Discarded Events of the Modern Olympics
- The Standing Jumps
- Coaches mainly use these nowadays as tests in training (not only for jumpers), although the Standing Long and Triple
Jumps are an important part of Sportshall Athletics. However they were genuine events of the earlier Games.
- Using Both Hands
- Physical Education theorists of the early 20th century, especially in the Nordic countries, considered it important that
sportspeople could perform sports activities with the dominant or non-dominant hand. In the 1912 Games, you could demonstrate
your throwing skills either way round ...
- Cross-Country in the Games?
- It doesn't seem logical to fit the wintertime activity of Cross-Country Running into a Summer Games. But it has been done ...
- Other Discarded Olympic Ideas
- The Olympics is of course not simply about Athletics. Other events, or even whole sports, have disappeared
from the scene: read about a few of them Here.