Is It Time To Bring Gaelic Games Back to the Olympics?

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Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

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Social sciences

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RTE Brainstorm, Updated / Thursday, 16 Jul 2020 16:00

Abstract

The Olympic Games is the largest sporting celebration for many reasons. It's because of the number of athletes present, the number of people from different nations gathered together in the same place at the same time and especially the vast number of sports on the schedule. But since the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, many sports have disappeared completely from the schedule. What sports are no longer played at Olympic level - and why?

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