did male basketball become an olympic event in 1936?
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Yes basketball and handball made their debut at the 1936 Olympics, both as outdoor sports. Handball would not appear again on the program until 1972.
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It is said it was one of the games played amongst the Greek Gods of Olympus It was started by the ancient greek back in 688 bc as an Olympic sport. Homer reffered to t in the Illiad.
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Yes. Rugby was played at four Olympics in 1900, 1908, 1920 and 1924. Believe it or not, the US team won the gold medals in the 1920 and 1924 Olympics. The French won the 1900 gold medal and an Australasian team containing Australian and New Zealand teams.\n\nThe program was dropped because the IOC wanted to emphasise individual sports, attempts to cut back numbers and crowd behaviour. There have been attempts to reintroduce it since but this have been unsuccessful. Rugby sevens is now played at the Commonwealth games which is a precedent.\n\nWheelchair rugby is an official Paralympic sport having been played as a demonstration sport in Atlanta and full sport in Sydney and Athens. New Zealand are the current champions with the US having won gold at the previous two Paralympics.
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Official opening of the Games by: HRH the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nMelbourne won the right to host the 1956 Olympics by one vote over Buenos Aires. Australian quarantine laws were too severe to allow the entry of foreign horses, so the equestrian events were held separately in Stockholm in June. The Melbourne Games were the first to be held in the southern hemisphere. Laszlo Papp of Hungary became the first boxer to win three gold medals. American Pat McCormick won both diving events, just as she had in 1952. Two athletes dominated the gymnastics competition. On the men’s side, Ukrainian Viktor Chukarin earned five medals, including three gold, to bring his career total to eleven medals, seven of them gold. Agnes Keleti of Hungary brought her career total to ten medals by winning four gold medals and two silver. The U.S. basketball team, led by Bill Russell and K.C. Jones, put on the most dominant performance in Olympic history, scoring more than twice as much as their opponents and winning each of their games by at least 30 points. U.S. weightlifter Paul Anderson weighed 137.9kg. In weightlifting, ties are broken by awarding the higher place to the athlete with the lower body weight. Incredibly, this worked to Anderson’s advantage when he tied for first with Humberto Selvetti of Argentina. Selvetti weighed 143.5kg. Prior to 1956, the athletes in the Closing Ceremony marched by nation, as they did in the Opening Ceremony. In Melbourne, following a suggestion by a young Australian named John Ian Wing, the athletes entered the stadium together during the Closing Ceremony, as a symbol of global unity.\n\n72 NOCs (Nations)\n\n3 314 athletes (376 women, 2 938 men)\n\n145 events \n\nOfficial opening of the Games by: HRH the Duke of Edinburgh\n\nLighting the Olympic Flame by: Ron Clarke (athletics)\n\nOlympic Oath by: John Landy (athletics)\n\nOfficial Oath by: The first officials' oath was sworn at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
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The first Women's Two "man" bobsleigh competition was held in Salt Lake City in 2002. The gold medal went to USA II, Silver to Germany I and bronze to Germany II
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In early December 1891, Luther Gulick, chairman of the physical education department at the School for Christian Workers (now Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts, instructed physical education teacher James Naismith to invent a new game to entertain the school's athletes during the winter season. With an ordinary soccer ball, Naismith assembled his class of 18 young men, appointed captains of two nine-player teams, and introduced them to the game of Basket Ball (then two words). Naismith, who had outlined 13 original rules, dispatched the school janitor to find two boxes to be fastened to the balcony railing at opposite sides of the gymnasium, where they would serve as goals. The school janitor, however, only found two half-bushel peach baskets, and the game was played with these.\n\narchive articles \nf1938: Basketball \nf1939: Basketball \nf1940: Basketball \nf1941: Basketball \nf1942: Basketball \n74 items \n\nA  Early Developments \n\nMeadowlark Lemon The Harlem Globetrotters originated in Chicago, Illinois, in 1927. Members of the Globetrotters, professional athletes that specialize in tricky moves and hilarious slapstick, have entertained basketball fans around the world since the team’s inception. Meadowlark Lemon, shown here, was a popular team leader.LDE/Archive Photos  \n \nThe soccer ball and the peach basket soon gave way to specialized equipment. For example, in the early days the peach baskets were closed at the bottom, meaning that someone had to climb on a ladder to retrieve the ball after a made basket. The peach basket was later replaced by a metal rim with a net hanging below, and in 1906 people began opening the netting to let the ball fall through. The first basketballs were made from panels of leather stitched together with a rubber bladder inside. A cloth lining was added to the leather for support and uniformity. The molded basketball, introduced in about 1942, was a significant advancement for the sport. The molded ball, a factory-made ball that had a constant size and shape, offered better reaction and durability, making play more consistent and the development of individual skills easier. In Naismith's original 13 rules, the ball could be batted in any direction with one or both hands, but it could not be dribbled because players could not move with the ball. Beginning in 1910 a player could dribble the ball, but could not shoot after dribbling. It was not until 1916, following heated debate, that players were allowed to shoot after dribbling.\n\ndynamic timeline \nBasketball Invented \n \n \n\nThroughout basketball's history, no part of the game has been more monitored than the act of fouling an opponent. In basketball's early days, a player's second foul would mean removal from the game until the next field goal was made. If a team committed three consecutive fouls, the opposition would be awarded a field goal. Beginning in 1894 players were given a free throw when fouled. Beginning in 1908 players who committed five fouls were disqualified from the game. Based on the severity of the foul, the rules were soon amended so that players were awarded either two shots or one shot plus a bonus shot, which was attempted only if the first shot was made. The rules also determined that an offensive player could commit a foul by playing too aggressively.\n\n It was not until 1916, following heated debate, that players were allowed to shoot after dribbling. \n\nIn 1892 Lithuanian-born physical education teacher Senda Berenson Abbott introduced basketball to women, at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Because it was believed that Naismith’s version of the game could be too physically demanding for women, Berenson Abbott made the following changes to the game: The court was divided into three equal sections, with players required to stay in an assigned area; players were prohibited from snatching or batting the ball from the hands of another player; and players we
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Host cities of the Modern Olympic Games\n\n1896 - 1st Olympiad - Athens, Greece\n1900 - 2nd Olympiad - Paris, France\n1904 - 3rd Olympiad - St. Louis, Missouri, USA\n1906 - 3rd Olympiad, year 3 - Athens, Greece (sometimes called the "interim Games")\n1908 - 4th Olympiad - London, England\n1912 - 5th Olympiad - Stockholm, Sweden\n1916 - 6th Olympiad - Cancelled - World War I (Scheduled for Berlin, Germany)\n1920 - 7th Olympiad - Antwerp, Belgium\n1924 - 8th Olympiad - Paris, France\n1928 - 9th Olympiad - Amsterdam, The Netherlands\n1932 - 10th Olympiad - Los Angeles, California, USA\n1936 - 11th Olympiad - Berlin, Germany\n1940 - 12th Olympiad - Cancelled, World War II (Scheduled for Tokyo, Japan. Then re-scheduled for Helsinki, Finland & cancelled a 2nd time)\n1944 - 13th Olympiad - Cancelled, World War II (London considered, but war continued)\n1948 - 14th Olympiad - London, England\n1952 - 15th Olympiad - Helsinki, Finland\n1956 - 16th Olympiad - Melbourne, Australia and Stockholm, Sweden (Horses were not permitted to be imported into Australia so the Equestrian events were in Stockholm)\n1960 - 17th Olympiad - Rome, Italy\n1964 - 18th Olympiad - Tokyo, Japan\n1968 - 19th Olympiad - Mexico City, Mexico\n1972 - 20th Olympiad - Munich, Germany\n1976 - 21st Olympiad - Montreal, Canada\n1980 - 22nd Olympiad - Moscow, Soviet Union (USSR)\n1984 - 23rd Olympiad - Los Angeles, California, USA\n1988 - 24th Olympiad - Seoul, South Korea\n1992 - 25th Olympiad - Barcelona, Spain\n1996 - 26th Olympiad - Atlanta, Georgia, USA\n2000 - 27th Olympiad - Sydney, Australia\n2004 - 28th Olympiad - Athens, Greece\n2008 - 29th Olympiad - Beijing, China\n2012 - 30th Olympiad - London, England\n2016 - 31st Olympiad - to be selected by the International Olympic Committee
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Curling made its Olympic debut at the original Olympic Games in 1924. It came back in the 1932 Lake Placid Games as a demonstration sport, but then went on a 56-year Olympic hiatus, until it returned as a demonstration sport at the 1988  and 1992 Games. Curling was brought back again as an official medal sport at the 1998 Nagano Games and has been an official sport in the Winter Olympics ever since.
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According to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics website, the answer would be no. Currently they only list:\n\nIndividual Women\nIndividual Men\nPairs Mixed\nIce Dancing Mixed\n\nIt's still 4 years away, never can tell what will happen, but I'd say it would probably have a better shot at 2014 Games in Bulgaria.
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There have been (in sequence)\nChamonix 1924 (I)\nSt. Moritz 1928 (II)\nLake Placid 1932 (III)\nGarmisch 1936 (IV)\nNo Winter Olympics in 1940 or 1944\nSt. Mortiz 1948 (V)\nOslo 1952 (VI)\nCortina 1956 (VII)\nSquaw Valley 1960 (VIII)\nInnsbruck 1964 (IX)\nGrenoble 1968 (X)\nSapporo 1972 (XI)\nInnsbruck 1976 (XII)\nLake Placid 1980 (XIII)\nSarajevo 1984 (XIV)\nCalgary 1988 (XV)\nAlbertville 1992 (XVI)\nLillehammer 1994 (XVII)\nNagano 1998 (XVIII)\nSalt Lake City 2002 (XIX)\nand then on Friday Turin 2006 (XX)
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no, the winter olympics contain sports that have to do wih the winter, basketball is a summer event.
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I can answer part of this for you. When the Olympics were going to be held in Los Angeles California in 1932, they said that soccer wouldn't be an Olympic sport because it wasn't popular in the United States. Prior to this, soccer had been in every Olympics since 1908! Once the world was told of this in 1928, they organized the World cup with the first one in 1930 and kept it at every 4 years but it would alternate with the summer Olympics. That is still true today.\nI hope this helps at least a little.
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Ginobili is the only player in basketball history to win the Euroleague, an Olympic gold medal, and an NBA Championship ring. \n\nHe is also the only foreign-born player ever to win both the NBA Championship ring and the Olympic gold medal. \n\nHe is also the second Latin American to be selected to play in an NBA All-star game, after Panama's Rolando Blackman, though Ginobili played as a reserve. \n\nAs of January 18, 2006, Ginobili is averaging 12.6 points, 3.8 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 26.8 minutes per game. \n\nDuring the 2005 Playoffs, Ginobili and teammate Tony Parker starred in an NBA-produced advertisement promoting the Finals where NBA players phoned in to the "Love Doctor" (portrayed by NBA legend Julius Erving) to get advice and to give their opinions about how much they loved the trophy. \n\nTitles\n\n2001 Italian League Championship (Kinder Bologna) \n2001 Italian Cup (Kinder Bologna) \n2001 Euroleague (Kinder Bologna) \n2001 Americas Championship (Argentina) \n2002 Italian Cup (Kinder Bologna) \n2003 NBA Championship (San Antonio Spurs) \n2004 Summer Olympic Games Gold Medal (Argentina) \n2005 NBA Championship (San Antonio Spurs) \n\nAwards\n\n1999 Italian League All-Star \n2000 Italian League All-Star \n2000 Italian League Most Improved Player \n2001 Italian League All-Star \n2001 Italian League Most Valuable Player \n2001 Euroleague Most Valuable Player \n2002 Italian Cup Most Valuable Player \n2002 Italian League Most Valuable Player \n2002 Ideal Indianapolis World Cup Team \n2004 Ideal Olympics Team \n2004 Summer Olympic Games Most Valuable Player \n2005 NBA All-Star \n2005 Nike Baller Of The Year (fan poll)\n\nOn August 15, 2004, Ginobili led the Argentine team to the gold medal. Ginobili was named the MVP of the Olympic tournament, sporting heroics like in the 83-82 win over Serbia and Montenegro with a shot he made while falling to the floor with less than a second to go, in Argentina's basketball opener at the Olympic Games in Athens. The Argentina team went on to win the gold medal, with Ginobili leading the team in both scoring (19.3 ppg) and assists (3.3 apg).
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The Olympic Games(Olympics) is an sport event taking place every four years. Held in ancient Greece, and only taken part by male contenders, they were revived by the French Pierre  de Coubertin in the late 19th century.\nThe Summer Olympics (Games of the Olympiad) have been held every fourth year (starting in 1896), with the exception of the years during the World Wars.\nThe Olympic Winter Games was first held in 1924. The first winter Olympics competitions were held as a sports festival, but were declared to be official Games by the International Olympic Committee in 1925. \nLearn more in the sites bellow\n\nPersian Wars\nThe Persian Wars were a series of conflicts between the Greek world and the Persian Empire that started about 500 BC and lasted until 448 BC. \nYou will find imfos in "Creco-persian wars" article in wikipedia \nSee also the article "Greece" and follow the links
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gymnastics wasnt in the first olympics if i remember right it first appeared in 1932
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The year that croquet debuted in the Olympics was during the Olympiad II in Paris, France at the turn of the 20th century in 1900.  The event was dominated by the French in all of the categories winning all of the possible seven medals.  Their was only one other person that was of non-French heritage that entered, but he did not finish the first round.  This edition of the Summer Olympic Games was also part of the Paris World Fair.
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Section 47.1 of the Olympic Charter says:\n\nTo be included in the programme of the Olympic Games, an Olympic sports must conform to the following criteria:\n\n1. Only sports widely practised by men in at least seventy-five countries and on four continents and by women in at least forty countries and on three continents may be include in the programme of the Games of the Olympiad.\n\nSo, never.