Category: Olympic sports

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

Category: Olympic sports

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

Category: Former Summer Olympic sports

Diving is one of the most popular Olympic sports with spectators.

Category: Olympic sports

A proposal, soon to be discussed in the European Parliament, stipulate that all national sports teams, including football, rugby, cricket and the European Olympic teams, should have the EU emblem appear on their jerseys.

Fencing is one of five sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games, the other four being Athletics, Cycling, Swimming, and Gymnastics.

In AD 393 the Emperor Theodosius abolished the Olympic Games, which by then had become corrupt, and gymnastics, along with other sports, declined.

Category: Olympic sports

Kaohsiung was the host city of the 2009 World Games, a multisport event primarily composed of sports not featured in the Olympic Games.

The law formally established a national Olympic Committee, regulated the establishment of sports federations and established guidelines for sports clubs.

* 1942 – Jacques Rogge, Belgian sports bureaucrat, 8th International Olympic Committee president

Several martial arts, such as Judo, are Olympic sports.

The model of German naturism is to promote naturist family and recreational sports, with the German Association for Free Body Culture ( DFK ) being a member of the German Olympic Sport Federation ( DOSB ).

Specifically, in 1895 Pierre-Hector Coullié, archbishop of Lyon, voiced his official decision on the reinstatement of sports to Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the Modern Olympic Games, by stating " Nous acceptons tout, sauf pankration " meaning " We accept all to be reinstated, except pankration ".

The International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) does not list pankration among Olympic sports, but the FILA, which governs the Olympic wrestling codes, also recognises pankration as " a mild form of Mixed Martial Arts ( MMA ), which forbids striking to the head ".

Category: Ancient Olympic sports

The idea for reviving the Olympic Games as an international competition came to Coubertin in 1889, apparently independently of Brookes, and he spent the following five years organising an international meeting of athletes and sports enthusiasts that might make it happen.

Spins are a required element in all figure skating competitions, and they exist in all four Olympic disciplines.

Category: Olympic figure skaters of the United States

Category: Olympic medalists in figure skating

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.

* Evgeni Plushenko, Olympic figure skater

William Lyon Mackenzie King greeting Barbara Ann Scott, who won a gold medal in figure skating at the 1948 Winter Olympic Games, at Ottawa

** Dorothy Hamill, American figure skater and Olympic Gold medalist

Judging for ice dancing has been more controversial than other figure skating disciplines in the Olympics, and this gained considerable negative publicity at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan.

This is the first time the Americans have swept a Winter Olympic event since the men's figure skaters did in 1956.

Category: Olympic figure skaters of the United States

Category: Olympic medalists in figure skating

* September 30 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian Olympic figure skater ( b. 1928 )

* Evgeni Plushenko, Olympic figure skater

Category: Olympic figure skaters of Russia

Category: Olympic figure skaters of Latvia

Category: Olympic medalists in figure skating

Other notable alumni include Michelle Kwan, Olympic medallist and World Champion figure skater from the United States ; Rainn Wilson, American actor and comedian ; and Peter Gallagher, American actor.

* Tara Lipinski, Olympic gold medal winner, figure skating ( Mantua Township ).

* The Games also featured a week of winter sports, with figure skating appearing for the first time since the 1908 Olympics, and ice hockey making its Olympic debut.

St. Teresa Regional School is a PreK-8 Catholic elementary school, that was once attended by Olympic Gold Medal-winning figure skater Tara Lipinski.

At the age of 15, she won the Olympic gold medal in figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

* Tara Lipinski ( born 1982 ), 1998 Olympic Gold Medalist figure skater.

* JoJo Starbuck ( born 1951 ), two-time Olympic competitor in figure skating.

Wayne is home to the Ice Vault ice rink, where world-class figure skaters such as Johnny Weir and Stéphane Lambiel train and 1992 Olympic figure skating gold medalist Viktor Petrenko coaches.