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08/28/2008
Orchestra admits 'miming' at Sydney Olympics in 2000 (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Eight years after it hosted an Olympics that were famously hailed as the "best games ever," Sydney has had to confess that it faked one of the key musical performances at the opening ceremony in 2000.
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08/29/2008
UEFA warns against UK team for 2012 Olympics (ESPN Soccernet.com)
UEFA general secretary David Taylor has warned that forming a Great Britain football side for the Olympics could see Scotland 'disappear off the international stage'.
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08/28/2008
Mobile And Online Olympics Coverage Didn't Cannibalize TV In Canada: CBC (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance)
TV viewership didn't drop off in Canada during the Olympics despite a jump in mobile and online access, the Canadian Press reports. CBC generated more than 46 million page views during the Olympics – nearly double the 27 million page views it registered during the 2004 games.
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08/29/2008
Olympics: Cyclists may train in London to prepare for 2012 Games (The Star)
KUALA LUMPUR: National cyclists can look forward to a new training base overseas in their programme for the 2012 London Olympics. The Malaysian National Cycling Federation (MNCF) are looking at using London as the gateway to more competitive races in Europe.
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08/29/2008
ANTON/BAUER SOARS AT BEIJING OLYMPICS (Broadcast Newsroom)
DMN Newswire--2008-8-28--The recent broadcast of the 2008 Beijing Olympics went off without a hitch, thanks to an array of equipment from Anton/Bauer , the world's premier provider of professional camera batteries, chargers, lighting and other key mobile power equipment.
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08/29/2008
Brooke Miller: Counting down the days until London Olympics (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
1,428. That's how many days remain before the start of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Not one day will pass in which Brooke Miller doesn't think about competing in the road race event at the London Games.
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08/29/2008
Olympics: Real World or Enchanted Village? (Santa Monica Mirror)
There exists a handful of default scenarios tied to any Olympics, and most of us are familiar with them.
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08/29/2008
Kids duathlon to aid Special Olympics (West Salem Coulee News)
An upcoming duathlon will give kids a chance to put their running and biking skills to the test while raising money for Special Olympics.
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08/29/2008
What Did We Learn From These Olympics? (Blogcritics.org)
Now that the 2008 Games have come and gone, let's see how much we actually discovered. With the closing ceremonies last weekend, the Beijing Olympics have officially come to an end. These Games featured their share of exhilarating victories, devastating defeats, and questionable antics, just like the Olympiads of yore. So, barring any unforeseen Russian invasions of Georgian locker rooms, let’s ...
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08/28/2008
London Olympics: Dream or nightmare? (Philstar.com via Yahoo! Philippines News)
Three weeks ago, we wrote about the need for Team Philippines to have with them lots of luck while participating in the Beijing Olympics.
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| Austrian Olympic History - Historical results of Austrian athletes competing at Summer and Winter Olympics. Includes medal count tables of all countries. An unofficial site.Boucherphilex - The complete program and results of the olympics in English and French illustrated with pictures from a philatelic collection.Cultural Olympiad - The International Foundation for the Cultural Olympiad plans many events in the 2000-2004 years. The site presents the basic idea, examples, themes, plan.databaseOlympics - Comprehensive medal history of every summer and winter olympics since 1896. Site is indexed by sport category, country, athletes and venues.Dicolympic - Dictionary of the Olympic Games offers a reference to Olympic games news and history from Olympia to Sydney 2000.GamesBids.com - A comprehensive review of the Olympic bid business. Contains news, information, glossary and an active forum.Hickock Sports - Index to the Olympics - Offers a detailed history of the games organized by year along with medal winners for each event.History House: Stories: Olympic Follies - Amateur glory of Olympics in the early twentieth century upheld in wacky marathon, racial exercises.History of Our Olympic Games - Some information and a brief history of modern and ancient games.Infoplease Olympics - Historic results and statistics plus summaries of every Olympic Winter and Summer Games.International Centre for Olympic Studies - Established at The University of Western Ontario in 1989. It has as its primary mission the generation of academic scholarship focused specifically upon the socio-cultural study of the Modern Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement.International Olympic Numismatic Federation - Official site featuring the collection and study of coins, bank notes, medals and tokens. Contains event information, collector resources and a photo gallery.International Society of Olympic Historians - The purpose of the ISOH is to promote and study the Olympic Movement and the Olympic Games. Includes membership, constitution, links, and the Journal of Olympic History.A Journey Through: The Olympics - An interactive site about Olympics, the IOC, how the competitions are held, the ancient games and World Olympic Records, Paralympics. Includes also message boards to voice out opinions on olympic issues, interactive puzzles and quizzes.Marcolympics - Comprehensive database of all Olympic program guides for summer and winter games. Includes images of each program and navigation to each day's events.The Monument Of the Immortals - Non-profit organization dedicated to establishing a monument in Olympia, Greece to honor the history and sportsmanship of Olympic competitors. Includes information on sponsorship.Olympic Games Links - This site has links to news and information about the Olympic Games.Olympic Games Medallists - Complete list of medallists in all sports at both Summer and Winter Olympic Games.Olympic Games Museum - A virtual museum of statistics and items such as medals, diplomas, tickets, and posters.Olympic Museum - A virtual visit of the permanent exhibits, a virtual gallery with Nagano ceremonies, a philatelic and numismatic exhibition, concerts and conferences, a research centre.Olympic Studies International Directory - Directory compiling information on the institutions and researchers carrying out research, activities or with a documentary collection on the Olympic Games.Olympic Television Archive Bureau - OTAB is a sporting film and television library, offering films and videos that chronicles the Olympic Games history. The new acquisitions, the archive, olympic programming, information about services, and FAQs.Olympic Truce - Describes the history of the concept of world peace through sports, description of the foundation and news items.Olympics Through Time - Historical profile from prehistory through revival. Contains glossary, links and a comprehensive bibliography.Science and the Olympics - Science and technology played a small role in the original Olympics, which prompted a brief truce in any wars the Greeks happened to be fighting. These days, science and technology play a dominant role in the quadrennial Games.SurfJones: Olympics - A guide to the best, worst, and strangest Olympics stuff on the Web.US Anti-Doping Agency - USADA, the independent agency, is responsible for managing the testing for U.S. Olympic, Pan Am, and Paralympic athletes, and for preserving the integrity of sport through research initiatives and educational programs.Wikipedia: Olympic Games - Encyclopedia article with history and current events.World Anti-Doping Agency - Promotes, coordinates, and monitors at the international level the fight against doping in sports in all its forms.Zappas.org - Campaigning for the formal recognition of those who revived the Olympic Games in modern times. Offers a timeline of events and commentary on publications concerning the revival of the Olympics.
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