你知道吗，马拉松并不是古代奥运会的比赛项目；古代奥运会法规中规定，腐败的裁判或对手要受鞭刑；柏拉图曾是奥运会的冠军…… The famous marathon ra...
An Olympic Anthem composed by Spyros Samaras (music) and by Kostis Palamas (lyrics) was first played at the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens. Thereafter, a variety of musical offerings provided the b...
The triple jump to become the first Olympic champion in more than 1,500 years. Winners were awarded a silver medal and an olive branch . The German athlete Carl Schumann finished in the top five event...
About Hockey （Olympic sport since 1908） Hockey is the oldest known ball and stick game. Records exist of it having been played in Persia in 2000 BC. In medieval Europe, pictures of men playing a g...
About Handball （Olympic sport since 1936） The modern game of handball was first played towards the end of the 19th century in Denmark, Germany and Sweden. Recognition of field handball based on th...
About Gymnastics（Olympic sport since 1896） The Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) was formed on 23 July 1881 when representatives of the gymnastics associations of Belgium, France an...
About Fencing （Olympic sport since 1896） Take the romantic, swashbuckling epics of Errol Flynn, add some rules, protective clothing and an electronic scoring system, and you have fencing at the Ol...
About Equestrian （Olympic sport since 1900） Equestrian events were included in the Olympic Games for the first time in 1900 and then in 1912, in a format very similar to that which will be used at...
About Cycling（Olympic sport since 1896） 自行车概述（1896年成为奥运会正式比赛项目） Bicycles were first developed in the mid-18th century and have long since been used as a form...
In 1874, Major Walter C. Wingfield patented in London the equipment and rules for a game fairly similar to modern tennis. In the same year, the first courts appeared in the United States. By the follo...
About Canoe / Kayak （Olympic sport since 1936） 皮划艇概述（1936年成为奥运会正式比赛项目） The history of the canoe and kayak has been traced back thousands of years to when nati...
About Boxing (Olympic sport since 1904) 拳击概述（1904年成为奥运会正式比赛项目） Boxing ranks among the Olympic Games' most illustrious sports. 拳击比赛是奥运会中最杰出的运...
James Naismith devised a set of thirteen rules of basketball: 1. The ball may be thrown in any direction with one or both hands. 2. The ball may be batted in any direction with one or both hands, but...
Basketball. The world's greatest sport ever. But of course, it hasn't been around since the world began. No, somebody had to have invented it. And that somebody would be James Naismith. Born in Almont...
As to the beginning of badminton, there are a lot of stories. One saying that it started in Japan, the other says that it started from India. But one thing is for sure, which is that badminton was sta...
