During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.

In 1982, in a move that heralded big changes within the sport, one of the original VFL clubs and now struggling, South Melbourne, relocated to Sydney and became known as the Sydney Swans.

It became an official Summer Olympic sport at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 and its gold medals now generally rate as the sport's most coveted prizes for individual players.

The modern Olympic movement revived interest in amateur sports, and amateur boxing became an Olympic sport in 1908.

Due to its popularity in the region, the Eastern European countries that refined the event became the dominant force in the sport when it was reintroduced.

" Due to the time required to prepare the car, the sport also became his living.

As well as being a practical fighting technique for use in actual warfare, muay became a sport in which the opponents fought in front of spectators who went to watch for entertainment.

Multiplayer games became popular, almost a sport ; demos of matches between teams of players ( clans ) were recorded and studied.

In time polo became an Iranian national sport played normally by the nobility.

But this was not always the case ; in the early 20th century, once it became apparent that the " sport " was worked, pro wrestling was looked down on as a cheap entertainment for the uneducated working class — an attitude that still exists to varying degrees today.

It was not until 1968 that synchronized swimming became officially recognized by FINA as the fourth water sport next to swimming, platform diving and water polo.

In 2006 Ultimate became a BUCS accredited sport at UK universities for both indoor and outdoor open division events.

Finn's position as the most visible promoter of the sport when it became widely known has often caused him to be mistakenly named as the inventor of the sport.

The new manufacturing technique redefined the sport: skiboarding became wakeboarding.

Yachting therefore became a purely recreational form of sailing with no commercial or military function ( see, for example, the Cox & King yachts at the beginning of the 20th Century ), which still serves a broad definition of both the sport and of the vessel.

Most of the competitors were members of the military and it became clear at this competition and in the subsequent years, that there was no uniformity of rules for the sport.

This new sport quickly became his career of choice.

In 2003, the International Olympic Committee made BMX a full medal Olympic sport for 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China, and Māris Štrombergs ( male, for Latvia ) and Anne-Caroline Chausson ( female, for France ) became the first Olympic champions.

The use of automobiles and high-powered rifles destroyed their only advantage: speed, and they became extinct in the wild exclusively due to sport hunting in 1972.

The new sport was rapidly adopted and became popular through Sobek's continual promotion of it ; he was aided by the existence of some 40, 000 handball courts in the country's YMCAs and JCCs, wherein racquetball could be played.

As more and more skiers took up the sport, especially in the 1950s, broken legs became all too common.

By 1995, practically every ski produced had more or less " shaping ", and for a time, carving became a sport onto its own.

The free-form sport had few rules and was not without danger ; knee injuries became a common phenomenon for professional freestylers.

The sport became professionalised as footmen were hired specifically on their athletic ability and began to devote their lives to training for the gambling events.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

This schedule became too strenuous, even for the energetic and conscientious Mr. Steinberg.

The need for monitoring became greater when radio was adopted for military signaling.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

The more Adoniram looked at the Greek word for baptism, the more unhappy he became over its true meaning.

Relieved of the major part of his responsibility for the safety of the ship, the pilot's oaths became fewer.

In the face of a clear judgment from archaeology, therefore, it became impossible for a time for scholars to re-adopt the `` shore settled by '' theory.

But as the more concrete plans for the work of the Council gradually became known, there was a rather sharp and abrupt disappointment on all sides.

At the age of 17 he became an apprentice machinist at the shop of Walcott & Harris in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, and following two or three other jobs in quick succession after graduation, he went into business for himself in 1831, making lathes and small tools.

Here, Prokofieff became a workman in the vineyards of Socialism -- producing music for the masses.

After Gagarin became the Greatest Man in the World, for a nation that does not believe in the cult of personality or in careerism, Moreland wrote me a letter in which he said: `` I am not interested in how long a bee can live in a vacuum, or how far it can fly.

The lower limit was determined by the fact that for smaller flow rates the arc started to strike to the anode holder instead of to the porous graphite plug and that it became highly unstable.

Serum potassium at this time was 3.8 mEq. per liter, and the hemoglobin was 13.9 gm. By Dec. 1, 1958, the weakness in the pelvic and quadriceps muscle groups was appreciably worse, and it became difficult for the patient to rise unaided from a sitting or reclining position.

The pain became thus the symbol for food and elicited salivary secretion ( conditioned reflex ).

Law became a conscious process, something more than simply doing justice and looking to local customs and a common morality for applicable norms.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

During the summer of 1960, it became the setting for a bitter and basic labor-management struggle.

This meant, concretely, that the patient could not read at all without making writing-like movements of the head or body, became easily confused by `` hasher marks '' inserted between hand-written words and thus confused the mark for one of the letters, and could recognize a simple straight line or a curved one only by tracing it.

In 1846 Matthew B. Goodwin, jeweler and watchmaker, became the town's first telegrapher in a dwelling he built for himself and his business `` two doors north of the Equinox House '' or `` one door north of the Bank, Manchester, Vermont ''.

Although slab stock appeared first, it soon became apparent that for the production of cushions with irregular shapes, crowned contours, or rounded edges, the cutting of slab stock is a wasteful and uneconomical process.

Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.