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Olympics 2000 Links for Students and
Teachers
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General References on the Olympics
General Information on Sydney,
Australia
The Olympic Torch Relay
- Heroism:
The Olympics - Read
how the Australian Olympic Torch Relay celebrates the
heroes of the games, from the athletes to the everyday
community volunteers Historical
Information on the Olympics.
- Blue
Mountains - Olympic Torch - Read about the
Torch's September visit to this area of Australia in
2000.
- NBCOlympics.com:
Torch Relay - Daily updates on the progress
of the Olympic Torch across the Australian continent,
with a map.
- Pacific
Islands Receive Olympic Torch - Read about
the places where the 2000 Olympic torch was passed in
the Federated States of Micronesia.
- Queensland
Olympic Torch Relay - Learn how the torch
bearers travel through Australia with the Olympic
torch in 2000!
- Sydney
2000: Torch Tracker - Where's the Olympic
Torch today? Go on the road with the torch team, check
out extreme torch travels, and learn everything you
ever wanted to know about the relay!
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History of the Olympic Games
- Ancient
Olympics In this online exhibit,
you can compare ancient and modern Olympic sports, tour the site
of Olympia as it looks today, learn about the context of the Games
and the Olympic spirit, or read about the Olympic athletes who
were famous in ancient times.
- The
Olympic Museum The Olympic
Museum Internet site has a whole new look! This site, which is
constantly changing and growing, will soon have a section
dedicated to the past and future Olympic Games.
- Olympics
Through Time A history of early
athletic competitions and the Olympic Games from prehistory -
ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete, and Greece - through to the
modern world. Included are descriptions and rules for the early
athletic contests. There is a history of the attempts to revive
the Olympics. Also available are excerpts of interviews with
experts of the ancient Hellenic games, a bibliography, and a
glossary.
- The
Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games
Ancient Olympics @ University of Pennsylvania Museum of
Archaeology & Anthropology. The real story of the ancient
Olympic Games. Were the ancient games better than ours? More fair
and square? More about sports and less about money? Are modern
games more sexist? More political? Have we strayed from the
ancient Olympic ideal?
- Historical
Highlights of the Olympics
History of the Olympic Games, original contests,
mythological origins, religious significance.
- My
Virtual Reference Desk - 1996 Summer
Olympics
- The
Olympic Games Quilts There was a
very special quilt show in Atlanta in the spring of 1996. It was
the display, at the Nicholson Gallery of the Atlanta History
Center, of almost 400 quilts made in honor of the Centennial
Olympic Games held here that year.
- Alltime
Olympic Medal Winners: Summer
- Alltime
Olympic Medal Winners: Winter
Newspapers and Television Coverage of the
Olympics
- Washington
Post Online: The Olympics
- Time
Magazine: The Australian Olympics
- USA
Today: Atlanta Olympics
- Scholastic
at the Sydney Olympics
- ABC:
Olympics
- CBS
Sportline: The Olympics
- NBC:
Olympics
- Individual
Sports: Go here a click on
"Choose a Sport" to find out about any other the following sports:
archery, badminton, baseball, basketball, beach volleyball,
boxing, canoe and kayak, cycling, diving, equestrian, fencing,
field hockey, gymnastics, judo, modern pentathlon, mountain
biking, rhythmic gymnastics, rowing, sailing, shooting, soccer,
softball, swimming, synchronized swimming, table tennis,
taekwondo, team handball, tennis, track and field, trampoline,
triathlon, volleyball, water polo, weight lifting, and
wrestling.
Future Olympics
Information on Specific Teams