Olympic History Events Page3 olympic history EVENTS page 3 Croquet, Rackets. Golf, Rink-hockey. Jeu depaume, Roque. Lacrosse, Rugby. Pelote basque, Tug of war. Polo, water skiing http://www.internationalmedalist.org/olympic_history_events3.htm
Extractions: Tug-of-war was on the Olympic programme in 1900, 1904, 1906 (Intercalated Games), 1908, 1912 and 1920. Tug-of-war was always contested as a part of the track and field athletics programme, although it is now considered a separate sport. The Olympic champions were as follows: 1900: a combined Swedish/Danish team; 1904: an American club team representing the Milwaukee Athletic Club; 1906: Germany/Switzerland; 1908: a British team from the City of London Police Club; 1912: Sweden; and 1920: Great Britain. Golf has been on the Olympic programme twice, in 1900 and 1904. There were two golf events in 1900 - one for gentlemen and one for ladies. Golf is one of the world's most popular sports, being played in well over 100 nations world-wide. Golf also has a long history, as it origins can be traced back several centuries, and it has had organised international competitions since the mid-19th century. In the last decade golf has made entreaties to be returned to the Olympic programme. Rugby football is one of the earliest forms of football in which the ball is carried rather than kicked. It developed in Great Britain in the mid-19th century. Originally, rugby league was considered the professional sport and rugby union the amateur one, but in 1995 the International Rugby Board made rugby union an open sport, allowing professional competition. Rugby union football was held at the Olympics in 1900, 1908, 1920 and 1924.
Canoeing History - Hobby And Entertainment RIN.RU As in Alpine skiing, racers compete in individual time trials. In whitewaterslalom races, White-water racing was on the olympic program in 1972. http://hobby.rin.ru/eng/articles/html/162.html
Extractions: The birchbark canoe used by Native Americans was adopted by French explorers and fur traders during the 17th century. Despite its frail appearance, it's a very strong, durable craft. Its shallow draft will carry through white-water rapids that would demolish most boats, and it can be easily portaged around totally impassable rapids or across stretches of land from one body of water to another. A Scottish lawyer, John MacGregor, was chiefly responsible for establishing canoeing as a recreational sport. In 1845, he designed a type of canoe, the Rob Roy, which had a deck and was equipped with a mast and sail as well as paddles. MacGregor went on a whole series of cruises in Europe and the Holy Land beginning in 1849, and he wrote books and delivered many lectures about his trips.
United States Olympic Committee - Olympic History Volleyball, water Polo, water skiing, Weightlifting, Wrestling OlympicOverview history, facts and figures; AllTime Team USA Medals Summer http://www.usoc.org/12690.htm
Extractions: Summer Team Sites Archery Badminton Baseball Basketball Bowling Boxing Canoe/Kayak Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field Hockey Gymnastics Judo Karate Pentathlon Racquetball Roller Sports Rowing Sailing Shooting Soccer Softball Squash Swimming Synchro. Table Tennis Taekwondo Team Handball Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Water Polo Water Skiing Weightlifting Wrestling Winter Team Sites Biathlon Bobsled Curling Figure Skating Ice Hockey Luge Short Track Skeleton Skiing Snowboarding Speedskating U.S. Olympic Sites U.S. Olympic Fan Club Free eNewsletter U.S. Olympic Shop U.S. Paralympics Olympians on TV Photo Galleries Sports Jobs Ask an Olympian USOC Pressbox Athletes Events Sports Features ... usada Olympic History Archaeologists believe the ancient Olympic Games began more than 4,000 years ago in Olympia, a valley in Greece. Recorded history of the Games dates back to 776 B.C., when the five days of sporting events were primarily religious ceremonies. For the first known 13 Games, the competition consisted of single foot race of 200 yards, which was the approximate length of the Olympic stadium. The Games expanded to include additional contests and reached their height by fifth century BC. Men competed, in the nude, in running, wrestling, pentathlon, horse riding and chariot races. Why in the nude well, to keep the ladies out of the action. Women were barred from watching or competing, and were even put to death if they were caught at the early Games. Today, not only are women allowed to watch and compete, they are encouraged to do so. Check out a few of our historical Olympic pages here at usolympicteam.com.
A Brief History Of Show Skiing Show skiing is a rich part of the sport s history. water skiers have been be the first water ski club in the United States the olympic water Ski Club. http://www.usawaterski.org/pages/divisions/showski/History.htm
Extractions: A BRIEF HISTORY OF SHOW SKIING Extremely popular in the upper Midwest, and practiced throughout the nation, show skiing combines components of all water ski disciplines. Water ski shows are an aquatic Broadway musical, featuring several water ski acts choreographed to music and built around a theme that tells a story. Unique to show skiing are ballet/swivel skiing, adagio doubles, freestyle jumping and human pyramids. Ski show exhibitions or shows involve amateur clubs which usually have 30 or more members. Some clubs even have more than 200 members! Age is not a factor since ski club performers can range from children to grandparents. Show skiing is a rich part of the sport's history. Water skiers have been performing amateur and professional ski shows since the 1940s. In fact, in the 1950s, the most talented traditional competitors also were ski show professionals. Today, many of the most talented show ski athletes perform at aquatic theme parks such as the Wisconsin Dells, Marine World, Sea World and Cypress Gardens. Show Skiing has been Around for More than 60 Years No one knows what Ralph Samuelson, the acknowledged father of water skiing, hoped to accomplish when he created the sport in 1922, but it was soon apparent that one thing he wanted to do was put on a "show" for his neighbors on the Minnesota lake where he lived. Samuelsons first pull on skis was behind a motor boat, but he quickly created a new act (one not done today) by skiing behind an airplane on floats! The development of water skiing as a form of entertainment can be traced to this theatrical beginning.
ACTSPORT - Hall Of Fame In doing so Paul became the only Australian in olympic history to have Only one other person has attended more water skiing World Championship events. http://www.actsport.com.au/fame/2003_inductees.htm
Extractions: Year 2003 Inductees Lisa Carruthers (O.A.M) An Olympic Gold medal on home turf at the Sydney 2000 Olympic games was a fitting end to an excellent career for Canberra Strikers defender Lisa Carruthers. Described as playing the game at one pace, fast, Lisa was first selected in the Australian Senior team in June 1989 for a five test series against New Zealand. From this Lisa rose to great heights in her Hockey career, competing in three consecutive Olympics, collecting two Gold medals along the way. After celebrating her 200th game for Australia in the 1999 Oceania Cup, Lisa went on to represent Australia 230 times before deciding to hang up her boots in 2000. An experienced campaigner and a steadfast and valuable defender in any team Lisa has done the ACT region proud with her sporting endeavours.
Selected Subject Headings Oldtimers Hockey · olympic history, · olympic Sports · olympics · Online Games water Parks · water Polo · water skiing · water Sports · Weightlifting http://www.sources.com/Categories/SPO.htm
Pine Lake Ski School - History Of Skiing The sport of water skiing has enjoyed a long eventful history. 1972 waterskiing was an exhibition sport at the olympic Games in Keil, West Germany. http://www.pinelakeskischool.com/history.htm
Page 2 NEHSA History In 1988 Diana was awarded the US olympic Committee s Female Skier of the Year, Aside from the IYD summerfest there was waterskiing, picnicking, http://www.nehsa.org/history2.htm
Extractions: Diana Golden earns NEHSA's Ben Allen Cup for the most improved skier of the year. She made this accomplishment the winter after her surgery and while still on chemotherapy (at approx.13yrs of age). Some of NEHSA's early members who encouraged her were Ben Allen, Fran Rebstad and Muffy Lutzin. Diana says that losing her leg taught her that you can train your body. It is not all a matter of having natural abilities. If you put in the effort, you can train yourself. Diana went on to a career that included
Desert Dispatch Newspaper - Barstow, California SPRINGS When water skiing gets anointed as the next glamorous olympic sport, In the prehistory of the sport, water skiing was a haphazard affair http://www.desertdispatch.com/2001-2003/102916892082942.html
Extractions: In the pre-history of the sport, water skiing was a haphazard affair practiced by foolhardy daredevils who skied with wooden slats on public lakes and waterways far away from the cameras. These au-naturel arenas usually provided a built-in slalom course in the form of floating logs, fishing boats and other water skiers.
MY SPORTS PAGE water skiing, and sailing. The olympic Journey Welcome To Australia Take a journey through time and learn about the history of the olympic Games http://www.eagle.ca/~matink/themes/Sports/sports.html
USOC Under The Microscope (1/28/03) a culture of corruption unseen in olympic history involved the Internationalolympic Committee USA water skiing. AFFILIATED SPORT ORGANIZATIONS (5) http://usoc.gazette.com/fullstory.php?id=184
Directory Of Sports Museums International Institute for Sport and olympic history (IISOH). Telephone PO Box175, State College, water skiing water skiing Museum and Hall of Fame http://www2.umist.ac.uk/sport/SPORTS HISTORY/mus.html
Extractions: Directory of Sports Museums The International Association of Sports Museums and Halls of Fame (IASMHF) web service provides more information about its member sites but since it is restricted to members only, it does not include all of the museums listed below. Museums and Halls of Fame are listed first by country then international museums followed by national museums followed by regional museums. A searchable database for Sports museums is currently under development.. You are invited to add to this list. The Olympic Games Virtual Museum Searchable database for sports libraries and museums in Australia National Australian Gallery of Sport and Olympic Museum, P.O. Box 175, Melbourne Cricket Ground, Jolimont Terrace, East Melbourne, Victoria 3002, AUSTRALIA The Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour Sydney Australia Includes a Gallery of Sport and Leisure that currently has exhibits on the history of beach culture in Australia, the development of Surf lifesaving and the role of women in this movement, Speed boat racing, the evolution of 18ft skiffs, the America's Cup, Racing and Cruising. It is a ten story Gallery space that has AUSTRALIA II with its winged keel on display with sails rigged. The Museum presents thematic social history exhibitions on aquatic sport and leisure using multi media, as well as objects, graphics and labels. Display material is drawn from the National Maritime Collection, International Museums and private individuals.
Extractions: SWIMMING INFORMATION PROGRAM STARTING ROUTINE TIPS HEALTHY LIVING BENEFITS LIFE SKILLS FITNESS WELLNESS BASIC EDUCATION FREE EASY ONLINE ARTICLE INFORMATION Swimming Swimming has been around since the beginning of time. It was something our ancestors did for necessity, not pleasure or exercise. They may have had a need to learn the act of swimming to escape from predators and conquerors, to hunt down food, or to move belongings and their selves from one site to another. In fact, history has it that Plato once stated, that anyone who could not swim lacked a proper education. Times have changed. Today we swim, almost exclusively, for pleasure, competition or exercise. The year was 1896 that swimming finally became an Olympic sport for men. There were two competitions, the 100 meter and the 1500 meter free style swim in open water. Since then, the backstroke, breast stroke, butterfly and individual medley have also become part of the Olympic swimming events. Women were excluded in the swimming events for sixteen years due to their perceived frailness. However, they burst onto the scene at the 1912 Olympics and have never looked back.
Austvcrew : History Of Events 2000 olympics World Cup Trials olympic Diving Trials. water skiing Moomba Masters.water Polo 2000 olympics. Boxing 2000 olympics World Title s http://www.austvcrew.com/history.htm
CULTURE- Sports Other popular water sports include windsurfing, water skiing and sailing as well as at the center of the most notorious episode in olympic history, http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Facts About Israel/Culture/CULTURE- Sports.htm
Extractions: Hundreds of thousands of Israelis participate in sports ranging from swimming, soccer, basketball and tennis to gymnastics, judo, athletics, volleyball and handball. In addition the country has produced professionals of the highest international standards in almost every sport, and national teams, clubs and individuals take part in major international competitions as well as in all the principle European championships. Israel's best known individuals and teams regularly win medals and trophies in major world and European championships. Water Sports With its golden beaches and year-round sunshine, swimming is the single most popular participation sport in Israel. An estimated 50% of Israelis go swimming regularly each year; in addition to the extensive coastline there are hundreds of public swimming pools. In recent years leading Israeli swimmers have brought home medals from World and European Championships and have reached Olympic finals. With 50,000 qualified divers Israel has the highest per capita number of divers in the world. An incentive to dive is provided by the fascinating tropical marine life of the Red Sea. Other popular water sports include windsurfing, water skiing and sailing as well as beach sports such as beach volleyball and "rackets", a locally developed game which is a kind of "beach table tennis." New marinas have been built on the coastline for boat owners. On the Jordan River a range of boating activities is available including kayaking, canoeing and floating downstream on inner tubes.
Power, Politics, And The Olympic Games - Human Kinetics A useful and very reliable history of the modern Olympics. Snowshoeing Walking Scuba Diving water skiing CrossCountry skiing Ice Skating http://www.humankinetics.com/products/showproduct.cfm?isbn=0880119586
SHORT HISTORY OF SKIING The 1924 event was the high water mark of Telemark skiing in Europe. Retroactivelydesignated in 1925 as the First Winter olympic Games, the participating http://www.skiinghistory.org/history.html
Extractions: Destiny or lucky circumstance, or perhaps a lot of both, contrived to boost alpine skiing from a pastime on a par with slogging about on skis and with sledding and skating into something deeper, a way of life and a treasure of recreation practiced so widely today and available somewhere in most of the snowy mountain ranges on earth.
In Olympic Footsteps: An International Tour | Away.com In olympic Footsteps An International Tour history meets athletic legend incities throughout the A new sport has already been approved waterskiing. http://away.com/features/olympicsintl_1.html
Extractions: It was 776 B.C. when that first foot race was held, in Olympia, about 75 miles from Athens in the Peloponnese. Dedicated to Zeus, the Olympic festival was a religious rite, held every four years. The sacrifices have gone, but the athletic competitions and crowning of winners are our remainders of that ancient time.
Location water sports (windsurfing, swimming, waterskiing) and at the Marina, Records of olympic history show that the ancient olympic Games were held in http://bme.med.upatras.gr/patras2004/Location_act.htm
Extractions: The University of Patras The University of Patras is a major international centre for tertiary education with a proven track record not only in teaching but also in research. The 18 academic departments offer a wide range of undergraduate courses leading to the Diploma, as well as an expanding range of taught and research-based postgraduate degrees. Facilities for academic work are excellent and opportunities for social life are varied and exciting. Map of the Campus of the University of Patras http://www.upatras.gr/ The City of Patras The University is located, just outside the lively city of Patras, on a self-contained campus of about 600 acres. The campus has a lot of open-spaces, tree shaded areas and characteristic Mediterranean olive groves. It lies at the foot of Mount Panachaikos with a view over the Gulf of Corinth to the mountains of central Greece across the water. People who come to Patras, whether for a short conference or an extended study period, tend to want to stay and usually come again and again. There are two football stadiums and several indoor basketball courts which host the local teams as well as visiting teams from other cities. The municipal swimming pool provides facilities for swimming and water polo teams. The sea, naturally, provides endless opportunities for water sports (windsurfing, swimming, water-skiing) and at the Marina, there is the Patras Yacht Club.
