INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS events. There are also past olympic sports and sports recognised bythe olympic Movement. Learn more, olympic sports OF THE PAST, Tug http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/index_uk.asp
Medal Sports Olympic Debut sports Index. the official Sydney 2000 olympic Games site. http://www.sjc.uq.edu.au/projects/olympics/History/history5.html
Extractions: Triathlon Volleyball Water Polo Weightlifting Wrestling Sports Sports Index Archery Athletics Badminton Baseball Basketball Boxing Canoe/Kayak Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Football Gymnastics Handball Hockey Judo Modern Pentathlon Rowing Sailing Softball Table Tennis Tae Kwon Do Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Water Polo Weightlifting Wrestling More Information
2008 Chopping Block We still want to keep the numbers at around 10,500 athletes, 28 sports and 300 events. Modernpentathlon, an olympic sport since 1912, has long been on the http://www.olympic-usa.org/CFDOCS/borg/newsTemplate.cfm?spID=75&newsID=1047
Extractions: Millions of dollars of sponsorship money and prestige are at stake. Being included on the Olympic program is not just a promotional ego trip and the premier goal for athletes, it is recognised as big, big business. "We are talking about money, television exposure and jobs for officials," said one International Olympic Committee member.
The Games - Athens 2004 Centre, and will thus be the venue for 2 of the 28 sports Goudi olympic ModernPentathlon Centre Situated 18km south from the olympic Village, the Goudi http://www.olympics.org.uk/thegames/future/athens.asp
Extractions: Athens, Greece, was awarded the 2004 Olympic Games on 5 September, 1997 in Lausanne, Switzerland. It will be the third time Athens has hosted the Olympic Games. Greece is one of only five countries to have been in attendance at every Olympic Games since they began, in Athens, in 1986. The other countries being Great Britain, France, Switzerland and Australia. Athens hosted the first of our Modern day Olympic Games and 108 years later the Games will return to their birth place.
