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School: British school in middle east games BUCS Nationals [40] 2010: 2024: 1 Great Britain, Sheffield: National: School: Can-Am Police-Fire Games [41] 1977: 2024: 2 United States, Butler: Regional: Occupation: Canada Summer Games: 1969: 2025: 2: St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador: National: Includes able-bodied, para sport, and Special ...
The Spanish Olympic Committee (Spanish: Comité Olímpico Español, COE) is responsible body for Spain's participation in the Olympic Games. Members of the committee are 35 sports federations, which elect the Executive Council composed of the president and 23 members.
for the second suspension in 2015–2017, athletes from Kuwait were also competing in several international competitions under the IOC flag, but this time in the team of Individual Olympic Athletes (IOA), including (but not only) in the 2016 Summer Olympics. MIX Mixed-NOCs: 2010– Used as the country code for Mixed NOCs at the Youth Olympics ...
Alois Podhajsky (24 February 1898 – 23 May 1973) was an Austrian soldier and Equestrian, riding instructor and Olympic medal-winner in dressage.He was the director of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, Austria [2] and competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics and the 1948 Summer Olympics.
The origin of the Olympics is shrouded in mystery and legend; [15]: p. 12 one of the most popular myths identifies Heracles and his father Zeus as the progenitors of the Games. [15]: pp. 12–13 [16] [17] [18] According to legend, it was Heracles who first called the Games "Olympic" and established the custom of holding them every four years. [17]
Spain hosted the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Spanish athletes have won a total of 192 medals in 33 different sports as of 2024 and the country currently ranks 25th in the all-time Summer Olympics medal count , with canoeing as the top medal-producing sport and sailing as the top gold medal-producing sport.
The top teams play in the Primera División (also called Liga Nacional de Fútbol Sala). In each division, a team plays all other teams twice, once at home and once away. [11] The Spanish league teams compete in Europe under UEFA, most notably in the UEFA Futsal Cup with great success, being the national league holding more continental titles. [12]
By 2034, eleven cities will have hosted the Olympic Games more than once: Athens (1896 and 2004 Summer Olympics), Paris (1900, 1924 and 2024 Summer Olympics), London (1908, 1948 and 2012 Summer Olympics), St. Moritz (1928 and 1948 Winter Olympics), Lake Placid (1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics), Los Angeles (1932, 1984 and 2028 Summer Olympics ...