How did travel games begin?
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year 7 hey .. you should be in bed this time of night
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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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I really want to help you since it's my background. Here's some info from the book 'Sports' The Complete visual Reference':\n "It roots back to antiquity (called sphaira by the Greeks and ollis by the Romans); in Renaissance Italy, a more elaborate version, calcio, was played. Soccer as we know it today was invented in England in the mid 19th century (1848). The first club, Sheffield Football Club, was formed in 1863, and the first competition, the Football Association (FA) Challenge Cup, was organized in 1842. The Federation international de football association (FIFA) was founded in 1904. A demonstration sport in the Olympics of 1900 and 1904, soccer became an official Olympic event in 1908. Soccer is universal because its equipment and rules are simple and because of global coverage of the World Cup. No other international event is followed so closely, due mainly to television broadcasting of matches since 1958. (1.7 billion viewers watched the France-Brazil final in 1998). Today, 203 countries are FIFA members."\n\nHope this helps for some history. I have a lot more information I can give you, but my fingers for now are tired of typing. Anyways, you can write me at lasorna@hotmail.com and subject: 'I need Soccer Info' and I'll respond. I hope you do an excellent job on your project. Good Luck.
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Sunday, July 9th, 2006. \nThe game is scheduled to start at 2000 (Berlin), 1800 (GMT)\n\nAssuming it ends in regulation time, it will end approximately 2 yours after it started.
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TRAVEL! Explore the world!
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Um, the Ex-Games?\n\nThis is really confusing.
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The first Olympic games started in Olympia 776 bc.\nThe modern one in Athens in 1896.
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Many different cultures have played a sport similar to the modern game of soccer but no one can really say with any certainty when or where soccer began but it is known that the earlier variations of what later became soccer were played almost 3000 years ago. \n\n  \n \n\nOne of the earliest forms of soccer in which players kicked a ball around on a small field has been traced as far back to 1004 B.C. in Japan. The Munich Ethnological Museum in Germany has a Chinese text from approximately 50 B.C. that mentions games very similar to soccer that were played between teams from Japan and China. The Chinese kicked a leather ball ( hair-filled ) and it is known with certainty that a soccer game was played in 611 A.D. in the then Japanese capital, Kyoto. \n\nThe Romans played a game that somewhat resembled modern soccer. The early Olympic games in  Rome featured twenty-seven men on a side who completed so vigorously that two-thirds of them had to be hospitalized after a fifty-minute game. \n\nWhile historians kept records of events such as wars and religious movements they had very little interest in preserving the various origins of soccer or many other sports, so no one can say how soccer seems to have spread from Asia to Europe.
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to travel around the world
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If you want to talk strictly of who revived the games: "Originally held in ancient Greece, they were revived by a French nobleman, Pierre Frèdy, Baron de Coubertin in the late 19th century." He wanted to encourage better physical conditioning as well as foreign relations. He presented the ideas to an international audience in Paris in 1894 and, basically, they agreed. The first modern Olympic Games were held in 1896 in Athens. You can find more information about the Olympics at www.wikipedia.org.
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The concept of a united Commonwealth sporting event had been talked about amongst Commonwealth nations since the rebirth of the Olympic Games. A sporting competition bringing together the members of the British Empire was first proposed by Reverend Astley Cooper in 1891, when he wrote an article in The Times newspaper suggesting a "Pan-Britannic-Pan-Anglican Contest and Festival every four years as a means of increasing the goodwill and good understanding of the British Empire". \n\n\nIn 1911, the 'Festival of Empire' was held in London to celebrate the coronation of King George V. As part of the festival, an Inter-Empire Championships was held in which teams from Australia, Canada, South Africa and the United Kingdom competed in events such as boxing, wrestling, swimming and athletics. A trophy in the form of a silver cup, 2ft 6in high and weighing 340oz, the gift of Lord Lonsdale, was presented to the winning country, which was Canada. \n\nNo further development took place until 1928, when the Olympic Games were in progress in Amsterdam. The splendid feelings of friendliness between the Empire athletes at that Olympiad re-vitalised the idea for the revival of Empire meetings. \n\nThe first Commonwealth Games, known as the British Empire Games at the time, were held in Canada in 1930 in Hamilton, Ontario. 'Bobby' Robinson, who was a major player within athletics in Canada at the time, was the driving force behind the event. The first Games included 400 athletes from 11 countries. To help cover the travelling costs for the visiting nations, the City of Hamilton provided $30,000. \n\nSupport for the concept was forthcoming from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, with the result that strong teams were sent to Canada. Teams also came from Australia, New Zealand, Bermuda, British Guiana, Newfoundland and South Africa. The events at this meeting comprised track and field athletics, swimming, rowing, boxing and wrestling, and lawn bowls. While no points were allotted, it was fitting that Great Britain filled the premier position.
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If you're asking where it started, the answer is when a couple guys that had bikes decided to see who could go around the field the fastest. This sort of thing happened in Europe and in the US. Before long there were a few guys who wanted to see who could go around the field the fastest. Motocross was born!\n\nThe European tracks used to look like a field with markers and flags to outline the "track" while US tracks were wider and groomed for racing. There were, of course, different versions of "see who can go around the field the fastest", like Hare Scrambles, TT, ISDT and others, but that's more or less how it got started.\n\nNext comes sanctioning bodies and rules. The rest is history.
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The first Commonwealth Games were held in 1930 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Bobby Robinson, a major influence within athletics in Canada at the time, finally implemented the event that had been talked about amongst Commonwealth nations for over thirty years. Eleven countries with 400 athletes in total participated in the first Commonwealth Games. $30,000 was provided by the City of Hamilton to these nations to help cover travelling costs. Since then, the Games have been conducted every four years except for 1942 and 1946, due to World War II.\n\nFrom 1930 to 1950 the Games were known as the British Empire Games, then the British Empire and Commonwealth Games until 1962. From 1966 to 1974 they took on the title of British Commonwealth Games and from 1978 onwards they have been known as simply the Commonwealth Games. A governor-general represents her in the country.
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I great place to start looking for a travel team is \n\nwww.eteamz.com\n\n\nStart with that and good luck with your search!
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James Naismith was a soccer coach and he wanted to develop an indoor exercise that would keep his team in shape during the off season. So he nailed up wooden fruit baskets on the walls and had his team run around throwing the soccer balls into the fruit baskets. He eventually developed this into basketball as we know it today. If you get a chance, visit the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield Massachusetts.\n\nCenturies ago, the Aztecs of Mexico are supposed to have had a basketball-like game, where the two teams tried to kick or throw a heavy rubber ball through an elevated hole in the wall, but we don't consider this to be related to modern basketball.  The losing team was made into human sacrifices; that was their version of 'sudden death overtime'.
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The origins of the game come from a time when pools were segregated.  Blind children would swim in a small, usually dirty pool, while the other children swam in olympic size swimming pools, usually with small dolphins.  \n\nThe children who could see would walk by the blind pool yelling "MARCO"  (Latin for "I have cake over here."), the blind children would then echo back..."POLO!"  (meaning, "can I have some?")  \n\nThe joke of course, is on the blind children, and is thus another example of society's impulse to taunt blind children.
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The games begin on  June 9th.