This is a kind of hockey played with roller skates, but it is much faster than ordinary hockey. Roller hockey was a performance event of 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, but it never appeared in the Olympic Games again.
Croquet was once an Olympic event of 1900. It is played like this: use a croquet stick to hit the ball into one door after another. The doors are easy to make. Just insert wire into the grass. At that year's Olympic Games, all gateball competitions were won by French players, because all the players in that competition were French, regardless of gender.
Racquetball Racquetball is actually the "direct descendant" of indoor tennis, which is similar to squash or racquetball to a great extent, except that the player pushes the ball to the wall with an arc basket instead of a racket. Racquetball became an official Olympic event for the first time and for the last time at the Paris Olympic Games in 1900. France and Spain competed, and finally the Spaniard took home the gold medal. Squash is a performance event in the Olympic Games of 1924, 1968 and 1992.
Lacrosse is a bit like hockey now. After one team threw the ball, the other team ran to catch the ball and scored. The tool used is a net tied to a stick. Hockey is the official event of 1904 and 1908 Olympic Games.
Motorboat 1908 London, Motorboat is an Olympic event. Motorboats are also called motorboats. In the competition, there are eight motorboats with motors that are 8 meters or 60 feet long. They run five laps (or 40 nautical miles) around a special track, but this sport is strictly limited to men. Later, the sport was cancelled from the Olympic Games and was never selected again. court tennis
This is the originator of modern tennis. It's a bit like squash now, but there is no racket. 1908 became an event of the London Olympic Games. This aristocratic sport later became less popular. It was an exhibition match at the 1928 Olympic Games, and then faded out of the Olympic Games.
Cricket The only time cricket became an official Olympic event was the Paris Olympic Games in 1900. At the Paris Olympics, Britain and France played the last cricket match. The most interesting thing is that most of the players in the French team are British.
Polo When you think of this sport, you will definitely think of those beautiful and brave aristocrats riding horses. Champagne and caviar are not far from them, and you can take them at any time. Polo was once an Olympic sport of 1900, 1908, 1920, 1924 and 1936. Polo has an interesting question: Are horses athletes (because they do have medals)? Are they also allowed to attend the opening ceremony like athletes?
Golf became an Olympic sport in 1900 and 1904. 1904 golf gold medal was won by Canadian George Lyon. At that time, he was so excited that he kept walking around with his hands upside down at the award ceremony.
Tug of war was once an Olympic event of 1900, 1904, 1906, 1908,19,12 and 1920. Marathon runners and gymnasts have restricted their diet since they were three years old, while tug-of-war athletes have to overeat in order to become bigger. Today, this is probably the only sport that requires drinking beer and eating cookies to make athletes grow into big men.