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It's a nightmare-inducing feat for most teens in physical education (been there), but believe it or not, the activity was an official Olympic sport in 1896, 1904, 1906, 1924 and 1932.
The Olympics, just without drug testing requirements. They hope an athlete can beat Usain Bolt's 100m dash record soon. Eton wall game: A sport played annually on St. Andrew's Day on a 5-by-110-metre (16 ft × 361 ft) field. The last goal was scored in 1909. Extreme ironing
Running deer shooting at the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games. Credit - AP. T here will be 32 sports at the Paris Summer Olympic Games (Jul. 26-Aug. 11). While some events—such as fencing, swimming ...
Aeronautics at the 1936 Summer Olympics; Alpinism at the Olympic Games; American football at the 1932 Summer Olympics; American football at the Summer Olympics; Angling at the 1900 Summer Olympics; Art competitions at the Summer Olympics; Australian football at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Most organizing committees then decided to include at least one demonstration sport at each edition of the Games, usually some typical or popular sport in the host country, like baseball at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games and taekwondo at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. From 1924 to 1992, only two Summer Olympics Games did not have ...
Read More: 5 of the Wackiest Sports in Olympic History. In the quarterfinals, the knockout phase begins. Competitors face each other head-to-head, in a best-of-three rounds format. Each breaker ...
Games Gold Silver Bronze 1896 Athens details – 14 m (45 ft 11 in): Nicolaos Andriakopoulos Greece Thomas Xenakis Greece Fritz Hofmann Germany 1904 St. Louis details – 7.62 m (25 ft 0 in)
No Summer Olympics are without their share of upsets. Here are 15 of the greatest upsets of all-time.