what event was changed because the olympics thought it was too easy ?
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The rules for some of the cross country skiing events were adjusted due to the technique known as skating.
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I'd say the decathlon in the Summer Olympics. It requires you to train on 10 different disciplines and be pretty good at all of them.
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Much prefer the summer olympics... but have been watching certain events (i.e. hockey, skeleton, speed skating)
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1900\nWomen were allowed to participate for the first time\n\nhttp://www.olympics.org.uk/olympicmovement/olympicfirsts.asp
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Haha, honestly I think these Olympics have been pretty boring and "eventless", but here are a few things that happened...\n\nShaun White dominated snowboarding...some ski coach got in a car crash or sumthing...Canadian womens hockey team won gold and allowed like only 2 goals the whole tourny.....gretchen bleiler is mad hott....this lady in luge crashed and blanked out.....that skier Bode guy didnt win a medal yet....and that one Jakobellis girl screwed up on the last jump in the snowboard x and ended up getting silver
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Host cities of the Modern Olympic Games\n\n1896 - 1st Olympiad - Athens, Greece\n1900 - 2nd Olympiad - Paris, France\n1904 - 3rd Olympiad - St. Louis, Missouri, USA\n1906 - 3rd Olympiad, year 3 - Athens, Greece (sometimes called the "interim Games")\n1908 - 4th Olympiad - London, England\n1912 - 5th Olympiad - Stockholm, Sweden\n1916 - 6th Olympiad - Cancelled - World War I (Scheduled for Berlin, Germany)\n1920 - 7th Olympiad - Antwerp, Belgium\n1924 - 8th Olympiad - Paris, France\n1928 - 9th Olympiad - Amsterdam, The Netherlands\n1932 - 10th Olympiad - Los Angeles, California, USA\n1936 - 11th Olympiad - Berlin, Germany\n1940 - 12th Olympiad - Cancelled, World War II (Scheduled for Tokyo, Japan. Then re-scheduled for Helsinki, Finland & cancelled a 2nd time)\n1944 - 13th Olympiad - Cancelled, World War II (London considered, but war continued)\n1948 - 14th Olympiad - London, England\n1952 - 15th Olympiad - Helsinki, Finland\n1956 - 16th Olympiad - Melbourne, Australia and Stockholm, Sweden (Horses were not permitted to be imported into Australia so the Equestrian events were in Stockholm)\n1960 - 17th Olympiad - Rome, Italy\n1964 - 18th Olympiad - Tokyo, Japan\n1968 - 19th Olympiad - Mexico City, Mexico\n1972 - 20th Olympiad - Munich, Germany\n1976 - 21st Olympiad - Montreal, Canada\n1980 - 22nd Olympiad - Moscow, Soviet Union (USSR)\n1984 - 23rd Olympiad - Los Angeles, California, USA\n1988 - 24th Olympiad - Seoul, South Korea\n1992 - 25th Olympiad - Barcelona, Spain\n1996 - 26th Olympiad - Atlanta, Georgia, USA\n2000 - 27th Olympiad - Sydney, Australia\n2004 - 28th Olympiad - Athens, Greece\n2008 - 29th Olympiad - Beijing, China\n2012 - 30th Olympiad - London, England\n2016 - 31st Olympiad - to be selected by the International Olympic Committee
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Um...Every Olympics...Most recent Olympics was Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, 2006.\n\nAdded:\nOK..OK... I think I realize what they are asking now....The last time they actually gave out actual Gold "gold medals" was in 1912. Now it is just gold plated silver for the "gold medals".\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Games#Olympic_champions_and_medalists
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The Olympic Games(Olympics) is an sport event taking place every four years. Held in ancient Greece, and only taken part by male contenders, they were revived by the French Pierre  de Coubertin in the late 19th century.\nThe Summer Olympics (Games of the Olympiad) have been held every fourth year (starting in 1896), with the exception of the years during the World Wars.\nThe Olympic Winter Games was first held in 1924. The first winter Olympics competitions were held as a sports festival, but were declared to be official Games by the International Olympic Committee in 1925. \nLearn more in the sites bellow\n\nPersian Wars\nThe Persian Wars were a series of conflicts between the Greek world and the Persian Empire that started about 500 BC and lasted until 448 BC. \nYou will find imfos in "Creco-persian wars" article in wikipedia \nSee also the article "Greece" and follow the links
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Luge became an Olympic sport in 1964 (if that was your question).
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Really, no wonder people think that the world is heading in the wrong direction! The Winter Olympics are the biggest sporting festival in the world, second only to the Summer Games. How can you be so darn negative?
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1936\n\nThe 1936 Berlin Olympic Games had been handed to Berlin before the Nazis came to power but now it was the perfect opportunity for Hitler to demonstrate to the world, how efficient the Nazi Germany was. It was also the perfect opportunity for the Nazis to prove to the world the reality of the Master Race. \n\nThe Berlin Olympic Games gave the Nazis an opportunity to show off to the world as 49 countries were competing bringing with them their assorted media. For Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, it was the perfect scenario.\n\nThe vast Olympic stadium was completed on time and held 100,000 spectators. 150 other new Olympic buildings were completed on time for the event. The  anti-Semitic posters that had littered Germany before the games had disappeared. Signs that stated "Jews not welcome here" were not longer visible - anything was done to ensure that the Games went smoothly and caused no upset.\n\nIn fact, the upset was caused in the stadium itself. The 'racially inferior' Owens won four gold medals; in the 100m, 200m, long jump and 4 x 100m relay. During the Games he broke 11 Olympic records and defeated Lutz Lang in a very close long jump final. The German was the first to congratulate Owens when the long jump final was over. There were 10 African American members of the American athletics team. Between them they won 7 gold medals, 3 silvers and 3 bronze - more than any national team won in track and field at the Games, except America itself. Hitler refused to place the gold medal around Owen's neck.
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I can answer part of this for you. When the Olympics were going to be held in Los Angeles California in 1932, they said that soccer wouldn't be an Olympic sport because it wasn't popular in the United States. Prior to this, soccer had been in every Olympics since 1908! Once the world was told of this in 1928, they organized the World cup with the first one in 1930 and kept it at every 4 years but it would alternate with the summer Olympics. That is still true today.\nI hope this helps at least a little.
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I still have to say that the "Miracle on Ice" was the biggest upset in sports history.  The US used amateur college kids in those Olympic games and they beat the best team in the world.  There wasn't a person outside of the United States that actually thought the US team could win the gold medal in those Olympics.
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see  \nhttp://www.olympic-usa.org/12181_19096.htm
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In Practical terms.. No its not. 'coz in olympics far more countries are involved and all the games, But in Popularity terms.. I think it is
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LOL. Easy: Ran 40 national hunt races and came last every time. What a name for a horse. LMAO.
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gymnastics wasnt in the first olympics if i remember right it first appeared in 1932