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Ski jumping from equipped ski jumps is included in the Nordic combined ski program, and also acts as an independent sport. Norway is considered the birthplace of ski jumping, where similar competitions were held already in 1840. At first, skiers jumped from natural ledges on mountain slopes, later from specially erected structures
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At the Summer Olympics, athletes compete in many sports, including artistic gymnastics. This discipline has been present in the competition program since the first Olympics in 1896 in Athens. Artistic gymnastics is one of the sports that can bring many medals to a particular athlete and national team
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Figure skating has been part of the Olympic Games since 1908, but figure skaters became permanent participants in these competitions only in 1924. Today, the Olympics are simply unthinkable without this sport. In 1908, the Olympic Games were held in London
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Football today is the most massive and most popular sport on our planet. The official date of his birth is considered to be 1863, and for the first time at the Olympic Games, football appeared 37 years after this date. It was in Paris, at the second Games after the revival of the Olympic tradition
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Nordic Combination is officially called Nordic Combined. It includes ski jumping and cross-country skiing. This sport appeared in Norway more than a century ago, spread to other countries and was included in the Winter Games program. Individual competitions in this sport were first held at the Olympic Games in Chamonix in 1924
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Swimming has become a mass activity since the 16th century. The first competition was held in 1515 in Venice. At the turn of the 18th-19th centuries, swimming schools were created in several European countries. In 1896, men's swimming competitions were included in the summer program
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Short track - short track. This winter Olympic sport is relatively young. The short track came about because special speed skating stadiums with a track length of 400 meters are very rare, and a regular hockey rink is suitable for these races
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Snowboarding is a winter Olympic sport. It consists in descending from a snowy mountain on a special board. At the same time, snowboarders wear special equipment. This sport can be classified as extreme, as it is associated with health risks
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Curling officially entered the Olympic Games program back in 1998. And this is despite the fact that the history of this sport began much earlier - around the beginning of the 16th century. Today, a huge number of athletes from different countries are enthusiastically engaged in curling
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Fencing competitions in sabers and foils have been included in the Summer Olympic Games since 1896. In 1900, the epee competition was added to the existing disciplines. Women began participating in fencing at the Olympics in 1924. To conduct a fight of fencers, you need a track 14 m long and 1, 5 to 2 m wide
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Table tennis appeared at the beginning of the 19th century. For almost a century, ping-pong has been a way of active leisure time, and in 1920 it was officially recognized as a sport. Seven years later, for the first time, the World Table Tennis Championship was held, and in 1988 this sport was included in the program of the Summer Olympic Games
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Short track is a relatively young discipline of the Winter Olympics. This sport attracts fans with its entertainment and dynamism. Short track is an Olympic sport in which athletes demonstrate their skills in speed skating on a short track
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Freestyle is one of the youngest among Olympic sports. He entered the official program of the Winter Olympics in 1992 in Albertville, and four years before that, demonstration competitions were held in Calgary. Freestyle includes three disciplines - mogul, acrobatic jumping and ski ballet
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The history of Canadian ice hockey began in 1879, when students at McGill University in Montreal made the first rubber puck. This sport appeared at the Olympic Games in 1920 - a tournament of six teams of the Old and New Worlds took place in Antwerp
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Luge entered the Olympic program relatively late. It happened in 1964 in Innsbruck. Since then, competitions in this type have been held at all Winter Olympic Games. During the competition, athletes descend from the mountain along a prepared track in a single or double sleigh
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Almost all the peoples of the world used onions at certain stages of their development. Initially, it served for hunting or defense. With the invention of firearms, archery was further developed in sports. This was facilitated by the Olympic movement, which gained strength after the 1894 Congress in Paris
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Bobsleigh is a downhill ride on a controlled sled called bobs. The track for this winter Olympic sport is an inclined chute with artificial ice. Bobsleigh originated in Switzerland in 1888 thanks to the fantasy of Wilson Smith, who connected two sledges
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Volleyball is a game in which members of each of two opposing teams throw the ball with their hands over the net separating them, trying to prevent it from touching the ground on their side of the court. There are rules that govern both the gameplay itself and the parameters of the site
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The word biathlon (biathlon) consists of a combination of two parts: Latin bis - twice and Greek attlon - competition, fight. It is a winter biathlon, which includes cross-country skiing and target shooting. Biathlon became an Olympic sport in 1960
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Triathlon is the most difficult Olympic equestrian sport. It includes dressage riding, field trials and overcoming obstacles. Eventing is included in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The competition is held in Greenwich Park from 28 to 31 July and is attended by 75 athletes
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There are several sports in the programs of the Winter Olympic Games, representing different options for downhill skiing. For some of them, snow cover and relatively simple equipment of an athlete (for example, alpine skiing) is sufficient, others require ice tracks and special sports equipment
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Modern pentathlon first entered the Olympic program in 1912. The idea to combine such different sports as fencing, show jumping, swimming, cross-country track and shooting was proposed by the founder of the modern Olympic movement Pierre de Coubertin at the end of the last century
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If we recall the entire history of the Olympic Games, we can say that most of the medals belong to Greek athletes. But this is not entirely correct: the competitions began to be held in Greece back in 776 BC, and only citizens of this state took part in them
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Sochi received the right to host the XXII Winter Olympic Games in the fight against the Austrian Salzburg and South Korean Pyeongchang - only these three cities from the initial seven were included in the voting list. The final decision in favor of the Black Sea resort was made by the 119th session of the International Olympic Committee, which took place in 2007 in Guatemala
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The Olympic Games are still considered the most important competition in an athlete's life. But not all sports can boast of being included in the official Olympic program. What sports are included in the Summer Olympics The list of the Summer Olympic Games includes 41 disciplines in 28 sports
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The Summer Olympic Games, which took place in Moscow in 1980, became legendary in a sense. They were remembered by the inhabitants of our country and remained in the history of world competitions as one of the most controversial Olympics. The history of these games began with an international scandal
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In 1992, the French town of Albertville, nestled at the foot of the Alps, hosted the Olympic Games not for the first time. Seven decades earlier, the Olympians had already competed for the title of the best in this place. The sporting event was overshadowed by political turmoil
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In 1980, two Olympics were held - the summer one was organized in the Soviet Union, and the winter one - in the USA. Lake Placid, which had already hosted similar competitions in 1932, was chosen as the capital of the games. The 1980 Winter Olympics took place at a good time - it managed to end before the scandal about the boycott of the Olympic Games in Moscow erupted
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1996 was the year of the 100th anniversary of the 1st Olympic Games, so many viewed Athens as the main contender for voting on the choice of the Olympic capital. However, the XXVI Summer Olympic Games were held in Atlanta (Georgia, USA). Since this Olympics was a jubilee, they began to call it the 100th Olympiad
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The Australian metropolis Sydney was chosen to host the XXVII Summer Olympics in 1993, at the 101st session of the International Olympic Committee. This was the second Summer Games in Australia, but almost half a century had elapsed between the previous XVI Olympics in Melbourne and the 2000 Games
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The choice of the venue for the XIV Winter Olympics took place in 1978, at the 80th session of the IOC in Athens. There were four candidate cities, but the American Los Angeles did not confirm its application, and it took only two rounds of voting to make a decision
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The first Olympic Games in post-war Germany took place 27 years after the end of World War II. In 1972 Munich hosted the XX Summer Olympics with the slogan "Happy Games" and a shining blue sun in the logo. Unfortunately, the mourning color of terrorism from the Palestinian "
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1737 athletes from 67 countries took part in the XVII Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer (Norway). They competed for 61 sets of awards in 12 sports. The International Olympic Committee organized these games two years after the previous ones in order to separate the timing of the summer and winter Olympics
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In 1988, the Summer Olympic Games were first organized on the Korean Peninsula - in Seoul. In terms of organization, they corresponded to the high standards of holding such sports events in Asia, set by Japan at the Tokyo Olympics. 160 countries took part in the Seoul Olympics
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The Japanese city of Nagano was chosen to host the 1998 Winter Olympics at the 1991 session of the International Olympic Committee in Birmingham. Prior to this, the Winter Olympics were held in Japan 26 years ago in Sapporo. This Olympics in Nagano was the most massive of the previous Winter Games in terms of the number of athletes and participating countries
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In 1972, the International Olympic Committee entrusted the holding of the Winter Olympic Games in Japan. The largest international competition took place in Sapporo, the main city of Hokkaido, the northernmost Japanese island. The climate of this place, with rather warm winters and heavy snowfalls, was well suited for organizing ski competitions
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In 1924, the International Olympic Committee decided to consider winter sports competitions as a separate Olympics. The first Winter Olympics were held in the French city of Chamonix. The main part of the Olympics - in summer sports - took place in 1924 in Paris
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The 1984 Summer Olympics has become one of the best-organized sporting events in the world. However, the level of competition was negatively affected by the absence of athletes from many countries that boycotted the Olympics, including the USSR and the GDR
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During the confrontation between the Soviet Union and the Western countries, the Olympians' competitions had not only sporting, but also important political significance - two systems, socialist and capitalist, tried to prove whose version of development was more correct
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The International Olympic Committee has decided to host the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble. This city became the second city in France after Chamonix to host winter sports events of this level. The 1968 Winter Olympics were a watershed moment in the sport