Extractions: International Edition MEMBER SERVICES The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-mail Services CNNtoGO Contact Us SEARCH Web CNN.com Story Tools OAKLAND, California World number one Andy Roddick will play in the Olympic tennis tournament for the United States this summer. "Athens 2004 we're definitely going," said Roddick's coach, Brad Gilbert, shrugging off fears that the the event is too close to his charge's defence of the U.S. Open title. Former world number one Lleyton Hewitt of Australia cited that reason for his withdrawal from the Olympics on Thursday.. The Olympic Games are scheduled for August 15-22, ending eight days before the start of the U.S. Open, where Roddick will defend his first major title. Roddick hired Gilbert, who previously coached Andre Agassi, after he suffered a first-round loss in the French Open this year. With Gilbert, Roddick reached the Wimbledon semifinals, won the U.S. Open and rose to No. 1 in the rankings. Gilbert, who spoke at an Oakland Athletics' fund-raiser in Calfornia, is enthusiastic about the Olympics.
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History Of Volleyball Morgan borrowed the net from tennis, and raised it 6 2person beach volleyball wasadded to the Olympics. The First 100 Years , available on the history of the http://www.volleyball.org/history.html
Extractions: History Of Volleyball http://www.Volleyball.ORG In 1995, the sport of Volleyball was 100 years old! The sport originated in the United States, and is now just achieving the type of popularity in the U.S. that it has received on a global basis, where it ranks behind only soccer among participation sports. Today there are more than 46 million Americans who play volleyball. There are 800 million players worldwide who play Volleyball at least once a week. In William G. Morgan, an instructor at the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke, Mass., decided to blend elements of basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball to create a game for his classes of businessmen which would demand less physical contact than basketball. He created the game of Volleyball (at that time called mintonette). Morgan borrowed the net from tennis, and raised it 6 feet 6 inches above the floor, just above the average man's head. During a demonstration game, someone remarked to Morgan that the players seemed to be volleying the ball back and forth over the net, and perhaps "volleyball" would be a more descriptive name for the sport. On July 7, 1896
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Usolympicteam.com After the 1924 Paris Games, tennis disappeared from the olympic menu due to theongoing dilemma of determining what divided amateur and professional play. http://www.usoc.org/sports2/te/az_hist.html
Extractions: T ruly international in participation and popularity, tennis is a game with roots in prehistoric times and drama and excitement which has appealed to fans in many different eras and cultures. Historians speculate that the origins of tennis date back to the Stone Age, when humans first used clubs to hit rocks back and forth over barricades of dirt and stone. They next trace the development of tennis to the variant of handball played in Greece, Rome, Egypt and elsewhere throughout the ancient world. But it was the French who first gave the game its modern shape, as well as its name: the word "tennis" derives from the French tenez, meaning "take it" or "play." According to legend, a wandering minstrel introduced the game to the royal court in France around the 10th century. By the 11th century, the game was played in monastic cloisters, either indoors, where a rope chord was stretched across a room to serve as the net, or outside, where a mound of dirt served to divide the playing court. Despite the efforts of elites such as Louis IV of France and various ecclesiastical authorities to ban the game, tennis had spread to the British Isles by the 14th century and within a hundred years was established as a royal game in England. Henry VII and Henry VIII were both enthusiasts, and sponsored the building of courts throughout the country. By 1500 or so, the tennis racket had evolved from the earlier all-wood model to a newer version with wooden handle and head strung with sheep gut. During the following century, tennis became the national game in France as Paris alone came to boast over 1,000 courts for play.
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Extractions: document.write(''); ID: Password: Register Help Web SportsLine Home NFL NBA MLB ... Nations History Summer Olympic History Year Olympiad Host City, Country Dates Nations XXVII Sydney, Australia Sept 15-Oct 1 Most Medals: United States (40-24-33-97) XXVI Atlanta, United States July 20-Aug 4 Most Medals: United States (44-32-25-101) XXV Barcelona, Spain July 25-Aug 9 Most Medals: Unified Team (45-38-29-112) - USA Medals: XXIV Seoul, South Korea Sept 17-Oct 2 Most Medals: Soviet Union (55-31-46-132) - USA Medals: XXIII Los Angeles, United States July 28-Aug 12 Most Medals: United States (83-61-30-174) XXII Moscow, Soviet Union July 19-Aug 3 Most Medals: Soviet Union (80-69-46-195) - USA Medals: Boycott XXI Montreal, Canada July 17-Aug 1 Most Medals: Soviet Union (49-41-35-125) - USA Medals: XX Munich, West Germany Aug 26-Sept 10 Most Medals: Soviet Union (50-27-22-99) - USA Medals: XIX Mexico City, Mexico Oct 12-27 Most Medals: United States (45-28-34-107) XVIII Tokyo, Japan Oct 10-24 Most Medals: Soviet Union (30-31-35-96) - USA Medals: XVII Rome, Italy Aug 25-Sept 11 Most Medals: Soviet Union (43-29-31-103) - USA Medals: XVI Melbourne, Australia
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NBC11.com - Sports - Local Swimmer Could Make Olympic History Local Swimmer Could Make olympic history. Price Would Be First AfricanAmerican OnWomen s Team. POSTED 231 pm PDT May 4, 2004. UPDATED 258 pm PDT May 4, 2004. http://www.nbc11.com/sports/3269012/detail.html
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Extractions: Quiz By the time he was 3, Andre Agassi was already playing tennis. (CNN) At an age when most tennis pros begin to consider retirement, Andre Agassi didn't let a career slump keep him from becoming one of the world's top players again. Today, at 31, he's in better shape than ever. "I am moving better. I am fitter and I am bringing experience, so that allows for a pretty airtight package," Agassi said. Agassi's No. 1 ranking by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) is in sharp contrast to four years ago, when he had sunk into the worst losing streak of his career. Then married to actress Brooke Shields, he was earning millions of dollars in endorsements, but ironically his tennis game was off. He had dropped to his lowest ranking ever at 141, according to the ATP.
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Extractions: Introduction Congratulations, you and your partner are the the big winners of the Quest for Olympic Gold Essay Contest! Your essay was chosen from thousands of others written by students, just like yourselves, from across the country. You two are now official athletes in the upcoming 2000 Summer Junior Olympic Games. Your job is to provide a copy of your winning essay, to design a comprehensive fitness and nutrition program for you and your partner to follow, and to keep a journal reflecting upon the work done in order to prepare yourselves for this once in a lifetime event. Good Luck! The Task Before you and your partner can compete in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games, in Sydney, Australia, you must complete the following tasks. Completion of all tasks is essential for successful participation! include a copy of your winning 500 word essay describing why you and your partner should be participants in the 2000 Summer Junior Olympic Games. choose ONE Olympic Summer Games sport in which you and your partner will compete in (either individually or as members of a team). Choose a sport that you and your partner have some prior knowledge of and skills in from the
History Of Women In Sports Timeline - Part 1- To 1899 It is the first time in American history that an de Coubertin, founder of the modernOlympics, says, It 1897 The first Women s French tennis Championship is http://www.northnet.org/stlawrenceaauw/timeline.htm
Extractions: than any one thing in the world." Susan B. Anthony, suffragist, 1896 776 B.C. - The first Olympics are held in ancient Greece. Women are excluded, so they compete every four years in their own Games of Hera, to honor the Greek goddess who ruled over women and the earth. 396 B.C. - Kyniska, a Spartian princess, wins an Olympic chariot race, but is barred from collecting her prize in person. 1406 - Dame Juliana Berners of Great Britain writes the first known essay on sports fishing. She described how to make a rod and flies, when to fish, and the many kinds of fishing in her essay, Treatise of Fishing with an Angle. 1552 - Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-87), an avid golfer, coins the term caddy by calling her assistants cadets. It is during her reign that the famous golf course at St. Andrews is built. Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727) sets out alone on horseback from Boston to New Haven and later New York, keeping a diary of her travels, which was published in 1825 as The Journal of Madame Knight 1722 - British fighter Elizabeth Wilkinson enters the boxing ring.
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Athens Olympic Sports Complex - Olympic Tennis Centre Athens olympic Sports Complex olympic tennis Centre. A view of theolympic tennis Centre. (March 20, 2004 Á.NA / Á. Mpeltes). http://www.ana.gr/olympics/English/pages/OlympicVenues/StadiaOAKA-Antisfairisi.h
Extractions: History Olympic Venues Olympic Sports Greece Today ... Information Athens Olympic Sports Complex - Olympic Tennis Centre Agios Kosmas Ano Liossia A.O.S.C. Athens City Centre ... Vouliagmeni Ancient Olympia Heraklio Patras Thessaloniki ... Volos The Olympic Tennis Centre will host the tennis tournament during the Olympic and Paralympic Games of 2004, an event expected to attract several of the world's best tennis players to Athens. The centre consists of a total of 16 tennis courts, 10 of which will be used for competition and the rest for training and warming-up.
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Extractions: Under the urging of Kano Jigoro, a judo athlete, the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) was established in 1911. Two athletes were sent to participate at the Fifth Olympiad in Stockholm the following year. The first 2 Japanese to participate as members of a Japanese team were Mishima Yahiko, a sprinter, and Kanaguri Shiro, a long-distance runner. Though the next games were to be held in 1916, they were canceled due to World War I. By the 1920 Games at Antwerp, Japan had fielded a team of 15, and earned its first awards: a pair of silver medals in singles and doubles tennis. At the 1928 Games in Amsterdam, Japan took its first 2 gold medals, in track and field, and swimming. Athlete Hitomi Kinue became the first woman to join a Japanese Olympic contingent. She received a silver medal in the 800-meter event, and her success encouraged more women to take up competitive sports. A contingent of 131 members represented Japan at the 1932 Games in Los Angeles, including 16 women. Japanese athletes earned a total of 7 gold, 7 silver, and 4 bronze medals in track and field, swimming, equestrian events, and field hockey.
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