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Ms. Hahn's Olympic Research Project

Information Resources
 
Olympic Games: Sports and Athletes
This official Olympics site lists the sports and athletes that are part of the modern Olympic Games. Click on the sport name to get the basic background information on the sport and its events. Lists of Olympic Medals awarded for each sport at Torino are listed on this page. 

CIA World Factbook
Information on the countries of the world, from the famous spy center, The Central Intelligence Agency. Find out all the basic data about people, land and politics of a country. Includes maps. 

Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
Library Map Collection, at the University of Texas at Austin, holds more than 230,000 maps covering every area of the world. 

Reuters News Video
This is a good source of Olympics videos. Most are from interviews off site. Here is a direct link to the Torino Olympics Video Section of Reuters.

Here is a link to the Official Olympics Movies page, and to the official Olympics Photo Gallery. 

NBC-TV Olympics Videos 

This site has lots of streaming videos. They are very tricky to download, so it is probably better to link to them.
alltheweb Video Searcher 
Use this search engine to try and locate videos for use in your PowerPoint. 

Google Image Searcher 

Use this search engine to try and locate pages with videos for use in your PowerPoint. 

This page was created for Ms. Hahn's class by the CHS Librarian on 2-24-2006.