41. Olympic Games Summer And Winter Locations And History Of The Games olympic history The olympic Games took their name from the Greek city of Olympia and The olympics came to include wrestling, boxing and the pentathlon, http://worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/olympic.htm

var zflag_nid="355"; var zflag_cid="292/198"; var zflag_sid="15"; var zflag_width="468"; var zflag_height="60"; var zflag_sz="0"; Africa Antarctica Arctic Asia ... here The Olympic Flag (five colored interlocking rings on a white background) was conceived by Pierre de Coubertin. Almost a century after the flag's creation, the six colors, those of the rings (blue, yellow, black, green, red) and that of the background (white), still maintain their symbolism today. The Olympic symbol, the five interlocking rings, represents the union of the five continents and the meeting of the athletes of the world at the Olympic Games Olympic History The Olympic Games took their name from the Greek city of Olympia and though there were important athletic competitions held in other Greek cities in ancient times, the Olympic Games were regarded as the most prestigious. 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.

42. Canadian Olympic Committee Nearly 3000 years of olympic history The olympics first started nearly 3000 Women s boxing was included in the 1904 olympic Games in St. Louis, US, http://www.olympic.ca/EN/youth/facts.shtml

HOME Cyrenus Boucher Youth > Facts/History How the Olympic Games began Sports in ancient Greece The rest of the ancient Olympic story Quick facts about the Olympics ... Quick facts about Canada and the Olympics How the Olympic Games began Nearly 3,000 years of Olympic history The Olympics first started nearly 3,000 years ago in Ancient Greece. The ancient Greek civilization enjoyed many sports—including running, boxing and wrestling—because they believed physical activity and competition were very important. Every Greek boy was expected to participate in sports, because the Greeks believed the skills they learned in sports would make them better warriors. In honour of Zeus The ancient Greeks also believed religion was very important. Zeus was their greatest god. The ancient Greeks built a shrine to honour Zeus in the Valley of Olympia. Greeks gathered at the shrine to play their favourite sports as part of their religious ceremonies. In 776 B.C. the ancient Greeks first recorded the results from their sporting events held in honour of Zeus. Every four years after that these Games were held, and because they took place in the Valley of Olympia, they became known as the Olympic Games.

43. Highlights Of Individual Olympic Games Sweden would not allow boxing contests to be held in their country. For theonly time in olympic history, the winner of the B final, Thomas Fahrner http://www.mapsofworld.com/olympic-trivia/olympic-games-highlights.html

Maps of World Highlights of Individual Olympic Games ATHENS 1896 The people of Athens greeted the Games with great enthusiasm. There is no event that the Greek hosts wanted to win more than the marathon race, because of its historical significance. Spiridon Louis, a Greek shepherd set off from the city of Marathon (marathon was run from Marathon to Athens over the course covered by Greek hero Pheidippides in 490 B.C. after the battle with the Persians) and took the lead four kilometres from the finish line and, to the great joy of the 100,000 spectators, won the race by more than seven minutes. James Connolly (USA-athletics) won the triple jump on 6 April 1896, and thus became the first Olympic champion since the Ancient Games. He also finished second in the high jump and third in the long jump. He left Harvard University to travel to Athens on a cargo ship and then by train to compete. Alfréd Hajos (HUN-swimming) won the 100m and the 1,200m events. For the longer race, the swimmers were transported by boat and left to swim back to shore alone. According to Hajos, "I must say that I shivered at the thought of what would happen if I got a cramp from the cold water. My will to live completely overcame my desire to win". PARIS 1900 The Games of 1900 were held in Paris as part of the Exposition Universelle Internationale - the Paris World's Fair. The exposition organizers spread the events over five months and de-emphasized their Olympic status to such an extent that many athletes died without ever knowing that they had participated in the Olympics.

44. Boxing Events Summer Olympic Games In 2004, with almost 100 years of olympic s history under its belt, boxing BBC boxing An in depth section on olympic boxing featuring the latest news, http://www.chiff.com/olympics/olympics-boxing.htm

Search the Site: Chiff.com e-Biz Pages What the World is Looking for Main e-Biz Pages Features Business ... Olympic Games Boxing In 2004, with almost 100 years of Olympic's history under its belt, boxing is one of the most popular events of the summer games. Young hopefuls compete in elimination rounds until the final when the last boxer standing wins the gold... Sports Boxing USA Boxing - USA boxing site lists rules, events, news on the team and the results. A special section on the summer games focuses on team members. They offer a poster of the boxing team for collectors. BBC Boxing - An in depth section on Olympic boxing featuring the latest news, opinion pieces, articles and history with the excellent coverage that you can depend on from the BBC. International Amateur Boxing Association - New on boxing events world wide with links to national boxing federations to keep updated no matter who you're rooting for. General news and olympics items can be found here.

45. Modern Olympic History - Olympics - Sports - Webindia123.com Modern history of Olympics. 18961952. 1896 Athens, Greece boxing contestswere banned in this Olympics. Women s events in swimming and diving were http://www.webindia123.com/sports/olymp/olymp.htm

Yellow Pages E-Mail E-Cards Matrimonial ... Athens 2004 Modern History of Olympics 1896 Athens, Greece Venue Athens , Greece (GRE) Opening Date 06 April 1896 Nations Participated Athletes Events Winner USA with 20 points Medals First Second Third USA Greece Germany Medal The very first modern Olympic Games were held in the first week of April 1896 at Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. The people of Athens greeted the Games with great enthusiasm. Pole vaulting, sprints, shot put, weight lifting, swimming, cycling, target shooting, tennis, marathon and gymnastics were all events at the first Olympics. The swimming events were held in the Bay of Zea in the Aegean Sea. The American James Connolly won the triple jump to become the first Olympic champion in more than 1,500 years. Winners were awarded a silver medal and a crown of olive branches. 1900 Paris, France Venue Paris, France Opening Date 14 May 1900 Nations Participated Athletes Events Winner France with 100 Points Medals First Second Third France USA Great Britain Medal The Games of 1900 were held in Paris as part of the Exposition Universelle Internationale - the Paris World’s Fair. The years Olympics were poorly organized and poorly publicized, because of the fair. It was in this Olympic Games that women first participated as contestants. The first female champion was in tennis, Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain. In athletics, different nations competed on the same team in five categories.

46. ABC Online News - Sports: Boxing history. boxing, in one form or another, is obviously the oldest form of combat boxing would not be boxing without controversy, and olympic boxing is no http://www.abc.net.au/news/olympics/sports/boxing.htm

LISTEN: WMP Real Select a Topic from the list below Click "Refresh" or "Reload" on your browser for the latest edition. Top Stories Breaking Stories World Business ... Local News SPECIALS Olympics Swim Trials Athletes Sports ... Coverage RELATED ABC SITES Lateline Four Corners 7.30 Report Foreign Correspondent Landline Australian Story Stateline AM ... Correspondents' Report INTERACTIVE Forums Contact Us News Mail HELP Hearing Audio Viewing Video ABC ONLINE Home Other Areas of Interest: Subject Arts Science Children Youth Education Rural Local Shop OLYMPICS : Sports Boxing There are no prizes for guessing that boxing is one of the most controversial of Olympic sports. Although the amateur boxing practiced at the Games is a far cry from professional bouts, its critics still believe it to be brutal, barbaric and unacceptably dangerous. Indeed, it is difficult to reconcile with the Olympic ideal a sport in which combatants aim to physically hurt one another. That aside, the sport has also produced some of the great names in Olympic history. The most famous of them is without doubt Cassius Clay.

47. EdGate Summer Games Athens 2004 is the place to learn about this year s olympic boxing events.For the most detailed descriptions of boxing s olympic history and a look at the http://www2.edgate.com/summergames/spotlight_sport/boxing.php

Brought to you by EdGate and Griffin Publishing Home About Athens Healthy Bodies ... Spotlight Sport Boxing Quite a few Olympic boxers have gone on to become world champions-gold medalists Sugar Ray Leonard (1976), Leon Spinks (1976), Michael Spinks (1976), George Foreman (1968), Joe Frazier (1964), Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay] (1960), and Floyd Patterson (1952)-just to name a few. Olympic boxers must be between the ages of 17 and 32; competitions are held in 12 weight divisions ranging from light flyweight (up to 48 kg, or about 106 lb) to super heavyweight (over 91 kg, or more than 200 lb). Click a link to read more about Scoring Competition News, History, Fast Facts

48. Potted History Some early history about women and the olympics. Married women were barred from the Kallipateria was the first female olympic boxing coach in 440 BC. http://www.olympicwomen.co.uk/Potted.htm

Potted History Some early history about women and the Olympics Married women were barred from the Ancient Olympic Games, but prostitutes or virgins were allowed to spectate. Kallipateria was the first female Olympic boxing coach in 440 BC. The first female Olympic champion was a Spartan princess called Kynisca, in 392 BC. She was also the first woman to become a champion horse trainer when her horses and chariot competed and won in the Ancient Olympic Games. Women had their own athletic games of Hera from about 1000 BC. Women were originally the prizes in mens Ancient Olympic chariot races. Ballooning, croquet and golf (1900) were once Olympic events in which women competed. Please see Statistics for more information. 1900 was the year the World Exhibition was scheduled to take place in Paris, with celebrations and events akin to our own Millennium celebrations. The Olympic Games were taking place at the same time, from 14th May to 28th October and were considered by many to be part of the World Exhibition. Some of the competitors did not know if they were in the Olympic Games or the World Fair. Happily for the women athletes of the time, the all male International Olympic Committee, who were very against women taking parts in sports, had little influence in Paris. The organisers of the World Exhibition seemed unconcerned about the rights and wrongs of women competing, so their presence was not an issue. To this day there is still confusion as to which events were Olympic and which were World Fair events. So, who were the first female Olympic competitors and champion? For a sport to be Olympic in 1900 it had to be an open sport, amateur and international, not handicapped and not motorised. The long-held view was that women took part in just

49. INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS boxing has a long sporting history. The earliest evidence of boxing is found in boxing was not included in the 1912 olympic Games in Stockholm because http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/history_uk.asp?DiscCode=BX&sportCode=

50. Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Muhammad Ali olympic Gold Medal in boxing, 1960; six Kentucky Golden Gloves titles; NationalGolden Gloves Download our free 2005 Black history Month wall calendar. http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/ali_m.htm

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52. Olympic Timeline The olympic Games in history. A brief look at humankind s most enduring sports Cassius Clay wins boxing title with soonto-be legendary flamboyance. http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/reshor/rh-win96/timeline.htm

The Olympic Games in History A brief look at humankind's most enduring sports spectacle The Ancient Olympic Games The Olympic Games were celebrated 320 times every four years in the sacred stadium at Olympia, Greece, beginning in 776 B.C. Though boxing and wrestling were added later, the first Olympic event was a sprint. The prize was an olive leaf and deification by poets, as well as recognition as a hero forever. The Modern Olympic Games Athens 1896 In 1892, French educator Baron Pierre de Coubertin proposes a renaissance of ancient Greek competition. In 1896, his dream is realized as England, Greece, Italy, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the United States open Games. James B. Connolly wins triple jump (the first medal in modern Olympic history); American flag is raised and Star Spangled Banner played, beginning tradition of honoring victor and his/her country. Paris 1900 Games opened to women. First female winner: Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain in singles tennis. Margaret Abbot of Chicago wins a gold medal in golf. Alvin Kraenzlein of U.S becomes first to win 4 gold medals. St. Louis 1904

53. MSN Encarta - Boxing Records indicate the sport was part of the ancient olympic Games of 688 bc. Unlike Britain, the United States had no real boxing history. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571782_6/Boxing.html

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55. Revisiting The Pagan Olympic Games - Christian History This was a vicious mix of wrestling, boxing, and street fighting in which punches, olympic Games. Eastern Orthodoxy Christian historyIssue 54 http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/newsletter/2004/aug19.html

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56. Global Nation | INQ7.net Quest for olympic boxing gold resumes By Manolo R. Iñigo it is only in boxingwhere Filipino athletes had won medals in recent olympic history. http://www.inq7.net/globalnation/sec_spo/2004/jan/05-03.htm

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57. Australia POST Stamps - Boxing Kangaroo The Australian olympic Committee bought the rights to the boxing Kangaroo imageduring the late 1980s and members of the Australian olympic Team carried a http://www.auspost.com.au/philatelic/stamps/bk/history.htm

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58. 1976 Summer Olympics: Information From Answers.com It was the first time in olympic history that the host country of the Summer This has been often called the greatest olympic boxing team the United http://www.answers.com/topic/1976-summer-olympics

showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Business Entertainment Games Health ... More... On this page: Wikipedia Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping 1976 Summer Olympics Wikipedia 1976 Summer Olympics Games of the XXI Olympiad Nations participating Athletes participating 6,028 (4,781 men, 1,247 women) Events 198 in 21 sports Opening ceremony July 17 Closing ceremony August 1 Officially opened by Elizabeth II Queen of Canada Athlete's Oath Pierre St.-Jean Judge's Oath Maurice Fauget Olympic Torch St©phane Pr©fontaine and Sandra Henderson Stadium Stade Olympique The 1976 Summer Olympics , officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad , were held in in Montreal Quebec Canada . Other candidates in the bid to organise the Olympics were Moscow and Los Angeles . The final choice was made on May 12 on the 69th IOC session Los Angeles was eliminated in the first round of voting. In the last round, Montreal defeated Moscow , 41 votes to 28 (with one blank vote). Highlights Canada , the host country, unfortunately left with only 5 silver medals and 6 bronze medals. It was the first time in Olympic history that the host country of the Summer Games won no gold medals. This feat had occurred previously only in the Winter Games - 1924 in Chamonix, France , 1928 in St. Moritz

59. 15th Asian Games - Doha - 2006 boxing has a long sporting history. The earliest evidence of boxing is found in The USA won all the medals when boxing made its debut on the olympic http://www.doha-2006.com/en/asian_games_2006/sports/boxing_history.htm

60. ETPostings Text Page Template East Timorese boxer Victor Ramos was dumped out of the olympic boxing tournament Rarely before in the history of the olympics can there have been such http://www.etan.org/et2000c/september/17-23/17ramos.htm

Home Background ETAN/US News ... Site Index Subject: Ramos overwhelmed in Olympic bout see also: OLYMPIC GAMES: BOXING - RAMOS DEFEAT WINS VICTORY FOR RAVAGED LAND AND SPIRIT OF SPORT Agence France Presse Ramos overwhelmed in Olympic bout SYDNEY, Sept 17 East Timorese boxer Victor Ramos was dumped out of the Olympic boxing tournament in a flurry of punches here Sunday night. Ramos, 30, fighting as an Individual Olympic Athlete in the lightweight category, lasted until 1:37 into the second round of the four-round contest before going under to Ghana's Raymond Narh on points 15-0. The fight was ended by Russian referee Stanislav Kirsanov under the competition's 15-point rule. The special International Olympic Committee (IOC) ruling, only the second of its kind in Olympic history following Yugoslavia's participation at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, enabled Ramos to compete in Sydney even though East Timor does not yet fulfil criteria for formal Olympic recognition. "I expected the Ghanaian to be strong. I feel well, but I'm not happy that the fight finished in the second round," Ramos said through an interpreter.

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