Search results for "Olympic sports" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Category:Athletes and sports professionals Coubertin, Pierre de ... " Coubertin was active in many sports and regarded sports as playing ...10 KB (1,541 words) - 05:26, 24 November 2022
- became the first Korean athlete to win an Olympic medal when he won the gold ... 195 kilometers in 2:29:19.2. He broke the olympic best and received the gold ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 15:58, 14 October 2022
- times declared that he was a potential Olympic winner. No one from Scotland ... and his decision was made well before the Olympic Games began. Liddell spent ...8 KB (1,362 words) - 19:25, 13 February 2024
- ==Olympic sports== Currently, the Olympic program consists of 35 different ... requires that there be a minimum of 15 Olympic sports at each Summer Games ...28 KB (4,253 words) - 00:34, 18 November 2022
- Olympic National Park, on Washington state's Olympic Peninsula ... In 1976, Olympic National Park became an International Biosphere Reserve ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 02:28, 19 December 2022
- of all time. In 2005, both NBC sports announcer, Bob Costas, and ... #039;s exit had been pre-scheduled). Olympic committee officials then ...10 KB (1,557 words) - 08:12, 3 April 2024
- Equestrian sports involve many types of horse competition from classical ... Equestrian sports combine the beauty and power of the horse with the ...17 KB (2,688 words) - 19:15, 13 February 2024
- team to a gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in a spectacular event ... member of the 1964 and 1968 United States Olympic teams. He almost made the ...18 KB (2,744 words) - 14:09, 9 February 2022
- Sports journalism is a form of journalism that reports on sports topics ... While the sports department within some newspapers has been mockingly ...19 KB (2,940 words) - 21:42, 7 February 2023
- #039;s attention. He was also the first Olympic gold medalist to win a world ... for the young Patterson; in addition to Olympic gold, he won the National ...10 KB (1,626 words) - 17:44, 28 March 2024
- is known for having been the site of the Olympic Games in classical times ... revived with the introduction of the Olympic Torch relay, in which the ...17 KB (2,779 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- or long track speed skating) is an Olympic sport where competitors ... in 1892, the first international winter sports federation. The Nederlandse ...27 KB (4,168 words) - 15:19, 27 April 2023
- was an American collegiate champion and Olympic runner born in Coos Bay, Oregon. ... he competed. Prefontaine made the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine at the ...16 KB (2,478 words) - 00:45, 26 February 2023
- inductee to the McGill University Sports Hall of Fame in 1996. ... #039;s sport was officially added to the Olympic Games program at the 1936 ...14 KB (2,207 words) - 08:49, 18 March 2024
- of the most versatile athletes in modern sports. He won Olympic gold medals ... amateur rules was a technicality that most sports fans were willing to overlook ...24 KB (3,676 words) - 21:00, 3 April 2024
- 1830, it rapidly evolved into a perennial Olympic sport. ... C.E. the Emperor Theodosius abolished the Olympic Games, which by then had ...18 KB (2,771 words) - 07:20, 28 July 2023
- and field athletics, is a collection of sports events that involve running ... Later, The Roman Games stressed the Greek sports of chariot racing and wrestling ...27 KB (4,185 words) - 05:55, 21 August 2023
- major sporting events, including several Olympic Games (1964, 1972, 1992 ... YARD brand. It also produces stop watches, sports timing devices, fitness products ...18 KB (2,543 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- television production, created prime-time sports television, and introduced ... Goldenson then turned his attention to sports telecasting, quickly ...8 KB (1,119 words) - 20:12, 25 October 2022
- best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals and one bronze ... boat capsized in a sudden storm. As an Olympic swimmer, Weissmuller was ...18 KB (2,678 words) - 14:44, 15 April 2023
