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Underwood Archives/Getty Images. It's a nightmare-inducing feat for most teens in physical education (been there), but believe it or not, the activity was an official Olympic sport in 1896, 1904 ...
A sport that gives a new meaning to the term "drinking game". Elephant polo: Variant of polo that is played while riding elephants, mostly played by royals in Rajasthan. Enhanced Games: The Olympics, just without drug testing requirements. They hope an athlete can beat Usain Bolt's 100m dash record soon. Eton wall game
Aeronautics at the 1936 Summer Olympics; Alpinism at the Olympic Games; American football at the 1932 Summer Olympics; American football at the Summer Olympics; Angling at the 1900 Summer Olympics; Art competitions at the Summer Olympics; Australian football at the 1956 Summer Olympics
The Olympics does a fine job of identifying the finest athletes in individual sports. But there’s only one event — a strange little outlier of an event — that identifies the best athletes in ...
ESPN8 The Ocho is a special program block showcasing seldom-seen obscure sports that airs on the networks of ESPN Inc.. The Ocho consists of lesser-known, unconventional and humorous sports and other competitions with some athletic or physical skill component, including Pop-A-Shot, roller derby, crossnet, bowling, Quidditch, trampoline dodgeball, air hockey, darts, cornhole, disc golf, kabaddi ...
PARIS — There has never been an Olympic Games that put its host city on display quite like this. In an unprecedented Opening Ceremony, the 2024 Summer Games kicked off with a wave of pageantry ...
In Europe, biathlon is the most-watched winter sport on television. In the U.S., it is obscure, impossible and fascinating. Why you should root for biathlon, the Winter Olympics’ weirdest sport
At the Summer Olympics, there have been eight Olympic sports that have been discontinued. For the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, long-discontinued sports in golf (last competed in 1904) and rugby (last competed in 1924) were reinstated as Olympic sports, though rugby was as rugby sevens (having previously been rugby union).