What year did croquet debut in the olympics (summer), it was the only year it was there?
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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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Olympics it was 1924 at Antwerp, Belgium.
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2008 Summer Olympics in Bejiing, China\n2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada
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MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES:\n\nOfficialy, it was only at Paris 1900 that women were allowed to participate. The first female winner was Charlotte Cooper (Great Britain). She won in singles tennis. The first women competitors in the Modern Olympic Games of 1900 in chronological order were: Helen de Pourtales (first female gold medalist with Charlotte Cooper), Switzerland (Yachting), Elvira Guerra, France (Equestrianism), Mme Ohnier and Madame Depres, France (Croquet), Charlotte Cooper, Great Britain (Tennis), Margaret Abbott, USA (Golf), Madame Maison, France (Ballooning).\n\nBut, in the first modern Olympics of 1896, there was an unofficial competitor in the marathon, a poor Greek woman who became known as 'Melpomene'. Melpomene’s real name was Stamati Revithi. She was not allowed to compete in the mens race, but ran by herself the next day. The final lap was completed outside the stadium as she was refused entry to the stadium. After her marathon run, athletics officials couldn’t remember her name so they labelled her 'Melpomene', who is the Greek muse of Tragedy. Ballooning, croquet and golf (1900) were once Olympic events in which women competed.\n\n\nANCIENT OLYMPIC GAMES:\n\nMarried women were barred, but prostitutes or virgins were allowed to spectate. Kallipateria was the first female Olympic boxing coach in 440 BC. The first female Olympic champion was a Spartan princess called Kynisca, in 392 BC. She was also the first woman to become a champion horse trainer when her horses and chariot competed and won in the Ancient Olympic Games. Women were originally the prizes in mens Ancient Olympic chariot races.
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From 776 BC, the Games were held in Olympia every four years for almost 12 centuries.\n... The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. ...
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1930. Uruguay.\n\nIt was held in Uruguay, and only 13 countries took part, so it didn't really prove very much.
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team handball is pretty fun, its one of my favorite sports.  i like tennis too tho
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The Olympic Games were held in four year intervals, and later the Greek method of counting the years even referred to these Games, using the term Olympiad for the period between two Games. The Greeks in historical times used the Olympiads to count years, much as we today use AD and BC. "Diodorus states that there was a solar eclipse in the third year of the 117th Olympiad, which must be the eclipse of 310 BC. This gives us a date of (mid-summer) 776 for the first year of the first Olympiad". Nevertheless, there is disagreement among scholars whether the games truly began at this time or not.
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History\n\nThe tournament was conceived in 1899 by four members of the Harvard University tennis team who came up with the idea of challenging the British to a tennis showdown. Once the idea received the go ahead from the respective lawn tennis associations, one of the four Harvard players, Dwight F. Davis, designed a tournament format and spent the money from his own pocket to purchase an appropriate sterling silver trophy. The first match, between the United States and Great Britain was held in Boston, Massachusetts in 1900. The American team, of which Dwight Davis was a part, surprised the British by winning the first three matches. The following year the two countries did not compete but the US won the next match in 1902. By 1905 the tournament expanded to include Belgium, Austria, France, and Australasia, a combined team from Australia and New Zealand that competed together until 1913. The tournament was initially known as the International Lawn Tennis Challenge. It was renamed the Davis Cup following the death of Dwight Davis in 1945. (Dwight Davis became a prominent politician in the United States in the 1920s, serving as Secretary of War from 1925-29 and as Governor General of the Philippines from 1929-32.)\n\nFrom 1950 to 1967, Australia dominated the competition, winning the Cup 15 times in 18 years.\n\nSince inception, the U.S.A. has won the event the most times (31), followed by Australia (23 [28 including Australasia]), France and Great Britain (9 each)[Includes British Isles 5], Sweden (7), and Australasia (5).\n\nUp to 1973, the Davis Cup had only ever been won by the U.S.A., Great Britain, France and Australia/Australasia. Their domination was broken in 1974, when South Africa and India qualified for the final. However India refused to play in the final that year in protest against the South African government's apartheid policies, thus handing South Africa a walk-over victory. Since then, several other countries have gone on to capture the trophy.\n\nOn the 100th anniversary of the tournament's founding, 129 nations competed for the Davis Cup.
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The answer is the Tango Espana. The Tango line of match balls was a successful campaign for Adidas and was first used in the Olympics and Euro-Cup in 1978.  I remember playing with them at the World Cup Soccer Camp in west Georgia. Good question.
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Indoor volleyball became an Olympic sport in 1964. Beach volleyball became an Olympic sport in 1996.\n\n-- Men's Olympic Gold Medal Winners -- \nTokyo 1964 - gold: USSR\nMexico 1968 - gold: USSR\nMunich 1972 - indoor: Japan\nMontreal 1976 - indoor: Poland\nMoscow 1980 - indoor: USSR\nLA 1984 - indoor: USA\nSeoul 1988 - indoor: USA\nBarcelona 1992 - indoor: Brazil\nAtlanta 1996 - indoor: Netherlands; beach: USA (Kiraly & Steffes)\nSydney 2000 - indoor: Yugoslavia; beach: USA (Blanton & Fonoimoana)\nAthens 2004 - indoor: Brazil; beach: Brazil (Rego & Santos)
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The Olympic Games, or Olympics, are an international multi-sport event taking place every four years and comprising summer and winter games. Originally held in ancient Greece, they were revived by a French nobleman, Pierre Frèdy, Baron de Coubertin in the late 19th century.\n\n\nThe Commonwealth Games is a multi-sport event held every four years involving the elite athletes of the Commonwealth of Nations. The first such event, then known as the British Empire Games, was held in 1930. The name changed to British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954, to British Commonwealth Games in 1978 and assumed the current name of the Commonwealth Games in 1978.
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Swimming has been known since prehistoric times. Drawings from the Stone Age were found in "the cave of swimmers" near Wadi Sora (or Sura) in the southwestern part of Egypt. Written references date from 2000 B.C., including Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible (Ezekiel 47:5, Acts 27:42, Isaiah 25:11), Beowulf, and other sagas. In 1538 Nicolas Wynman, German professor of languages, wrote the first swimming book, Colymbetes. Competitive swimming in Europe started around 1800, mostly using breaststroke. The front crawl, then called the trudgen, was introduced in 1873 by John Arthur Trudgen, copying it from Native Americans. Swimming was part of the first modern Olympic games in 1896 in Athens. In 1902 the trudgen was improved by Richard Cavill, using the flutter kick. In 1908, the world swimming association, Federation Internationale de Natation de Amateur (FINA), was formed. Butterfly was first a variant of breaststroke, until it was accepted as a separate style in 1952.
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The first Olympic games started in Olympia 776 bc.\nThe modern one in Athens in 1896.
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Although little was recorded, Olympic baseball first appeared in 1904 St. Louis. Eight years later in 1912 Stockholm, a American team played against host Sweden, winning 13-3. In 1936 Berlin, two American teams played each other. The 1952 Helsinki event was a modified form of the sport, Finnish baseball, played by two Finnish teams. Australia played a one-game exhibition against the United States in 1956 Melbourne and Japan did the same in 1964 Tokyo.\n\nTom G is also correct here.  In 1992 the IOC changed the staus of baseball to an official event but it started in the Olympics in 1904 but not played every 4 years per the Olympic standard.
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A History of the Olympics\n\nAccording to legend, the ancient Olympic Games were founded by Heracles (the Roman Hercules), a son of Zeus. Yet the first Olympic Games for which we still have written records were held in 776 BCE (though it is generally believed that the Games had been going on for many years already). At this Olympic Games, a naked runner, Coroebus (a cook from Elis), won the sole event at the Olympics, the stade - a run of approximately 192 meters (210 yards). This made Coroebus the very first Olympic champion in history.\n\nThe ancient Olympic Games grew and continued to be played every four years for nearly 1200 years. In 393 CE, the Roman emperor Theodosius I, a Christian, abolished the Games because of their pagan influences.\n\nApproximately 1500 years later, a young Frenchmen named Pierre de Coubertin began their revival. Coubertin is now known as le Rénovateur. Coubertin was a French aristocrat born on January 1, 1863. He was only seven years old when France was overrun by the Germans during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Some believe that Coubertin attributed the defeat of France not to its military skills but rather to the French soldiers' lack of vigor.* After examining the education of the German, British, and American children, Coubertin decided that it was exercise, more specifically sports, that made a well-rounded and vigorous person. ....
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It began in 1892, invented by a canadian named James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts.  He created it at a YMCA because he was a PE teacher, and the exercise directors wanted him to create an indoor wintertime sport so the men would keep in shape, since there were no winter time activities to balance out football and baseball in the spring and summer.  They used peach baskets taped to balconies