The 2016 Olympic Games will include the seven-man game as an official Olympic sport.
The game of badminton dates back centuries but has been an Olympic sport only since 1992.
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But eSports could become an Olympic Sport as early as the 2020 Summer Games.
Wrestling is now the only other Olympic sport waiting to hear whether it will have British representation.
The Americans won their third gold in men's beach volleyball since the event became an Olympic sport in 1996.
Even the premiere Olympic sport, track and field, will appear here on television hours after the results are known.
But common sense dictates that wrestling always be a part of Olympic sport.
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Since cycling is an Olympic sport, Usada has the power to test at all sanctioned races, even amateur events.
If organizing were an Olympic sport, Jacques Rogge might win a gold medal.
It claimed six more in skeleton (revived as an Olympic sport this year) and short-track ice-skating (added in 1994).
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Britain is also the birthplace of curling, cross-country, cricket, croquet, golf, squash, and rugby which is scheduled to become an Olympic sport in 2016.
NBC, which has the American rights to the games, plans to show 3, 500 hours of Olympic sport online, 2, 200 of them streamed live.
Wada boss John Fahey believes getting backing from Fifa, which was one of the last Olympic sport federations to accept the Wada code, is a major breakthrough.
Should boxing be an Olympic sport for anyone, especially women?
Schoneborn was the third winner of an event, which has only been a women's Olympic sport for eight years, after Britain's Stephanie Cook (Sydney 2000) and Zsuszanna Voros of Hungary (Athens 2004).
Some were probably watching Olympic sport for the first time during those Games but when they see Paralympic sport for the first time they are going to be blown away by it.
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The Asian affinity for ping pong is so deep that since its 1988 debut as an Olympic sport, China has topped the medal count with 41 of 76 total medals, including 20 of 24 gold.
It's not often you get the chance to try out a Winter Olympic sport, so when given the opportunity to have a go at the relatively harmless pastime of curling, we were ready and willing.
Unlike on the beach-volleyball court, where a pair of U.S. women has snapped up three of the five gold medals the young Olympic sport has ever awarded, the U.S. women's volleyball team has never won gold.
Many people think that this is a new Olympic sport for women and know little if anything about the fact that women's boxing has a history that stretches back to the 18th century in many parts of the world.
The Golden Bear was one of the earliest and most vocal advocates for golf as an Olympic sport, and in making his bid he shrewdly teamed with Annika Sorenstam, the former longtime women's world No. 1 (and a European to boot, adding international appeal).
Without any competition from the Olympics (baseball was voted out as an Olympic sanctioned sport by the International Olympic Committee in 2005), the World Baseball Classic (WBC) is undoubtedly the premier international baseball tournament.
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And a review of the Olympic-sport facilities furthers the point that student-athletes are spared few expenses in Louisville.
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The Canadians have won all 10 of their matches in Vancouver, and a gold would make them the first team to go unbeaten since curling returned as an Olympic medal sport in 1998.
He claimed only a "few tentative steps" had been taken to address how sport could mount a counterattack against suspicious betting and event-fixing in Olympic and Paralympic sport.
Why should it be an Olympic-level sport to find the brokerage costs?
Poetry Parnassus is part of the South Bank Centre's "Festival of the World, " in turn part of the Cultural Olympiad, designed to spread the Olympic fervor beyond sport to the arts.
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