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23 hours ago · The ancient Olympic Games included several of the sports that are now part of the Summer Games program, which at times has included events in as many as 32 different sports. In 1924 the Winter Games were sanctioned for winter sports. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition. The ancient Olympic ...
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1 day ago · Take a trip back to 776 B.C.E. with this fun look back at the sporting event started by the ancient Greeks.
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2 days ago · The marathon (from Greek Μαραθώνιος) is a long-distance foot race with a distance of 42.195 km (26 mi 385 yd), [1] usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes. The marathon can be completed by running or with a run/walk strategy. There are also wheelchair divisions.
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3 days ago · It is also known from ancient history that one of the first “balls” were the heads of non-mates. The ball became the main amusement in peacetime. Sports games. History of origin and development . History of football- the most popular team game in the world, where you have to fight for a small number of points.
5 days ago · The size and diversity of the Paralympic Games have increased greatly over the years. The Paralympics in 1960 hosted 400 athletes from 23 countries participating in eight sports. Just over 50 years later, at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, more than 4,200 athletes representing 164 countries participated in 20 sports.
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1 day ago · Recent News. National Basketball Association (NBA), professional basketball league formed in the United States in 1949 by the merger of two rival organizations, the National Basketball League (founded 1937) and the Basketball Association of America (founded 1946). In 1976 the NBA absorbed four teams from the American Basketball Association (ABA ...
2 days ago · I am delighted with Dr. Williams' review of Moving the Goalposts.His comments do much to confirm the assumptions behind the book: that the post-1945 period was relatively neglected by previous overview studies. such as Richard Holt's seminal Sport and the British (1989); that the current proliferation of 'Studies' based degree programmes (Sports Studies, British Studies, Cultural Studies etc ...
