1928 Summer Olympics: Difference between revisions

Women's [[athletics (sport)|athletics]] and team [[gymnastics]] debuted at these Olympics,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://faculty.elmira.edu/dmaluso/sports/timeline/gymnastics.html|title=Timeline of Women in Sports: Gymnastics|website=faculty.elmira.edu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203123650/http://faculty.elmira.edu/dmaluso/sports/timeline/gymnastics.html|archive-date=3 February 2014|url-status=live|access-date=2014-02-12}}</ref> in spite of criticism. Five women's athletics events were added: 100 meters, 800 meters, high jump, discus, and 400 meter hurdles. In protest of the limited number of events, British women athletes, boycotted the Games.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Olympic Women|last=Hargreaves|first=Jennifer|work=Women and Sports in the United States|publisher=Northeastern University Press|year=2007|isbn=978-1-55553-671-8|editor-last=O'Reilly|editor-first=Jean|location=Boston|pages=8|editor2-last=Cahn|editor2-first=Susan}}</ref> [[Halina Konopacka]] of [[Poland]] became the first female Olympic track and field champion. Reports that the 800 meter run ended with several of the competitors being completely exhausted were widely (and erroneously) circulated. As a result, the IOC decided that women were too frail for long-distance running, and women's Olympic running events were limited to 200 meters until the 1960s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bitchmedia.org/article/forgotten-history-female-athletes-who-organized-their-own-olympics|title=The forgotten history of female athletes who organized their own Olympics|date=26 July 2016|author=Jules Boykoff|website=bitchmedia.org|access-date=28 July 2016}}</ref>

 

 

=== Demonstration sports ===