Only men were 4 The contemporary Olympic Games were first held in (Rome) in 1896. Athens 5 At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Chinese women's Cbadminton team won the gold medal for the first time in history. gymnastics 6 Zhang Ning was in her ( late thirties when she competed in the ...
The 1900 Paris Olympics also saw a list of watersports never to be competed again.The 200m obstacle swimming, which involved swimming under and over a series of obstacles in the water, was swam in the Seine River.The underwater swimwas another sport dropped after its 1900 debut due to lac...
says. of the five new sports, four will be making their olympic debuts, nbc reports. it’s a far cry from the first modern olympic games in 1896 at athens, where athletes competed in just 10 sports and 43 events. according to the ioc, the surplus of events for the tokyo games not ...
In 1896, first-place athletes received medals that were not only silver, but 48 millimeters in diameter, 3.8 millimeters thick and weighed in at 47 grams [source: Olympics.org]. In Paris four years later, the medals were rectangular, 59 millimeters by 41 millimeters and weighed 53 grams. ...