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The summer Olympics worksheet is an engaging and educational printable designed to help students learn about the Summer Olympic Games through a variety of fun and informative activities. This ...
College sports leaders seeking antitrust and other protections from Congress have a potential bargaining chip: School ...
The newest Olympic sport at the 2024 Paris Games is breakdancing. The history of breaking, or breakdancing, begins in New York City in the 1970s, according to the official Olympics website.
The first U.S. Olympic Trials event in any sport for the 2026 Milan Cortina Games. Mixed doubles made its Olympic debut in 2018. A U.S. pair has yet to make the playoffs at the Olympics, but Cory ...
The IOC is committed to avoiding first-person shooter and violent video games, limiting its options as it pushes to host Olympic esports.
T here will be 32 sports at the Paris Summer Olympic Games (Jul. 26-Aug. 11). While some events—such as fencing, swimming, and tennis—date back to the original Olympics in 1896, there are some ...
The modern pentathlon, which was introduced to the Olympic program in 1912 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, is made up of four events combining five sports: running, riding, swimming, fencing and ...
Nearly 50 summer sports — including long-discontinued ones like motorboating and tug-of-war — have made appearances at the Olympic Games since its start in 1896.
Three sports from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be absent in Paris this summer. Here's a breakdown of why they were removed and when some will come back.
The sport, also known as breaking, made its successful debut at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where it topped 1 million viewers, according to NBC Olympics, far outpacing ...
Swimming will be a major part of the 2024 Olympic schedule in its opening week with the events taking place at Paris La Défense Arena. Europe's largest indoor arena, it opened in 2017 as the home ...
One of the five new sports added to the Olympic Games for 2028, squash was invented in England in the early 19th century and has been played on a world-championship level since the 1970s. Like ...