Olympics
Updated January 23, 1997

History Organizations Print Media Broadcast Media
General Sport Organizations Sponsors Related Events
Future Games Olympic Buzz AJC Olympic Info Want More?


Olympic History

Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles History of the games, the Olympic Movement, and symbols - the rings, the flame, the torch relay, medals and mascots
The Ancient Olympic Games Virtual Museum A pretty darn cool look at Olympic history. Courtesy of Dartmouth (also the birthplace of BASIC!)

Olympic Organizations

USOC The official USOC site, brought to you by the folks at the peacock network. A good source of information on the United States Olympic Committee. Among other things, includes information on Olympic training centers and a profile of a different athlete each week.
IOC Press releases, structure and history of the International Olympic Committee. Information on sports federations.
Columbus 96 The folks who hosted the Olympic softball venue in Columbus, GA.
Birmingham, AL The folks who hosted the Olympic soccer venue.

Print Media

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The AJC's comprehensive site including news updates from the AJC as well as information on lodging, transportation, food, entertainment, and more.
Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph Hometown paper for the home of the USOC.
Sports Illustrated Articles from the web site from the past 30 days; selected articles from SI, including profiles of Gwen Torrence and Billy Payne; records by sport; background on sports and athletes; Olympic timeline.
The Sydney Morning Herald Olympic coverage from the home of the next Summer Games.
USA Today Online Olympics special section. Click on "Search" bar to look for previous articles by topic.

Broadcast Media

 CNN   All aspects of Olympic news. Click on search bar to search entire site. October 1995 is earliest date for an article mentioning Atlanta and the Olympics.
 ESPN   A comprehensive site with news and background on the games; lists of medal winners; detailed schedules of events and TV coverage.
 NBC   News updates, NBC event programming, background on athletes and sports.

General Information

Georgia Tech   Georgia Tech and the games - including information on the Olympic Village and the Aquatic Center.
 It's Atlanta   A local site filled with links. Possibly the mother of all unofficial Olympic websites.

Sport Organizations

International Sports Federations   The "It's Atlanta" site containing links to unofficial and official Olympic sites.
 National Sports Teams & Federations   The "It's Atlanta" site containing links to unofficial and official Olympic sites.
 Want More?   You can also use these links to look for a site related to a specific sport.

Sponsors

 AT&T   Links to homepages of the 26 athletes sponsored by AT&T. Map and live photo view of Centennial Olympic Park.
 IBM   Details of IBM technology support for the games.
 Xerox   Information on 100 Golden Olympians - former U.S. gold medal winners.

Related Events

 Paralympics   Web page for Paralympics in Atlanta, August 15-25.

Future Games

 Nagano, Japan   Winter Games, 1998
 Sydney, Australia   Summer Games, 2000
 Salt Lake City, Utah   Winter Games, 2002

Olympic Buzz

 atl.olympics   The Olympics in Atlanta, GA.
 clari.sports.olympic   The Olympic Games. (AP)
 rec.sport.olympics   All aspects of the Olympic Games.

AJC Olympic Info

 Beat Lists

  List of AJC and other Cox employees who were assigned to the Olympic Desk and their respective PODs/desks and / or beat.

Bibliography

   Annotated Bibliography of AJC Olympic Resources

  By the Numbers

   Facts about the Olympics (done pre-Olympics)

 Olympic Articles

   How to find Olympic articles in Documaster

Want more?

 Yahoo   Yahoo's Olympic links.
 InfoSeek   InfoSeek's Olympic links.


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