Olympic Sports History - Cycling olympic Sports history. cycling. The first recorded bicycle race was a1,200meter event held on May 31, 1868, in St.-Cloud Park, near Paris. http://www.athenshousing.com/olympicshistory/OlympicSports/cycling.html
Extractions: Home Check Availability Browse Accommodations Buy Olympic Event Tickets ... Submit A Special Request Olympic Sports History CYCLING The first recorded bicycle race was a 1,200-meter event held on May 31, 1868, in St.-Cloud Park, near Paris. It was won by an Englishman, James Moore. Coincidentally, the first English race was staged in Hendon the following day. In 1869, Moore won the first point-to-point race, from Rouen to Paris, a distance of about 83 miles. During the 1870s, many bicycle clubs were established in the United States. They started as social clubs, organizing mass rides, but most of them soon began offering races. The first recorded race was held on May 24, 1878, in Boston, and others followed quickly. In 1880, a group of clubs formed the League of American Wheelmen (LAW) at a meeting in Newport, Rhode Island. By 1898, the organization had 102,600 members. The main purpose of the LAW was to promote recreational cycling by lobbying for better roads and favorable laws, but the organization also served as the governing body for amateur racing. The International Cyclist Association was founded in 1892 by Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States. It was replaced in 1900 by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), which is still the international governing body for racing.
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Press Release Every day is part of history. SILVER. Ian Peel olympic Trap (Shooting).Jason Queally, Chris Hoy, Craig MacLean olympic Sprint (cycling). http://www.olympics.org.uk/press/pressdetail.asp?boa_press_id=27
NZ Summer Olympic History NZ Summer olympic history. as Annelise Coberger won this country s first Winter olympicmedal when Bronze medals went to Gary Anderson in cycling s 4000 metres http://www.olympic.org.nz/Article.aspx?ID=343
INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS olympic history, cycling is one of the few sports that has been onthe programme of every olympic Games. The programme has varied http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/history_uk.asp?DiscCode=CR&sportCode=
INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS olympic history, an olympic discipline, making its olympic debut in the programmeof the 1996 Atlanta olympics. OTHER DISCIPLINES cycling Road cycling Track. http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/history_uk.asp?DiscCode=CM&sportCode=
Kiat.net: Olympic Games Athens 1896 An American Harvard law student, James Brendan Connolly, became the first Olympicchampion of the Paul Masson of France won three of the six cycling events and http://www.kiat.net/olympics/history/01athens.html
Extractions: GAMES OF THE Ist OLYMPIAD April 6 - 15, 1896 Mascot - none 14 countries, 311 athletes - 230 Greek (no women) 9 sports, 43 events Opening - King George Ist of Greece Torch lit by - none Assigned during the 1st IOC Session 1894 Standing proud: Spyridon Louis, the first and symbolic marathon champion of the modern Olympic era. The modest shepherd was revered in Greece, and went on to feature as flag-bearer to the Greek delegation in 1936. THE RENAISSANCE OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES The first Session of the IOC was held in Paris on 23-24 June 1894. It was during the first Session that the city of Athens was selected for the Games of the I Olympiad. The inauguration of the first Games of the modern era, opened by King George I at the foot of the Acropolis on April 5, 1896, was a huge relief for baron Pierre de Coubertin. Greece's instability and economic stature, due to numerous conflicts, proved almost insurmountable obstacles. However, a wealthy Greek architect from Alexandria, George Averoff, donated a gift of one million drachma and in a matter of 18 months a superb white marble stadium, able to hold 60,000 people, was constructed. Baron de Coubertin's dream of reinventing the Games was one he had coveted since 1892 - two years later the official announcement was made and Athens chosen as the site. Baron Pierre de Coubertin invited countries from all over the world to attend the first of the new Olympics in Athens.
Kiat.net: Sydney 2000 - Cycling WOMEN Felicia Ballanger is queen of cycling sprinting with 2 gold medals and winher 3rd gold medal the most successful women s cyclist in olympic history. http://www.kiat.net/olympics/sydney2000/cycling.html
Utahn Flirts With Olympic History Utahn Chris Witty flirted with olympic sports history Saturday night. to place secondat the US olympic Trials earlier earned a berth on the Sydney cycling team http://deseretnews.com/sydney/view/1,3466,195014616,00.html
Extractions: After her two laps around the 250-meter track and her 35 seconds of participation in the 2000 Sydney Summer Games, the Park City resident and two-season Olympian walked away without having her name further etched in annals of athletic achievement. What she did carry with her was the satisfaction of improving her personal record and finishing among the top five athletes in her second-best sport.
CyberSleuthkids: Sports - Bicycling history The United States olympic Committee, the coordinating body for olympicsrelatedactivity in the USA, provides us information about cycling history. http://cybersleuth-kids.com/sleuth/Sports/Bicycling/
History Of The Bicycle And Cycling cycling events have remained relatively constant since then Biking was introducedduring the olympic Games in Previous article in Sports history of the olympic http://www.chevroncars.com/wocc/lrn/artcl/artcl.jhtml?id=/content/Sports/a1847.x
Olympic Games - History players and one athlete each from Athletics, Swimming (female), Shooting and cycling. Forthe second time in Malaysian olympic history, the Hockey team did not http://www.olympic.org.my/gamesrecords/olympicg/history.htm
Extractions: Chef-De-Mission Brief Record of Malaysia's Participation in Past Olympic Games since 1956 Prior to the formation of the Federation of Malaya Olympic Council in 1953 and its subsequent recognition by the IOC in 1954, some Malayans may have participated in the Olympic Games, representing their countries of origin, such as China and India. After receiving the recognition of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1954, the Federation of Malaya Olympic Council, as it was then known, sent a contingent of 33 athletes from 6 sports to participate in the Olympic Games in 1956 in Melbourne. Since then the Olympic Council of Malaysia, as it is known since 1964, has been participating in all the Olympic Games, except the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. The Olympic Contingent of the Federation of Malaya to the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games comprised six athletes, two swimmers, 18 Hockey players, three Weightlifters and four shooters. There was only one female athlete in the Contingent, Ms. Annie Choong, who participated in Athletics. Amongst the Olympians were Koh Eng Tong, the 1950 British Empire Weightlifting gold medallist in the Featherweight Division and Tan Kim Bee, the silver medallist in the Light Heavyweight Division. The Hockey team finished 9th out of 12 teams. The Chef de Mission was Mr. H.M. De Souza (Hockey) and the Flag Bearer was Tan Eng Bee (Weightlifting)
UK Online - Official ISP Of The Olympics history. That particular olympic road race was held on the marathon course, with riders GBhave won 10 Gold, 22 Silver and 18 Bronze medals in cycling events at http://www.ukonline.net/olympics/?art=sportwatch&page=sportcode&sportid=8
Events / Olympics history from Buffalo and Western New York Highlights of olympic history with stories atthe Superdrome velodrome in Frisco, Texas.US olympic cycling Team Head http://paloweb.com/Sports/Events/Olympics/
Summer Olympics 2000 and England s Jason Queally snapped up the first two cycling gold medals of photogalleries Sydney week one Sydney week two olympic history Atlanta moments http://www.active.com/special_events/olympics_2000/cycling.cfm
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Olympic Games - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia 1896 athletics (track field), cycling, fencing, gymnastics olympic.org/ OfficialSite of the olympic Movement. Discuss this page Page history What links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympics
Extractions: (Redirected from Olympics A runner carries the Olympic torch The Olympic Games are a multi-sport event taking place every fourth year . Originally held in ancient Greece , they were revived by French Baron Pierre de Coubertin in the late 19th century . The Games of the Olympiad, better known as the Summer Olympics , have been held every fourth year since , with the exception of the years during the World Wars . A special edition for winter sports, the Winter Olympic Games , started in ; since these are no longer held in the same year as the Games of the Olympiad. Table of contents 1 Ancient Olympics 2 Revival of the Olympic Games 3 Summer Olympics 4 Winter Olympics ... edit In detail: Ancient Olympic Games Ruins of the training grounds at Olympia The origin of the Ancient Olympic Games has been lost in time, although there are many legends surrounding its origins. The first recorded celebration of the Games in Olympia was in 776 BC , although this was certainly not the first time they were held. The Games were then mostly a local affair, and only one event was contested, the stadion race.
Michigan Athletes Have Made Olympic History Clair and Georgia Young, had competed in both speedskating and cycling and encouraged O Sullivanin a 50 decision, one of the strangest in olympic history. http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=148&category=sports
Australia: The Games And The New Millennium 26 to 30, 2000 Mountain Bike, September 21 to 24, 2000 cycling in Sydney For thefirst time in olympic history, competitors will wear different coloured Judo http://www.rochedalss.qld.edu.au/olympics/sports.htm
History Of The Olympics + Cartoon Fun By Brownielocks sports including archery, basketball, boxing, conoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing linkto it.) olympic Museum olympic Stories olympic history Sport s Journal http://www.brownielocks.com/olympics.html
Extractions: The History of the Olympics Since the Olympic games go way back to the early Greeks, to do an entire history on one page is a bit overwhelming. So, I'll give you a brief summation of how it all began, and then provide some further links for additional information. So, how and why did it all begin? In ancient Greece, they often combined religious festivals with sporting events, to honor certain gods. The Greeks held the following: The Pythian Games The Olympic Games It was the last one, the Olympics, that were held for the Greek God Zeus and were also the most popular with the people. The first game is said to be held at Olympia, Greece in 776 B.C. and has been held every 4 years since = 1,168 years! Then, Greece came under the rule of the Roman Empire and the Olympic games were declined, to the point where they actually declined in 393 B.C. by the Christian Roman Emperor, Theodosius I, who objected to what he felt were some "pagan rites" associated with the games. In the beginning, the Olympic games were confined to just one day and one event. That event was a footrace that was the length of the stadium. Soon, additional races were added as the popularity grew, as well as discus and javelin throws (tosses), broad jumps, boxing, wrestling, chariot racing and a pentathlon. The pentathlon was composed of 5 different track and field competitions.
ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games olympic Games. Vision and Mission. », Values, », Legacy, history. », Antiquity,», Revival, », The olympic Games Timeline. Sports. », Softball, », cycling,», Aquatics. http://www.athens2004.com/page/default.asp?id=5154&la=2
