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As the closing ceremony marked the end of this year's summer Games, it also got the ball rolling for Beijing.

Never have the Summer Games taken place in a more suspicious atmosphere.

This was Isinbayeva's first appearance at a Summer Games, but it is likely to be the first of many Olympic adventures for the 22-year-old.

In the four years ending with the next Summer Games in London in 2012, this could swell to, or even exceed, $7bn.

For the first time, the Canadian Olympic Committee will pay bonus money to coaches of athletes who win medals at the Summer Games in London.

China has notched this unlikely record in the afterglow of its Summer Games, one of the most extravagant Olympics in history.

Contracts for so-called "top partners" span at least four years to include both winter and summer games.

Jesus and Maria Manzano are traveling to the Summer Games to see Leonel, a U. S. 1, 500 meters runner, compete in his first Olympics.

The summer Games returned to the United States for the first time since the Second World War and to Los Angeles for the second time.

Now, Olympiads occur every two years, alternating between the winter and summer games.

China's food safety work for the Summer Games would serve as a "model for food safety work in China" and for future Olympic events, he said.

One of its triumphs was training chefs who cooked for Olympic athletes at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.

Most recently, protesters opposed to the awarding of the 2008 Summer Games to China disrupted the Olympic torch relay around the world.

The next World Summer Games are in Athens in two thousand eleven.

That means any post-Olympics construction payback should have occurred quite some time ago rather than in the aftermath of the summer games.

At age 11, while watching the 1996 Summer Games, Michael began to fantasize about becoming a world champion swimming someday.

As Winter Olympic Games and Summer Games held alternately, the Olympic flame will be rekindled every two years time.

Athletes from different countries compete in a variety of sports which are divided into winter and summer games.

Thank you for attending tonight's opening ceremonies of the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games. Good luck to the athletes!

Athletes from many countries compete in a variety of sports which are divided into winter and summer games.

But the coming Summer Games have prompted China's leaders to respond to criticism, particularly over the country's handling of Darfur.

Example: The 30th Olympic Summer Games will be held in London.

Londoners, who are preparing for the much bigger and more expensive summer games two years later, will doubtless be watching with interest.

Which city hosted the first Olympic Summer Games to be held south of the equator?

The Winter Olympics are usually held two years before the Summer Games.

But I? ? ? the recent peak in the summer games are ready for the work!

Somewhat more troubling, however, would be the 1936 inclusion of gliding in the Summer games in Berlin.

Initially, the Summer Games and Winter Games are in odd-numbered years and held since 1981 to be held in the same year.

Which European port city was nearly destroyed World War I but recovered 20 months after the war's end to host ? the Summer Games?

No athlete has ever been more important to a host country's Olympic efforts than Yao Ming is to the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.

The members of the International Olympic Committee decided that the host city for the 2016 summer games will be Rio de Janeiro.

Since the War began, how many times have the Olympic Summer Games been cancelled?

Seoul's hosting of the 1988 Summer Games marked the country's emergence as a modern, industrialised state.

It is the first time the summer games have been held in Asia and only the second time outside the U.

What were the two important occasions for women at the Olympic Summer Games?

including spending six months in Athens gaining experience and working as technical officials at the 2004 Summer Games there.

In each event, each country can have only three entries in the Summer games, and four entries in the Winter Games.

The last summer games in North America were in Atlanta in 1996.

Qingdao is the site of the sailing competition for the Summer Games.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Shanghai and the opening ceremony of the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games!

To maximize interest, the IOC moved the winter and summer Games to separate years in the early 1990s.

The International Olympic Committee is meeting in Copenhagen this week to select a host city for the 2016 Summer Games.

Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo are all in the running for the summer games.

Winter Games and Summer Games. held once every four years. this one in the northern county of Japan's Nagano.

The last summer games in the French capital were in 1924.

The first Olympic medal for the Soviet Union was won by Belarusian Mikhail Krivonosov at the 1956 Summer Games held in Melbourne, Australia.

which country has held the olympic summer games and olympic winter games the most times ?

Which city was two votes behind Sydney in its bid to host the 2000 Olympic Summer Games?

The International Olympic Committee is already negotiating for the 2014 winter and 2016 summer games.

Match the year and host city of the following Summer Games.

On Oct. 2 the International Olympic Committee will meet in Copenhagen to choose the site for the 2016 Summer Games.

Britain salutes its Olympic heroes, but there are questions about money for the Summer Games London will host in 2012.

Before that, figure skaters had competed at the Summer Games as early as 1908.

The modern summer games began in 1896, and the first year of the winter games was in 1924. Each is held every four years.

In 1896, the first of the modern summer games opened in Athens, Greece.

On more than 400 pages featuring about 2, 000 pictures, you can have a look at memorable moments of the Olympic Summer Games.

A big repeal going into the 2008 Summer Games, what does it mean for Nike to be in China and supporting a team of US basketball?

The 2007 World Summer Games will be held in Shanghai, we need volunteers to participate and contribute. I hope you will join us.

Montreal (host of the 1976 Summer Games) reportedly lost 1 billion.

Still, he leaves Omaha today thinking only about how he can sharpen his edge in the month until the Summer Games begin.

How many times (include those not celebrated) have the Olympic Summer Games been held till today?

Figure skating was part of the Summer Games of 1908 and 1920, and ice hockey was played in 1920.

Do you know that 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games will be held in Shanghai?

Which city will the Olympic Summer Games of 2004 return to?

Japan also hosted the summer games in Tokyo in 1964.

South Korea hosted the Summer Games in 1988 and the world cup soccer finals together with Japan in 2002.

Host Greece won the most medals (47) at the first Olympic Summer Games in 1896.

Beijing will hold the 29th Olympic Summer Games in 2008.

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