·About Boxing (Olympic sport since 1904) 拳击概述（1904年成为奥运会正式比赛项目） Boxing ranks among the Olympic Games most illustrious sports. 拳击比赛是奥运会中最杰出的运动项目。 When it first arrived in the Ancient Olympic Games, the tools of the trade were long strips of leather wrapped around boxers fists. The fight continued until one man or the other went down or conceded. The Romans followed with a gladiator dimension. They used gloves studded with spikes or weighted with lead, and fights often ended in death, like othe……
·ABOUT Athletics (Olympic sport since 1896) 田径概述（1896年成为奥运会正式比赛项目） Athletics is, in many ways, the embodiment of the Olympic motto, Citius, Altius, Fortius, meaning faster, higher, stronger. 田径运动是一种结合了速度与耐力，力量与技巧的综合性体育运动。“更高、更快、更强”的奥林匹克运动精神在很多方面都能够通过田径运动得到集中体现。 Athletics (or track and field) is about running faster, jumping higher and throwing further than your competitors. The ancient Games at Olympia began simply with foot races, only occasionally complicated by dressing the runners in infa……
·About Basketball (Olympic sport since 1936) 篮球概述（1936年成为奥运会正式比赛项目） For 36 years after basketball entered the Olympic Games as a full medal sport for men, the question was not who would win, but who would finish second. The United States owned the game, and not just because it was invented there. 在男子篮球成为正式的奥运会比赛项目之后的36年中，人们关注的焦点并不是谁会赢得冠军，而是亚军的归属。美国是这项运动的主宰，这并不仅仅是因为篮球起源于美国。 The Soviet Union took home the gold when they toppled the US team in a controversial 1972 game. After another semi-final ……
·About Baseball (Olympic sport since 1992) 棒球概述（1992年成为奥运会正式比赛项目） Baseballs stature in the history of the United States is perhaps reflected more clearly in a simple dictionary rather than in the seven-centimetre-thick baseball encyclopaedia. 或许一本简单的字典比7厘米厚的棒球百科全书更能反映出棒球运动在美国历史上的地位。 There, you can find the word Ruthian, meaning of mammoth proportions, as in a home run by Babe Ruth back in the 1920s. There, you can find Lou Gehrigs disease, as the incurable degenerative illness amyotrophic lat……
·About Badminton (Olympic sport since 1992) 羽毛球概述（1992年成为奥运会正式比赛项目） Made-for-television radar guns instantly flash the speed of serves, volleys and pitches to the sporting public around the world these days, but few viewers could name the worlds fastest racket sport. The title belongs to badminton. 为电视转播而专门制作的雷达测速仪能为全世界喜欢运动的人们即时显示出发球、接球和投球的时速，但是几乎没人能说出世界上最快的球拍类运动是什么。这个头衔是属于羽毛球的。 The flight of the shuttlecock, a missile of cork and goose feather that players volley across the net, has been rec……
·About Archery (Olympic sport since 1900) 射箭概述（1900年成为奥运会正式比赛项目） Anyone familiar with the legend of Robin Hood knows archery competitions date back at least to mediaeval times. Indeed, todays archers still honour the fabled outlaw. The term Robin Hood now refers to splitting the shaft of an arrow already in the target with another arrow. 熟悉罗宾汉传奇故事的人们都知道，射箭比赛的历史至少可以追溯到中世纪。事实上，今天的射箭运动员们仍然尊敬那些传说中的绿林好汉。“罗宾汉”一词在现代英语中的意思是：射出一支箭，将已经插在靶子上的另一支箭的箭杆剖为两半。 The equipment has crept forward in its technology……
·Aquatics (Olympic sport since 1896) 水上运动（1896年成为奥运会正式比赛项目） The founding of the Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA) in 1908 was a pragmatic response to an increase in international sporting events, crowned by the Olympic Games. At the first modern Olympics in 1896, three swimming contests were held. However, no universally accepted rules, regulations or definitions governed the swimming events. 20世纪初，国际性的体育运动会日渐增多，而奥运会的出现则使这一趋势达到顶峰。正是在这个时期，国际游泳联合会（简称“国际泳联”）于1908成立。在1896年首届现代奥运会上设置了３个游……
·About Hockey （Olympic sport since 1908） Hockey is the oldest known ball and stick game. Records exist of it having been played in Persia in 2000 BC. In medieval Europe, pictures of men playing a game with hooked sticks appear on stained-glass windows at both the Canterbury and Gloucester cathedrals. It became so popular by the Middle Ages that it was banned in England for a time because it interfered with the practice of archery, which was the basis for national defense. The name hockey probabl……
·About Handball （Olympic sport since 1936） The modern game of handball was first played towards the end of the 19th century in Denmark, Germany and Sweden. Recognition of field handball based on the games of Raffball (snatch ball) and Königsbergerball (Konrad Koch, 1846-1911) occurred at the turn of the century. G. Wallström introduced Sweden to the sport of handball in 1910. After the mens game debuted on turf football fields at the 1936 Games in Berlin, the European-based sport next……
·About Gymnastics（Olympic sport since 1896） The Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) was formed on 23 July 1881 when representatives of the gymnastics associations of Belgium, France and the Netherlands met in Liège. As a governing body it is held in high esteem by both its member federations and gymnastics clubs throughout five continents. In 1897, seventeen national associations joined together to form the basis of the European Gymnastics Federation. However, when the USA was admitte……
·About Fencing （Olympic sport since 1896） Take the romantic, swashbuckling epics of Errol Flynn, add some rules, protective clothing and an electronic scoring system, and you have fencing at the Olympic Games. Two rivals stand opposite each other and feint, lunge, parry and riposte until one scores the required number of hits to win. Evolved from the ancient form of combat, fencing is one of only four sports that has been featured at every modern Olympic Games. It was the first to include recog……
·About Equestrian （Olympic sport since 1900） Equestrian events were included in the Olympic Games for the first time in 1900 and then in 1912, in a format very similar to that which will be used at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. In the past, the three-day event (Eventing) was restricted to military officers, while the jumping and dressage competitions were open to civilians, but only a handful of civilian riders competed up to 1948. Up to that time, the growth of modern sport had been rapid, bu……
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