Search results for "Olympic sports" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona marked the first summer olympiad ... #039;s significance to the world of sports was erected in front of the ...21 KB (3,024 words) - 19:21, 14 August 2020
- an American collegiate coach in multiple sports, primarily football, and ... States.Ron Newsome, [http://www.ncaa.com/sports/m-footbl/champpage/inc/div3/m ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 17:21, 26 July 2023
- and the ancient Greek tradition of the Olympic Games, which originated ... century, with the advent of organized sports, public schools around the ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 05:07, 24 November 2022
- Hockey is a sport that is not only one of the major sports in the ... ice hockey. It is one of the more physical sports, and one of the four major ...19 KB (3,188 words) - 13:06, 1 February 2024
- World Heritage Site, and bids for a Winter Olympic Games, are an attempt to ... Baekdu is our territory." Chinese sports officials delivered a letter ...15 KB (2,130 words) - 05:38, 26 August 2023
- the entertainment industry, medicine, and sports. Gifts are generally distinguished ... manner of bribery in sport is the 2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating ...16 KB (2,479 words) - 22:58, 20 November 2023
- While most recognize the Olympic Games as the start of track and field ... 600 years earlier. From 776 B.C.E., the Olympic games were held in Olympia ...24 KB (3,812 words) - 04:52, 1 May 2023
- original events that was in the 1908 Olympic Games. Its three main types ... the sport of fencing at the first modern Olympic games in 1896, and women ...26 KB (4,245 words) - 17:16, 26 March 2024
- FIFA had helped organize the 1924 and 1928 Olympic soccer events but felt the ... In addition to the World Cup and Olympic competitions, FIFA organizes ...12 KB (1,724 words) - 00:03, 25 March 2024
- 270 cm). Ski jumping is part of the Winter Olympic Games, but can also be performed ... are forerunners of the "extreme" sports that have become popular ...18 KB (2,601 words) - 22:45, 29 January 2023
- at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level (senior), and at local ... Olympic sports in figure skating comprise the following disciplines: ...29 KB (4,650 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
- legacy synchronized swimming is now an Olympic event and her musicals inspired ... in 1984. The head of the International Olympic Committee during many of ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 04:22, 22 March 2024
- In a gesture to the Greek origins of the Olympic Games, Michel Bréal came ... The marathon races in the first few Olympic Games were not of a set ...30 KB (4,587 words) - 03:03, 6 November 2022
- amateur wrestling) has become an Olympic sport. ==History== aspects, was the supreme contest of the Olympic Games. The ancient Romans ...26 KB (4,025 words) - 01:00, 17 April 2023
- proved to be a major influence in modern sports photography; everyone, including ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure Category:Politicians ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 07:46, 6 March 2023
- #039;s medal sport at the modern Summer Olympic Games; it was played at ... Rugby union was played at four of the first seven modern Summer Olympic ...32 KB (5,080 words) - 20:33, 17 April 2023
- After a review by the International Olympic Committee, ballroom dancing ... Ice dancing, which became a Winter Olympic medal sport in 1976, is ...17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2023
- . Retrieved May 23, 2008.[http://www.olympic.org/ Official website of ... commenced within ten years. Entering the Olympic Games in 1928, India won ...33 KB (5,580 words) - 17:34, 26 March 2024
- to "enter," as the majority of sports organizations have not recognized ... The idea of jogging as an organized activity appeared in a sports ...12 KB (1,901 words) - 06:42, 5 April 2024
- he ran up against the brash Kentuckian and Olympic Gold Medal winner, Cassius ... come to cheer him. Philadelphia Daily News Sports Editor wrote: " A celebration ...14 KB (2,380 words) - 01:16, 4 February 2023
