Sports
During the Summer Olympics, there were 16 sports and 109 events in the tournament. In parentheses is the number of events per sport.
- Athletics (27)
- Boxing (8)
- Cycling (6)
- Diving (4)
- Equestrian (6)
- Fencing (7)
- Football (1)
- Gymnastics (8)
- Field hockey (1)
- Modern pentathlon (1)
- Rowing (7)
- Sailing (3)
- Swimming (11)
- Water polo (1)
- Weightlifting (5)
- Wrestling (13)
Women's athletics and gymnastics debuted at these Olympics, in spite of criticism. Halina Konopacka of Poland became the first female Olympic track and field champion. The 800 meter run ended with several of the competitors being completely exhausted, so running events for women longer than 200 meters were not included in the Olympics until the 1960s.
Tennis disappeared from the program, only to reappear in 1968 as a demonstration sport.
Read more about this topic: 1928 Summer Olympics
Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
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—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)