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2 days ago · History of women at the Olympics 1900 Charlotte Cooper. The first modern Olympic Games to feature female athletes was the 1900 Games in Paris. Hélène de Pourtalès of Switzerland became the first woman to compete at the Olympic Games and became the first female Olympic champion, as a member of the winning team in the first 1 to 2 ton sailing event on May 22, 1900.
5 days ago · The men's tournament in basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul began on 17 September and ended on 30 September. The Soviet Union won their second gold medal, defeating Yugoslavia 76–63 in the gold medal match. This was the last Olympic basketball tournament where only professionals from leagues other than the NBA were allowed to ...
1 day ago · Canada is scheduled to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France from July 26 to August 11, 2024. Since Canada's debut in 1900, Canadian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, except for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of the country's support for United States-led boycott.
1 day ago · Japanese divers secured five quota places for Paris 2024 by advancing to the top twelve final each of the men's individual platform, women's individual springboard and platform, respectively at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, and through 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar. Athlete. Event.
3 days ago · Sam Kerr: Birthplace of Dreams retrieved 12 November 2019. Kerr was born in East Fremantle, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. She is the daughter of Roxanne ( née Regan) and Roger Kerr. Her father, a professional Australian rules football player, was born in Calcutta to an English father (a featherweight boxer) and an Indian mother who ...
5 days ago · v. t. e. The men's football tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held in Beijing and four other cities in the People's Republic of China from 7 to 23 August. Associations affiliated with FIFA were invited to enter their men's under-23 teams in regional qualifying competitions, from which 15 teams, plus the host nation, reached the final ...
3 days ago · The number of participating countries can vary from one edition of the Olympics to another. Which two countries have never missed an Olympics? Five countries have never missed any Summer Olympics: Australia, France, Great Britain, Greece, and Switzerland. Some countries, such as Canada and the United States, have not missed any Winter Olympics.
