Olympics
Official Olympics Websites
Official Olympic
Websites
Official Site
of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games
http://www.athens2004.com
Here you can find daily summaries about specific sports and all
competitive events. Profiles of many athletes are also included
along with a look at the Olympic venues, history of the games
and a view of the city.
Official
Website of the Olympic Movement
http://www.olympic.org/uk/index_uk.asp
The Olympic Movement includes the International Olympic
Committee and other athletic committees that foster and promote
the Olympic spirit and values throughout the world.
Find all the news including events, press releases, publications
and live results from sporting events as well as the history of
the Olympic games and IOC information.
The United States Olympic
Committee's Official Web Site
http://www.usoc.org
The official site of the U.S. Olympic Team, this page offers
links to the official site of each Olympic sport. Learn all you
want to know about the history and rules of a particular sport,
as well as the costs of all necessary equipment, and a glossary.
In addition, you can find photos and detailed biographies of
each U.S. team member, including individual results. Still
curious? Links also explain the meanings and origins of the
official logos, as well as information about the ancient games,
the Paralympic Games, and the Pan American Games.
The United States
Olympic Team
http://www.usolympicteam.com
The official site of the US Olympic team featuring news,
bios and fan club information on all the US athletes events in
Athens.
Media
Coverage of the 2004 Athens Olympics
NBCOlympics.com
http://www.nbcolympics.com
NBC has created this website featuring daily highlights,
commentaries, news, athletes' profiles, event schedules and
results. There are links to each sport plus a short tour of
Athens and an interactive map of countries.
ESPN
- Athens 2004
http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/index
Heavy on Olympics news coverage, this site also links to each
sport, schedules and photos.
Olympics for Kids
USOC
Kid's Summer Olympics Base Camp
http://www.usolympicteam.com/kids/Athens/site/
Learn all about the different events, test your knowledge of
Olympic trivia, print out activities, play interactive games,
and lots more!
Scholastic
at the Olympics
http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/researchstarters/olympics/
Scholastic helps you explore the Olympic games with a short
history of the games and links to articles for additional
research.
The
New York Times Learning Network Athens 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/issues_in_depth/20040713.html
Meet some of this year's teen Team USA Olympic athletes
through interviews conducted by The Learning Network as
different teen athletes are featured throughout the Games.
The Athens 2004 Summer Olympics, Olympic history, historic front
pages, Olympic trivia, and heroes and legends are also featured
on this New York Times site.
Sports
Illustrated For Kids - 2004 Olympic Games
http://www.sikids.com/news/olympics2004/index.html
Features a sport-by-sport preview from archery to wrestling and
other Olympic fun facts.
The
Olympic Mascots
http://www.collectors.olympic.org/e/fimo/fimo_mascots_e.html
From the first "unofficial" mascot in 1968 to
2004, this site shows a timeline of Olympic mascots.
Mascots
of the 2004 Olympic Games
The two Mascots of the 2004
Olympic Games Phevos and Athena are brother and
sister and the official ATHENS 2004 Mascots. Their creation was
inspired by an ancient Greek doll and their names are
linked to ancient Greece. And yet the two siblings are children
of modern times.
Origins of the
Olympic Games
The
Ancient Olympic Games Virtual Museum
http://minbar.cs.dartmouth.edu/greecom/olympics/
Welcome to the Ancient Olympic Games Virtual Museum where you
will find a plethora of information about the contests that are
the forefathers of our modern Olympic Games.
The Ancient
Olympics
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/
"In this 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."
Olympics through
Time
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/olympics
An ancient history society in Greece presents this overview of
the Olympic Games through time, ranging from the prehistoric era
through classical antiquity and up to the present.
The
Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games
http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Olympics/olympicintro.html
"Have we strayed from the ancient Olympic ideal?"
Decide for yourself after comparing the ancient Games with the
modern. This site discusses the influence money and politics
have had on the Olympics over the ages, along with a look at the
issues of fairness and sexism in the Olympics over time.
More about the
Olympics
Interesting
Olympic Facts
A wealth of facts and trivia about the Olympics and Olympic
traditions can be found here, including gold medals that were
made entirely of gold, the bloody roots of the present-day
marathon event, the existence of the official Olympic sport of
motor boating, and nude competitors in ancient times.
Women
in the Olympic Movement
http://www.olympic.org/ioc/e/org/women/women_intro_e.html
This International Olympic Committee page offers an overview and
a discussion of the role of women in sport, and in the Olympic
Games.
Special Olympics
http://www.specialolympics.org
Not affiliated with the Olympics, "Special Olympics is a
nonprofit program of sports training and competition for
individuals with mental retardation...(providing) training and
athletic competition for more than one million athletes in
nearly 150 countries and all 50 states in the United
States." From this site, find athletes' profiles,
opportunities to contribute, and more.
Last updated 8/9/04
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