What sports were played at the 1st Olympics? Where were the 1st Olympics held?

Even though the IOC isn't supposed to officially rank countries by medals starting in 1992 they have unofficially started posting the gold only system first. In other words country A wins 6 gold medals and country B wins 5 Gold and 25 Silver it doesn...

Here are some examples of medal ranking changed to Total Medal this year, to place USA at the top. This is misleading to the point of deceiving the American viewers. Atlanta 1996: Ranked by Gold Medal, USA Ranked 1st http://proxy.espn.go.com/oly/summer...

Please Help by answer the following question: Where about in Beijing did the Olympics took place? Was there an area set aside for the Olympics? How many events were there? What sort of facilities was there for each event? What was the Olympics area like...

I have a question that I cannot answer: It appears that the entire world is ranking countries in the overall medal count by 1st amount of Gold 2nd amount of Silver 3rd amount of Bronze The US seems to be disregarding and counting only totals, undoubtedly...

1/in what country was the 1st olympics held? 2/in what year were the 1st recorded games ever held? 3/what were te different cities/states within ancient greece that were frequently ...show more

i was just wondering if there were any sports played today. i didnt know because its the torch lighting today.....but are there still sports played????? and what sports?

I have a task to design uniforms for the players, so I thought I would be specific and do all the sports. These are the sports I know: a. Weightlifting b. Swimming c. Archery d. Cycling e. Water polo..? f. Running They have to be the ones played at the...

BA for all of the sports!

My BF said something last night that a this was the last year for a couple of sports at the Olympics, including Baseball. Is this true?? If so, what sports?