Olympic Games
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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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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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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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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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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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Show jumping originates from hurdles and horse hunting, which were extremely popular in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the 50s of the XIX century, at the Paris Equestrian Exhibition, the first official competition for overcoming various obstacles on horseback was organized
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Trampoline jumping is a gymnastic sport. They are part of the Summer Olympics program. Trampoline competitions are divided into single performances and synchronized performances with two athletes. It is believed that the trampoline was invented by the circus acrobat of the Middle Ages from France du Trumpoline
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The most popular sport at the moment is athletics. She is also called the Queen of Sports. All elements of athletics, such as running, jumping, walking, are used in everyday life. They, as components, are included in all other sports. Therefore, without improvement in athletics, there are no good results on other sites
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Ekaterina Gamova is a volleyball player, an athlete and just a beauty. She was born in the Olympic 1980 in Chelyabinsk. Now she is the recognized leader of the Russian volleyball team, which is one of the best in the world. Katya Gamova started playing volleyball at the age of 8
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The Summer Olympic Games in London will be the most notable event in the sports world on the planet. Competitions of this level traditionally attract millions of fans to sports arenas and TV screens. The most exciting sports for Russians will undoubtedly be those sports in which our country occupies a leading position
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The Summer Olympic Games are held once every four years, and the venue for them begins to be selected on a competitive basis a decade before this event. The host city of the Olympics, which starts in mid-summer 2012, was finally determined by the International Olympic Committee seven years ago - London won the competition
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The venue of the Olympiad is selected by the IOC (International Olympic Committee) among the candidate cities that have submitted applications in advance. This process is long and complex, and even gambling for outside observers. In two years (2003-2005), the IOC eliminated five candidates out of 9, and then in four voting rounds with a difference of only 4 points out of 104 chose London as the host city for the 2012 Summer Olympics
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The Olympic Games in London will be remembered not only for the scale and intensity of the competition, but also for the more than controversial judging decisions. One of them turned out to be directly related to the Russian gymnast Maria Paseka
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In a matter of days, the grand opening of the 30th Summer Olympic Games will take place in London. Russians will also be among the athletes competing for the medals of this honorable sporting event. Our masters of sports will compete in 34 types of the Olympic program
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In the summer of 2012, the English capital will host an important sporting event - the Olympic Games. Thousands of athletes will gather in one place, where they will show their skills in 32 sports. The thirtieth Summer Olympic Games will be held in London from July 27 to August 12 this year
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Melissa Janette Franklin is an American swimmer who was named to the US Olympic team for the 2012 London Games. This spring, Missy turned 17, but she is already a very famous person among the fastest swimmers on the planet and is considered the favorite in the fight for Olympic medals in several disciplines
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Neymar is a player at the Brazilian football club Santos, the same one in which Pele played, the most famous football player of all time. It is symbolic that Pele himself calls Neymar the best of the current players on our planet. The full name of the new star is Neymar da Silva Santos Junior
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Michael Phelps is the greatest American swimmer. He is the only fourteen-time Olympic champion and seventeen-time world champion. And his sports career is not over yet, because he is only 27 years old. The "Baltimore Bullet", as fans called it, is ready for new victories and records
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The XXX Summer Olympic Games in London were held from July 27 to August 12, 2012, athletes from 204 countries took part in them. The colorful opening and closing ceremonies were held at the Olympic stadium, specially built for the start of the Games
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The XXX Summer Olympic Games will kick off in London at the end of July. While fans are eagerly awaiting the start of the competition, the 2012 Olympics organizers are holding the final rehearsals of the Games' opening ceremony. Despite the fact that the preparation takes place in the strictest secrecy, the press managed to find out some details of the upcoming show
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The famous expression "Oh, sport, you are the world!" has long been turned into the opposite - "Oh, world, you are a sport." Unfortunately, with all the desire, no one succeeds in separating sports and politics, especially when it comes to the world's main sports competitions - the Olympic Games
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The XXX Olympic Games in London will be held from July 27 to August 12. In addition to the capital of Great Britain itself, Glasgow, Coventry, Cardiff, Manchester, Dorney, Newcastle and Birmingham will host athletes. Without a doubt, the Summer Olympic Games are the most important event of the sports season, attracting the attention of millions of sports fans around the world
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At the end of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Canadian athletes showed not the best results. Having won 18 medals, including 1 gold, 5 silver and 12 bronze, Canada was in 36th place in the overall team event. This situation has found a kind of reflection in the Canadian press
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The Thirtieth Games of the Olympians kicked off in London on July 27, and on August 12, sports fans will watch the closing ceremony. There are only three weeks of international competitions, but this time is as full of events and shows as possible
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Russian wrestlers competed successfully at the XXX Summer Olympic Games in London. One of the gold medals was won by a young athlete Roman Vlasov. He won a victory in the weight category up to 74 kg in a duel with a member of the Armenian national team Arsen Julfalakyan
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Big sport is not only the joy of victory, but also the bitterness of defeat. Sometimes the defeat is unfair, with which the athlete does not want to put up and tries to prove his innocence by all available means. South Korean epee fencer Sin Ah Lam refused to leave the track for half an hour after completing her fight with Germany's Britta Heidemann
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All visitors to the 2012 London Olympics have to face an unexpected ban - they cannot use their own Wi-Fi hotspots and 3G hubs. Most modern mobile phones can be turned into a personal hotspot. Also, radio scanners, walkie-talkies, all kinds of radio signal jammers and other similar equipment are not allowed on the Olympic facilities
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The thirtieth 2012 Summer Olympics will be held from 27 July to 12 August in London. At the same time, the capital of Great Britain will become the first city in which they will be held for the third time. In addition to this city, Moscow, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Istanbul, New York, Havana, Leipzig claimed the right to host the games
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On July 27, 2012, the opening ceremony of the XXX Olympiad was held in London. The organizers tried to make it as luxurious and solemn as possible in order to surpass all previous official ceremonies of the Games in this regard. Famous singers and musicians performed at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics
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The opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics in London will take place on 27 July. You do not need to buy a ticket to the UK to watch this event. It is enough to turn on the TV at the right time. Instructions Step 1 In the Russian Federation, a live broadcast of the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony will be shown on Channel One, and possibly also on Russia-1, Russia-2 and Russia-24 channels
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On July 27, 2012, about a billion viewers watched the grand opening ceremony of the XXX Summer Olympic Games in London. Paul McCartney, actors Rowan Atkinson and Daniel Craig, the British group Arctic Monkeys, as well as famous athletes Mohammed Ali, Stephen Redgrave and David Beckham took part in the colorful show, which was spent about 27 million pounds sterling
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At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the American couple Misty May-Trainor and Kerry Walsh won gold medals in beach volleyball and became three-time Olympic champions in the sport. Misty May-Trainor and Kerry Walsh Jennings have been pairing since 2001
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A Chinese badminton player named Tribute and last name Lin is considered the most likely contender to win the men's singles badminton competition at the London Summer Olympics. The sports biography of this unique athlete and his current position in the world rankings give grounds for such an assumption
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Paula Redcliffe is a legendary British athlete, world record holder in marathon running and multiple winner of the AIMS Athlete of the Year award. Three weeks before the London 2012 Games, the athlete withdrew from the competition. The path to the coveted Olympic gold The field was blocked by a leg injury
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All sports that have received the "Olympic" status are divided into two categories: winter and summer. And the games in each of them are held separately. There is a break of four years between each pair of Summer or Winter Olympiads, but since the time for the Winter Games is shifted, every even year Olympiads are held in one of these two categories
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The Games of the XXX Summer Olympics in London ended on 12 August 2012 and the last sets of awards of the sports forum were drawn on the same day. In the final table of the unofficial medal standings, Russia turned out to be slightly lower than the fans hoped and the sports experts expected
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Russian oppositionists call on European politicians to boycott the Winter Olympics in Sochi. The presence of top EU officials at the event will be regarded as political support for Putin, former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said in an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt
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The fewer days are left before the opening of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi, the more talk and controversy flares up around the upcoming event. One of the most pressing questions of recent days: will American athletes come to Sochi?
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On February 7, 2014, the Winter Olympic Games will open in Sochi. The upcoming Olympics will mark a record number of medals: 98 sets of awards will be drawn. The competition program includes a number of new disciplines. Sports lovers will find a bright, eventful show
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The XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi will take place from 7 to 23 February 2014. This grand event is eagerly awaited by both the residents of Russia and the whole world. This Olympiad will differ from others in various innovations. Features of the Winter Olympics The Winter Olympics have been held since 1924 as an addition to the Summer Games