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CYBERSPORTS GREEKS WILL GET MORE CYBER FREAKS.


Byline: Tom Hoffarth

The Internet's effect on the future of the Olympics will be the topic of discussion when the IOC IOC
abbr.
International Olympic Committee

IOC n abbr (= International Olympic Committee) → COI m

IOC n abbr (=
 meets in Lausanne, Switzerland in December.

Both the official Olympic Web site (www.olympics.com) and NBC's Olympic site (www.nbcolympics.com) had nearly eight million viewers who surfed the site an average of a half hour each time.

The total number of hits generated about 18 times the traffic for the official Nagano Winter Olympics site two years ago.

``Maybe in 2004 but definitely in 2008, that will be the first real Internet Olympics,'' Ioannis Synodinos, an official with the Athens 2004 Summer Games This article is about the Epyx video game series. For the international multi-sport event, see Summer Olympic Games.
Summer Games is a sports video game developed by Epyx and released by U.S. Gold based on sports featured in the Summer Olympic Games.
, told the San Jose Mercury News The San Jose Mercury News is the major daily newspaper in San Jose, California and Silicon Valley. The paper is owned by MediaNews Group. Its headquarters and printing plant are located in North San Jose next to the Nimitz Freeway (Interstate 880). .

``People will have their PCs and they will watch the Olympics in the toilet - or anywhere else they want to. Billions of people can use a PC and you can't deny it. It will be like radio. You won't be able to deny its use.''

--Urban Box Office network (www.ubo.com), which launched the official Marion Jones Marion Jones, also known as Marion Jones-Thompson (born October 12, 1975 in Los Angeles, California), is an American former athlete in track and field. She was the winner of five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, which she later relinquished after  site (www.marionjones.com) during the Olympics, will keep everyone up on her busy schedule once she returns from Sydney - such as a trip to Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown.  High in December to break ground on a new all-weather track named in her honor.

UBO also unveiled a site for Venus and Serena Williams Serena Jameka Williams, (born September 26, 1981) is an American former World No. 1 ranked female tennis player who has won eight Grand Slam singles titles and an Olympic gold medal in women's doubles.[1].  (www.williamssisters.com), which is also geared toward kids.

-- A virtual tour of Wilt Chamberlain's Bel-Air estate, which gives a 360-degree view of the house and its views of the city and Pacific Ocean, has been made available on the Home Advisor site (www.homeadvisor.msn.com/ homes/vtours/showcase.asp) and a iPix.com's site through Nov. 1.

The home of the late Lakers center is on the market for $7.75 million.
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Title Annotation:Sports
Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Oct 2, 2000
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