At one point she was training for a possible Olympic team spot.

At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, she won the Olympic title in the 800 m in a time of 1: 55. 54, a time which remained her personal best.

At the time of the hostage-taking, the 1972 Munich Olympic Games were well into their second week.

At 4: 30 a. m. local time on 5 September, as the athletes slept, eight tracksuit-clad members of Black September carrying duffel bags loaded with AKM assault rifles, Tokarev pistols, and grenades scaled a two-meter chain-link fence with the assistance of unsuspecting athletes who were also sneaking into the Olympic Village.

At the time of the revival of Olympic Games ( 1896 ), pankration was not reinstated as an Olympic event.

At the 1928 Olympic trials, Nurmi was left third in the 1, 500 m by eventual gold and bronze medalists Harri Larva and Eino Purje, and he decided to concentrate on the longer distances.

At the time, he led Armas Toivonen, the eventual Olympic bronze medalist, by six minutes.

At the 1928 Olympics, Kazimierz Wierzyński won the lyric gold medal with his poem Olympic Laurel that included a verse on Nurmi.

At the 2000 Olympic Games, however, the duet competition was restored and is now featured alongside the team competition.

At the 1914 Olympic Congress, the delegates agreed to include ice speed skating in the 1916 Olympics, after figure skating had featured in the 1908 Olympics.

At the Olympic Games and World Championships qualification is determined by performance at the World Cup Classics events throughout the season.

At the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, she won the bronze medal.

At the 1999 World Championships, she lost the title again, finishing third, but in 2000 she won the only title missing in her career with a gold medal at the Olympic Games in Sydney.

At the 1994 Winter Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics, the nations that were part of the Unified Team started to make their Olympic debuts.

At the next Olympic Games, in Paris, France, in 1924, the ' two hands ' press and the ' two hands ' snatch were added to the programme, making a total of five lifts.

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome she won three Olympic titles: the 100 m, 200 m and the 4 x 100 m relay.

At the Munich Olympic Games, Black September kidnapped and killed eleven Israeli athletes.

* November 6 – At Montevideo, Uruguay, the International Olympic Committee adopts a resolution, whereby Taiwan Olympic and sports teams will participate with the name Chinese Taipei in future Olympics Games and international sports tournaments and championships.

* July 2 – At the International Olympic Committee session in Prague, Vancouver, British Columbia is declared the host city for the XXI Olympic Winter Games in 2010.

At the time, the drug was not specifically listed in the IOC's list of banned substances, but the Olympic rules generally prohibit doping of any kind, in accordance with its charter.

At the Olympic Winter Games and World Championships, all competitions ( for both men and women ) consist of four heats.

At International and Olympic competitions, skaters are placed by gender only.

At Muir Tech, Robinson played several sports at the varsity level and lettered in four of them: football, basketball, track, and baseball.

At Spring Woods High School, Clemens played baseball for longtime head coach Charles Maiorana and also starred in football and basketball.

* January 20 – At the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first official basketball game is played.

At the last minute, Chitwood asks permission to speak: he says he's ready to begin playing basketball again, but only if Dale remains as coach.

At the time, Indiana conducted a single state basketball championship for all of its high schools, and continued to do so until 1997.

At full capacity, the building holds more than 23, 000 fans for basketball giving UNCG the ability to have potentially one of the largest basketball arenas in the country.

At that time, basketball was its only sport.

At Carson-Newman he played basketball and football.

At Eastern Arizona, Nolte lettered in football as a tight end and defensive end, in basketball as a forward, and as a catcher on the baseball team.

At Fordham he played collegiate basketball as a freshman guard under coach P. J. Carlesimo.

At Oberlin, he was captain of the basketball team, and he also took part in varsity baseball, football, and track ; he received his bachelor's degree in English in 1935 and a master's degree in psychology in 1937.

At nineteen he was a member of the national team for the Seoul Olympics, where they came fourth, the best result an Australian senior men's basketball team has achieved in Olympic competition.

At Hope College Muste was class valedictorian, captain of the school's basketball team, and played second base for the baseball squad.

At ABC, he covered such events as baseball games, the 1986-1987, college basketball, Indianapolis 500, the 1977 Monon Bell game between DePauw University and Wabash College, five Olympics, as well as the program Wide World of Sports.

At Jordan's request, they give back the stolen basketball skills from the other players in a ball.

At that time, the basketball world had just been stunned by the college basketball point-shaving scandal.

" At Princeton he had three to four hours of classes and four hours of basketball practice daily, studied an average of seven hours each weekday and up to 24 more hours each weekend, frequently spoke for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes around the country, and taught Sunday School at the local Presbyterian Church.

At one time, it was home to a miniature basketball court that is now a faculty dining room, though the lines of the court can still be seen on the floors.

At SDSU, Gwynn was not only an acclaimed baseball player, and he was also a standout point guard on the San Diego State Aztecs men's basketball team, setting a school record for assists in a season and a career.

At University of Chicago, Stagg also instituted an annual prep basketball tourney and track meet.

At the age of 17, Walton played for the United States men's national basketball team at the 1970 FIBA World Championship.

At the time, the phrase was being used by members and fans of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, of whom Riley was the head coach, regarding the Lakers ' quest that season to obtain what would have been a third successive NBA championship.