Alternative Games Contents:
Children's and Youth's (Sports) Games Amateur Athletic Foundation (AAF)
is a private nonprofit institution. It began in 1984 with surplus funds from the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. The AAF mission is "to serve youth
through sport and to increase knowledge of sport and its impact on people's lives". The home site
provides details on the Amateur Athletic Foundation; youth and sport; the sport's library held by the
AAF; Olympic information (including links to relevant sites); AAF publications and sports art and artifacts.
http://www.aafla.org/
Goodwill Games Business Wire
, a commercial news distribution company, hosts this page prepared by the organizers of the 1998 New York Goodwill Games
. Conceived following boycotts of the Olympic Games, the Goodwill Games aims to promote international peace through sport. This page, in a
question and answer format, provides information on the history, role, philosophy and organization of the Goodwill Games.
http://www.businesswire.com/emk/goodwill/goodqna.htm Goodwill Games
, official home site of the Goodwill Games, with information on the mission, history and quick facts about the Goodwill Games past, present and future.
http://goodwillgames.com/html/hm_index.html USA Today
, produced this page which provides detailed information on the 1998 Goodwill Games
in New York. The page includes full text of Games related articles that appeared in USA
Today, a day by day analysis of the outcomes, and a country-by-country tally of medals won.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/gwg/gwg01.htm
Winter Olympics Salt Lake City 2002 XIX Olympic Winter Games
website provides access to general information on the games as well as more specific details on merchandise; business opportunities;
news and media; Paralympics and sports & venues. Links to pages with activities for children that
can be downloaded (such as colour in pages) are also available. The Winter Games will take place
from 8 - 24 February 2002 and will include 70 medal events in seven separate sports.
http://www.SLC2002.org/main.html The
Meloche Family website provides a range of information about the upcoming Winter Olympics
in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2002. Contains information about Salt Lake City's bid, information on the
construction of Olympic venues and highlighting the role of the press from the perspective of the Meloche family and their involvement in previous Winter Olympics.
http://meloche.net/olympics.htm
Paralympics The
2002 Winter Paralympic Games in Salt Lake City official web site contains a wide range of information about the upcoming games.
http://www.saltlake2002.org/sloc/paralympics/parainfo.html The official site of the
International Paralympic Committee, which is the international
representative organisation of elite sports for athletes with disabilities. The IPC organises, supervises
and co-ordinates the Paralympic Games and other multi-disability competitions at the elite sports level, of which the most important are world and regional championships.
http://www.paralympic.org/
Special Olympics The
Special Olympics is "an international program of year-round sports training and athletic
competition for more than one million children and adults with mental retardation." (Oath, Mission
and Philosophy, Special Olympics website) The site provides a history and access to information on
all aspects of the Special Olympics, including how to volunteer or make a donation.
http://www.specialolympics.org/ |
