Answer: Paris 1900
Cool year for the Olympics me thinks.
Why?
Remember when I asked this question — Who’s the Current Olympic Champion in Cricket?
It happened during that Olympic Games, too! Filled with firsts, eh? And not to mention quaint trivia. Hehehe.
I recommend you read this: Evolution of Women and Sport
Tags: Light the Torch, Paris 1900, […]
Answer: James Brendan Bennet Connolly (October 28, 1868 – January 20, 1957)
On 6 April 1896, James Connolly won the triple jump (then two hops and a jump), and thus became the first Olympic champion in 1527 years. He also placed second in the high jump and third in the long jump.
[www.olympic.org]
Connelly competed during the 1896 […]
It was during the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris that the sport, Football, became part of the the Olympic programme. It’s good to note that in the coming 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, the sport will celebrate its 108th year. It is considered significant, if not vital, to the sport’s continued success and popularity.
Women’s Football […]
Nope. It’s not a trick question. Heh.
It’s Great Britain.
If you’ve been around this blog for quite a bit, you might have come across a post I had written about Cricket being played in the Olympics.
Fine. Fine. They only held it once but, hey, winning an Olympic event, even when it was held a century […]
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