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	Demonstration sport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A demonstration sport is a sport which is played in order to promote itself, most commonly during the Olympic Games, but also at other sporting events.
		Demonstration sports were officially introduced in 1912 Summer Olympics, when Sweden decided to include glima, traditional Scandinavian wrestling, in the Olympic program, but with its medals not counting as "official".
		Demonstration sports were suspended in 1992, as the Olympic program grew bigger and it became more difficult for the organizing committees to give them the appropriate attention, since the IOC required the same treatment to be dispensed for official and demonstration sports.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Demonstration_sport (432 words)

	Olympic Events
		The sport of rowing has the privilege of having been on the official program of the 1896 first modern Olympic Games in Athens.Rowing competition boats are classified into two categories: sculling and rowing.
		It re-emerged in 1984 as a demonstration sport, and was officially reinstated as an Olympic sport in 1988.
		The sport of wrestling dates all the way back to ancient times, where there were tales of oiled bodies fighting in the sand in the Ancient Olympics.
	www.ict.mic.ul.ie /websites/2002/Eilis_Faherty/events.htm (1364 words)

	Canoeing at the Olympics
		In 1924, canoeing was a demonstration sport at the Paris Olympics.
		The sports came into the Olympics in 1924 as a demonstration sport.
		Forty-eight years later, the sport reached its white water slalom, one of the toughest places to be.
	library.thinkquest.org /J002862/Canoeing.htm (456 words)

	Kids World Sports . Sports . Sports \| PBS Kids GO!
		Fencing is a sport in which one fencer competes against another, using a sword to land hits on his/her opponent.
		Gymnastics is a sport in which athletes combine athletic skill, balance and coordination to perform moves in four events: the floor, the vault, the beam and the bars.
		This indoor team sport is similar to soccer and basketball, with players trying to score goals by moving a ball into a large net.
	pbskids.org /kws/sports (899 words)

	Curling
		The sport was probably a Scottish invention, because in 1457, the Scottish parliament prohibited golf (!) because they aroused riots.
		Curling was a demonstration sport at several Olympics before becoming an official sport at the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan.
		Since then Canada has dominated the sport, but many more athletes are joining the sport and hope to win the Olympic medals in Salt Lake City in 2002.
	library.thinkquest.org /J002862/curl.htm (510 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		Among the host city's privileges is the selection of the demonstration sports, and in that year, curling seemed a natural, all-Canadian selection.
		Held as a demonstration sport, the medal winners were the only three countries to compete.
		Curling was recognized as an official sport at the 1998 Nagano Olympics.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/sports/curling/history.shtml (656 words)

	History of Taekwondo: Road to Olympics
		The crowning achievement of Taekwondo as a sport came at the General Session of the IOC held in Berlin in May 1982 when Taekwondo was designated an official demonstration sport for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea, and for the 25th Barcelona, Spain, Olympics, in 1992.
		On September 17-20, 1988, Taekwondo was a demonstration sport in the 24th Olympiad, with 192 players from 25 nations (male) and 16 nations (female).
		On September 4, 1994 in Paris, the 103rd Session of the IOC adopted Taekwondo as an official Olympic sport for the 27th Olympiad in 2000 in Sydney, Australia at the Sydney Exhibition Center, in Darling Harbor.
	tkdtutor.com /02Taekwondo/TaekwondoHistory/16Olympics01.htm (669 words)

	Olympics - BR Bullpen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Baseball became a medal sport at the Summer Olympics beginning in 1992.
		It had been a demonstration sport in several previous Olympics.
		Demonstration tournaments for baseball were held at the 1984 in Los Angeles (the only time it was not a sport of foreign origin) and the 1988 in Seoul, South Korea.
	www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Olympics (380 words)

	rediff.com: Wannabe sports queue for share of spotlight
		Despite the efforts of multinational sports firms, most of Asia's six billion people are less familiar with mainstream Olympic events than with a group of traditional Asian sports most people in the West have never even heard of.
		The sport of royalty during the early days of the Thai kingdom and Malay sultanate is played by two teams of three with a rattan ball over an elevated net across a badminton-sized court.
		While sports such as muay thai are finding growing markets overseas, others like Japanese sumo wrestling desperately need Olympic recognition to survive the onset of mass-marketed Western sports such as soccer and basketball.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2000/sep/02sport.htm (1088 words)

	Speed Stacks : The Demonstration Team
		was invited to present, demonstrate, and teach sport of stacking at the Area XI Handbell Festival.
		Approximately 90 students in 7th and 8th grade immensely enjoyed the hands on workshop and the demonstration of sport of stacking with Speed Stacks.
		Speed Stacks, Inc. and the Speed Stacks Demonstration Team donated their time to demonstrate stacking to more than 2000 participants at the year-end event, which honored all children and the volunteers of the Whiz Kids program.
	www.speedstacks.com /events/demo_team/demo_team_trips.htm (550 words)

	About the Sport of Wheelchair Rugby
		Players must meet the minimum disability criteria of the sport, and must be classifiable under the sport classification rules.
		In 1993, with 15 countries actively participating, the sport was recognised as an official international sport for athletes with a disability and the International Wheelchair Rugby Federation (IWRF) was established as a sport section of the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation (ISMWSF).
		The Paralympics are the second largest sporting event in the world, and are held every four years in the same city and venues as the Olympics.
	www.iwrf.com /history.htm (883 words)

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		Water skiing has been a demonstration sport on two previous occasions and an event was organised in Spain some years ago when 800 IOC delegates where invited to see it.
		If the IWSF decide to seek the possibility of it being a demonstration sport at the 2012 games of course we will fully support and lobby for that to be achieved.
		The decision for this has to be taken by the IWSF in the context of the ongoing campaign for the sport to gain admittance.
	www.britishwaterski.org.uk /UKSki/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=38&frmView=ShowPost&PostID=419 (213 words)

	Sport for love, not money - Feb. 11, 2002
		This is the second Winter Olympics at which curling will be a medal sport, although the U.S. team won a bronze medal when it was a demonstration sport.
		The sport, little-known in the United States, involves a player pushing granite stones along the ice towards a bulls-eye like target, while teammates sometimes sweep the ice in front of it to help control its speed and direction.
		She also trains for her sport about a couple hours a day from fall to spring, and continues to work on conditioning year-round.
	money.cnn.com /2002/02/11/olympics/olympic_amateurs (799 words)

	NEW JERSEY LACROSSE NETWORK
		For a men's sport to be even considered for the Olympics, the sport must be played on a competitive basis on 66 countries within four continents.
		It was a full-fledged sport in the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis and the 1908 Olympics in London.
		In August, it was announced that the sport of baseball might be dropped in favor of Golf or Rugby, which had been offered as demonstration or full-fledged sports in the past.
	www.njlax.net /articleListingDetail.asp?ArticleID=58 (624 words)

	About This Sport: Alpine Skiing History
		From Norway, skiing expanded throughout Scandinavia and Russia as a mode of winter transportation and eventually as a sport similar to cross-country skiing.
		A few decades later, the sport spread to the remainder of Europe and to the United States, where miners held skiing competitions to entertain themselves during the winter.
		Sit-skiing, which evolved into mono-skiing, was introduced as a demonstration sport at the 1984 Paralympics.
	saltlake2002.paralympic.org /sports/alpine/as_ats/alpine_history.html (296 words)

	ireland.com / Today / Sport / Special Olympics
		With 18 official sports and three demonstration sports, it's easy to understand why the 2003 Special Olympics World Games is the biggest international event - sporting or cultural - yet staged in Ireland.
		Of the 18 official sports, 14 are based around individual entries, while the remaining four are classified as team sports.
		The three demonstration sports are kayaking, pitch and putt, and judo, and are likely to be included as official sports in the next games.
	www.ireland.com /sports/specialolympics/sportsvenues/sports-venues.htm (2281 words)

	Torino 2006 Olympics - SynchroBoards
		Originally, demonstration sports and events were included as an opportunity to showcase sports or events which were unique to the country hosting the Games.
		The sport may then be included as a demonstration sport, and the sport's International Federation may make an application to the IOC for consideration as an Olympic Sport.
		A sport wanting to become an Olympic sport should at least be recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for several years, and it also must reach certain standards of activity, competition and membership around the world, and then pass through a provisional status for about two years.
	www.synchroboards.com /board/index.php?showtopic=10997 (2424 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Demonstration sport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		A Demonstration Sport is a sport that is played to promote itself at other sporting events, like during the Olympic Games.
		Baseball was a demonstration sport at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
		Tae Kwon Do was a demonstration sport at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Demonstration_sport.html (67 words)

	RTÉ.ie Sport - Demonstration not aimed at Paris bid
		Paris 2012 Olympic bid officials say that a demonstration by trade unions coinciding with a visit by an International Olympic Committee (IOC) evaluation commission next month is not aimed at damaging their cause.
		"The trade union demonstration scheduled to take place on March 10 is not related in any way to the Paris bid to host the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games," a statement said.
		They continue to co-operate with the bid committee and have already stated their commitment to working with the organising committee should Paris have the honour of becoming a host city".
	www.rte.ie /sport/2005/0222/olympics.html (126 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		Curling appears on the programme as a demonstration sport.
		Short-track speed skating and freestyle skiing are two demonstration disciplines.
		Sporting achievements, messages of peace and brotherhood, smiles and tears.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/innovations_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1988 (137 words)

	"The Waterbury Connecticut Republican American Newspaper" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Of course you know that curling -- the sport where men and women glide granite stones down a long sheet of ice, while teammates sweep its path smooth with a broom, and while the skip screams like a banshee -- first debuted at the Olympic Winter Games in 1924 at Chamonix, France.
		In fact, curling was a demonstration sport six times before finally being added as a full medal sport at the Nagano games of 1998.
		It took seven decades before the International Olympic Committee recognized the sport's value and made it a permanent medal competition, and one that may have been among the most exciting events at the 2002 Games at Salt Lake.
	www.rep-am.com /story.php?id=2718 (446 words)

	RTÉ.ie Sport The 2004 Olympic Games
		It is based on a game called battledore and shuttlecock, which has its roots in games played in ancient Greece, China, Japan and India.
		It became a demonstration sport at the Munich Games (1972) and was added to the official program in 1992, with singles and doubles competition for men and women.
		Badminton itself became a professional sport in the 1980s.
	www.rte.ie /sport/olympics2004/events/badminton.html (229 words)

	Olympic Demonstration Sports
		At most modern day Olympic Games there have been a variety of demonstration sports held as part of the Games, but not as official events eligible for medals.
		Originally, demonstration sports and events were included to showcase sports or events which were unique to the country hosting the Games, but now they are often used as a stepping stone in the application for consideration as a future Olympic medal sport.
		Sports that have been demonstration sports in the past, include the following:
	www.topendsports.com /events/discontinued/demo.htm (213 words)

	Bodybuilding as an Olympic Sport?
		The sport has two years to overcome prejudices and misconceptions and receive confirmation of acceptance as a demonstration sport in the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics.
		Luschen (1972) defined sport as "an institutional type of competitive physical activity located on a continuum between play and work." Kupfer (1975) viewed sport as "structured stress." Still yet, Yiannakis et.
		This widespread prejudice is a misconception borne from ignorance of the sport.
	www.sportsci.org /news/news9803/hatfield.html (1361 words)

	Biathlon History and Description
		It was not until the 44th session of the International Olympic Committee in Rome in 1949 however that a proposal by Sweden to include a combination of cross-country skiing and shooting as an individual competition open to civilian competitors was accepted.
		The sport was made more accessible by changing the standard from the large army rifle calibers to small bore (.22) rifles in the winter season of 1977/78.
		Currently, though it is a relatively obscure sport in the United States, with perhaps 1,000 athletes nationwide, it is the most popular televised winter sporting event in Europe.
	www.biathlon.net /intro.html (735 words)

	Winter Olympics: Curling
		Curling is one of four winter Olympic sports being contested indoors.
		The sport of curling dates as far back as the early 1500s in Scotland and was reportedly brought to North America by British troops in the 1700s during the Revolutionary War.
		It came back in the 1932 Lake Placid Games as a demonstration sport, but then went on a 56-year Olympic hiatus, until it returned as a demonstration sport at the 1988 and 1992 Games.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/winter-olympics-curling.html (455 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS
		Volleyball, like basketball, is a sport whose origin is known almost to the day.
		Oddly enough, both sports were invented at the same college and within a few years of one another.
		The sport was introduced to the Olympics in 1964 by the Japanese, although it was never contested as a demonstration sport at the Olympics.
	www.olympic.org /uk/sports/programme/index_uk.asp?SportCode=VB (292 words)

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