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The International Olympic Committee ( IOC; French: Comité international olympique, CIO) is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Founded in 1894 by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas, it is the authority responsible for organising the modern ( Summer, Winter, and Youth) Olympic Games.
Olympic sports definitions. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) considers an Olympic sport to comprise all disciplines governed by an international sports federation. [4] For example, aquatics is a summer Olympic sport that includes six disciplines: swimming, artistic swimming, diving, water polo, open water swimming, and high diving (a ...
1962. State sport. Lacrosse [9] 2004. State team sport. Massachusetts. Basketball [10] [11] 2006. Sport of the Commonwealth.
Gliz (a shortened form of Ghiaccio, "Ice" in Italian) is a humanized male ice cube who wears blue and represents "enthusiasm and joy." 2008 Summer Olympics. Beijing. The Fuwa (福娃): Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, Nini. Koi, giant panda, Olympic Flame, Tibetan antelope, swallow. Han Meilin.
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History In 1935, the award, then known as the DAC Trophy, was created by New York City's Downtown Athletic Club to recognize the best college football player "east of the Mississippi River". In that inaugural year, the award went to Jay Berwanger from the University of Chicago. Berwanger was later drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League but declined to sign with them ...
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
The following is a list of sports/games, divided by category. According to the World Sports Encyclopaedia (2003), there are 8,000 indigenous sports and sporting games . [1]