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Sports and Athletics

The official Web Site of the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF), the world governing body for the sport of athletics. Check here for news, records, results and other information on world wide amateur sports and athletes.

The story of how women came to have athletic programs supported and funded on an equal basis as men. Title IX is a section of the 1972 Federal Education Amendments that requires that "no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex... be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."

The Olympics

The official XVIII Olympic Winter Games Site that looks forward in festive anticipation of the Olympic events.

The Olympic Games from the view of the United States teams. Plenty of pictures and backgroundinformation on the American athletes and the Olympic sports is included.

A feminist collection of information about women in the Olympics.

"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."

Explores the three periods of prehistory, antiquity and modern revival of the Olympic Games.

News stories on the 1998 Nagano Olympics prepared by two major news sources: CNN & Sports Illustrated.

Links to sports federations and other information providers related to the Olympics. Many of the sports have their own pages where you can find out about them and their events. (e.g., baseball. basketball, skating, badminton, etc.)

Other Sports Sites

Search this website for a wide variety of informatiuon related to sports, including news stories, statistics and biographical information on people, events, and other sports information.

Online version of a newspaper devoted to sports. Find scores, reports, and other related information here.

ESPN on the Web, with their unique approach to sports information (lots available.)

Lots of links to sports information, mostly professional, but also to college and recreational sports.

At one time, the baseball leagues were separated by race. This page is dedicated to the Negro Baseball Leagues.

Online version of a popular magazine of golfing.

If golf is your game, this is the Web Home Page for you. Lots and lots of information about golf!

This Web page will answer many of your questions about the sport of tennis, with recent news on events, tournaments, and the game.

A large collection (850 kilobytes) of athletics statistics! Find out who is or was the fastest, best, etc.

This page contains links to World Wide Web pages and other information concerning the statistics of the sport of Athletics (also known, in the United States, as Track and Field).

From Finland comes a site that has records of athletic performance.