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History Of Rugby In The Olympics rugby was one of the announced sports, and the US olympic Committee sanctioneda US side to accompany the Yanks olympic contingent to the Games. http://rugbymag.com/archive/2004/march/history.htm
Extractions: By Richard Coppo The US rugby community moves into 2004 in eager anticipation of spring competitions at the local and territorial union levels. It will culminate in a festival of national championship runs for both men and women, for high school, college and club teams and from the Super League to Division III. We do so having just emerged from the thrilling quadrennial spectacle of the Rugby World Cup in Sydney. The RWC, which is the third largest athletic competition in the world after the Olympic Games and the Soccer World Cup, was won by England, the first time ever by a northern hemisphere team. And in the wake of that historic rugby first, US sports enthusiasts will be witness this year to the XVIII Summer Olympic Games in Athens. What more timely and appropriate moment for an entertaining visit to the past for a brief review of rugby and the Olympic Games?
ABC Sport - Sport - Olympic Sports Safe ... For Now to draw up a shortlist of candidates to host the 2012 Summer Olympics. Sport Top Stories. Listento the Grandstand rugby league team discuss the issue with both http://www.abc.net.au/sport/content/s1110845.htm
Extractions: Print Email Last Update: Tuesday, May 18, 2004. 4:51pm AEST The International Olympic Committee has decided softball, modern pentathlon and baseball are safe as Olympic sports until 2012. The IOC said no sports would be excluded from the Games for the next eight years. The trio of sports faced expulsion at a 2002 IOC meeting in Mexico, but were given a reprieve when members resisted a proposal to drop them all together. At that meeting in Mexico, IOC members voted to postpone any cuts of entire sports until after the 2004 Summer Olympics, following emotional pleas by officials from the three sports. History is also on the side of softball, modern pentathlon and baseball, as the IOC has not removed any sports from its Games program since 1936. IOC president Jacques Rogge said the sports were safe for the time being. "We have frozen the program at 28 sports and at 10,500 athletes," Dr Rogge said. "If any sport wants to come in, one will have to go. But no sport will be excluded before 2012."
Olympic Sports History - Water Polo Water rugby became the most popular of these sports, but somehow the water poloname Water polo was the first team sport added to the olympic program, in http://www.athenshousing.com/olympicshistory/OlympicSports/water_polo.html
Extractions: Home Check Availability Browse Accommodations Buy Olympic Event Tickets ... Submit A Special Request Olympic Sports History As swimming became a popular recreation in England during the 1860s and 1870s, several water sports developed, roughly patterned after land sports. Among them were water football (or soccer), water rugby, water handball, and water polo, in which players rode on floating barrels, painted to look like horses, and struck the ball with a stick. Water rugby became the most popular of these sports, but somehow the water polo name became attached to it, and it's been attached ever since. As played in England, the object of the game was for a player to touch the ball, with both hands, at the goal end of the pool. The goaltender stood on the pool deck, ready to dive on any opponent who was about to score. Water polo quickly became a very rough sport, filled with underwater fights away from the ball, and it wasn't unusual for players to pass out for lack of air. In 1877, the sport was tamed in Scotland by the addition of goalposts. The Scots also replaced the original small, hard rubber ball with a soccer ball and adopted rules that prohibited taking the ball under the surface or "tackling" a player unless he had the ball. The Scottish game, which emphasized swimming speed, passing, and team work, spread to England during the early 1880s, to Hungary in 1889, to Austria and Germany in 1894, to France in 1895, and to Belgium in 1900.
Olympic Sports History - Handball olympic sports History. also be traced to jeu de paume, but the sport as we independentlyin several English public schools, notably Eton, rugby, and Winchester http://www.athenshousing.com/olympicshistory/OlympicSports/handball.html
Extractions: Home Check Availability Browse Accommodations Buy Olympic Event Tickets ... Submit A Special Request Olympic Sports History HANDBALL Beginnings in Ireland Almost all modern racket sports grew out of a form of handball, known as jeu de paume , which originated in France, probably during the 11th century. It's possible that modern handball can also be traced to jeu de paume , but the sport as we know it was nurtured for centuries in Ireland and was brought to North America by Irish immigrants. Handball, along with hurling, is woven into Irish myth and legend, as well as Irish history. Evidently, it was originally played outdoors. In 1527, Galway, in western Ireland, prohibited playing ball against the town's walls. At that time, handball was probably a one-wall game most of the time, though there may well have been three- and four-wall version. The ball was made of cloth, tightly rolled and wrapped in leather. During the late 17th century, court tennis became something of a rage in London, and many courts were built. The rage died in the 18th century, though, and handball players took over some of the abandoned tennis courts. Most of them were probably immigrants from Ireland. The first great player, John Cavanagh, certainly was. When he died in 1819, William Hazlitt eulogized, "It is not likely that anyone will now see the game of handball played in its perfection for many years to comefor Cavanagh is dead and has not left his like behind him." Although played on an enclosed court with four walls, this version of handball was actually three-wall, because the court was more than 100 feet long, putting the back wall effectively out of play.
Extractions: Rollerskating, ballroom dancing and water skiing could be events you see at future Olympic Games. You may also see tug-of-war, sumo wrestling and even chess. All of these are activities which the people who organize the Olympics consider to be "sports", and are thinking about adding to future Olympic competitions. Gimme a break. There are already enough lame sports at the Olympics. They don't need to add more sports; they need to get rid of some. Why do they even have fencing or shooting events? These are not sporting events, they are methods of murder. The same goes for synchronized swimming. If you have to put on make-up and get judged based on how much you smile - then it's not a sport (and it is possible to be bored to death by synchronized swimming!) What are they gonna add next? Modeling and hair styling ? I guess that way Anna Kournikova could finally say she's a winning athlete and not just some hot babe with a nice racket. The IOC (International Olympic Committee) did have enough brains to decide that bodybuilding is not a sport (it's actually defined as a circus act or a freak exhibit) - but the organization has given status to too many other activities that should really be classified as hobbies or "things I do when I'm really bored," (synchronized swimming not being one of them!)
HickokSports.com - History - Olympic Medalists In Rugby This document lists olympic medalists in rugby. It is a page in the History sectionof Hickoksports.com, the largest collection of sports information on the http://www.hickoksports.com/history/olrugby.shtml
Extractions: Alpha Index Index by Sport History Bits Forum ... Search Rugby has been an Olympic sport four times. In 1900 and 1924, round-robin tournaments decided the standings. Single-elimination tournaments were used in 1908 and 1920. The final shown for those years is the score of the gold medal game. Top of page Year Gold Final Silver Bronze France Not played Australia Great Britain Only two teams competed Not played United States France Only two teams competed United States France Romania Top of page Index to Olympics Rugby World Cup Six Nations Tournament Alpha Index Index by Sport History Bits Forum ... Search This page last updated Wednesday, 23-Jul-2003 12:19:37 PDT http://www.hickoksports.com/history/olrugby.shtml History Biography Glossaries Calendar Quotations ... Directory
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Dance Sport In The Olympics Actually, ballroom dance wasn t singled out no new sports were approved forthe Olympics in Athens. Not rugby, not Cricket, not DanceSport, nothing. http://www.eijkhout.net/rad/dance_other/olympic.html
Extractions: On Sept. 8, 1997 IOC granted the International DanceSport Federation (IDSF) status as a recognized federation and a member of the IOC. This does not mean that dancing has been recognzed as a medal sport. It simply means that the IOC has recognized an international body for governing dance-sport. This recognition is granted under Chapter 29 of the IOC Charter. Chapters 30 and 57 of the IOC Charter grant the international federation for a given sport the right to set the technical rules for competitions in that sport. So IDSF gets to set all the rules for DanceSport including styling and technique. The reasons for having an international federation recognized by IOC, even though the sport is not included in the Olympics, are 1) because it is a requirement for ultimately becoming a medal sport and 2) IOC believes strongly in furthering sports on the international level. DanceSport will NOT be a medal sport in Sydney in 2000 or in Athens in 2004. Under chapter 52 of the IOC Charter, sports must receive medal programme inclusion at least 7 years before the games begin, which means the deadline for the IOC Session (members) to vote on inclusion in the 2008 Olympics is September 2001. IDSF is planning on submitting an application for inclusion in 2008. It appears that the biggest hurdle that DanceSport faces is the sport versus art distinction. The IOC recently held a roundtable forum on Sports and Culture. One of the general themes was that art was used to celebrate the sports - and that both art and sport form part of the Olympic Culture. Also, the panel members seemed to say that sports are inherently artisitic, but that which is artistic is not necessarily sporting. A number of commentators tried to define art versus sport, but they seem to have generally failed, and resigned themselves to "I know sport (or art) when I see it."
Extractions: Amanda Smith: Yes, theyre all sports that at one time have been part of the Olympic Games, but that got the chop. Other discontinued Olympic events include live pigeon shooting, rope-climbing, an obstacle race and something called the plunge for distance, in swimming. So if youre one of those people who thinks synchronised swimming is a strange and silly thing to have in the Olympics, well, thereve been plenty of others in the past that you could put in that category as well. Now, late last week, the Programme Commission of the International Olympic Committee released a report with its recommendations for what sports it wants in, and out, of future Olympic Games, for Beijing and beyond. On the out-list: modern pentathlon, which has been in a shaky position for a while. The more surprising exclusions though are baseball, and softball. And those favoured for inclusion: golf and rugby. Theyve been recommended ahead of a long list of other Olympic aspirants, including squash, surfing, dance sport, bowling and chess.
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Extractions: Help others by sharing your knowledge roelofs@f2s.com (Mees Roelofs) Newsgroups: rec.sport.rugby.union http://pino.faithweb.com/rsru/forward.html http://pino.faithweb.com/rsru/charter.html http://www.rcsl.ca ) is a 13-team competition, held from May to July. Each province also has its own provincial elite division, with British Columbia and Ontario offering the highest calibre of play. Rugby is most popular in British Columbia, where it is possible to play the game all year round. England: Twelve teams are in England's top division. Clubs play a home-and-away season from September to April (the Zurich Premiership, http://www.zurichrugby.co.uk ), followed by a play-off between the top three to decide the Zurich Championship. There is a knock-out competition as well, called the Powergen Cup. Counties do dispute a competition, which is of no big importance in most areas. Cornwall among others is an exception to that. France: In the first phase of the Top 16 ( http://www.lnr.fr
TARIK'S Sport - Football Kicking When rugby arrived in Australia, another group of men changed the rules again and Whenyou compare it to many olympic sports like hammer throwing or javelin http://www.tarik.com.au/footykicking.html
Extractions: Once upon a time there was only soccer, then a guy called Webb, in Rugby,England decided to pick up the soccer ball and run with it, and rugby was born. When rugby arrived in Australia, another group of men changed the rules again and created Australian Rules football, and in North America the same thing also happened, a change of rules and American Football came alive. We all use an oval shaped football, but even though football( with an oval ball) is the nearly the largest sport on Earth the problem is we can't play against each other because we have evolved too far apart. Cousins we most definitely are - our games all have a common heritage. But sadly we can't compete against each other! (although in my World Football section you will note my attempt to draw us together!). But I think there is some hope yet for us all. We still do have one significant thing in common - we all kick an oval shaped ball! Every weekend, all around the world, there are hundreds of millions of men, women and children kicking an oval shaped ball - in the street, at school, in a park, on the field of play! Football kicking is a huge and popular sporting activity. When you compare it to many Olympic sports like "hammer throwing" or "javelin throwing", it is immense.
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Rugby At The Olympics In 1928 the International olympic Committee turned down the request to stage rugbyat the IOC wanted more emphasis on individual sports; women s athletics http://pino.faithweb.com/rsru/olympic.html
Extractions: Introduced by Baron Pierre de Coubertin (who refereed the first ever French championship final), rugby was on the Olympic program at Paris in 1900, at London in 1908, Antwerp in 1920, and Paris again in 1924. In 1928 the International Olympic Committee turned down the request to stage rugby at the Amsterdam games. Three factors were believed to be behind this: the IOC wanted more emphasis on individual sports; women's athletics had swollen the number of competitors; and the sport did not receive the backing that it should have from the British entries. Both the Soviet Union in 1980 and South Korea in 1988 made attempts to have rugby readmitted, and it should be pointed out that South Korea came desparately close to achieving their aim. THE RESULTS 1900 Paris
RugbyRugby likely to be the man who drags rugby into the Games and therefore, since many governmentswill only provide central funding for olympic sports, would free up http://www.rugbyrugby.com/COLUMNISTS/Stephen_Jones/story_21334.shtml
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