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Forgotten Olympic Events and Customs
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  • 1. Team contest once part of the Games, testing strength and coordination
  • 2. Fast-paced indoor sport once demonstrated but later dropped
  • 3. A diving event measuring distance underwater, no longer Olympic
  • 4. Symbolic animal associated with an ancient Olympic tradition long abandoned
  • 6. Early skiing event format replaced by modern downhill and slalom
  • 8. Strength and speed test involving vertical ascent, removed after 1932
  • 11. Style of gymnastics phased out of early Olympic formats
  • 17. Once a winter Olympic form involving length and style, altered over time
Down
  • 5. Five-event contest with origins in ancient Olympics, early modern form changed
  • 7. Early Greco-Roman form with different rules than today’s version
  • 9. Ceremonial photo opportunity once a formal part of medal ceremonies
  • 10. Type of bridge card play introduced and removed from Games
  • 12. American variant of croquet briefly played in 1904 Olympics
  • 13. Informal reference for the no-night-sport tradition, since replaced
  • 14. Indigenous ball sport included only a few times in early 20th century
  • 15. Sport played only once at Olympics, in 1900 Paris
  • 16. Bat-and-ball game once an Olympic medal sport before reappearance in recent years

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