Since which olympic games, has this sport always taken place?

To respect the ancient origins of the OlympicGames, which were held every four years at Olympia. The four-year interval between the Ancient Games editions was named an “Olympiad”, and was used for dating purposes at the time: time was counted in Olympiads rather than years. In 1894, Pierre de Coubertin launched his plan to revive the Olympic Games, and in 1896 the first Games of the modern era were held in Athens. Today, anOlympiad begins on the first of January of the first year and ends on the thirty-first of December of the fourth year. Learnmore: • • Factsheet: the Olympic Games of Antiquity • Educational series: The Olympic Games in Antiquity

© elaborah/Fotolia The The first step in the process of becoming an Olympic sport is recognition as a sport from the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The IOC requires that the activity have administration by an international nongovernmental organization that oversees at least one sport. Once a sport is recognized, it then moves to International Sports Federation (IF) status. At that point, the international organization administering the sport must enforce the Olympic Movement Anti-Doping Code, including conducting effective out-of-competition tests on the sport’s competitors while maintaining rules set forth by the Olympic Charter. A sport may gain IOC recognition but not become a competing event at the Olympic Games. To become a part of the Games, the sport’s IF must apply for admittance by filing a petition establishing its criteria of eligibility to the IOC. The IOC may then admit an activity into the Olympic program in one of three different ways: as a sport; as a discipline, which is a branch of a sport; or as an event, which is a competition within a discipline. For instance, Once an IF has presented its petition, many rules and regulations control whether the sport will become part of the Olympic Games. The Olympic Charter indicates that in order to be accepted, a sport must be widely practiced by men in at least 75 countries and on four continents and by women in no fewer than 40 countries and on three continents. The sport must also increase the ‘‘value and...

The Olympic Games took their name from the Ancient Greek city of Olympia. Though there were important athletic competitions held in other Greek cities in ancient times, the Olympic Games were regarded as the most prestigious. The games were held every four years during August and September and the term "Olympiad," which referred to the four-year interval between competitions, was commonly used as a measurement of time. The Ancient Olympics Illustration depicting the ancient Olympic Games. The first documented Olympic champion was named Coroebus, a cook from Elis who won the sprint race in 776 BCE. It is possible that these were not the first Olympic Games to take place, but only the first recorded one. The Olympic Games originally featured only one event: a race called the "stade," equal to a distance of about 210 yards. By 728 BCE, two additional races had been added, comparable to the 400 m and 1,500 m races of the modern games. The Olympics came to include wrestling, boxing and the pentathlon, as well as specialized events for soldiers and heralds. It was only in 472 BCE that the events were spread out over a period of four to five days. Previously, they had all taken place on a single day. Participation in the Olympic Games was originally limited to free-born Greeks, but as Greek civilization was spread by the conquests of The idea of reviving the Olympic Games originated in The organizers had planned the first modern Olympics for 1900 in Paris, but later decided to mo...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) governs the modern Games. It was founded in 1894. Its headquarters are in Lausanne, The flag of the Olympic Games has five linked rings on a white background. The rings represent the five parts of the world joined together by the Games: the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. The rings are blue, yellow, black, green, and red. The colors of the rings and the white background came from national flags. At least one of the colors appears in every country’s flag. The Olympic Games begin with an opening ceremony. Each country’s team enters the Olympic stadium dressed in its official uniform. An athlete carrying the team’s national flag leads each group. The Greek team is always the first to enter the stadium. The other nations follow in alphabetical order, according to the language of the host country. The host team is always the last. During the ceremony the Olympic flag is raised. Then an important person from the host country carries a torch into the stadium and lights a fire, called the Olympic flame. (The torch is lit in Olympia, Greece. A series of runners then carries the torch from Greece to the host country.) The Olympic flame burns until the Games are over. A victory ceremony is held during the Games after the end of each event. Medals are awarded for first, second, and third place. In order from first to third, the medals are gold, silver, and bronze. The flags of the winners’ countries are raised while the national...

In the history of the Summer Olympics, the United States has been the most successful nation ever, with a combined total of more than 2,600 medals in 28 Olympic Games. More than one thousand of these were gold, with almost 800 silver and over 700 bronze. The second most successful team in Summer Olympic history was the Soviet Union**, who took home 440 golds and more than 1,100 total medals in ten Olympic Games between 1952 and 1992. When the total medal hauls of the Soviet Union, Russia and the Russian Empire are combined, they still fall short of the U.S. tally by almost one thousand medals. The third most successful Olympic team is that of Great Britain, who have participated in all 29 Olympic Games since 1896, and have taken home 285 golds and 916 total medals. China are in fourth place with more than 260 gold medals, but when all of the medals won by German athletes are combined they total at 438 golds and more than 1,380 overall. Emerging nations While European and Anglophone nations have The influence of money, politics and drugs As mentioned above, European and Anglophone countries have dominated the medals tables in the past; this is because they had the financial resources to send athletes around the world to compete, and, until 1964, the host cities were always in these countries, which cause financial and logistical difficulties for African, Asian and Latin American countries. Financial difficulties have caused some countries to refuse invitations to the Olympi...

Representatives of various countries line up at the opening ceremony of the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium.  The 1920 games in Antwerp, Belgium were the first in which a nation was actively disinvited. Germany was blamed for starting World War I, and even though the country was under a new government—known as the Weimar Republic—Belgian, and later French Olympic officials banned German athletes from participating in both the 1920 and 1924 Olympics. Twenty years after the canceled 1916 games, Germany was again due to host the Olympics in 1936, this time Instead, the 1936 Berlin Games were allowed to go on amid a Nazi regime intent on using sport to demonstrate Adolf Hitler’s theories of racial superiority. READ MORE: The Modern Summer Olympic Games: A Timeline World War II Leads to Two Olympic Game Cancellations A Japanese woman showing the flags of the Olympic Games planned to be in Tokyo in 1940. The last time the Olympics were canceled was during London was supposed to host the 1944 summer Olympics, but those were summarily canceled due to the ongoing war. Same for the 1944 winter games in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. London eventually hosted the 1948 games, but banned German and Japanese athletes from participation. Since its inception in 1894, the IOC has claimed to be an apolitical and neutral body with the mission to promote international peace and understanding through sport. But critics like David Goldblatt, professor of history at Pitzer College and auth...

CHAPTER 7 THE OLYMPICS If professional team sports in the The XXVIII Olympiad took place over seventeen days in August 2004. These Summer Olympics were held in The winter games are much smaller than the summer games. For example, at the 2006 winter games in The IOC regularly reviews which sports are to be included in the –20), golf (1900 –04), rugby (1900, 1908, and 1920 –24), and polo (1900, 1908, 1920 –24, and 1936). For the 2008 summer games, women's boxing was eliminated, whereas open-water swimming and women's steeplechase were added. Before the 1996 games the Olympics sometimes included demonstration sports, the purpose of which was to showcase an emerging or locally popular sport before a global audience. Winners in these sports were not officially recognized as Olympic champions. Some of these sports, such as flat-water canoeing and kayaking, were later added as regular Olympic events at subsequent games. Winter sports that have been demonstrated include speed skiing, curling, and freestyle aerial skiing. HISTORY OF THE OLYMPICS In "The Ancient Olympic Games, 776 B.C. –393 A.D." (2007, —a two-hundred-yard foot race called the stadion —to twenty events spread over several days. Like today, the Greek As the –395). 1896 –Athens, Greece 1900 – 1904 –St. Louis, 1908 –London, 1912 –Stockholm, 1920 –Antwerp, 1924 –Paris, France 1928 –Amsterdam, 1932 – 1936 –Berlin, 1948 –London, United Kingdom 1952 –Helsinki, 1956 –Melbourne, 1960 – 1964 –Tokyo, 1968 – 1972 – 1976 –Montre...

Because the Olympics took a while to catch on around the world, all-time medal tables in some sports are skewed toward the mostly Western countries that participated early and faced relatively little competition. As the Games grew from 13 countries in 1896 to more than 200, newcomers have toppled some traditional powers. Then in 1968, Kenya’s Amos Biwott won the final in unorthodox style, leaping over the water jump like a hurdler rather than propelling himself off the barrier. Another Kenyan, Benjamin Kogo, took silver. Four years later, Kenyans placed first and second again, led by Kip Keino, a policeman and world record holder who became the country’s first athletic superstar. Throughout the match, players traded blows, insults and underwater headlocks. With about a minute left and Hungary leading 4-0, a Soviet player rose out of the water and cold-cocked 21-year-old Ervin Zador, who had scored two goals. As blood poured from a gash that would require eight stitches near Zador’s eye, the largely pro-Hungarian crowd rushed the pool deck. The referee stopped the match to prevent an all-out melee. Zador defected, landed in the United States and eventually coached a teenage Mark Spitz.

The Olympic Games took their name from the Ancient Greek city of Olympia. Though there were important athletic competitions held in other Greek cities in ancient times, the Olympic Games were regarded as the most prestigious. The games were held every four years during August and September and the term "Olympiad," which referred to the four-year interval between competitions, was commonly used as a measurement of time. The Ancient Olympics Illustration depicting the ancient Olympic Games. The first documented Olympic champion was named Coroebus, a cook from Elis who won the sprint race in 776 BCE. It is possible that these were not the first Olympic Games to take place, but only the first recorded one. The Olympic Games originally featured only one event: a race called the "stade," equal to a distance of about 210 yards. By 728 BCE, two additional races had been added, comparable to the 400 m and 1,500 m races of the modern games. The Olympics came to include wrestling, boxing and the pentathlon, as well as specialized events for soldiers and heralds. It was only in 472 BCE that the events were spread out over a period of four to five days. Previously, they had all taken place on a single day. Participation in the Olympic Games was originally limited to free-born Greeks, but as Greek civilization was spread by the conquests of The idea of reviving the Olympic Games originated in The organizers had planned the first modern Olympics for 1900 in Paris, but later decided to mo...

In the history of the Summer Olympics, the United States has been the most successful nation ever, with a combined total of more than 2,600 medals in 28 Olympic Games. More than one thousand of these were gold, with almost 800 silver and over 700 bronze. The second most successful team in Summer Olympic history was the Soviet Union**, who took home 440 golds and more than 1,100 total medals in ten Olympic Games between 1952 and 1992. When the total medal hauls of the Soviet Union, Russia and the Russian Empire are combined, they still fall short of the U.S. tally by almost one thousand medals. The third most successful Olympic team is that of Great Britain, who have participated in all 29 Olympic Games since 1896, and have taken home 285 golds and 916 total medals. China are in fourth place with more than 260 gold medals, but when all of the medals won by German athletes are combined they total at 438 golds and more than 1,380 overall. Emerging nations While European and Anglophone nations have The influence of money, politics and drugs As mentioned above, European and Anglophone countries have dominated the medals tables in the past; this is because they had the financial resources to send athletes around the world to compete, and, until 1964, the host cities were always in these countries, which cause financial and logistical difficulties for African, Asian and Latin American countries. Financial difficulties have caused some countries to refuse invitations to the Olympi...