Democracy NOW! This is a speech on the history of protest during the Olympics, given at a Citizen We go now to a Democracy Now! interview with the two medallists. http://archive.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20020215.html
Extractions: [listen to the entire program] [click to hear any story] NEWS HEADLINES Story: As The Country Gathers Around Their TV Sets To Watch The 2002 Olympic Winter Games, Protesters Gather Outside Utah Olympic Park To Protest Against Them The 2002 Winter Olympics opened in Utah a week ago covered in gale-driven snow and wrapped in a $310 million security blanket to keep the so-called terrorists at bay. Turning Salt Lake City into one of the most heavily guarded places on Earth was an army of 15,000 troops, police, Secret Service agents, Black Hawk helicopters and F-16 jets armed with anti-aircraft missiles. The patriotic opening ceremony featured the tattered U.S. flag unearthed from the rubble of the World Trade Center, carried into the stadium by eight US athletes and an honor guard of New York City firefighters and cops. "The Star-Spangled Banner" swept over the crowd. And throughout this week, the major media has lauded the Olympics with headlines like, "Olympics unify world in wake of Sept. 11." There are 10,000 journalists in Salt Lake City this year for the spectacle of the 2002 Olympic Games. And it only took a week for the medal count of the winners to be dwarfed by accusations of conspiracy, sellout, and vote-fixing by figure skating judges. But while the figure skating scandal made the world's media, the thousands of protesters outside the games every day have received barely a mentionaside from the odd jab at "sullen young anarchists" sloping through the streets of Salt Lake City.
Beach Volleyball History Beach Volleyball history. Time Period, Tour, Event. 1895, William G. Morgan, Twentyfour men s and women s teams compete for olympic medals. http://www.bvbinfo.com/history.asp
Extractions: Tour News Search the Database Home Choose AVP FIVB Players Seasons Tournaments Rankings ... History Beach Volleyball History Time Period Tour Event William G. Morgan, an instructor at the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke, Mass., decides 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 creates the game of Volleyball (at that time called mintonette). Morgan borrows the net from tennis, and raises it 6 feet 6 inches above the floor, just above the average man's head. There are unconfirmed whispers of mens teams playing on the beach in Hawaii, but most accounts place the sport's origin in Santa Monica, California where the first Volleyball courts are put up on the beach at the Playground. Families play 6 vs. 6. Beach Volleyball crosses the Atlantic Ocean. It becomes the principal sport in a French nudist camp founded in Franconville, a north-western suburb of Paris. The first two-man beach volleyball game is played in Santa Monica, California. Beach volleyball appears in Palavas, Lacanau and Royan (France), around Sofia (Bulgaria), Prague (Czechoslavakia), and Riga (Latvia).
Edited Hansard * Table Of Contents * Number 146 (Official Version) Again, these women have made history in Canada because they are world class Beckie Scott became the first Canadian to win an olympic medal in nordic http://www.parl.gc.ca/37/1/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/146_2002-02-21/han146_1
Extractions: Black History Month Ms. Beth Phinney (Hamilton Mountain, Lib.): Madam Speaker, the Reverend John C. Holland Awards were recently held in Hamilton to mark the beginning of Black History Month. I congratulate the recipients honoured at the awards dinner. Both Norma Rookwood and the Stewart Memorial Church were recognized for their efforts in preserving and promoting black history in Hamilton. Brock University professor Dr. Sybil E. Wilson was honoured for professional achievement in her field of education. Tanya Charles, concertmaster for the Hamilton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, received the Youth Achievement Award and Jeremy Shand was awarded the Educational Bursary of $1,000 toward his multimedia studies at Humber College. I am sure all the hon. members will join me in congratulating the winners for their achievements and for their contribution to the Hamilton community. 2002 Winter Olympics Mrs. Karen Kraft Sloan (York North, Lib.): Madam Speaker, it gives me pleasure to stand today to acknowledge the accomplishments of two of our Canadian athletes who earned medals at the Salt Lake City Olympics. I congratulate Veronica Brenner of Sharon, Ontario from my riding of York North who placed second and won the silver medal in the aerials event, just ahead of her teammate Deidra Dionne. A three time Canadian champion, Veronica Brenner has been one of Canada's most successful women's aerialists and is considered a veteran of the sport of freestyle skiing. Veronica has made an astonishing comeback this season after a serious injury she sustained in the fall of 2000.
Olympic Centure The olympic Century The Official history of the Modern olympic Movement A national medal count by nation concludes this appendix. http://www.sirc.ca/newsletters/email/olympiccentury.cfm
Extractions: Press Releases The Olympic Century: The Official History of the Modern Olympic Movement A second effort of first rank was produced by the now deceased, legendary Austrian Olympic journalist, Erich Kamper, and his research colleague, Bill Mallon, an American orthopaedic surgeon and co-founder of the International Society of Olympic Historians. In their 1992 The Golden Book of the Olympic Games, 9 an organisational model was employed much like that pursued by Walleschinsky. Endnotes 1. Much of the primary source material for Allison's portrait of the 1896 American Olympians came for the accumulated effects of the Thomas Curtis family. Curtis won the 110 meter hurdles event in history's first Modern Olympic Games. Further, in his youth, while living in Washington, D.C., Allison remembers having met two 1896 American OlympiansRobert Garrett, winner of the discus, shot-put, and second in the high jump and long jump, and Welles Hoyt, winner of the pole-vault.
Extractions: Its a miracle, says Liu Xiang Monday 15 November 2004 22-year-old Liu Xiang scored an incredible win topped by an equalled World record in the 110m Hurdles in Athens. The most sensational Chinese talent of the 21st century, Xiang became the first man from his country to win an Olympic track and field gold medal. By Laura Arcoleo Impassive and unshakeable, Liu Xiang is the image of determination. Standing behind his starting blocks meticulously set in lane four, the 21-year-old Chinese knows he is only 110 metres away from glory, ten barriers away from a place in history. In nine participations at the Summer Olympic Games, no Chinese male athlete had ever won a gold medal in track and field. One has to go as far back as 1984 to find Zhu Jianhuas bronze medal in the High Jump as the last Olympic medal for a Chinese male athlete. A former high jumper himself, Xiang is about to set the record straight in Athens. Coming into his first Olympic final, his confidence boosted by a blossoming year which has seen him take the World Indoor silver medal in March and twice set a 13.06 Asian record, Xiang has also experience on his side. Despite his very young age, the Shanghai-born athlete has proven he has the nerves for handling a major championships final. Since his semi-final elimination at the World Championships in Edmonton 2001, Xiang has never missed out on a global final, and a podium for that matter!
CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History 2004 Athens A history of the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Kyle Shewfelt won Canada s firsteverOlympic artistic gymnastics medal with a gold in the floor exercise. http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/
CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History 1948 London A history of the 1948 London Olympics. Marie Provaznikova won a gold medalwith the victorious gymnastics team and refused to return to Czechoslovakia, http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/1948.html
Team GB British olympic Association Team GB. Her results in the last two years,and especially her Bronze medal at the 2003 World Championships in Anaheim http://www.olympics.org.uk/teamgb/biogs_athens.asp?AthleteID=315
