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  1. Beyond All Limits - The Greatest Runner in Olympics History by Richard A. Lord, 2007-10-11
  2. The Olympic Marathon by David E. Martin, Roger W. H. Gynn, 2000-05
  3. Olympic Marathon: A Centennial History of the Games' Most Storied Race by Charlie Lovett, 1997-04-30
  4. Five Rings and A Swastika by Richard A. Lord, 2007-10-10
  5. On the Run: The Fabulist Story of Felix Carvajal (New American Fiction Series) by Richard Andersen, 1986-06
  6. 42,195 km [i.e. Quarante-deux virgule cent quatre-vingt-quinze kilometres]: Grandeurs et miseres des marathons olympiques by Raymond Pointu, 1979
  7. Western viewpoint of Korean running: And my track activities at the Brigham Young University in the United States : a research paper dedicated to Coach Clarence F. Robison by Bok-suk Shim by Bok-suk Shim, 1957

61. History And Geography Of The Olympic Games In Ancient Greece
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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

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  • 63. The Olympic Underwear Relay
    in olympic history. His stunt earns a place in the top ten college pranks of alltime because the genius of observing the solemnity of the olympics by running
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    The Olympic Underwear Relay
    It was 1956. Slowly runners were bearing the Olympic flame across Australia, on a path from Cairns to Melbourne, where the summer games were to be held. But before the flame even got as far as Sydney, it had to endure a series of setbacks. Torrential rains soaked it. Burning heat almost overwhelmed the runners. The flame even went out a few times. Then in Sydney itself it encountered a situation quite unique in Olympic history.
    Cross-country champion Harry Dillon was scheduled to bear the flame into Sydney, where he would present it to the mayor, Pat Hills. After making a short speech, Hills would pass the flame along to another runner, Bert Button.
    Thousands of people lined the streets of Sydney waiting for Dillon to arrive. Reporters stood ready with their cameras to record the historic occasion. Finally the runner appeared, bearing the flame aloft, and everyone began cheering. As the crowd pressed forward a police escort surrounded the runner in order to keep order.
    With this escort around him, the runner made his way through the streets all the way to the Sydney Town Hall. He bounded up the steps and handed the torch to the waiting mayor who graciously accepted it and turned to begin his prepared speech.

    64. Pentathlon History
    Modern Pentathlon history to introduce Modem Pentathlon at the 5th olympic Games of jumping,shooting, fencing, swimming and crosscountry running - were chosen
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    Pentathlon Scoring Team Relay Competitions Calendar of Events Resources Pentathlon News Contact Modern Pentathlon History Admiration for the ancient pentathlon was fully shared by the founder of the modem Olympic Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin. He persuaded the Olympic Committee to introduce Modem Pentathlon at the 5th Olympic Games of the modem era in Stockholm, Sweden in 1912. It was his belief that this event, above all others, "tested an athlete's moral qualities as much as their physical resources and skills, producing thereby the ideal, complete athlete." The choice of the five diverse and unrelated sports that make up the Modem Pentathlon arose out of a romantic vision of the wild adventures of a liaison officer whose horse is brought down in enemy territory. He defends himself with his pistol and sword, swims across a raging river and finally delivers the message on foot. Thus the modern pentathlon's five disciplines - show-jumping, shooting, fencing, swimming and cross-country running - were chosen.

    65. September 28, 2000-Vol32n6: Furnas' Olympic History Revealed
    Furnas olympic history revealed Former UB chancellor, president ran in veteran whohad taken up running as therapy participating in several postolympic meets
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    VOLUME 32, NUMBER 6 THURSDAY, September 28, 2000 Furnas' Olympic history revealed
    Former UB chancellor, president ran in finals of 5000-meters in 1920 Games in Antwerp
    By ANN WHITCHER
    Reporter Contributor Eighty years ago this week, a young collegian from Indiana was settling back into campus life after spending the summer as an Olympic athlete and competitor in post-Olympic events overseas. The 19-year-old Purdue undergraduate was Clifford C. Furnas (1900-69), who went on to a distinguished career as scientist, author and chancellor of the University of Buffalo from 1954-62, and from 1962-66, as the first president of the State University of New York at Buffalo, following UB's merger with SUNY. Furnas was among the finalists to run the 5,000-meters in the 1920 Olympics-or the Seventh Olympiad-which took place in Antwerp, Belgium. His Olympic run followed successes at intercollegiate competitions throughout the Midwest, and impressive showings in the Olympic tryouts in Chicago and a final meet at Harvard University. Olympic memorabilia, including a photograph album, scrapbook, track uniform, insignia and ribbons, are on display as part of the Clifford C. Furnas Memorial Collection, established by Furnas's wife, the late Sparkle M. Furnas. The Furnas Collection is housed in the University Archives, 420 Capen Hall. The photo album and scrapbook, in particular, bring to life the spirit and drive of a young runner preparing to take on the world.

    66. Billy Mills - Olympic Legend
    Program and AT T GBCS and DACS VI 2000 are proud to have brought you this specialmoment in olympic history. The motion picture running Brave tells the
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  • Olympics have always been the place where hero's are made and dreams are realized. For athletes the Olympics is a single moment, a star that shines for one special instance. But for some, that moment is carried forward providing a strength that goes beyond one person.
    1964 Tokyo, Japan, American Billy Mills
    glistened brighter than any star in the eastern sky.
    It was on that night, Billy Mills created one of the greatest upsets in Olympic history-winning the 10,000 meter run with a stunning come-from-behind-finish that suddenly made him a national treasure. In the 100 years of the Olympic games, Billy Mills is the only American ever to the win this event. When the race was over, the press and the crowd were so shocked that Billy was stopped from running the traditional victory lap. "Who are you?", one person from the press asked in disbelief. But this was only the beginning for Billy Mills. For while other American's might quickly forget this shining moment, the people on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where Billy was raised, learn early that life does not always come easy. It was this realization that brought Billy Mills to the pinnacle of the athletic world, where he became one of America's greatest distance runners. But it was this same spirit that made the person he became a continuing role model for young Native Americans growing up, in an often uncomfortable world with limited resources.
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  • 67. GORP - Olympic National Park - History
    This group entered the Olympics in December 1889 harshest and snowiest winters inthe Peninsula s history. their clothes in tatters and running dangerously low
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    68. CheatHouse.com - The Olympic Games, Its Origins, Sources And Images In The Art O
    we still have these pieces of olympic history to remind the events he participatedin were running events but the benefits derived from the olympic Games have
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    69. G'day Sydney - Tourist Attractions And Sights To See In Sydney, Australia.
    finals, and it is the largest outdoor venue in modern olympic history. of volunteersand workers who assisted in the successful running of the olympic Games
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    Between 15th September and 1st October 2000, Sydney was the focus of the world's attention while the Games of the 27th Olympiad were held, with Homebush Bay, on the banks of the Parramatta River, being the main Olympic site. The Paralympic Games were also held in Sydney, between 18 and 29 October 2000. Homebush Bay is located approximately 14 kms west of the Harbour Bridge and is an outstanding complex of stadiums, parks and ultramodern athletics centres. The site had a number of industrial uses prior to its use as the Olympic site and, in accordance with Sydney's successful Olympic bid, a huge environmental project was undertaken to clean up this contaminated area.

    70. Journal Of Olympic History Magazine Index
    Distance running at the 1900 olympics, E. Ion Pool (GBR), 8, http//www.aafla EthelbertTalbot His Life and Place in olympic history, Ture Widlund, 7 14, http
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    AAF Home All AAF Journals Search Page Journal of Olympic History (formerly Citius, Altius, Fortius) Index 1992-1999 Volume 1 No 1 Table of Contents, 2 http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1a.pdf Honorary President's Message: Praise to The Olympic Athletes,Erich Kamper, 3 http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1b.pdf President's Inaugural Message,Ian Buchanan, 4 http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1c.pdf Message from the Secretary-General,Bill Mallon, 5 - 6 http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1d.pdf Baseball in the Olympics, Pete Cava, 7 - 15 http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1e.pdf A Look at Olympic Costs, C. Frank Zarnowski,16 - 32 http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1f.pdf Olympic Ice Hockey - Goal Scoring Records, 33 http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1g.pdf Work in Progress, 34 http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1h.pdf Book Reviews, 35 http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1i.pdf ISOH Members Biographies, 35 http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1j.pdf

    71. New York Road Runners
    To celebrate the 2004 olympic year, the Mini will We are proud of the steps Americandistance running has taken the Mini is certain to rewrite history yet again
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    Getting Ready Training Raising Funds Your First Road Race Race Day Tips Professional Athletes News History of Top Entrants Athlete Profiles Athlete Interviews Mini Rewrites History Year After Year It is fitting that the Circle of Friends New York Mini 10K, the world's original women-only road race, has been the leader in competitive women's running, as well. In fact, the race was co-founded (along with New York City Marathon impresario Fred Lebow) by women's running pioneers Nina Kuscsik and Kathrine Switzer, who would go on to win three New York City Marathons between them. Early editions of the Mini were won by top American runners, including Julie Shea, Peg Neppel, and Martha White. The 1979 Mini featured Norwegian Grete Waitz, a middle-distance track runner who became the talk of the sport after her world-record setting win at the New York City Marathon the previous fall. The dominant distance runner of the late 1970s and 1980s, Waitz would end her competitive career with nine New York City Marathon wins, an Olympic silver medal, five Mini victories, and a Mini course record (31:00) that would stand for 21 years. Waitz was so inspired by the concept of an all-women's race that she began one in her native Oslo; it now boasts more than 30,000 finishers each year. Waitz is not the only world-class athlete to have won the Mini. Other champions include Norway's Ingrid Kristiansen, who held the marathon world record for 13 years, and Americans Francie Larrieu Smith and Anne Marie Lauck, who made a combined seven U.S. Olympic teams. In 1993, a 20-year-old from Kenya named Tegla Loroupe won the Mini, the first major road race win of her career. Over the next several years, she would capture the hearts of New Yorkers with four more wins at the Mini, two victories at the New York City Marathon, three wins at the World Half-Marathon Championships, and two marathon world records.

    72. USA Basketball: Men's Olympic History - 1964
    The olympic Games final contest featured a pair of unbeaten teams at the 10minutemark and from that point on Iba s troops finally got their running game into
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    Even though head coach Hank Iba had a spectacular pool of talent, the 1964 U.S. team began competition wary that their reign as the world's best may be on the line. With the Soviets having made great strides on offense, the USSR was considered a co-favorite for the Olympic gold.
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    1964 USA RESULTS

    USA Australia USA Finland USA Peru USA Uruguay USA Yugoslavia USA Brazil USA South Korea USA Puerto Rico USA USSR 1964 OLYMPIC GAMES FINAL STANDINGS 1. United States (9-0) 9. Australia (4-5) 2. Soviet Union 10.Japan (4-5) 3. Brazil (6-3) 11.Finland (4-5) 4. Puerto Rico (5-4) 12.Mexico (3-6) 5. Italy (6-3) 13.Hungary (4-5) 6. Poland (5-4) 14.Canada (1-8) 7. Yugoslavia (6-3) 15.Peru (3-6) 8. Uruguay (4-5) 16. South Korea Entering the 1964 Games riding a 37-game Olympic winning streak, the U.S. hopes of extending that streak were clouded by the possibility of a boycott of the Olympics by black American athletes. The boycott never happened and black players, who since the 1956 Olympics had become an important part of the U.S. Olympic basketball program, secured five places on the 1964 USA team. Finding the path through the preliminary competition relatively easy, the U.S. defeated, in order, Australia, 78-45; Finland, 77-51; Peru, 60-45; Uruguay, 83-28; Yugoslavia, 69-61; Brazil, 86-53, and South Korea, 116-50.

    73. USA Basketball: Womens Olympic History -- 1992
    However, the USA s pressure defense began to pay dividends and its running game cameto life a 133 spurt to earn an 88-74 victory and the olympic bronze medal
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    Journeying to Barcelona, Spain, with high hopes of earning the United States' third straight Olympic gold medal, despite an impressive showing the U.S. women fell short of their goal but still managed to capture the bronze medal while posting a 4-1 record.
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    USA Czechoslovakia USA Spain USA China Unified Team USA USA Cuba 1992 OLYMPIC GAMES FINAL STANDINGS 1. Unified Team (5-0) 5. Spain (2-2) 2. China (4-1) 6. Czechoslovakia 3. USA (4-1) 7. Brazil (2-2) 4. Cuba (3-2) 8. Italy (0-4) The 1992 USA Olympic women's basketball team was an experienced lot, with six of the 12 players having played for the USA in the 1988 Games. Opening against Czechoslovakia, the U.S. women's performance was nothing short of totally dominating as the Americans stormed to a 111-55 victory. Cynthia Cooper led the U.S. charge with 18 points as seven U.S. players scored in double digits. The USA's 111 points were the most ever by an USA team in Olympic competition. Facing China two days later, the U.S. exploded in the second half and behind scoring spurts of 22-2 and 25-2 went on to a 93-67 victory. Medina Dixon led the U.S. attack with 19 points and Vickie Orr and Clarissa Davis each added 14.

    74. History Today: Olympic Self-Sacrifice - Olympics In Ancient Greece
    Article. olympic SELFSACRIFICE.(olympics in Ancient Greece) history Today, Oct,2000, by Paul Cartledge. With the Sydney olympics up and running, Paul Cartledge
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    With the Sydney Olympics up and running, Paul Cartledge explores the radical cultural differences between our present-day interpretation of the Games and their significance in the ancient world. The modern Olympics seem so much part and parcel of our modern world all those accusations of drug-taking and financial chicanery that it is hard to remember they are only just over a hundred years old. Their founder, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, wished to foster both athletic excellence and international harmony, and as a conventionally educated French aristocrat he looked back to the ancient Greek Olympic Games for inspiration, believing fondly that that was exactly what they too had done, and why they had been founded. In fact, de Coubertin was wildly wrong: not only about the peaceful diplomatic mission of the ancient Games, but also, and more crucially, about their essential nature. The original Olympics, as we shall see, were desperately alien to what we understand by competitive sports today. It was indeed the Greeks who invented the idea of competitive games or sports. Their word agon, meaning `competition', gives us our word `agony', which is a fair indication of the spirit of ancient Greek competitiveness. But they did so within a specifically religious context. We sometimes say today, metaphorically, that for some, sport is a religion. But for the ancient Greeks the sport of the Olympic Games was quite literally a religious exercise a display of religious devotion and worship. The Olympic Games, the grand-daddy of all the many hundreds of regular and irregular athletic festivals held throughout the Greek world, were in origin part of the worship of Zeus Olympios (Zeus, the mighty overlord of Mt Olympos), far away to the north in Thessaly.

    75. Phoenix Story
    used running to take him to olympic gold. At the 1964 Summer olympics in Tokyo,Japan, an unknown Mills created one of the greatest upsets in olympic history
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    76. The Olympic Games
    In total the olympic Games consisted of 10 events running, the pentathlon, jumping,discus, ekebolon javelin, wrestling, boxing, the pancration, chariot
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    The Olympic Games
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    T he origin of the Olympic Games is linked with many myths referred to in ancient sources, but in the historic years their founder is said to be Oxylos whose descendant Ifitos later rejuvenated the games.
    According to tradition, the Olympic Games began in 776 B.C. when Ifitos made a treaty with Lycourgos the king and famous legislator of Sparta and Cleisthenes the king of Pissa. The text of the treaty was written on a disc and kept in the Heraion.
    In this treaty that was the decisive event for the developement of the sanctuary as a Panhellenic centre, the "sacred truce" was agreed. That is to say the ceasing of fighting in all of the Greek world for as long as the Olympic Games were on.
    As a reward for the victors, the cotinus, which was a wreath made from a branch of wild olive tree that was growing next to the opisthodomus of the temple of Zeus in the sacred Altis, was established after an order of the Delphic oracle.

    77. Running With Vision Ministry
    Rosa is a marathon runner qualified for the 2004 olympic trials. While competing, she is also witnessing, teaching and learning about Jesus.
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    Rosa Gutierrez
    "I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus" - Phil. 3:14 My desire in life is to do God's will. For the last 10 years I believe God has been equipping me for such a time as this- to go forth to reach out to His people. Running has been a part of my life for many years, practically all my life. I believe running is the platform and ministry in which God desires for me to go out and reach His people. I know through my running God is calling me to take a leap of faith and to trust the results to Him. "Without faith it is impossible to please God" - Heb 11:6 My part is to go out to His people. God's part is to take care of the details of leading, guiding, and directing me to the work He is calling me to do. I will seek His will in all things for: "I can do everything through Him who gives me strength" - Phil. 4:13 As far as the physical/competitive part of running goes, I know that deep within my heart God is telling me there is still more to come. I believe that there are more lessons that the Lord is wanting to teach me as a competitor in running. Whether it is to make the Olympic Marathon team or not, I am not sure. But what I am sure of is where my source of strength and hope comes from, and that: "What is impossible with men, is possible with God" - Luke 18:27

    78. Kootenay Gold Running Camp
    Beginning, recreational and competitive runners join olympic competitors, coaches and sports medicine specialists in British Columbia's Monashee Mountains.
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    79. Stolzfamily.com, Running At The Pace Of Life
    Gary Stolz's family homepage, including his running updates and a journal of attempting make the U.S. olympic marathon team.
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    80. USA Track & Field - New England Home Page
    USATFNE includes the states of New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. News, contact information, membership information, Grand Prix information, track and field, road racing, cross country, race walking, mountain/trail running, board of governors, officials, Junior olympic program, and links.
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    Headline News Northfield race masters winner Dan Verrington (CMS).
    photo: pixel-run.com FERENC NEW KING OF HILL AFTER NORTHFIELD
    Northfield Mountain, June 5 Josh Ferenc moved to the head of the pack and edged 2003 Mountain Runner of the Year Paul Low (CMS) to take Saturday's La Sportiva USATF-NE Mountain Running Championship at Northfield Mountain Recreation Area. Utilizing strong downhill technique over the double loop 13.2 km up-and-down circuit, the recent Keene State grad stopped Low's bid for an undefeated circuit after two circuit wins. Sixth placer Zach Emerson (Moose Milers) was again the first junior, adding another quality race to his resume toward possible selection to the USA World Cup team later this year. Dan Verrington (CMS) and Mark Pitts in 9-10 led the over 40 crowd, with Rob Higley one place back in his third straight 50+ win and Peter Orni (CMS) first in the 60+ division.

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