Greece in 776 BC. The Greek calendar was based on the Olympiad, the four-year period between games. The games were staged in the wooded valley of Olympia in Elis. Here the Greeks erected statues and built temples in a grove dedicated to Zeus, supreme among the gods. The greatest shrine was an ivory and gold statue of Zeus. Created by the sculptor Phidias, it was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Scholars have speculated that the games in 776 BC were not the first games, but rather the first games held after they were organized into festivals held every four years as a result of a peace agreement between the city-states of Elis and Pisa. The Eleans traced the founding of the Olympic games to their King Iphitos, who was told by the Delphi Oracle to plant the olive tree from which the victors' wreaths were made. According to Hippias of Elis, who compiled a list of Olympic victors c.400 BC, at first the only Olympic event was a 200-yard dash, called a stadium. This was the only event until 724 BC, when a two-stadia race was added. Two years later the 24-stadia event began, and in 708 the pentathlon was added and wrestling became part of the games. This pentathlon, a five-event match consisted of running, wrestling, leaping, throwing the discus, and hurling the javelin. In time boxing, a chariot race, and other events were included.

47. Greek Olympics
    But sports and competitions are part of the history and culture of many ancient civilization including The first olympic games at Olympia were held in 776 BC  
    http://www.crystalinks.com/greekolympics.html
    
    Extractions: Ancient Times The Greeks invented Olympic athletic contests and held them in honor of their gods. But sports and competitions are part of the history and culture of many ancient civilization - including those of Meso- America. In Egypt there had been many findings and glyphs depicting sports events have been found. In ancient Egypt, acrobats, who displayed physical agility and strength, were mainly viewed as performers. Most Egyptian acrobats were women, and they performed alone or in groups. Young Egyptian boys also participated in acrobatics, and played games with hoops. There are 200 wrestling groups depicted on one wall of the tomb at Beni-Hassan. The wrestlers wear a loin-cloth similar to the cod-piece or loin-cloth of Minoan athletes. Although the scenes portray the various positions and "holds" involved in wrestling, the sport was practiced as part of Egyptian military training, and there is no evidence of organized competition. Ancient Egyptians also participated in various running activities. One of the kingdom's most important festivals was the "jubilee celebration," a festival first celebrated on the 30th anniversary of the reign of Amenophis III, and celebrated continuously in three-year intervals. In the "ritual run", an integral part of the celebration, the current king would run between two sets of three semicircles, the semicircles being cosmic references to the order of the universe. Unlike later Greek footraces, however, the Egyptian king ran alone, without a competitor. Physical evidence of the "ritual run" exists at the pyramid complex of King Djoser, where one can find the ruins of the world's first sports facility, complete with the running track for the "ritual run."

48. THE GREEK OLYMPICS HISTORY A SHORT REFERENCE TO THE HISTORY OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES
    a short reference to the Greek olympics history and the history of the olympicgames and there roots in Ancient Greece. history OF THE olympic games.  
    http://www.athensguide.org/olympics-history.html
    
    Extractions: HISTORY OF THE OLYMPICS Athens Greece 2004 summer Olympics detailed guide of Athens the capital city of Greece includes Parthenon the Acropolis of Athens theaters and museums in Athens, transportation, the new Athens Metro entertainment and night life , Greek music and Greek food,Athens taxi and minicab services , Athens Greece travel information ferries, ferry boats from the port of Piraeus Attica find a hotel do your shopping visit a Greek art shop get to know Sounion and the islands of the Saronic gulf. Welcome to Athens Greece Athens the immortal city of civilization and Democracy a comprehensive guide of the city of Athens Greece Athens Greece city guide HISTORY OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES History tells us that in ancient times, Hercules, the strongest of all men, challenged his four brothers to a race before the gods in the fields of Olympia to set the stage for the beginning of the ancient Games. The recorded date was 776 BC, a time when the Greeks marked their calendars in four-year periods called Olympiads. The Games, which took the character of a festival of sports, were held

49. Olympic Games - History
    contingent todate. For the first time in Malaysian history, Footballqualified for the olympic games. Badminton was introduced  
    http://www.olympic.org.my/gamesrecords/olympicg/history.htm

50. Cool Attractions - Olympic History
    votes have been tallied, the International olympic Committee has to make the 2002Winter games the most Perhaps the history of these prestigious games should  
    http://www.saltlakecity.coolattractions.com/history.html
    
    Extractions: A Vintage Pair of Ice Skates 1924 marked the year of the first official Winter Games, and for the first time events such as figure skating, speed skating, Nordic skiing, bobsleigh, and ice hockey were held at a separate celebration than the Summer Games. Taking place in Chamonix, France, 294 competitors were involved in the first official Winter Olympics. The number of athletes participating in Salt Lake City is projected to be over 2,300. Norwegian figure skater Sonja Henie made her debut at the 1924 Games, at age 12, and in 1928, 32, and 36 took home the gold medals. In 1937 Henie took advantage of her world popularity and appeared in her first movie. Her Hollywood career would last over 10 years. in Davos, Switzerland With the world at war in the 1940s the scheduled games in 40 and 44 were cancelled. As punishment for their roles in WW2, Japan and Germany's absence from Olympic ceremony would continue into the 1948 games in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Twenty-eight countries participated enthusiastically, and it was clear that the games had survived both the world's conflicts, and the 12-year span between the last Olympics. The IOC awarded the 1976 Olympics to Denver, Colorado, but after two years of preparation and financial squabbling, the people of Colorado refused to fund the major event through public taxes. Innsbruck offered to host the Winter Olympics only twelve years since it last played the role, and the underplayed event went off peacefully and without excessive spending.

51. ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games
    Details of event held in Greece two weeks after the olympic games. Sports, history, classifications, training guide and tickets.  
    http://www.athens2004.com/page/default.asp?la=2

52. The Olympic Games
    It also contains an olympic educational program that aims to familiarize youthwith the olympic games and their history, introduce them to the olympic  
    http://www.caslt.org/research/olympics.htm
    
    Extractions: Athens 2004 - Official Web site - History, schedule, information on all olympic sports, etc. The site is available in English, French, and Greek. The Olympic Museum - A good source of information on past Summer and Winter Olympic Games with interesting fact sheets, photos, and video clips. "Were the ancient games better than ours? More fair and square? More about sports and less about money? Are modern games more sexist? More political? Have we strayed from the ancient Olympic ideal? " The First Olympic Games : Athens, 1896 Book published in 1896. Olympics Through Time Athletic events from prehistory to 1896. Includes an extensive glossary. Hellenic Culture - This web site of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture providing information on ancient Olympia , its museum and the collection for the Olympic games , about the Olympic games in ancient Greece and the athletic events The Ancient Olympics "In this exhibit, you can compare ancient and modern Olympic sports, tour the site of Olympia as it looks today, learn about the context of the Games and the Olympic spirit, or read about the Olympic athletes who were famous in ancient times."

53. History And Geography Of The Olympic Games In Ancient Greece
    history and Geography of the olympic games in Ancient Greece by Rick Price,PhD. coowner and co-founder of ExperiencePlus! Specialty Tours, Inc.  
    http://www.experienceplus.com/essay_olympics.html
    
    Extractions: History and Geography of the Olympic Games in Ancient Greece by Rick Price, PhD. co-owner and co-founder of ExperiencePlus! Specialty Tours, Inc. The Olympics came to us as one of the oldest institutions of Classical Greece. Although the first written record of the games dates to 776 B.C., their origins go back at least five hundred years earlier and are linked to religious events well before that. The games honored Zeus, supreme god of all the Greeks and ruler of the sky (Zeus's brothers Poseidon and Hades ruled the sea and the Underworld, respectively). The Olympic games were officially abolished by the Roman emperor in 394 AD after a run of 1170 years! As god of all kings and of all humans, Zeus ruled from lofty Mt. Olympus north of Athens. His primary role was to keep the peace among those same gods and "men" on earth. In his honor a universal truce applied during the Olympic Games every four years and even though the truce was broken on several occasions, the games were never interrupted as a result of war. The reasons for the location of the games in "Olympia," near the west coast of the Peloponnesian peninsula are lost in history. The site was never a major city or permanent settlement except during the games themselves when tens of thousands of spectators and participants camped on the grounds. Evidence suggests that the site of Olympia was once the location of a religious festival honoring Gaia, the Earth Mother. Indeed, the site must have had strong historic and religious roots as it is located on the western edge of Classical Greece far from the Greek heartland as this

54. GreekShops.com : Greek Products : Athens 2004 : Olympic Games History : The Anci
    athletic trivia, and sections on women at the Olympics and the birth of the modernGames, this book is sure to capture the imagination of history and sports  
    http://www.greekshops.com/q_/asp/RefID=685/ProdID=OxF01va/_q/detail.htm
    
    Extractions: Quantity: Product Description The Ancient Greek Olympics The ancient Greeks were famous for their love of competition. Every four years athletes came from all over the Greek world to take part in the Games at Olympia. The Ancient Greek Olympics recounts the day-by-day activities of the ancient Games: the athletes and their training, the spec taros, the religious ceremonies, and the banquets. It guides the reader around the wonderful sights of ancient Olympia and provides an athlete's view of the events. Some of them, like discus throwing and running, were similar to those of the modern Olympic Games. But others, such as chariot races, were very different. With more than 75 color illustrations, detailed sidebars, ancient athletic trivia, and sections on women at the Olympics and the birth of the modern Games, this book is sure to capture the imagination of history and sports fans alike.

55. Kiat.net: History Of The Olympic Games
    olympic games THE history. DISCLAIMER Obviously, I have not lived long enoughto experience or witness the entire history of the modern olympic games.  
    http://www.kiat.net/olympics/history/
    
    Extractions: @import url(../../style/default.css); kiat.net where are you :: home Olympics History OLYMPIC GAMES THE HISTORY : Obviously, I have not lived long enough to experience or witness the entire history of the modern Olympic Games. Therefore, credit goes to YAHOO! for most of the information I have in these websites. This site is also not affiliated with the Olympics or the IOC. All pictures, logos, trademarks and symbols are properties of the Olympic Movement and are used here for identification purposes only. This site is for personal use only. Beginning in 776 B.C., the Olympic Games were held in the Valley of Olympia in Greece - famous for its magnificent temples of the gods Zeus and Hera - as a religious festival dedicated to the Olympian Gods involving one event, a stade race held over 192 meters. By about 650 B.C., the Ancient Games were held over five days, involving running, wrestling, the pentathlon, horse riding and chariot racing. Participants came to compete from every corner of the Greek world aiming at the ultimate prize - an olive wreath and a "heroic" return to their city-states. Athletes competed in the nude and upon victory were awarded a crown of wild olive leaves. Women and slaves were strictly forbidden to attend the Games under the punishment of death. The Ancient Games were held every four years (an "Olympiad") for almost 1200 years until 393 A.D. when Roman Emperor Theodosius I banned all pagan festivals (the Olympics celebrated the Greek god Zeus). He asserted that the Games placed an excessive public focus on athletic and spiritual affairs and abolished them.

56. Kiat.net: The Olympic Games
    olympic Committee; MedalTally.com; NBColympics.com; Olympiad Portal history ofWinter/Summer games; Olympiaka.com - Share the Spirit; olympic Almanac; olympic  
    http://www.kiat.net/olympics/
    
    Extractions: @import url(../style/default.css); kiat.net where are you :: home Olympics : This is a purely informational, educational, and non-commercial site about the Olympic Games and therefore it is NOT affiliated with the Olympics or the IOC. All pictures, logos, trademarks and symbols are properties of the Olympic Movement and are used here for identification purposes only. This site is for personal use only. Questions? E-mail Us OFFICIAL

57. Olympic Games Summer And Winter Locations And History Of The Games
    olympic history The olympic games took their name from the Greek city of Olympiaand though there were important athletic competitions held in other Greek  
    http://worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/olympic.htm
    
    Extractions: The games were held every four years during August and September and the word "Olympiad", which referred to the four year intervals between competitions, was commonly used to measure time. The first documented Olympic champion was a man named Coroebus, a cook from Elis who won the sprint race in 776 BC. Historians believe that the games had already existed for at least 500 years prior to that date. The Olympic Games originally featured only one event: a race called the "stade", equal to a distance of about 210 yards. By 728 BC two additional races had been added, comparable to the 400 meter and 1,500 meter races of the modern games. The Olympics came to include wrestling, boxing and the pentathlon, as well as specialized events for soldiers and heralds. It was only in 472 BC that the events were spread out over a period of four to five days, previously they had all taken place on a single day.

58. EdGate Summer Games
    Click Here . Parade of NationsParade of Nations Explore countries that havehosted past olympic games. Find facts, maps, history, and more. Click Here .  
    http://www2.edgate.com/summergames/inactive/

59. Olympics - EnchantedLearning.com
    history of the Torch The tradition of the olympic flame began duringthe ancient olympic games, over 2700 years ago in Greece. A  
    http://www.enchantedlearning.com/olympics/
    
    Extractions: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, was where the year 2002 Winter Olympics were held. For information on Utah, click here . For a page on Utah's flag, click here The year 2002 Winter Olympic Games are being held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The opening ceremonies were on February 8, 2002. The closing ceremonies were on Sunday, February 24, 2002. The events in the Winter Olympics include: ice hockey, figure skating, speed skating, snowboarding, luge, bobsleigh, skeleton (a type of sledding), curling, cross-country skiing, freestyle skiing, slalom, downhill (Alpine) skiing, ski jumping, Nordic combined (skiing plus ski jumping), and biathlon (skiing and shooting). The flag of the Olympic Games has five interlocking rings (blue, yellow, black, green, and red) on a white ground. The rings represent the five parts of the world that were joined together in the Olympic movement: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe. The motto of the Olympic Games is "Citius, altius, fortius" (meaning "Faster, higher, stronger" in Latin). History of the Olympics Flag The flag was first used in the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium. The Olympic flag is paraded during the opening ceremony of each Olympic Games. At the end of an Olympics, the mayor of the host-city presents the flag to the mayor of the next host-city. The flag will remain in the town hall of the next host-city until the next Olympic Games, four years later.

60. The Salt Lake Tribune - 2002 Winter Olympic Games
    THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE When Utah s Olympics unfold in February, so too In more thanthree quarters of a century, the history of the winter games has played  
    http://www.sltrib2002.com/History/
    
    Extractions: In more than three quarters of a century, the history of the winter Games has played out in such snowy wonderlands as St. Moritz, Innsbruck, Sapporo, and Lake Placid. The plot has twisted around engaging personalities: figure skaters Sonja Henie, Dick Button and Peggy FLeming; skiiers Jean-Claude Killy, Toni Sailer and Rosi Mittermaier; speedskater Eric Heiden. In 1980 there was a miracle, just when the United States seemed in need of one. In 1936, there was nationalism of another sort as Adolph Hitler presided over the Opening Ceremony. There has been the Harding and Kerrigan soap opera, the triumph of Dan Jansen, the larger-than-life Hermannator and Tomba.

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